![]() The character Bix in the series is modeled after the Dino-Riders Protoceratops toy. He later decided to create an imaginary island based on these paintings. These were originally done as "art prints for collectors". ![]() This inspired him to imagine his own, so he painted "Waterfall City" and "Dinosaur parade". Gurney's assignments for National Geographic magazine required him to work with archaeologists to envision and paint ancient cities that no one alive today has ever seen. The disillusioned character Lee Crabb mentions this discrepancy, claiming that humans on the island are slaves to dinosaurs. "Utopia" in Greek loosely translates as "a land or place that does not exist", and is made up of a negative interjection meaning roughly "no" (ου, ou) and the word for "place" (τόπος, topos). Ironically, in Greek "Dinotopia" (Δεινοτοπία) means "terrible place" or "land of suffering", since the original Greek word for "dinosaur" (δεινόσαυρος) translates as "terrible lizard" and is made up of the words for "terrible" (δεινός, dinos) and "lizard" (σαύρα, savra, transliterated as saura). The name "Dinotopia" is a portmanteau of " dinosaur" and " utopia".
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