YMMV / Dinotrux

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Are the Rollodons 'afraid' of Reptools or did they just see Revvit in their way and turn because they didn't want to crush him?
  • Was D-Stroy ever planning on betraying D-Structs, or was he content to share with his little brother?
• Awesome Art: This has to be one the best animated shows created by the DreamWorks. The locations look realstic and characters are beautifully animated with many small "blink and you'll miss it" details like glass texture on their eye-headlights.
  • Then, there's the series' building and fighting scenes. They flow well, and can be both fun and exciting to watch, and you feel like you're between those half-animals, half-machines.
• Awesome Music:
  • The opening theme song! It's rather on the short and simple side, but darn if it isn't awesomely catchy!
    • The extended/remix is arguably even better!
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Xee. Either she is the most badass character in the show, or a boring God-Mode Sue.
  • D-Stroy, D-Structs older brother. Is he as awesome as his younger brother, or he only serves as an excuse for writers who apparently run out of ideas? His appearance doesn't helps.
• Creepy Awesome: This has to be expected from the animated show that features prehistoric creatures mixed with vehicles. You can undoubtedly know that few terrifying - yet awesome - creatures would appear in this kind of setting.
  • Scraptors are essentially mechanical raptors from Jurassic Park that are not only fast and won't let up until they catch their prey, but can also use their talons as grappling hooks.
  • The same applies to their flying counterparts, mechanical pterosaurs called Scrapadactyls. And if you think they can't get any cooler, meet their cousins Stealth Scrapadactyls who have laserbeams as eyes.
  • Splitter is a mechanical Dimetrodon with freaking saws on the sides of his body, and even a larger one as his sail! Thanks to this series, Dimetrodon is even more awesome than before!
  • When the Parasaurolophus appear in the media featuring dinosaurs, they're always depicted as graceful, friendly dinosaurs. Well not this time! Meet Pounder, half-Parasaurolophus, half-piledriver who uses his head to pound everything and everyone he sees in his path. Time where ornithopods were punching bags is over now...
  • You thought Mosasaurus is scary? Meet her mechanical cousins - the Aquadons! These half-Mosasaur, half-submarine aquatic species of Dinotrux not only put a decent fight to land-dwelling Trux and Tools, but also have giant saw as their dorsal fin which they can use to cut through your boat. Indeed, you're gonna have to find a stronger boat...
  • You probably didn't expected that the scariest creature from the show is actually a sauropod, didn't you? Well, meet Dreadtrux - half-Dreadnoughtus and half-Bucket-wheel excavator, and the biggest of all Dinotrux, even dwarfing the Craneosaurus. It lives up to it's name due to the fact that other creatures leave when they sense it's presence. And what's makes this Trux more awesome, is that Ty managed to befriend one, and with her help, he and his friends built their biggest build ever in the equally awesome sequence!!!
  • Shredadon (half-Suchomimus, half-scrap metal shredder) makes spinosaurus from Jurassic Park III look like a compy due to its shredding mechanism. How? This beast can reduce anyone with its mouth into what could be considered a Ludicrous Gibs. Essentialy this guy could be considered a Redeeming Replacement to Splitter, since both of them are very dangerous Dinotrux with sharp weapons, but unlike Splitter, one of this Trux actually befriended the gang after Ace repaired him!
• Evil Is Cool:
  • D-Structs. He's a smarter than he looks evil genius with a badass baritone courtesy of Paul Dobson.
  • As mentioned above in the Creepy Awesome section, Splitter and Pounder.
  • Blayde, the biggest Dozeratops that show featured, with excavator bucket as tail. Her voice actress helps by giving her very menacing voice.
  • D-Stroy, D-Structs brother who is bigger manipulative bastard than him. There is a reason why his own brother doesn't trusts him.
  • Gold Trux, the Stegarbasaurus with golden body parts, who can shoot out his plates like nets and use them to catch Reptools. Don't we forget to mention that he has a very cool Leitmotif?
• Fanfic Fuel:
  • The show premise of dinosaurs mixed with vehicles offers so much potential for how particuliar species of dinosaurs (or other prehistoric creatures) will look like as Dinotrux. For example: how the show's version of Spinosaurus looks like?
  • The fates of Blayde, Splitter, Pounder and Gold Trux who had never appeared again in the show.
• Genius Bonus: In Crabcavator Ton-Ton sees rock in clamp clam. Pearls are created when a grain of sand falls into the center of a clam, which turns it into a pearl. This could mean that bearing pearls were originally rocks that were converted by clamp clams.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • One of Ashleigh Ball's most famous roles is Rainbow Dash, who would be horrified at having the same voice as someone afraid of heights.
  • This is doubled in Season 3 as Skya learns to recognize when she needs help, just like Ball's other Friendship is Magic character Applejack. Even better, she learns it from Ty, voiced by Andrew Francis, who on Friendship is Magic voices the brother of the character she learned it from.
  • And even further in Season 4, where she starts out very clumsy in the snow but grows to be a graceful skier, bringing up memories of "Rainbow Crash" and her development past that.
  • Skrap-Itt and Lloyd's relationship becomes funnier in the Mexican Spanish dub where they're voiced by real-life brothers Emmanuel and Julio Bernal.
• Ho Yay: Skrap-It is such a Sycophantic Servant to D-Structs that at times it seems like he might straight up be infatuated with him.
  D-Structs: I feel a draft.
  Skrap-It: We could cuddle?
• Informed Wrongness: There are some fans who give Ty and D-Structs Ron the Death Eater and Draco in Leather Pants treatment respectively, portraying D-Structs as rightful ruler of the crater who used threatening other trux as a way for them to respect him, while Ty caming into his crater and taking it from him, is treated like a hypocritical moment on Ty part, due to him being only T-trux in his old valley. However those fans mostly forgot that D-Structs was basically ruling the crater with an iron fist before Ty came and convinced the other trux to stand up to him.
• Jerkass Woobie: Sure, Skrap-It maybe is a Card-Carrying Villain / Jerkass but he endures too much abuse from D-Structs (and later Splitter, Blayde, Pounder and D-Stroy) that this gag stops being funny.
• Most Wonderful Sound:
  • Whenever the theme song's instrumental plays. When it does, you know the Dinotrux are about to get some serious practical building done. Season 2 ups the ante with several variations on it depending on who's doing the building.
  Skrap-It: I love it when he says ["Let's Trux it Up!"]. It makes me want to get up and do something!

