Afrovenator

General Statistics

full-sized Afrovenator

• Name: Afrovenator abakensis
• Name Meaning: African Hunter
• Diet: Carnivore
• Length: 8-9 meters (26-30 feet)
• Time Period: Middle Jurassic (167-157 MYA)
• Classification: Megalosauroidea --> Megalosauridae --> Afrovenatorinae
• Place Found: Niger
• Describer: Sereno, 1994

Dinosaur King Statistics

Arcade Stats

Afrovenator arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 2nd Edition+)

• Attribute: Wind
• Sign: Paper
• Strength: 1600
• Technique: 500
• Attack:
  • Paper (Critical): 850
  • Rock/Scissors: 400
• Types:
  • Reform Type (Japanese Gekizan series)
  • Rock-Rock Type (Japanese Kakushin series)
• Arcade Nickname: 砂漠の熱風 (Hot Air of the Desert)
• Card Rarity: Bronze

Availability

It was only available in the Japanese version.

• Gekizan 1st Edition (New; 024-竜; Reform Type; ft. char. Rex)
• Gekizan 2nd Edition (028-竜; Reform Type)
• Gekizan 2nd Edition+ (024-竜; Reform Type)
• Gekizan 3rd Edition (022-竜; Reform Type; ft. char. Rex)
• Kakushin 2nd Edition (003-竜; Rock-Rock Type)
• Kakushin 3rd Edition's Red Dinosaurs Egg (EGG-017-竜)

Afrovenator arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 1st Edition)

Back of Afrovenator arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 1st Edition)

Afrovenator arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 2nd Edition)

Afrovenator arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 2nd Edition+)

Afrovenator arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 2nd Edition+) (background reflections visible)

Afrovenator arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 3rd Edition)

Back of Afrovenator arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 3rd Edition)

Afrovenator arcade card (Japanese Kakushin 2nd Edition)

Anime Stats

Afrovenator anime card

• Attribute: Wind
• Owner: Gabbro (Spectral Space Pirates), Rex Owen (D-Team)
• Location: Ancient Persia, 757
• Appearance: The 39 Thieves
• Dinosaurs Defeated: Spiny
• Defeated by: Ace
• Armored Form: Spectral Armor Afrovenator
• Other: Afrovenator was the last new Wind Dinosaur to appear in the anime.

Move Cards

Tornado Toss

Afrovenator runs around its opponent extremely fast, creating a whirling tornado vortex that lifts them off the ground and throws them spinning into the air! The Move's only target, Spiny, was inside a cave and was therefore slammed into the ceiling.

TCG Stats

Afrovenator

Afrovenator TCG card

• Element: Wind
• Icon: Scissors
• Power: 1600
• Level: 4
• Life: 2
• Card Code: DKCG-073/160
• Card Rarity: Silver Rare
• Image From: cropped Geki 1st arcade card
• Other Forms: Spectral Armor Afrovenator
• Abilities:

[Sneak Attack] When this Dinosaur wins a battle, you can return it to your hand and then Dino Slash another Dinosaur that's not named "Afrovenator" from your hand.

Swift Afrovenator

Swift Afrovenator TCG card

• Element: Wind
• Icon: Scissors
• Power: 1700
• Level: 4
• Life: 2
• Card Code: DKAA-038/100
• Card Rarity: Common
• Image From: cropped Geki 2nd(+) arcade card
• Flavor Text:

The Afrovenator was a fierce hunter with razor-sharp teeth. It lived in the Cretaceous period, the same period as many famous dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus and the Triceratops.

Cautious Afrovenator

Cautious Afrovenator TCG card

• Element: Wind
• Icon: Scissors
• Power: 1500
• Level: 4
• Life: 2
• Card Code: DKTA-039/100
• Card Rarity: Common
• Image From: cropped Kaku 2nd arcade card
• Abilities:

[Smoke Screen] When you Dino Slash this Dinosaur from your hand, you can return 1 of your opponent's Dinosaurs in play to their hand. If you do, you can't Dino Slash any more Dinosaurs this turn.

