The HV and Dino-Weapon Show is a channel on YouTube hosted by HV and Dino-Weapon. Its content ranges from gaming videos to gaming skits to story videos and even animations! The main character is Dino-Weapon, a LEGO robotic dinosaur that likes to make content for fun. The show also has many other characters such as:
The Editor (The show's main video editor and sometimes does gaming videos)
Stupid Sans (A red version of Sans from Undertale that is incredibly dumb and makes Shorts)
Glue Bunny (A Glue Creature that has appeared in a few videos)
Piffle (A Minecraft cat who wears a hoodie and likes peace)
And many more!
The show is currently in its fifth season, with 2020 being the "start-up season."
The HV and Dino-Weapon Show was created on January 15, 2020, and released their first video in August 9, 2020. The show originally had a previous series called Five Nights at Remix Freddy's, which only had 7 videos before all of them were deleted. Dino-Weapon is adamant on restoring these videos, although only two have been rediscovered. He has had many characters join the show, including Jimmy, Piffle, and Tommy to name a few. He has played multiple games, started multiple series with their own storylines, and even attempted a speedrun of The Room Two as the 200th Season 2 video special. From there, the show has gained significant growth and decent popularity, with dozens of views per video.
The show's creators have been pretty public about the show's views and how the channel is doing. Dino-Weapon makes little celebration videos for each new milestone, such as 10 subscribers and 100 videos. The views also tend to be greater with the Shorts videos, and less with the story videos, although the most popular video is now a gaming video.
The first spike in popularity was with Stupid Sans's first Short, which gained hundreds of views in a few days, eventually peaking with the Short "Sans... what happened to you?", which gained over 900 views in the first few days. After that, Sans's Shorts became less popular.
The second major spike was with the video "THE FAR LANDS RETURN?!", which gained the most amount of views in the channel's history (over 2.5k) in its first few days/weeks, letting the channel reach 30 subscribers (making it skip a 20-sub special), before 3 unsubscribed. Eventually the channel regained those 3 subscribers over the next 2 months, and the channel has slowly gained popularity over time. During the next few months, the show gained over 10,000 views and a page on the Minitubia wiki, which is a wiki that showcases creators with less than 1000 subscribers.
The third popularity spike came in November 2022, when The Editor made a Short of him coloring a model of Ink Bendy from Bendy and the Dark Revival. The Short gained over 3.6k views in its first week, making it the most popular video on the channel at the time.
The fourth main popularity spike also came in November 2022, when Dino reacted to the Alphabet Lore series, which gained over 5,000 views and is one of the most popular videos on the channel. However, he tried to react to the epilogue of the series and that didn't work out, gaining only 16 views by January 2023.
Over time, the show became more and more popular, with a fifth popularity spike in August 2023, where the Short "My Spyro Collection" gained over 1000 views in its first day.
There have been other popularity spikes, including the one in Season 4 featuring a new design for Remix Phantom Freddy gaining over 3,000 views in a few days.
The users who have subscribed to the show are not readily available, but at least UXW 05 and TheNullFinders are subscribed to the show.
