I got this for my 6th Christmas, and it’s still probably the best Christmas present I’ve ever received! I’m still a bit bitter that I lost the triceratops’ head the next spring in a sandbox.

That stegosaurus looks pretty silly to me. Weird proportions.

Didn't this just appear as a random set of the day recently? Does this set have two regional part numbers or something?

Regardless, I love this set! So much fun - great build and great play value!

@Zordboy:
I remember doing a dino inventory and concluding that the stegosaurus was probably the most well-known dinosaur that didn't have a modern iteration, excluding the really giant ones like brachiosaurus. I'm wondering if they haven't delayed certain species on purpose. If they drop all of the really recognizable species in the first wave, there won't be a lot of support for increasing the lineup. If the new dinos they introduce each wave include a mix of famous and more obscure species, the range they'll be able to produce will be much bigger than if they're forced to stick to just the most recognized species.

Any other Star Wars fans get really confused reading the name of the set and wondering where the battle droids were in this ATT? Just me? Okay then. :P

I remember getting this set. The Dino Island theme back in the day was a really great one, I wish I could've gotten more of the sets.

@Zordboy said:
"It pains me that this is the only Lego Stegosaurus (aside from larger brick-built ones) that we've ever had.

They've given us a freaking Stygimoloch but not a Stegosaurus? C'mon Lego. Lift your dinosaur game!"

The worst part is, Stygimoloch isnt even a valid genus anymore. Its just a sub-adult pachycephalosaurus

The Dino Island series is easy to get. At various Lego events were those sets for sale. This is a great set with nice figures and great features.

@Lego_lord said:
"To be honest, I like these dinos better than the new ones. These feel more like a Lego than the new playmobil ones."

I don't know about you, but those early 2000's Dino molds feel even less like LEGO than the newer ones to me... The newer Dino molds at least have interchangeable body parts, but those older ones were pretty much just static figures that were made out of just 1 main body piece and a few small additional parts like the tails.

@LegoDavid said: "I don't know about you, but those early 2000's Dino molds feel even less like LEGO than the newer ones to me... The newer Dino molds at least have interchangeable body parts, but those older ones were pretty much just static figures that were made out of just 1 main body piece and a few small additional parts like the tails."

I absolutely agree with this. I love the new dinosaur molds (that were introduced with Dino Island and have continued through the Jurassic World sets). I think they're great. I've collected as many of them as I could.

But I still want a Steg, Lego. Hint hint.

Always liked how legitimately solid and rugged the main vehicle felt, like it actually could power through harsh terrain and rivers.
Same cannot be said for that pressure pad trap, which I could never seem to keep in one piece. Felt like it was designed by Wile E. Coyote and had about the same level of durability as one of his traps...

Always been fascinated by the Dino Island theme ; never been a fan of the newer dino sets because although the dinos themselves are amazing (and again, not all the time), the sets are often "meh" at best. But with Dino Island, you get a profusion of adventure stuff, from vehicles to camps to traps and whatnot. Plus, as stated by other members before, the dinos may be boxy but still have that certain charm to them, old-style LEGO.
Shame I can't seem to be able to find second-hand sets in France, they're all either too pricey / incomplete...

My top 15 Adventures / Orient Expedition Sets:

https://brickset.com/sets/list-37565

Cool kit

@MusiMus said:
"My top 15 Adventures / Orient Expedition Sets:

https://brickset.com/sets/list-37565"

*Adventurers, not Adventures

Yes!
Another RSOTD, which I had a long... very long time ago.
Neat and substantial build, quite the action-packed for 90'...

This was probably the most appealing set of the Dino Island range to me, as a kid. Two dinosaurs (well, three if you count the baby T-Rex that Alexia Sinister is putting in a crate in the background there)! Both of the new Adventurers villains! And, um...

Okay, the build as a whole, I wasn't sold on. It mostly appealed to me as a source of minifigures and dinosaurs, all the rest were extras xD I didn't even realise until I saw the comments above that the car was meant to be an amphibious one, but that certainly explains why it looks the way it does!

I never actually had any of the Dino Island sets beyond 5920, though, and that was a birthday present from one of my schoolfriends. I guess dinosaurs just didn't have the same fascination to me as the jungle ruins or Ancient Egypt of the previous Adventurers subthemes, so it was low on my list to pursue at the time. I did have the Alexia Sinister minifigure for a time, due to trading with a friend for her, but eventually decided to trade back; and I got the T-Rex, eventually, from 1349 when it suddenly reappeared on a really good reduction during one of our annual Legoland Windsor trips a few years later.

Aside from that, I mostly remember the dinosaurs from Lego Racers 2, where they were obstacles hanging out on the Dino Island racecourse. I must have crashed into that Stegosaurus SO many times...

I always wanted all this line as it came by the same time as The Lost World.

This was the first set I ever got!

@Spartan_Ghost:
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@Brickalili:
There's an interesting theory about who designed them. There's a ton of episodes where Wile E. Coyote buys all these Acme gadgets that backfire on him, and there's one episode where Wile E. Coyote is presented as a very intelligent individual (who can talk). So the theory is that the real WEC runs Acme, and that a successive series of his clones are the ones that always screw up.

I think my lack of nostalgia (I was 11 years old when this came out) combined with my general disinterest in dinosaurs (then and now) leads me to what I'm going to write now, which based on the comments above, is going to be taken really poorly: I despised these sets. The novelty of LEGO dinosaurs was a smokescreen for sets that were otherwise a jumble of random bricks and crappy vehicle designs, this one exemplifying that. Color schemes (or lack thereof) were atrocious, and in general, this iteration of the Adventurers tarnished the theme so badly that it took three years to recover, and even then, they had to lose the "Adventurers" nomenclature in marketing to just be an "Orient Expedition" (which was thankfully a return to form for Johnny Thunder and pals).

In 2000, I didn't know LEGO was in trouble, but I knew these Dino Island sets were bad signs. The toy brand I fell in love with back in 1994 was way different after 6 years, and it wasn't just the Adventurers. Town was decimated by juvenile designs and vehicular abstractions. Castle had become the mediocre "Knights' Kingdom", favoring easy building and cannon-shooting action over medieval grandeur. The Pirates theme was extinct. Space had been replaced by Star Wars, and as amazing a year as 1999 was for that theme, 2000 brought some solidly "meh" offerings unless it was the first UCS sets (the TIE Interceptor was my birthday gift that year). It was a low point in the LEGO sets I knew and loved. Perhaps it is not surprising I spent more time that year amassing rebuilds from my own parts of sets from before 1997, looking for instruction scans online.

I'm happy for those of you born in this time that can look back on this with dinosaur-shaped, rose-tinted glasses. But I cannot, and frankly, am relieved this kind of stuff isn't prevalent in LEGO anymore.

@Spartan_Ghost:
I got that set for Christmas one year. My first thought was to wonder what kind of idiot would put a full-size cannon in a rowboat. My second thought was to wonder what kind of fool idiot would mount it on a swivel so you could shoot to the side in a rowboat. My third thought was that the cannon was an extreme disappointment, and painful to operate. See, it was my first cannon, and it was right between when they decided to stop producing spring-fire cannons, and when they introduced cannons with fixed necks. You could still fire it, if you pulled back on the neck and flicked it with your finger, but it started to sting after a few shots, and it wasn't worth the meager distance you could achieve.