So I know I said that Bionicle supported animal abuse as a joke with the Nui-Jaga being beaten up by the Toa, but Dino Attack had it right over Dino 2010. Blow those things up. What do you do with these mutant dinosaurs after capturing them? Probably euthanasia. Besides, this suggests that capturing them isn't working anyway. Send them off in a blaze of glory, not a whimper! XD

This was almost the first time that the random part of the day appeared in the random set of the day. This set has part 60897 instead of part 44860. So close.

What a weird theme/s. The futuristic dinosaur moulds are quite ugly.

"Dino Attack" was a weird blip in the continued evolution of Lego's moulded dinosaur designs.

Ah, the Dino Surrender version of our own Dino Attack theme.

@Zordboy :
Dino Attack is the reason my Green Army Men Army has a 100% LEGO paratrooper.

The Jurassic world theme should just remake every set from this theme just to do it.

@MCLegoboy said:
"So I know I said that Bionicle supported animal abuse as a joke with the Nui-Jaga being beaten up by the Toa, but Dino Attack had it right over Dino 2010. Blow those things up. What do you do with these mutant dinosaurs after capturing them? Probably euthanasia. Besides, this suggests that capturing them isn't working anyway. Send them off in a blaze of glory, not a whimper! XD"

Odd. I saw this Dino 2010 in a Discovery Store shop in downtown St. Louis, MO (Union Station mall, actually) where it certainly shouldn't have been... they had only just gotten rid of Dino Attack over here at that time in 2007. It made me do a double take and want to get it, but I knew my younger brother had the Dino Attack version, so I decided against asking. Probably for the best, as the US version was just not very well done... it was big, but TOO big, and kind of unwieldy to swoosh.

Also, anybody else now singing Bon Jovi's "Blaze of Glory" because @MClegoboy said that? (Just me?)

I live in the US, and when Dino Attack was out, my friends and I got every set. We LOVED the series. Granted, we were also all boys around 6th - 8th grade, so we were pretty much the exact target audience. When I discovered through some online rabbit holes that "Dino 2010" was a thing, I would look for it constantly when I went to the store with my parents. I then learned that Dino "Attack" was for the US market while Dino "2010" was for the European market. I was a bit disappointed.

If I recall correctly, TLC had somewhat of a continuity explanation in that the 2010 series happened first chronologically with trying to understand the mutated dinosaurs which was followed by the Attack series of trying to protect the city when the experiments weren't working? Its been a few years, so I could be misremembering it?

That helicopter still is among the coolest ones Lego ever made. Wanted it so much when I was a kid.

I'm glad we all survived the infamous dino attacks of 2010. It's a good thing Lego warned us about them back in 2005!

I own the Dino Attack version of this set, and I absolutely love it! One of my favorite LEGO System sets I own.

I wrote a review of it here on Brickset back when I got it, so if you are interested in checking it out, here is a link:
https://brickset.com/reviews/55195

I vary depending on the specific set on whether I like Dino Attack or Dino 2010 better; but in this case, I did a thorough comparison, and I definitely think the 7477 version was superior. That one had a back-facing cockpit for a gunner, much like Star Wars' Arc-170 starfighter (e.g. 7259), meaning that between that, the dual forward-facing cockpits, and the seat in the main cabin, there was room for all four team members to ride in it. Today's RSotD version though, since it got rid of the weaponry, also removed the rear cockpit, replacing it with just some basic tubing that looks much less finished. Since the helicopter could now only seat three team members comfortably, they added a trike instead to give the final member something to do... though I'm sure most Lego fans of the late-90s/early-00s period already had more of those trikes than they knew what to do with!

To clarify, I never had this set myself (just 7295 and 7297, which was the other way of getting all four team members with no duplicates), but I played around with building it on Stud.io a while ago, to see how it worked. Then, more recently, I compared its instructions with those of 7477 to see the full extent of the differences. So I'm about as educated about this set as I can be without having interacted with it in person!

Other differences between the European and US versions include: obviously the lack of weapons and addition of the cage; the addition of a hook mechanism under the helicopter to lift said cage, in place of the pop-out technic launcher of the US version; and the front landing gear wheel being further forward on the European version to accommodate that difference.

Also of note, in the case of both the larger sets, the Dino 2010 box-art shows the minifigures' outfits assigned differently between the characters; meanwhile the instructions still show them assembled according to the Dino Attack box-art instead.

This set couldn't be made today as is clearly based on the russian MI24D helicopter.