Dinotrux | |
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Also known as | Dinotrux Supercharged (seasons 6–8) |
Genre | |
Based on | Dinotrux book series by Chris Gall |
Voices of | |
Theme music composer | Robert Persaud Mireilla Kut |
Composer | Jake Monaco |
Country of origin | United States Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 8 |
No. of episodes | 78 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Jeff DeGrandis David Kidd[1] Ron Burch[1] |
Running time | 23 minutes[2] |
Production company | DreamWorks Animation Television[3] |
Release | |
Original network | Netflix |
Original release | August 14, 2015 August 3, 2018 | –
Dinotrux is a computer-animated web series based on Chris Gall's series of books by the same name. It features a fictional prehistoric world inhabited by hybrid characters that are part reptile and part mechanical tool called Reptools. The larger ones known as Dinotrux, who are dinosaurs combined with trucks, are accompanied by Rotilian Reptools and other types of smaller ones.[3] The series debuted on August 14, 2015 on Netflix,[1] with the second season following on March 11, 2016,[4] and the third on October 7, 2016,[5] and the fourth on March 31, 2017,[6] and the fifth on August 18, 2017.[7] Beginning on November 10, 2017, subsequent seasons are released under the title Dinotrux Supercharged, with the second season being released on March 23, 2018, and the last season on August 3, 2018.
A prehistoric world, which is set in the Mechazoic era, is populated by hybrid reptile-tools called Reptools, which include hybrid dinosaur-trucks called Dinotrux. Two best friends, Ty Rux, who is a good Tyrannosaurus Rux, and Revvit, who is a Rotilian Reptool, must team up with other inhabitants of the world to defend their community and their work from an evil T-Trux named "D-Structs". Dinotrux and other Reptools share a symbiotic relationship with one another. For example, Ty provides Revvit with safety, shelter and security, who in turn fixes and maintains Ty when needed.
Main article: List of Dinotrux episodes |
DreamWorks Animation first optioned rights to Dinotrux in March 2009, a month before the first book was published, with an intention to develop a computer-animated film.[20]