Dooly the Little Dinosaur

Dooly

• Dooly (둘리; 杜里)^[5] is a baby dinosaur that was kidnapped by aliens, who had experimented to give him supernatural powers. When he returned to Earth, he was trapped in a glacier causing him to faint during the Ice Age. About 100 million years later, one of the glaciers broke off and he came to Seoul. Standing 4 feet and 6 inches tall, Dooly is a Ceratosaurus with an oversized head, meant to draw attention toward the character's facial expression, which he rarely changes.^[2] He has a tail as long as his height, and he sometimes uses it to make himself look taller than other characters, usually Kildong Go. He displays many human-like characteristics, including a habit of sticking out his tongue. His underside is full-white, as are his hands and feet. He has three toes per foot, and has five fingers on each hand, unlike a real Ceratosaurus which has four. He also has shiny teeth. He is like a typical kid who likes to eat and play all the time, but he can come across as being somewhat audacious, living the life of an orphan.^[7] Behind his thoughtful words, Dooly is just another baby dinosaur who misses his mother dinosaur. While in Seoul, he was found by a girl named Younghee (영희), and because she mistook Dooly for a dog she took him home with her and her elder brother Chulsoo (철수), and made him live with her as a pet. However, her father Gildong (길동) hates Dooly and just beats Dooly up whenever he is annoying. Dooly has superpowers that he received from an extraterrestrial, but doesn't know why. He doesn't quite know how to use it deliberately but in times of danger, he somehow manages to use the power. He points his right finger and yells 'Hoihoi!' He is always biting his tongue and looking silly, but he is both mischievous and loyal. Once in a while, he'll resist, like when he turns Kildong into a dinosaur and sends him to the Amazon, but whenever he does, it always turns against him. Dooly's name, according to the cartoon, is a pun. His older sister - Dooly called her 'brother' because he confused that exact nominal - is named Hana, meaning One or First while Dool, or Dul mean Two in Korean and y or ei mean the same thing in Korean Traditional-Chinese, making him the Second. This is mentioned around the end of then 2nd set of episodes, or the 6th episode, but it is not certain if this is true in manhwa canon due to the anime and manhwa having many storyline differences. While Dooly is having adventures in Seoul and having fun, he meets three friends who Kildong hates too and beats up, all except Heedong (희동).
• Heedong Park (박희동) came to live with Uncle Gildong after his parents went abroad to study. He misses his mom every day, but feels utterly entertained by Dooly the Brother. Thanks to the excessive amounts of time he spends with Dooly, he isn't afraid of anything.^[7] He is also really good at biting or scratching someone when they make him mad. He has broken Douner's Time Cosmos' Spaceship.
• Douner (도우너) the Prince of Planet 'Kanttappia' makes an emergency landing on the planet Earth due to the malfunctioning of the 'Time Cosmos' Spaceship. His head may be really hard and his thoughts very simple, but the word "loyalty" was made for Douner.^[7] He can travel back and forth in time and space in the Time Cosmos Spaceship which looks like a violin.
• Ddochi (또치), the Ostrich that successfully escaped from a Las Vegas circus troop, always insists that she used to be a noble mistress from Africa. She is a little bit selfish, and a little bit shy, but Ddochi is the most softhearted ostrich that anyone will ever come across.^[7] She also insists on calling herself a girl. Ddochi has many talents she learned from the circus.
• Michael (마이콜) is an aspiring singer who lives next to Kildong, and feeds on his passion for dreaming, though he may lack the necessary talent. He is quite lost most of the time, but does know how to take care of himself.^[7] Although he is South Korean, his appearance is noticeable different. His surname is Ma. He is based on Michael Jackson.^[8] Dooly once joined a band with Douner and Michael.
• Gildong Go (고길동) is an Uncle of Heedong and father of Chulsoo and Younghee. He usually scolds Dooly, Douner and Ddochi.^[7] He doesn't scold Heedong.
• Chulsoo Go (고철수) (Cheol-su) is a son of Gildong.
• Younghee Go (고영희) (Young-hee) is a daughter of Gildong.
• Jeongja Park (박정자) is a kind-hearted wife of Gildong.

Animations

Theatrical film

Dooly the Little Dinosaur - The Adventure of Ice Planet (Little Dinosaur Dooly: The Adventure of Ice Planet or Baby Dinosaur Dooly - The Great Adventure of the Ice Star) is a Korean animated film released in 1996. It was produced with a production cost of ₩2 billion won and was released in 70 theaters nationwide on July 24, 1996.^[46] According to the Korean Film Yearbook, the number of viewers in Seoul was 126,872.^[47]

Dooly, a baby dinosaur, was trapped in a huge iceberg 100 million years ago and separated from his mother, falling into a deep sleep. One day, pieces of iceberg flowed into the Han River, and Dooly, who woke up from a deep sleep, accidentally stayed at the house of Kildong Go, a small citizen living in Ssangmun-dong, and there wasn't a day that Kildong Go's house became comfortable from that day on. Heedong, the "Fearful Pacifier," Alien Douner, Ddochi Ostrich, and aspiring singer Michol will join, and they will travel to the future to quickly become adults on Time Cosmos. However, due to a time cosmos' error, they head to the ice star in the maze of space, where Dooly meets his dream mother. However, the ice star is dominated by the space villain Bayking, and Dooly and his party begin to be chased by Bayking's army.^[48]

For the 40th anniversary of the original work, Little Dinosaur Dooly: The Adventure of Ice Planet was re-released in cinemas in the 4K UHD format beginning May 24, 2023.^[2]