Palaeo-Redo: Dino Lab and Cameron and his Dinosaurs/Random Palaeo-Work idea of the Day #14

We made it to 75 posts and 10,000 views and beyond everyone! To celebrate that and the launch of the new Mesozoic Mind Discord server (oh yeah, that's now a thing), here is a two-in-one: a new instalment of Palaeo-Redo, and a new Random Palaeo-Work idea of the Day.

First up is Palaeo-Redo, this time if my selected work were made by me or updated. This time, what better to commemorate the start of my blog writings then my first big breakthroughs, Dino Lab and Cameron and his Dinosaurs.

My idea for Dino Lab (both I and II) is to make it a full series about six episodes long set on a whole campus, with both indoor and outdoor facilities to conduct the experiments with the dinosaurs, not just indoor ones that just raise all sorts of welfare concerns I have with the present version. Each episode and the experiments within them would focus on a different topic.
  • Senses
  • Locomotion
  • Feeding and Hunting
  • Sociality
  • Communication
  • Internal Organs
The expanded runtime would also allow for more plot and worldbuilding as it were, such as hinting about how the lab acquires its dinosaurs, mostly through time travel in a secret sector and some... illicit means.

Species lineup would be a mix of pre-existing species/models from Meteor Studios and new ones; at the moment I have ideas for different hadrosaurs (Corythosaurus, Lambeosaurus) having the function of their crests tested, and Spinosaurus' sail.

As for CahD, I'd also start by making it a whole ongoing comic series, with the book as it is being the first arc, but also give the story and beats time to breath and not awkwardly jump around, as well as add new scenes and plot beats; for instance, rather then just deciding offscreen not to obey Poppycock in being evil, the dinosaurs initially go along with it, but things happen that makes them change their mind. Further arcs would expand the rogues' gallery for the dinosaurs and Cameron to thwart, ranging from aliens to Professor Poppycock and BURPS (here not shut down at the end) making all sorts of new monsters.

I'd also make Cameron's wheelchair, barely touched upon for better or worse, more perient to the story. Not reduce him to just needing a wheelchair and the disability, but brought up time to time, and maybe tie in with an overarching theme, one about freedom to choose and go where you want. I actually borrowed a few ideas from an idea for a cartoon adaptation I had a while back, and may revive someday.

Now for the Random Palaeo-Work idea.

Prehistoric Canada

An epic documentary series (ideally about eight episodes long) about fossil life and sites of my great homenation Canada, and how they reveal the story of life on Earth as a whole.

Among the locations and species featured would be (organised by time period but not limited to).
  • Edicarian
    • Mistaken Point, Newfoundland
  • Cambrian
    • Burgess Shale, British Columbia
      • Anamalocaris
      • Hallucigenia
      • Waptia
  • Devonian
    • Fram Formation of Nunavut
      • Tiktaalik roseae
      • Eusthenopteron
    • Ontario
      • Sea Scorpion
      • Conodont
  • Carboniferous
    • Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Nova Scotia
      • Hylonomus lyelli
      • Asaphestera platyris
      • Arthropleura
  • Triassic
    • Sulfer Lake and Pardonet Formations, BC
      • Shastasaurus
      • Thalattosaurus borealis
      • Rebellatrix
    • Wolfville Formation and Wasson Bluffs, Nova Scotia
      •  Teraterpeton hrynewichorum
      • Coelophysis
      • Oryctorhynchus bairdi
      • Metoposaurus bakeri
      • Fendusaurus eldoni
  • Cretaceous
    • Redmond Formation, Labrador
      • Maculaferrum blaisi
    • Pierre Shale of Manitoba
      • Hesperornis regalis
      • Tylosaurus pembinensis
    • Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta
      • Albertosaurus sarcophagus
      • Styracosaurus albertensis
      • Corythosaurus casarius
  • Palaeogene
    • Ravenscrag Formation, Saskatchewan
    • Cypress Hills, SK
      • Mesohippus
  • Quaternary
    • Yukon
      • Woolly Mammoth
      • Cave Lion
  • Holocene
    • Ontario
      • Human
      • Pasenger Pigeon
      • Eastern Cougar

I hope you liked these. That wraps up Nostalgiavember. See you next month... but not before I give you a special surprise!

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