Jurassic Park .....T-Rex, and other fluffy stuff...

ScoobySnax

When I was a kid, I remember sitting in class, waiting for the playground breaks so I could show the other kids my dinosaur collections. I had real fossils, plastic T-Rex's Triceratops and Diplodocuses. This must have been 1977, and I was 7 years old. I can remember being really frustated that no-one in the playground/school yard shared my enthusiasm at the time, or was the least bit interested, they were all into Action Man and Evil Kneivel. I can remember my teacher calling me Dinoboy and other kids laughing. LOL

In 1993 when I read that a Dinosaur film was coming (at 23!) I was so elated that people had got switched onto the excitement of Dinosaurs. 2 Films later, I still watch them and look in awe at them (I know I know its a film)

I still can't help myself, I am absolutely fascinated with Dinosaurs. They are still magical, and if I had a time machine, I'd just want to go back and watch them for an hour or so. God Bless John Hammond!!

There!! I got it off my chest.

Scoob

ezekiel3

I'd just want to go back and watch them for an hour or so

Yeah, and that's about how long you would last.

Ponder this: is the worldwide dragon myth a prehistoric memory of the dinosaurs?

AlmostAtheist

I rode an elephant once at the circus. It was very cool. Can you imagine riding a t-rex? Or one of those things they no longer call brontosaurs? That would be so awesome. Barnum and Bailey's Jurassic Circus -- The Greatest Extinct Show On Earth!

Dave

ScoobySnax

AA:-

"WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH"

Scoob

Leolaia

You're about the same age as me, and I was really into dinosaurs too ... well, for a while. :) In fact, my friend and I had an idea of making a movie about dinosaurs with plastic models ... her father had a movie camera and we thought of using stop motion photography. This was when I was 8....in 1979 or so. We even filmed some of it, but she never showed me because she said it looked so terrible. So when Jurrasic Park came out, of course I thought back to my own little movie idea.... :)

gaiagirl

Here's a tip from one dino fan to another: Walgreens has DVD's of old silent movies (and a few talkies) for less than $10. I found the 1925 version of "The Lost World", and loved the primitive stop-motion animation. Some of the portrayals, of active, aggressive predators is closer to the modern view than the sluggish, stupid creatures of the films of the '50s and '60s. I believe the same animator went on to greater fame in the 1933 classic "King Kong".

in a new york bethel minute

yea too bad noah didnt take them into the ark

AlmostAtheist

yea too bad noah didnt take them into the ark

Do you read NONE of the links I send you? Obviously, or you'd be hip to the knowledge. Behold! alt http://www.chick.com/catalog/comics/0107.asp Ah, Jack Chick. Is there anything you DON'T know? BTW, if you haven't read the Crichton books Jurassic Park and The Lost World, you really need to. They are very exciting, much more so than the movie! Dave

Wolfgirl

I was always a big dinosaur nut. I was reading books about them as soon as I could read (age 4). I agree, the novels by Michael Crichton are WAY better than the films. Much more intense.

New Worldly Translation

Dinosaurs are cool! I was really into them when I was a kid too. Did you watch the Walking with Dinosaurs TV series on BBC a while back? I thought that was well put together and informative.

Although my parents tolerated me having dinosaur toys they didn't believe they ever existed! They have since had to modify their view but my grandma still thinks all paleontologists are involved in some mass fraud where they have a home made bone up their trouser leg and slyly plonk it in a hole they've just dug and say 'Ooh, look what I found!'

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