is a Japanese card-based

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from

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that uses similar gameplay mechanics to '' Mushiking''. The game was revealed in JAMMA 2005. A

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version was also later released. In the fall of 2008,

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released a ''Dinosaur King'' Trading Card Game. This card game is likely to be confused with the cards used for the arcade machines. The series has been adapted into an

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television series produced by

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, . A second series was announced called , which debuted February 3, 2008 in Japan. The show ended its run in Japan in late 2008.

Plot and characters

Card game/Nintendo DS game

Dr. Spike Taylor was on a paleontology mission in Africa with his son Max and his friend Rex. Max discovers stone slabs and finds dinosaurs are calling them for help. An evil organization called the "Alpha Gang", led by the nefarious Dr. Z, traveled back in time to hunt down the dinosaurs and use them to take over the world. It is up to Max and Rex to travel around the world, defeating Dr. Z and the Alpha Gang while hunting down the dinosaurs (later, the story varies as the arcade game machine keeps on upgrading).

Gameplay

There are different cards to collect and use in order to play ''Dinosaur King''. The

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s are located on the long edges of the cards for the player to scan them in the machine. There are four types of cards used in this game; ''Dinosaur'', ''move'', ''character'' and ''super move'' cards.

Media

Anime

The series was adapted into an

television series, , which is made by

and premiered on

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on February 4, 2007. In late 2007, an English adaptation aired on the

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block on Fox, but moved to

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block on September 6, 2008. Reruns of the series began airing on KidsClick from February 5, 2018 to August 24, 2018. Distribution of the series was first handed to

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for three 5-episode DVD volumes from September 23, 2008 to June 30, 2009. On September 24, 2018,

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announced its license and has released the series on two

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sets for each season on November 27, 2018, Pop on November 2

First season

Max Taylor is the son of

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Dr. Spike Taylor. After falling out of bed early one morning and witnessing a meteor fall from the sky, Max sets out with his friends Rex Owen and Zoe Drake into a forest where the meteor had crashed. They find stones with the symbols for lightning, wind, and grass on them and a card with a picture of a

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on it. The Triceratops that is later named Chomp is accidentally activated when Max rubs the card on the stone. The D-Team meet their new enemies in the Alpha Gang consisting of Dr. Z, Ursula, Zander, Ed, Seth, Laura, Rod, Helga, and the Alpha Droids. The Alpha Gang plans to obtain the Dinosaur Cards that were lost when their time machine exploded and stranded them in the present. Rex activated a Carnotaurus card which was named Ace and Zoe activated a

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which was named Paris. The D-Team and Alpha Gang often clash for possession of dinosaurs that are activated when their cards are activated. In the finale, Seth turns on his comrades with his Black Tyrannosaurus which is ultimately defeated. Seth attempts to bring Chomp back to the past which fails and Seth is sent into the past alone. The D-Team surrender their dinosaurs to Rex's original parents, with many tears.

Second season

In the second series, the Alpha Gang and the Ancients return. While the parents are talking, they are kidnapped by Gavro, a member of the Spectral Space Pirates. This causes the Alpha Gang and D-Team to join forces against the Space Pirates in their plot to obtain cosmic jewels known as the Cosmos Stones. Seth later returns as an ally to the Spectral Space Pirates after they saved him from the time portal. Spectre, the leader of the Space Pirates, provides the dinosaur cards. In episode 75, Seth seems to become a traitor as he appeals to the D-Team for help saying that they forced him to help them. However, it was really a trick to get the two Cosmos Stones in D-Team's control, despite the fact that he attacks and defeats his comrades two episodes later. In the end although the Spectral Space Pirates manage to catch all seven Cosmos Stones, Seth and the Pterosaur defeat the Black Pterosaur. Rex, his parents, and the Alpha Gang leave to their own time as the Spectral Space Pirates are floating around in a pod. A

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based on the series was released by

for the

on September 23, 2008.

Other media

The ''Dinosaur King'' Trading Card game was released in the fall of 2008 by the

. Although the play mechanism follows the arcade game cards to some extent, they are not meant to be mixed. The manga was released by

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References

External links

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Official Sega Toys website

Dinosaur King (TV Series)
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