Tempest Afrovenator

Tempest Afrovenator TCG card (French)

• Element: Wind
• Icon: Scissors
• Power: 1800
• Level: 5
• Life: 3
• Card Code: SAS-038/100, SAS-095/100
• Card Rarity: Silver Rare, Colossal Rare
• Image From: cropped Geki 3rd arcade card
• Abilities:

[Pack Storm] If you have a level 7 Dinosaur in play, this Dinosaur gains [Storm] (when you Dino Slash this Dinosaur from your hand, your opponent loses 1 Life Point).

Tempest Afrovenator Colossal Rare TCG card (French)

Anime

Mesozoic Meltdown

Afrovenator was first summoned by Gabbro in Ancient Persia during The 39 Thieves to try and open the titular thieves' treasure cave when he was looking for the Red Cosmos Stone; however, the stone door was too heavy to get open, so he recalled it.

Later while in the cave, Gabbro summoned Afrovenator again to attack the Alpha Gang, but Ursula summoned Spiny, who knocked it into a wall; it was then given its Spectral Armor form to battle against Spiny's DinoTector form. The two seemed equally strong, but Afrovenator used Tornado Toss to defeat Spiny. It knocked the Alpha Gang away and swatted the gold piles around to discover the Cosmos Stone wasn't in that room. It moved to the one where the D-Team was, where it fought against Ace, who used his DinoTector form to get an edge, but the ceiling had begun caving in after Genie knocked Gabbro into a wall, so Ace used Hurricane Beat to defeat Afrovenator, destroying its Spectral Armor. Its card was reclaimed by Rex while escaping the collapsing cave.

Manga

An Afrovenator apparead in the Ancient Egypt chapter from the Dinosaur King Pterosaur Legends manga, but unlike the anime, he is used by Shear.

Character Design

Personality

Not much is known about Afrovenator's personality, as it was under Gabbro's control when it fought the Alpha Gang and D-Team. Before using Tornado Toss, it seemed to be equally as strong as the oversized Spiny (who is weak for his size), but it defeated him in spite of his DinoTector Armor, being the first to do so. This was probably mainly because Spiny was slammed into the ceiling of the cave by the attack, an attack that would probably also have easily defeated a stronger dinosaur. Comparing this to being defeated easily by Ace, Afrovenator clearly has poor defensive stamina.

Trivia

• Dr. Taylor's arcade comments:
  • Original: アフリカのサハラさばくで発見された肉食恐竜だ。走るのはあまり早くなかったようだ。
  • Translation: A carnivore found in the Sahara Desert.
• It is the third Bronze rarity Wind Dinosaur card in the arcade.
• Along with Tyrannosaurus, Majungasaurus, Prosaurolophus, Tuojiangosaurus, Diceratops, Albertosaurus, Achelousaurus, Muttaburrasaurus, and Opisthocoelicaudia, it is one of the available dinosaurs in the Japanese Red Dinosaurs Egg card.
• Afrovenator was the first dinosaur in Mesozoic Meltdown to beat a dinosaur wearing DinoTector Armor (Spiny). Main dinosaurs had been defeated several times before, but never while wearing armor.
• Afrovenator shares its anime dub roar with several other theropods: Saurophaganax's later episodes, Torvosaurus, one of the second Mapusaurus's several roars, Rajasaurus, and Gigas's later episodes.
• Although playable in the Japanese-only versions of the arcade game, there is an unused model of Afrovenator in the programming of the later English version of the arcade game though is unplayable by not being attached to an ID, likely meaning it wouldn't respond to a Japanese card's barcode.

Gallery

Afrovenator failing to open the treasure cave door

Afrovenator in NagoyaTV

Afrovenator in the Dinosaur King Pterosaur Legends manga

Afrovenator skeleton