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These terrifying Dinosaurs Attack! trading cards from the 1980s traumatized an entire generation

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In 1988, Topps released its Dinosaurs Attack! trading cards — an extraordinarily graphic and brutal collection of artwork, featuring all the horrible things that could go wrong in the unfortunate event that dinosaurs (inexplicably) made their way to the present day. The series, which consisted of 55 cards and 11 stickers, is a tribute to a bygone era when trading card manufacturers were allowed to produce ridiculously gory cards for unsuspecting children.

Here’s a sampling from the series:

Via So Bad So Good.

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