After a certain age people stop asking you what your favorite dinosaur is, and I think that's sad.
My current one's the Anchiornis, because it's in the same clade as birds so it's in their family tree, and it really looks like a prototype of a bird. It had 4 wings for example, but it already looked very birb-y:
(Figured I'd just turn an earlier comment into an actual post because why not)
Ankylosaurus! Tail club, armor plates, what's not to love?
I'm boring, and still like Stegosaurus best. Gotta love that Thagomizer.
I just have a soft spot for triceratops.
Spinosaurus!
Gigantic crocodile-faced sail-finned bitey boy supreme.
I love this question! This made me really happy. My favorite has always been (and remains) the brontosaurus. (Probably can blame "The Land Before Time" for its influence.)
I remember in the early/mid-90s being corrected that brontosaurus wasn't a dinosaur species, but was actually the same as apatosaurus. Being a stubborn child, I refused to accept this and always considered the brontosaurus, not the apatosaurus, my favorite. I felt so vindicated when the study came out in 2015 that brontosaurus and apatosaurus weren't the same.
Perhaps that's why I still stubbornly refuse to let go of Pluto: the minute hope that my favorite planet will be recognized again someday. Alas.
Parasaurolophus has been my favorite since I was 6 years old. I've always thought their cranial crests were very cool.
Chicken.
At the risk of sounding like a basic bitch, I'm going to go with T-Rex. Sure he has ridiculously silly arms, but he gets a pass because he could bite through a car. It's a prime case of be careful who you pick on in school.
I know they're not dinosaurs, but I like pterosaurs a lot. Their wings look cool and I bet a flock of them in the sky would be a crazy sight!
Pachycephalasaurus has always been on of my favorites.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so probably one that isn't considered a dinosaur anymore.
Chicken.
I just killed my back for the day making a barbeque bath for their little fingers...
Wicked Barbie Srirachasaur
gotta go with the velociraptor, Little knife chicken
Archaeopteryx - apparently the first bird ever
Euoplocephalus, because I like me some ank memes, but I wanna be special.
If we included pterosaurs, then anurognathus, because look at him!
Allosaurus
It's always been Allosaurus
tricerytops
If we are accepting non-dinosaur but ancient creatures, my favorite is the anomalocaris :) it's just a goofy lil guy with a mouth snoot. Plus, they never say no to a snack. (They're at the end.)
Mine is the Pachycephalosaurus. I love it so much I use it as my profile picture. I got attached to it because cranidos is my favorite pokemon.
Therizinosaurus! When I saw the previews for the new Jurassic World movie and they teased it, I got chills. I was so stoked.
Iguanodon.
Where it all started.
Stenonychosaurus (née Troodon) because as unlikely and silly an idea as it was I always found the whole "how intelligent could they have become if they hadn't gone extinct" thought experiment fascinating.
I also have a soft spot for Struthiomimus just because it's such a fun word to say.
Just want to give props to OP for playing the role of host/MC very well.
Microraptor. I have a soft spot for the small dinos
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