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May 14 2016, 10:47 PM
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New project idea I had, thanks to Dino Ken mentioning parks.~

Humans leave earth when they third off world colony has been built, they also leave so it can restore to its natural state. When they return 20 million years later, extinctions have occurred and there are many new animals and plants around. They take a couple of each known animal onto a spaceship and onto their colony on Mars. Here they set up a zoo, filled with some of the weirdest animals humans have ever seen.
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As for my hook - I don't really have one YET. But that's okay - since this project in just in the early planning stages.

One possible hook - may be that it's set in modern times (early 21st century) and done sort of Jurassic Park style, only with several parks instead of just one. Maybe a different park for each continent(complete with the prehistoric beast native to that continent).

Another possible hook may be - if it done as a companion project to my Terra Project - where instead of genetically engineering dinosaurs - specimens from Terra are captured and put in Zoos (although this would likely happen so time after Earth's 6th extinction).
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This may just be me being stupid but I don't understand the first hook, it's continent specific but that's not very interesting. Plus it just brings up more questions, like wouldn't they get more money if they had dinosaurs from all continents in all the parks?

The second one could be interesting, if it gave a backstory of how the dinosaurs were caught that could make a good hook.
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He means that one park- one continent. For example, one park would just have Asian creatures, whilst another would have European creatures.

i also thought of a Terraformed world where the only introduced organisms are Tardigrades, Tunicates and Algae.
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May 15 2016, 12:20 AM
He means that one park- one continent. For example, one park would just have Asian creatures, whilst another would have European creatures.

That's still applies to what I said, why have parks with only a few types of creatures? You'd surely have more money and success if you have random animals from random continents in one park.
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I am not exactly sure where you get the idea that it would only be a few types of creatures. Unless it's because in Jurassic World there was only about 20 species or so. But I am talking possible dozens different animals or in some parks (like the North America) possible a few hundred types of animals in a single park. So put all those dinosaurs, pterosaurs, prehistoric mammals and other prehistoric animals in a single park - would mean that park would need to be larger than either of the islands in the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World movies. As there would likely be hundreds of different types of prehistoric animals.

As for my second option - I've been thinking of that backstory. First humans from this future Earth would need to find a door way/portal to Terra. Then they would need to find away to transport any animals caught on Terra back to their Earth. As for the backstory why humans would hunt the dinosaurs, birds, mammals & reptiles of Terra. After the discovery of Terra's healthy ecosystems, scientists figure they can use some of Terra's animals to help fill some of their Earth's empty niches. Although some of the dinosaurs would like end up in zoos, or animal theme parks.


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I'm going to do a project set in a future Ice Age in the style of WWD. One thing though, I would like to know the possible layout of the continents in the next 5-10 million years.
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May 15 2016, 11:32 PM
I would like to know the possible layout of the continents in the next 5-10 million years.
Africa moving north and closing the Strait of Gibraltar, turning the Mediterranean Sea into either an inland sea or a salt pan (latter being more likely). East Africa continuing to drift eastwards and possibly disconnecting from the African mainland, forming a new subcontinent. The Red Sea expanding while the Arabian Peninsula collides with the Middle East.

Central America might break apart at this time, disconnecting North and South America and reopening the Central American Seaway. Both continents might head westwards. Baja Californian Peninsula will break off and form it's own subcontinent heading north along the west coast.

Australia moves northwards and might collide with Southeastern Asia, or at least in the early stages with more islands being pushed from the rising sea bed beneath. Don't know about New Zealand

Antarctica will move north but which direction exactly I'm not sure, and it won't be a great distance, more like 100 miles roughly.

Bering Strait might close if North America heads west and collides with Northeastern Asia. India will probably still push north but it will be slowing down.

I think Europe might be in the same place or at least move slightly from its present location to somewhere further north. I don't know that either.

That's everything I know, but I'm sure people with better knowledge about Tectonics know more, such as El Dorito if I'm right.
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May 15 2016, 02:17 AM
I am not exactly sure where you get the idea that it would only be a few types of creatures. Unless it's because in Jurassic World there was only about 20 species or so. But I am talking possible dozens different animals or in some parks (like the North America) possible a few hundred types of animals in a single park. So put all those dinosaurs, pterosaurs, prehistoric mammals and other prehistoric animals in a single park - would mean that park would need to be larger than either of the islands in the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World movies. As there would likely be hundreds of different types of prehistoric animals.

