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Dinosaur juniors

“We wanted a world that reflected our own but also was its own thing.”

Talking with Goodbye Volcano High’s co-creative directors Saleem Dabbous and Kyle McKernan, we ask the obvious question: why dinosaurs?

“Yeah. I mean, who doesn’t love dinosaurs?” Dabbous grins.

As unusual as they are, the dinosaurs were there from the very beginning of a lengthy pre-production process.

“We wanted a world that reflected our own but also was its own thing and had fun references to non-humanistic elements [...] We also just wanted to make something different, something that people hadn’t seen and dinosaurs made a lot of sense.”

Dabbous adds, “We also thought that there was a very strong

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