0336 - Truckasaurus
Added 2024-05-23 08:00:01 +0000 UTCThis was one of the funnest ones to draw in a while! It's so different from the usual style of bozos we cover, while still having a cartoony Simpson-y quality that I find hard to pin down.
He "roars" in the advert for his appearance at the Springfield Speedway, although he is later shown speaking English in an advert for "Truckasaurus: The Movie" in season 4's "Marge vs. the Monorail", entirely reusing animation from "Bart The Daredevil":
Surprisingly he never appears again in the show, but his successor "Truckasaurus 2" can be seen in season 29's "Forgive and Regret":
Truckasaurus 2 gets a line and is immediately destroyed, so we will be seeing them again someday.
Truckasaurus Classic clearly captured people's imaginations, as he appears in ancillary media far more than in the show. This is mostly in video games, but once in Bart Simpsons Comics #35, in a story aptly named "The Return of Truckasaurus":
Truckasaurus is the reward at the end of the game if you complete the Gameboy game "The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Juggernauts":
In the Stadium in "The Simpsons Road Rage":
Looking increadibly cool in a cutecene in "The Simpsons: Hit and Run":
And of course in Tapped Out, because everything is in Tapped Out:
Truckasaurus is based on real-life robot dinosaur "Robosaurus", an attraction created in 1989, to the point where the "Truckasaurus: The Movie" joke from season 4 is mostly likely a reference to "Steel Justice", a failed TV pilot foeaturing Robosaurus footage:
Although from reviews it seems that the cool robot dinosaur part is only in the last fifteen minutes, so just watch that.
This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list of my rules in this project, click here.