Milestones:
-10 subscribers: 2/7/2022
-30 subscribers: 2/15/2022*; 4/18/2022
-40 subscribers: 5/20/2022
-50 subscribers: 8/17/2022
-60 subscribers: 8/28/2022
-70 subscribers: 10/21/2022
-80 subscribers: 10/25/2022
-90 subscribers: 11/17/2022
-99 subscribers: 11/24/2022
-100 subscribers: 11/28/2022 (for less than a second); 11/29/2022
-125 subscribers: 2/27/2023
-145 subscribers: 4/19/2023
-150 subscribers: 5/14/2023
-165 subscribers: 6/29/2023
-200 subscribers: 8/8/2023
-250 subscribers: 10/31/2023 (for a few hours); 11/2/2023
-300 subscribers: 3/5/2024 (lost a sub soon after); 3/8/2024 (lost a sub again after a few minutes); 3/18/2024
-350 subscribers: 5/26/2024
-360 subscribers: 7/29/2024
-400 subscribers: 2/24/2025
*lost 3 subscribers shortly afterwards
The HV and Dino-Weapon Show has a wide variety of content. Here are all of the games that are on the channel currently:
Minecraft: Pocket Edition
Undertale
The Room
The Room Two
Cut the Rope: Time Travel
Edge Not Found
Abandoned
Awesome Tanks
Awesome Tanks 2
Run 3
Bad Piggies
Super Mario Odyssey for Scratch
Super Mario for Scratch 4
Human Fall Flat
Five Nights at Freddy's
Penguin Hill (Scratch)
Google Snake
FNaF 1 Raycasting
FNaF 2 Raycasting
FNaF 3 Raycasting
Geometry Dash for Scratch
Duck Life 3
R-W Mod for Sans (Scratch)
Paper.io 2
Tetris
Super Mario 64 Cool Cool Mountain on Scratch
Portal for Scratch
Plants vs Zombies
Plants vs Zombies 2
The Silent Age
Toy Story 3 (Leapfrog)
Digging for Dinosaurs (Leapfrog)
Friday Night Funkin' (Scratch)
World of Goo (Mobile)
The Room Three
Five Nights at Weapon's (Broken Version)
Hexanaut.io
Pou (CoolMathGames)
Five Nights at Weapon's: Enhanced Edition (Scratch)
Minecraft V6 (Scratch)
Chess (CoolMathGames)
Powerline.io
Copter Royale
BLUE
BLACK
Dragon Date
Minecraft Classic
Breaking the Bank
Escaping the Prison
Cut the Rope (CoolMathGames)
RoScratchBo Ultimate
Five Nights at Weapon's 2
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Stealing the Diamond
Human or Not?
Skylanders: Trap Team
Don't Look Back
Robo-Weapon 64 - Frosty Frosty Peak
Five Nights at Candy's 2
20xx_@3!1#3@2#2!1#3_v4.zip
RED
GREEN
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
Ultimate Custom Night
PINK
FNaF 2
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
Bendy: Secrets of the Machine
One Night at Flumpty's
Angry Birds Showdown
Five Nights at Candy's Remastered
One Night at Flumpty's 2
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
World of Goo 2
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
Skylanders: Giants
Roller Baller
FNAC 1 (Scratch game)
ORANGE
Skylanders: SWAP Force
Defly.io
YELLOW
Garten of Banban 0
Bendy and the Ink Machine
Adventure Beaks
Goat Simulator
Bad Time Simulator
The show features many more videos such as the ????? playlist that TheNullFinders did a theory video on, as well as the early science and adventure videos.
Dino-Weapon rarely deletes videos, but usually it's due to some kind of editing or audio problem. However, there are still a handful of videos that Dino has deleted over the course of the show's lifetime. Here are all of them in no particular order:
FNaRF S1-1
FNaRF S1-2
FNaRF S1-3
FNaRF S1-4
FNaRF S1-5
FNaRF S1-6 (Recovered)
FNaRF Remix 39 Video (Recovered)
Reacting to Mumbo Jumbo's Love-Hate Relationship With Bedrock Edition (No audio)
"Do or Die" Version 1 (Audio offset)
Is That Who I Think It Is? Version 1 (Audio cut off due to unexpected caller during recording)
Dino-Weapon has stated that he planned to make a Reddit for the show long ago.
The Editor does have a Reddit account and a Twitch account, though.
He doesn't use the Twitch account much, but he has used the Reddit account for making comments.
The show gained a subreddit named "r/TheHV_DinoWeaponShow" on July 11, 2022.
TheNullFinders is a canonical part of the show.
The show labels itself as "The Zero-Budget Channel," which means that the show only uses what it has to make content.
This may also be implied by the fact none of the channel's videos have money or mentions money (at least with the intention of buying things for a higher-quality show).
However, this title may go away as Dino has expressed feelings of wanting to make more gaming videos using consoles like the Xbox 360 to play Portal 2 and Skylanders.
Recently, the channel has become more interested in making music videos, first starting with the rudimentary style of the Glunarvania video. Dino-Weapon wants to make a music video of The Stupendium's "Fragments," but with the Gluniverse Crew characters.
For more proof, there have been 4 new music videos by the start of Season 3.
The HV and Dino-Weapon Show was officially added to Minitubia on April 20, 2022.
Dino-Weapon has stated that he wants to make more story-based videos, but the popularity of the gaming videos has "taken over the show."
