The Cast Showoff: Ashleigh Ball is a singer in real life, so obviously she gets to show off her singing talent when voicing music idol Crystal.
Children Voicing Children: Buddy and Don are always played by children. Tiny and Shiny were also voiced by child actresses since the start, but they never grew out of their roles and still voice them a decade later, unlike the many voice actors Buddy and Don have had.
Dawson Casting: Although Erika Shaye-Gair and Claire Corlett started out as kids when voicing Shiny and Tiny, they still voice them to this day despite neither character aging, thus qualifying for this trope.
There are two Latin American Spanish dubs: one that aired on Discovery Kids, and one that aired on PBS via SAP. The Discovery Kids dub was first recorded in Chile before moving to Mexico, and only dubbed the first four seasons. The PBS Kids dub was recorded in Colombia and covers the whole series.
There are two Israeli dubs. The first one aired on the channel Hop! and the second one aired on Israeli Educational Television.
Edited for Syndication: The Dr. Scott segments seen in-between the episodes are not seen in international exports.
Fake Nationality: Utilized a lot with the ethnic dinosaurs. For example, Laura Giganotosaurus is Hispanic but Kathleen Barr is not.
Fandom Life Cycle: Was at Stage 5 in the early 2010s, with a strong Periphery Demographic, Mr. Conductor and Buddy being featured as balloons at the 6abc Thanksgiving Day Parade, and a Robot Chicken parody. However, it is now at Stage 6a. It's not as big as it used to be, but the fandom still exists, and it's been long enough that the show is fondly remembered as a nostalgia classic.
Inspiration for the Work: Craig Bartlett got the idea to make this show after seeing his son put a toy dinosaur on a toy train.
Live on Stage!: It got a live show called Buddy's Big Adventure.
The Merch: It exists, but a lot of it is poorly reviewed and said to be shoddily made.
Only So Many Canadian Actors: One of the only two Jim Henson-related works to fall under this trope, the other being Unstable Fables, as most of the voice cast is Canadian.
Buddy has had four voice actors (Phillip Corlett for seasons 1 and 2, Sean Thomas in season 3, Dayton Wall in season 4, and Chance Hurstfield in season 5).
In Season 3 and onward, Laura Marr replaces Alexander Matthew Marr as Don.
Production Posse: Craig Bartlett brought a lot of his Hey Arnold! associates over to this show, such as Jim Lang, Joe Purdy, Christie Insley, Rachel Lipman, and Joe Ansolabehere. Meanwhile from Sid, we have Bradley Zweig, Corey Powell, Elise Allen, and Mark Drop.
Real-Life Relative: Claire and Phillip Corlett are related, just like Tiny and Buddy.
In the Ready Jet Go! episode "Mindy's Weather Report", an image for Dinosaur Train can be seen when Sunspot flips over the channels on Face, and also, a second of the theme song can be heard.
Schedule Slip: PBS ordering forty episodes for the show's first season, coupled with long hiatuses, caused the season to air for 2 years.
Science Marches On: The show does its best to stay on top of current discoveries, but sometimes it finds itself the victim of this.
For starters, in 2017 a study determined that Troodonwas a dubious genus as such members of the genus have been reassigned to Stenonychosaurus
Brachiosaurus never lived in Africa. That was Giraffatitan.
Many of the enantiornithines are depicted with a pair of ribbon-shaped tail feathers instead of a modern-style tail fan. However fossil discoveries have found that there was a much greater diversity of tail structures than previously thought. With some having elaborate tail feathers and some basal members possessing full tail fans akin to modern birds.
The Hesperornis has lobed instead of webbed feet.
The discoveries of Kulindadromeus and Psittacosaurus suggest ceratopsians might have had quills on their backs.
The character design of Sunny Sauroposeidon is clearly based on brachiosaurids – a group that the taxon probably doesn't belong to after all, instead being more related to titanosaurs. Granted, the largest macronarians would have had a brachiosaur-like appearance.
Adult ornithomimosaurs are now known to likely have had wings of some sort.
The limb proportions of Spinosaurus were far more unusual than depicted in the show. In 2020 it was discovered that their tails had tall neural spines that would have formed a newt like tail structure.
The discovery that Dimetrodon may have been nocturnal casts doubt on the idea that its sail was primarily used for thermoregulation.
The giant Shonisaurus material has been reassigned to Shastasaurus.
Screwed by the Network: Dinosaur Train used to only air on the UK Nick Jr. on weekends, but got replaced by more reruns of Peppa Pig when it was pushed into the dead hours of the morning.
Un-Canceled: The show initially got cancelled after the season 4 finale movie, What's At the Center of the Earth?. Craig Bartlett revealed in a Reddit AMA, that PBS revived the show for 11 more episodes, bringing the total episode count to 100. This was officially announced on October 2, 2018.
as such members of the genus have been reassigned to Stenonychosaurus
