Barney is back, and while Mattel has not yet ... So no beleaguered actor dressed up in a dinosaur costume marching around and singing to young kids. A spokesperson for Mattel told CNN that it ...

David Joyner, now 61, is the man who brought to life the famous purple dinosaur ... costume. He introduced himself on the Reddit thread with: "Hello my name is David Joyner, and I played Barney ...

And ruthless rumors spread quicker than the dinosaur’s cheer ... the long set days when he would be stuck in the 70-pound Barney costume for several hours. He credited the practice for helping ...

Barney, the “dinosaur from our imagination,” is bouncing ... But unlike the 6-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus rex character in costume with its toothy grin that millennials recognize from the live ...

rex costume — and a range of ... nostalgia of the generations who grew up with Barney, now parents themselves, and introduce the iconic purple dinosaur to a new generation of kids and families ...

fit the costume while I got the voice. We just synced up together. “Barney & Friends” was a genuine pop culture phenomenon. The show was ubiquitous when I was growing up in the ‘90s.

I watched both hour-long installments of the Peacock documentary I Love You, You Hate Me, and I'm still not sure whether two hours is way too much time to spend talking about Barney the dinosaur ...