Torosaurus

Some scientists (starting in 2010) consider Torosaurus fossils to simply represent mature Triceratops after their frills had extended, but later research (2011 and 2012) seems to prove otherwise.

General Statistics

full-sized Torosaurus

• Name: Torosaurus latus/utahensis
• Name Meaning: Perforated Lizard
• Diet: Herbivore
• Length: 8-9 meters (26-30 feet)
• Time Period: Late Cretaceous
• Classification: Ceratopsidae --> Chasmosaurinae --> Triceratopsini
• Place Found: North America
• Describer: Marsh, 1891

Dinosaur King Statistics

Arcade Stats

Torosaurus arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 1st Edition)

• Attribute: Lightning
• Sign: Rock
• Strength: 1600
• Technique: 600
  • Compatibility Tab: 3
• Attack:
  • Rock (Critical): 860
  • Scissors/Paper: 370
• Types:
  • Attack Type (Japanese 2006 series; English & Taiwanese Series 1)
  • Heroic Type (Japanese 2007 series; English Series 2; Taiwanese New Series)
  • Blitz Type (Japanese Gekizan series)
• Arcade Nickname:
  • Japanese: 長大ちょうだいな盾 (Grown Neck Frill)
  • English: The Massive Shield
  • Taiwanese: 長大的盾
• Card Rarity: Bronze
• Altered Forms: Super Torosaurus

Availability

• Japanese
  • 1st Edition (New; 竜-15)
  • 2nd Edition (007-竜)
  • 2006 Winter Season Limited Edition (011-竜; Attack Type)
  • 6th Edition (011-竜; Attack Type)
  • Non-sale Lightning Egg (EGG-004-竜)
  • 2007 4th Edition (010-竜; Heroic Type)
  • 2007 4th Edition+ (010-竜; Heroic Type)
  • Gekizan 1st Edition (004-竜; Blitz Type)
  • Non-sale Stalwarts of Bronze
• English
  • 1st Edition Version 1 (New; Dino-15)
  • 1st Edition Version 2 (Dino-15)
  • 4th Edition (011-Dino; Attack Type)
  • 5th Edition (011-Dino; Attack Type)
  • Nemesis Edition (Dino-15)
  • Series 2 4th Edition (010-Dino; Heroic Type)
• Taiwanese
  • 1st Edition (New; 龍-15)
  • 1st Edition Extension (龍-15)
  • 3rd Edition (011-龍; Attack Type)
  • 4th Edition (011-龍; Attack Type)
  • New 4th Edition (010-龍; Heroic Type)
  • New 5th Edition (008-龍; Attack Type)
  • Non-sale Lightning Egg (EGG-004-龍)

Torosaurus arcade card (Japanese 1st Edition)

Back of Torosaurus arcade card (Japanese 1st Edition)

Torosaurus arcade card (Japanese 2006 Winter Season Edition)

Torosaurus arcade card (Japanese 2007 4th Edition+)

Torosaurus arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 1st Edition)

Torosaurus arcade card (English 5th Edition)

Back of Torosaurus arcade card (English 5th Edition)

Torosaurus arcade card (English Nemesis Edition)

Back of Torosaurus arcade card (English Nemesis Edition)

Torosaurus arcade card (English Series 2 4th Edition)

Back of Torosaurus arcade card (English Series 2 4th Edition)

Torosaurus arcade card (Taiwanese 4th Edition)

Torosaurus arcade card (Taiwanese New 5th Edition)

Back of Torosaurus arcade card (Taiwanese New 5th Edition)

Anime Stats

Torosaurus anime card

• Attribute: Lightning
• Owner: Wild, Max Taylor (D-Team)
• Location: Kenyan savanna
• Debut: Rhino or Dino?
  • Appeared In: 29, 36 (dream), 49, 63, 79
• Dinosaurs Defeated: Terry (with Chomp)

Move Cards

Lightning Strike

Torosaurus charges and shoots a bolt of lightning from its horns at its opponent! It combined its Lightning Strike with Chomp's to defeat Terry.

DS Stats

• Attribute: Lightning
• Owner: Rod (Alpha Gang)

TCG Stats

Torosaurus (DKPM)

Torosaurus TCG card (DKPM) (bad but only shot)

• Element: Lightning
• Icon: Scissors
• Power: 1600
• Level: 4
• Life: 2
• Card Code: DKPM-0??/020
• Card Rarity: Common
• Image From: (new art)
• Other: Meant for gameplay with a plastic figure. Though DKPM figure abilities often repeat, no other card from the set with a readable image appears to share its same ability to properly determine it.
• Abilities:

(Unnamed Figure Ability) When you Dino Slash this Dinosaur, put its figure on it. (unreadable)…your opponent's hand.

Torosaurus

Torosaurus TCG card (DKCG)

• Element: Lightning
• Icon: Scissors
• Power: 1800
• Level: 4
• Life: 2
• Card Code: DKCG-030/160
• Card Rarity: Silver Rare
• Image From: Ep. 29 anime scene
• Abilities:

[Coward] You can't Dino Slash this Dinosaur unless you already have 2 Dinosaurs in play.

