This TV series of 80 x 11-minute episodes, was co-produced by Sparky Animation (Singapore) and Jim Henson Company (USA). Sparky did all the animation works, e.g. assets creation, animation and rendering. From the design stage to final render took about 13 months, ending in Feb 2010. The first episode premiered on PBS in September 2009. Since then, this series has scored the highest viewership in PBSKids’ entire history and was also named “Top Kids’ Show” by Hollywood’s famous People Magazine.

The story is set in a whimsical but realistic prehistoric world of jungles, swamps, active volcanoes, and oceans teeming with fauna. A shiny steam engine, the Dinosaur Train, runs through it and is used by all kinds of dinosaurs. The train is in the charge of Troodons who are well equipped with the brains to do so and the nimble toe claws for punching the tickets. Circling the globe, crossing oceans and inland seas, it time-travels the Mesozoic Era, the “Age of Dinosaurs”, by using magical Time Tunnels to visit the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods.

That ancient world is seen through the eyes of preschooler Buddy, a Tyrannosaurus rex who was adopted when just an egg by Mr. and Mrs. Pteranodon. He hatched at the same time as his siblings Tiny, Shiny and Don. By travelling on the Dinosaur Train and learning all dinosaur facts from the learned Conductor, Buddy quickly discovers that he is actually a T.Rex. Living in a mixed-species family, he is especially curious about the differences between the species and vows to find out all about dinosaurs by riding the Dinosaur Train.