As for my second option - I've been thinking of that backstory. First humans from this future Earth would need to find a door way/portal to Terra. Then they would need to find away to transport any animals caught on Terra back to their Earth. As for the backstory why humans would hunt the dinosaurs, birds, mammals & reptiles of Terra. After the discovery of Terra's healthy ecosystems, scientists figure they can use some of Terra's animals to help fill some of their Earth's empty niches. Although some of the dinosaurs would like end up in zoos, or animal theme parks.


But why would that be a hook? Having animals organized by continent won't change much. For instance Eden extinct animals from all over the globe, and your idea is to have animals from a select few places. That brings the question of why I would choose Eden over this.

And the second hook, I think you misunderstood what I meant by backstory. If you gave the backstory you have, great we know why they take random animals, but then there isn't much story. We already know the story of why they get animals so that isn't a good hook if it's only a one time thing. My idea is that you put a story of how the team gets each specific animal.

For instance, give us a story of how they capture Teddy the T.rex, how they had to look for hours in forests, how they had to make sure not to disturb a group of sauropods, how they finally managed to tranquilize and capture the t.rex, with one guy almost dying in the process.
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For instance, give us a story of how they capture Teddy the T.rex, how they had to look for hours in forests, how they had to make sure not to disturb a group of sauropods, how they finally managed to tranquilize and capture the t.rex, with one guy almost dying in the process.


First off - the park project which is linked to my Terra project - will not have T.rex, Triceratops or any other late Cretaceous species. As any scientific/explorer group from Home Earth would arrive in Terra's timeline at roughly equal to the Holocene. Any dinosaurs on Terra would have had an addition 65-66 million years of evolution from the surviving Latest Maastrichtian forms. So the types of dinosaurs that the scientific/explorer group would be different from those forms known on HE - some would be very different.

As for the full backstory for either of the park project ideas - their backstories are just rough drafts, at best. So they are not fleshed out yet. These are just ideas - at this point - nothing more. When I really start working on the project - then I will flesh out the backstory in much greater detail.
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For instance, give us a story of how they capture Teddy the T.rex, how they had to look for hours in forests, how they had to make sure not to disturb a group of sauropods, how they finally managed to tranquilize and capture the t.rex, with one guy almost dying in the process.


First off - the park project which is linked to my Terra project - will not have T.rex, Triceratops or any other late Cretaceous species. As any scientific/explorer group from Home Earth would arrive in Terra's timeline at roughly equal to the Holocene. Any dinosaurs on Terra would have had an addition 65-66 million years of evolution from the surviving Latest Maastrichtian forms. So the types of dinosaurs that the scientific/explorer group would be different from those forms known on HE - some would be very different.

As for the full backstory for either of the park project ideas - their backstories are just rough drafts, at best. So they are not fleshed out yet. These are just ideas - at this point - nothing more. When I really start working on the project - then I will flesh out the backstory in much greater detail.
In my own words "for instance", it was just an example of a prehistoric animal. I didn't need to know any of that, it's not even what we're talking about.


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Correction - it's not what YOU are talking about.

As for the "hook" - I've already said several times that I don't really have one. These are just rough idea for projects - nothing more. As these are just project ideas which may or may not ever be developed.
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May 10 2016, 08:28 PM
I'm not sure if that would count as a deconstruction. Still sounds interesting, tough, and a little funny since I'm working on a kind of reconstruction of the Lost World.
I say that he should go for it; we could always use more oldschool-styled projects on this site.

Also, to dino-ken, here's an idea for a hook: instead of the animals being totally accurate, have them be more... hodgepodgey, for lack of a better term. Tyrannosaur DNA, for instance, could be mixed with that of megalosaurs and carnosaurs to fill in the gaps. Make the results for this park be totally new animals, greater than the sum of their parts.

Then, tell of their future evolution: perhaps you could set this project in the far future, and have the 'park' really be an entire planet that was terraformed specifically for its use. Have the park fail, releasing the 'dinosaurs,' and voila! Retrozoic Park in space, but with a unique twist!
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