Wandering Torosaurus

Wandering Torosaurus TCG card

• Element: Lightning
• Icon: Scissors
• Power: 1600
• Level: 4
• Life: 2
• Card Code: DKAA-017/100, DKAA-096/100
• Card Rarity: Silver Rare, Colossal Rare
• Image From: Ep. 29 anime scene
• Abilities:

[Recharge] Instead of attacking with this Dinosaur, you can let 1 of your other Lightning Dinosaurs in play attack again this turn.

[Stun] Dinosaurs that battle with this Dinosaur lose all their abilities during the battle, and any effects from those abilities after the battle are negated.

Wandering Torosaurus Colossal Rare TCG card

Energetic Torosaurus

Energetic Torosaurus TCG card (French)

• Element: Lightning
• Icon: Paper
• Power: 1600
• Level: 4
• Life: 2
• Card Code: SAS-018/100
• Card Rarity: Silver Rare
• Image From: cropped Geki 1st arcade card
• Abilities:

[Pack Stun] As long as you have a level 7 Dinosaur in play, this Dinosaur gains the ability [Stun] (the Dinosaurs that battle with this Dinosaur lose all their abilities during the battle, and any effects from those abilities after the battle are negated).

Anime

Dinosaur King

Torosaurus' card was activated in Rhino or Dino? by sparks from a broken lamp after a rhino attacked Ungaro's tent, but the poacher mistook it for a large rhino itself. After remaining elusive for a time, he arrived suddenly to protect Ace and the D-Team from Spiny before running off with pet-sized Chomp, as the two belong to closely related species. He later fought against Terry to defend Chomp, but when they were found, Paris was summoned to help him fight against Terry and Spiny. When Terry tried to attack Paris, Torosaurus hit him, but was thrown into Chomp. He was nearly beaten by Terry, until Chomp finally managed to be summoned full-sized to save him. He combined his Lightning Strike with Chomp's and they defeated Terry, but the battle had weakened Torosaurus, making him collapse and return to his card out of exhaustion. His card and Move Card were claimed by Max.

A Torosaurus appears in Max's dream in Metal Imbalance among the crowd of dinosaur asking him to "save us".

A small herd of Torosaurus are brought into the present in Dinosaur War! by the malfunctioning Backlander, but are returned when the time circuits fail completely following the Black T-Rex's defeat.

Mesozoic Meltdown

Another Torosaurus is briefly seen in a glass dome cage on the Space Pirate's ship in Two Shoguns are Better than One, and in the finale is discovered and rescued by Dr. Z along with the other dinosaurs there.

Character Design

Personality

Torosaurus is both a very peaceful and very strong dinosaur. Like most Season 1 Lightning Dinosaurs, he became friends with Chomp and showed a strong protective instinct for him. In the fight against the Alpha Gang, he also protected Paris from Terry's attack despite not having met prior (though seeing she was there to support him) and later combined his Lightning Strike with Chomp's to defeat Terry. In this respect, he can be regarded as one of the wild dinosaurs who developed a particularly strong friendship with the D-Team.

Trivia

• Dr. Taylor's arcade comments:
  • Japanese: とても大きなえりかざりを持つ草食恐竜だ。頭の大きさは2mをこえる。
  • English: A herbivore with a very large neck frill. Its head measures over two meters.
  • Taiwanese: 有著極大領飾的草食恐龍,頭部大小超過2公尺。
• It is the first Bronze rarity Lightning Dinosaur card in the arcade.
• Along with Styracosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, Triceratops, Chasmosaurus, Eucentrosaurus, Einiosaurus, Arrhinoceratops, and Brachyceratops, it is one of the available dinosaurs in the Japanese and Taiwanese non-sale Lightning Egg card.
• Along with Torvosaurus, Baryonyx, Shantungosaurus, Edmontonia, and Ceratosaurus, it is one of the available dinosaurs in the Japanese non-sale Stalwarts of Bronze card.
• Torosaurus' anime roar is a combination of Paris' and Chomp's, mixed in with other stock roars.
• It is one of the dinosaurs that was defeated by the Alpha Gang, but claimed by the D-Team. The other ones were Ceratosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Euoplocephalus, Megaraptor, Anchiceratops, Saurolophus, Deltadromeus, Iguanodon, Fukuisaurus, Jobaria, and the second Carcharodontosaurus.
• He is the only Lightning Dinosaur in the anime to use a Lightning Move other than Chomp (Styracosaurus's card was separated from Lightning Spear before it was activated, Anchiceratops and others used Normal Moves, and Maximus's Spectral Punisher was an ability of his Spectral Armor without a true Element).
• Although Chomp befriended most of the Lightning Dinosaurs in season 1, Torosaurus in general is actually the only ceratopsid species in the anime the D-Team has never fought against, given Alpha Gang and Space Pirate controlled former friends and new members, even for Chomp's species. As such, however, only the first Pentaceratops fought them by choice, and only because of a misunderstanding.

Gallery

Torosaurus activated in Africa (scene on Wandering Torosaurus TCG card)

Torosaurus with the D-Team

Torosaurus in NagoyaTV

Torosaurus using Electric Charge in Japanese arcade gameplay