  • And hilariously subverted in the Season 3 finale, where the music abruptly shuts off as everyone remembers they're still stuck to the wall.
  • Whenever Ty roars. The same kinda applies to Scraptors and Scrapadactyls screeches.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Garby to some extent. He is the Sixth Ranger and yet sometimes show treats him like a secondary character. Best example is the final episode when he's not with the rest of the gang, when they come assist Ty who is fighting D-Structs in volcano. What's weird is that Xee who's also a Sixth Ranger does come with them, but not Garby.
  • We never see what happened to the Splitter, Blayde and Pounder after Dreadtrux two-parter in which they break up with D-Structs and Skrap-It and are never seen through the entire series. What's hurts the most, is that with next the season introducing Superchargers we could have seen how much dangerous and awesome those guys could have been when powered by them.
  • Gold Trux. He has unique design than other villains featured in show, quickly establish himself as dangerous threat to Ty and crew, and his past with Garby could've resulted in exploring Garby character. Instead, he only appears as Villain of the Week, with no mention of what happened to him after the events of his debut episode.
• Villain Decay: D-Structs initially rules over the crater without question, but when newcomer Ty comes along with his radical ideas of teamwork and friendship, D-Structs finds himself frequently outmatched by trux working together to fight him, and begins to notice that people are slowly becoming less terrified of him as a result. Then his brother D-Stroy shows up and the two of them easily take back the crater with the help of a giant Dreadtrux, which sets the stage for the final season’s main conflict.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: They're few moments where the show really shows its marvelous CGI - the "Magnet Mountain" and "Crabcavator" are best examples where the series utilizes it's true potential when it comes to visuals.

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