February 27, 2012
Dinosaur Robots Return with a Vengeance
What’s worse than an invasion of extraterrestrial dinosaurs? Robotic alien dinosaurs. As imagined in their concept album Dinosaur Planet, the band MJ Hibbett & The Validators envisions mechanically augmented dinosaurs returning to Earth to reclaim their home after a 65 million year absence. And as the theme song makes clear, the descendants of Stegosaurus and kin are not very keen on resolving things peacefully. A cyborg Allosaurus isn’t very interested in kissing and making up, and I’m not sure I’d trust one even if it wanted to.
Hat-tip to io9 for digging this up.
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Artwork by the wonderful John Allison (scarygoround.com).
Definitely not to my taste musically, Brian. I think I prefer the Christensen and Schultz album based on “Cadillacs & Dinosaurs” (actually the Xenoic Tales comics).
Man, too many things called Dinosaur Planet or Planet Dinosaur. At first I thought it was about Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet for the Gamecube.
Actually, it would be fun to hear you talk about the Dinosaur Planet video game here, Brian.