Name: 10/10, would attempt to utter ten times tongue-twistingly fast in a public space, resulting in prompt institutionalization.

Box design: 10/10, love to imagine a world where a cartoon rabbit and a photorealistic Tyrannosaurus get into all kinds of Road Runner-y hijinks—and where said cereal-swiping Rabbit, with his forward-facing eyes, is no longer the alpha predator.

But the taste of Trix Trax? Well, let’s talk, squawk, and lumbering walk about it.

Let’s be clear: nothing about Trix Trax is inherently new, since Trix has had marshmallows before. The only ostensible differences with this Jurassic World crossover are the shapes of the Trix pieces and marbits alike.

And my thoughts on these geometric tweaks? Uh, they’re fine, I guess. They’re no fruit shapes, but the dino track pieces are texturally more interesting than the spheres we got with the Trolls Trix, with a sharper crunch and less airy blandness. I’d say the marbits are a step down from the swirled Trolls ones, though—those were gorgeous abstract gemstones, whereas with Trix Trax we’ve just got two palette-swapped “Stegosauri,” which, in addition to snubbing countless other cool dinosaurs they could’ve ‘mallowed, look more like those pencil toppers my second-grade self would gnaw on than any actual Stegosaurus in the first place. There are also plain white disc “dino egg” marbits, but that’s just a colossal cop-out so I’m snubbing those to the point of fossilization.

As for the flavor, though? Well this may sound crazy, but I still insist that Trix is quite possibly the only iconic cereal that actually benefits from the addition of marshmallows (only quasi-exception is Golden Grahams, which requires marbits and a chocolate component). With things like Frosted Flakes or Froot Loops, the base cereal is already so sweet, that piling on more one-note sweetness only makes the sugar content obtrusively obnoxious.

Which isn’t to say Trix isn’t a super-sweet cereal by default, but its core taste profile leans more toward sour-kissed citrusy flavors. This gives the marshmallows an actual purpose in balancing that subtle pucker with a creamier sweetness—which also serves to mask the corny undertones which are Trix’s only real Achilles Paw. As usual, milk only elevates this effect.

Overall, Trix Trax isn’t reinventing the wheel (or even inventing it—the Jurassic Period was a good two-hundred million years earlier), but I quite liked it. This is partly because Trix isn’t a cereal I buy regularly, so when it does enter my life, it’s a sweet (and sour!) nostalgic reminder of simpler times. I’d recommend Trix Trax for any fake-fruity cereal fan—or dinosaur enthusiast in general.

The Bottom Line: 8 carnivorous dinosaurs eating herbivorous rabbits eating herbivorously shaped marshmallows out of 10.