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Re: Velociraptor
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lugnet.adventurers
Date: 
Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:54:43 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Dave Schuler wrote:

> 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?

Well, yeah, isn't that the irony of this whole thing?

> 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.

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 historic view of the T-Rex had the spine at a 45-degree
slope, didn't it?  A totally straight-up T-Rex (like an old Godzilla movie)
would be weird.

Steve



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  Re: Velociraptor
 
(...) 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, (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)

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