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| Why can't you get one with Lost World sets? It would be really cool. (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| Cus it just aint how thangs werk no more( I don't know?)! (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) Because velociraptors hadn't been discovered in the time when the Adventurers' adventures took place. So the velociraptors would be out of place. Besides, it would make the Dino-Adventurers seem just a little *too* much like Jurassic Park. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| Velociraptor was discovered on the Andrews Central Asiatic Expedition in the 1920s, which is during the Adventurers time period. In fact, it is likely they were on this expedition. A bigger raptor closer ot the one in Jurassic Park, Deinonychus, was (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) Well, yeah, but since the theme is "living" dinosaurs, aren't we already engaging in a little fiction? Besides which, prevailing wisdom at the time of the Adventurers' adventures had the T-Rex as a completely upright, tail- dragging, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) Well, yeah, isn't that the irony of this whole thing? (...) Ooo, good point. But I think the TLC T-Rex is a compromise, all the way around. Not that I've stayed up late nights comparing the mini-T with scientific evidence. Actually, the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) Especially when the fiction is one of a lost island rather than time travel. If something can survive hidden an extra 65 million years then why not an extra 165 million years? This setup gives TLC the freedom to pick and choose prehistoric (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) T'would be wonderful! I could really use a long necked 80 foot tall herbivore as well as those things with the big heads... what are they called?.. Pachycephalosaurs? I'm already planning an Isla Sonora with Levine and friends! The High Hide (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| Yes, the dome-headed dinosaur is a Pachycephalosaurus. Your idea for a Lego adaptation of the novel is great. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| I think they should've made the dinosaurs with more interchangeable parts so that you could switch heads, lengthen necks, etc. Then you could've adapted your way to whatever dinosaur you wanted. (to some degree I think that's what they do in real (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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