Dino-Weapon has logically figured out what 0 divided by 0 is.
About 50% of the total videos on The HV and Dino-Weapon Show is gaming.
Since around April 15, 2022, the channel has been trying to balance out the videos and keep the 50-50 gaming ratio as consistent as possible.
Early in the channel's life, Dino had trouble deciding on what to officially call the channel as the amount of characters grew.
One scrapped name was "The Dino-Weapon and HV Show," but it was cut for several reasons.
According to Dino-Weapon, one reason it was cut is because it didn't sound as good as "The HV and Dino-Weapon Show."
He also said that he wanted to name himself first was because of alphabetical order.
The show had a concept for an original theme song, but this was put on hold indefinitely due to many complications, and the show's "theme" is briefly heard during the episodes where there is a custom intro.
Dino has asked The Editor to make a logo for the channel, and after a few hours, he came up with a new logo.
He also had to develop Dino's logo as he didn't have one before.
The new logo hasn't been seen on-camera yet, but The Editor has used it as the unofficial logo for the channel.
It canonically appeared in HV's debut animated video, as well as in the 4th iteration of the channel banner.
The logo was officially added to the channel as its watermark on the bottom-right of every video since January 1, 2023.
Dino likes the logo, but he doesn't want to replace the current profile picture just yet.
The channel massively updated its banner on September 27, 2022.
It made HV's appearance on the banner match with his debut appearance, as well as making him smaller.
It also updated Stupid Sans's tooth count from 5 to 6 on each jawbone.
This makes Sans's banner appearance canonically correct as he does have 6 teeth per jawbone as seen in his Shorts.
It also added the aforementioned logo from HV's debut, as well as Piffle hiding behind it.
The show is confirmed to be within these genres:
Sci-fi
Comedy
Gaming
Animation
Live-Action
Action-Adventure
The channel gained the community tab on October 26, 2022 when they reached 80 subscribers.
Dino originally thought he needed 500 subscribers, but he later discovered that the tab can be unlocked by enabling advanced features for up to 48 hours.
Hey, guys. Dino-Weapon here. I think I figured out why only I had the tab on the computer version and not everywhere else (I tried making a post with that in Season 0, but it didn't work). I think that either something was bugged since I've had advanced features for about a year OR something was incorrectly labeled on the channel. I think maybe someone set it to "made for kids" but then realized "Oh, snap! This isn't kid-friendly at all!" and took off the "made for kids" tag. Either that, or the 80 subs activated the tab by accident. Honestly, this was my main goal for the channel; to get to 500 subs and unlock the community tab so I can communicate with y'all better, but now that's been reached at 80 subs, so... what now? OBVIOUSLY I'm gonna keep making stuff. What, just because I have the tab I've wanted from the start means that I'm gonna quit? Hell, nah! I'm gonna continue until at least 2024, then come back, like, 10 years later or something. Anyways, I just wanted to say this and thanks for 80 subs. This is Dino-Weapon, signing out!
The show was inspired by a mix of the SMG4, Nathaniel Bandy, and Skip the Tutorial YouTube channels.
On January 26, 2023, TheNullFinders discovered something about the first two Run 3 videos. Dino investigated and saw that they were exactly the same video. To combat this, he told The Editor to make Season 2's version the copyright-free version and the Season 1 version would include all copyrighted songs.
On February 2, 2023, the show got a Discord server named The HV and Dino-Weapon Discord.
A large percentage of characters in the show are actually left-handed.
On February 22, 2023, Dino changed the name of the channel to "Dino-Rang but actually Dino-Weapon" as a joke. He then realized he couldn't change his name for the next 2 weeks.
Despite getting the name fixed, he kept the Dino-Weapon and Dino-Rang profile picture.
The show's banner (and watermark) changed again on November 6, 2023.
Changes include the watermark now being transparent, the banner including some more FNaRF characters, and Dino-Weapon in his new design.
HV - Dino-Weapon - The Editor - Piffle
Glue Bunny - Glue Buddy - Glue Girl - Glue Rabbit - Glue the Blob - Glue Sans - GLuE-tar - Gluewind - Glue UXW - Araiya - Gluna - Dragoo - Miraigoo - Waterglue Kirbo - Glynder - Glue GOD - Steve - Glue B.O.S.S.