Subject:
|
Re: Velociraptor
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.adventurers
|
Date:
|
Wed, 5 Jul 2000 23:33:20 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1294 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.adventurers, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.adventurers, Bradley Dale wrote:
>
> > Why can't you get one with Lost World sets? It would be really cool.
>
> Because velociraptors hadn't been discovered in the time when the
> Adventurers' adventures took place. So the velociraptors would be out of
> place.
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, cold-blooded monster, rather than as the more recent conception
depicted in the dino sets.
Dave!
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Velociraptor
|
| (...) 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)
| | | Re: Velociraptor
|
| (...) 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)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Velociraptor
|
| (...) 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)
|
10 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
