is a series of three family monster comedy films made in the early to mid-1990s about the adventures of five miniature baby dinosaurs named after famous pop musicians.

Richard Band, Michael Bishop, and Fuzzbee Morse composed the music for the films.

Around the same time, storyboard artist Peter von Sholly, approached Band with a concept about creating a movie about miniature dinosaurs.

David Allen Productions and Mark Rappaport created the special effects for all of the films.

The dinosaurs in the first three films were realized by traditional stop motion animation and rod puppets.

tells the story of Rico Sarno, a museum curator, who enters a forbidden temple in South America and discovers a nest of five eggs.

The kids, Monica (Samantha Mills) and Jerry (Austin O'Brien) discover the dinosaurs when they hatch and try to keep it a secret, until their father finds out.

The crate is found in a box car by Naomi (Jennifer Harte), a girl whose father works at the train station and a rich kid named Brendan Wellington (Kevin Connors) who is hiding in the box car because he is being chased by bullies who are about to attack him.

Naomi and Brendan later become friends and the mini-dinosaurs help the boy get the attention he needs, and try to save him from his abusive mistress Miss Winters who is allergic to animals.

She also views Brendan as a child with a lot of problems and wants to send him to a disciplinary school.

This time, the five dinosaurs fall out of the back of Mr. Cranston's truck, and they make their way to another family's home.

Ella MacGregor (Whitney Anderson) is in love with her Scottish culture, but is sad that the mini-putt golf course is going under.

In 2018, the first film of the series received a Blu-Ray release[2] with a new transfer from the original 35mm camera negative.