Review and Giveaway: Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs Under the Sea DVD CLOSED

August 20, 2010 by admin ·

With having two young boys in the house, we never have a lack of dinosaur items available. They have play sets, stuffed animals, books, clothes, and more. So, what better way to keep both kids entertained than with the PBS KIDS series Dinosaur Train.

Here is the premise behind the Dinosaur Train series from their site: Dinosaur Train embraces and celebrates the fascination that preschoolers have with both dinosaurs and trains, while encouraging basic scientific thinking skills as the audience learns about life science, natural history and paleontology. Each of the 40 half-hour episodes features Buddy, an adorable preschool age Tyrannosaurus Rex, and includes two 11-minute animated stories along with brief live action segments hosted by renowned paleontologist Dr. Scott Sampson. Young viewers can join Buddy and his adoptive Pteranodon family on a whimsical voyage through prehistoric jungles, swamps, volcanoes and oceans, as they unearth basic concepts in life science, natural history and paleontology.

If your kids like dinosaurs, you can find Dinosaur Train on PBS KIDS and check out their new one-hour television special, Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs Under the Sea. In this special, Buddy and his family embark on their first underwater adventure, where they explore Cretaceous, Jurassic, and Triassic oceans to learn about new aquatic creatures.

Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs Under the Sea contains the following episodes:

Elmer Elasmosaurus :The Pteranodon family travels on the Dinosaur Train with the Aquacar to an underwater train station to transport Elmer Elasmosaurus back to his home in the ocean.

Carla Cretoxyrhina: On this underwater excursion, the Pteranodon family meets up with Carla Cretoxyrhina, a young shark who turns out to be much nicer than her reputation suggests.

The Amazing Michelinoceras Brothers: The Pteranodon family travels deep underwater on the Dinosaur Train to view two backwards-bounding brothers named Max and Mitch Michelinoceras.

Paulie Pliosaurus: The Pteranodon family takes the Dinosaur Train underwater to visit a marine reptile called Paulie Pliosaurus, a creature known as the “T. rex of the Ocean.”

Elmer Visits the Desert: Our Pteranodon family takes their ocean friend Elmer Elasmosaurus on the Dinosaur Train to a place he’s never been before: the desert!

Shiny’s Sea Shells: Shiny, with help from Buddy, Tiny and Don, looks for the shiniest sea shells she can find, but ends up making a new friend named Henry, a hermit crab.

Jess Hesperornis: The Pteranodons venture to the Big Pond to find out if dinosaurs can live in the water.

The Old Spinosaurus and the Sea: Dad takes the kids on the Dinosaur Train to fish in a new place, where they meet a huge, grumpy old dinosaur, called a Spinosaurus, that doesn’t want the kids in his sea.

PBS KIDS was nice enough to send my boys over a copy of Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs Under the Sea on DVD to review. Wyatt is already a huge fan of the show and was excited that they were heading into the ocean. He had so much fun learning all about creatures that live under water.

Don’t worry, if you missed the airing of Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs Under the Sea, it will be released on DVD August 24, 2010. This DVD has a running time of 120 minutes and retails for $14.99. You can purchase Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs Under the Sea from amazon.com

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