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Season guide

Dinosaur Train: Season 2

52 episodes Premiered Aug 22, 2011
Previously on Dinosaur Train

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Dinosaur Train Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (8): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (44): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Dinosaur Big City, Part 1

Aug 22, 2011

Buddy and the Pteranodon family begin their journey on the Dinosaur Train, gathering all their Theropod friends together to travel to a really big Theropod Club Convention which is

S2·E2 Mytharc

Dinosaur Big City, Part 2

Aug 22, 2011

The Pteranodon family continues their journey to the Theropod Convention in Laramidia, the Dinosaur Big City! Among the Theropod dinosaurs that ride the Train with them is King Cry

S2·E3 Mytharc

Dinosaur Big City, Part 3

Aug 22, 2011

The Dinosaur Train arrives in Laramidia, the Dinosaur Big City, and Buddy and the Pteranodon family explore the crowded “dinosaur metropolis.” At the Theropod Convention, our kids

S2·E4 Core

Dinosaur Big City, Part 4

Aug 22, 2011

Buddy and Tiny help King Cryolophosaurus overcome his fear of performing in front of his biggest audience ever, and he wows a large dinosaur audience when he sings his new song, “W

S2·E6 Core

Get into Nature!

Oct 24, 2011

When the kids build their own version of a nest on the beach, below their actual family nest up on the cliff, they get the idea to turn their beach nest into a clubhouse. Shiny thi

S2·E7 Core

Shiny and Snakes

Oct 25, 2011

Shiny gets over her fear of snakes when Tiny challenges the Nature Trackers to meet the ultimate snake: the Sanajeh, a huge Cretaceous snake from what is now India. Dad takes the k

S2·E8 Core

Tiny Loves Flowers

Oct 25, 2011

The family goes to the Big Pond to find buttercups

S2·E10 Core

Rainy Day Fight

Oct 26, 2011

The kids must find something in nature that helps calm them

S2·E11 Core

That's Not a Dinosaur

Oct 27, 2011

Game rules change at the Biome Block Party so that all creatures can play the games

S2·E12 Core

Tiny's Garden

Oct 27, 2011

The Nature Trackers gather seeds and bring them home to plant a garden

S2·E13 Core

The Earthquake

Feb 6, 2012

The kids meet a relative of Tank Triceratops, an early ceratopsian named Penelope Protoceratops.

S2·E14 Core

The Nursery Car

Feb 6, 2012

The kids discover that a nursery car has been added to the train.

S2·E15 Core

The Lost Bird

Feb 7, 2012

The kids learn that the train has added an aviary car.

S2·E16 Core

The Forest Fire

Feb 7, 2012

The kids take a hike through the woods, where they observe life returning following a forest fire.

S2·E20 Core

Rafting the Cretaceous

Feb 9, 2012

Two refugees from across the Western Interior Sea arrive on a raft.

S2·E21 Core

Haunted Roundhouse

Sep 29, 2011

Dad takes the kids on a special Night Train to Troodon Town, where the Troodons have decorated their Roundhouse into a “haunted house” for a spooky party. The kids end up meeting a

S2·E22 Core

Big Pond Pumpkin Patch

Sep 29, 2011

The Pteranodon family learns more about the customs of their neighbors, the Lambeosaurus family, when they are invited for the first time to accompany them to the Big Pond to celeb

S2·E23 Core

Don's Winter Wish

Feb 20, 2012

The Pteranodons travel to the North Pole, where Don wishes to see snow fall again.

S2·E24 Core

Festival of Lights

Feb 20, 2012

The Pteranodons stop to watch the aurora borealis.

S2·E29 Mytharc

Dinos A-Z, Part 1: The Big Idea

May 14, 2012

Tiny thinks it would be fun to have a picnic with all the dinosaurs from the "Dinosaurs A to Z" song.

S2·E33 Core

Remember the Alamosaurus

Aug 13, 2012

The kids meet some of the biggest dinosaurs, including Allie Alamosaurus

S2·E34 Core

Sunrise, Sunset

Aug 13, 2012

The kids learn about nocturnal and diurnal animals while on an overnight camping trip with Dad.

S2·E35 Core

A Heck of a Neck

Aug 14, 2012

The kids meet a super long dinosaur while on a nature trackers adventure

S2·E37 Core

An Apatosaurus Adventure

Aug 15, 2012

Apollo Apatosaurus is a long-necked, long-tailed dinosaur who likes adventure

S2·E38 Core

Nature Art

Aug 15, 2012

The kids make nature art on the beach.

S2·E39 Core

Arnie Rides the Flatcar

Aug 16, 2012

Buddy, Tiny and Mom visit their pal Arnie Argentinosaurus, who's grown so large he can't ride on the train anymore;

S2·E40 Core

Old Reliable

Aug 16, 2012

The kids visit a field of geysers and take a dip in the nearby hot springs.

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