r/DinosaurKing

First off...the "Season 3" posts.

I'm not trying to be an asshole here, and I think I speak for most people when I say it's getting REALLY tiresome STILL seeing people making posts that are either "iS sEaSoN 3 hApPeNnInG?" or "sIgN mY pEtItIoN tO mAkE sEaSoN 3 hApPeN." Like...I feel like it's legit still happening like, every other week.

Look, let's be honest with ourselves; we're all intelligent people. Our fandom is small, but very much alive, and we should celebrate that. But the franchise itself is (currently) very much dead. The creators, the actors, everyone associated with it, have moved on. We need to accept that, and move on. It's obvious to everyone old enough to think critically, and it's legitimately just cluttering up the subreddit now.

Now...

While it'll likely never happen, the best way to ENCOURAGE Dinosaur King's return (in reboot form, remaster, or whatever) is not with some useless petition that'll get 10 votes and then be forgotten. It's by doing exactly what other franchises that HAVE returned, like Ben 10 for instance, have been doing for years:

It's not up to the creators anymore...WE have to fill the gap.

WE have to create content good enough to satisfy our OWN fanbase. And every shred of content adds to that. Every piece of fanart, every youtube video, every well-written fanfiction and every custom card made with my template and shoved onto deviantart, twitter, bluesky, wherever, feeds the fire.

And it's not about "trying to bring it back." That's not the point. It's about sending a message to the Internet and the world that we LOVE this franchise, we are PASSIONATE about it, and we WANT it to still be relevant and alive for people to enjoy. And we don't need anything official for that. WE'RE the official now, because when the creators moved on, WE didn't.

A franchise lives and dies with the support it receives from its fanbase. And our fanbase, again, whilst small and fragmented, IS alive and well, and no one can take that away from us. Which means Dinosaur King lives too, through US.

So go. Go and create something. Not because you want Dinosaur King to come back...but because you want to show the world that Dinosaur King is worth remembering.

Besides, with how crap the show's writing was half the time, I reckon most of us could do a better job anyway 😄

(Thanks for coming to my ted talk, etc etc... - Prince 😊)