Dinosaur Planet - Real Big Stories

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Good in many ways.......2006-12-16

This is pretty good. Walking with Dinosaurs may have very good information, but it lacks some important details the Dinosaur Planet has aded, namely feathery dinosaurs and a wider range- various little-known dinosaurs are covered here. The graphics do look a bit more computer-y than WWD.

Dinosaur Planet.......2006-01-25

This is a REALLY great DVD, a show with four stories about four dinosaurs. The best part is that it is an educational story, not a normal documentry which some childeren may not be interested in.
1. White Tips' Journey:
A female Velociraptors' pack is killed, and must find another one.
Featured dinosaurs and mammals: Velociraptor, Prenocephale, Protoceratops, Oviraptor, Shuvuia and Deltaperidion
2. Pods' Travels:
A male Pyrorptor gets swept into sea, onto an island with mini-sized versions of the animals he is accoustomed to.
Featured dinosaurs, plesiosaurs and crocodiles: Pyrorptor, Titanosaurus, Iguanodon, Tarasctosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Ichthyornis, Apodoxsuchus and Troodon
3. Little Dass' Hunt:
A young male Daspletosaurus keeps ruining his familys' hunting expiditions. Meanwhile, a volcano threatens in the distance.
Featured dinosaurs and pterosaurs: Orodromeus, Quetzalcoatlus, Troodon, Daspletosaurus, Maiasaura and Einiosaurus
4. Alphas' Egg:
Follow a female Saltasaurus as she grows.
Featured dinosaurs and crocodiles: Saltasaurus, Aucasaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Alvarezsaurus and Notosuchus
A note to sensitive parents: there ARE scenes with blood, dead bodies, deaths, predatation etc. If you are sensitive about this, I don't reccomend it for you.

Dinosaur "Screechfest" with a really bad script.......2005-09-01

As a huge fan of Walking with Dinosaurs, I had high hopes that this series would recover the 'genre' from the stumble of When Dinosaurs Roamed America. I was sadly disappointed.

About 50% of the 'script' consists of dinosaurs shrieking or roaring at each other. It gets on your nerves after a while, and doesn't really add any drama. Add Christian Slater's rather noxious narration, which overly anthropomorphizes the dinosaurs, and the result alternates between boring and annoying.

The effects are less the spectacular, and might have been ok a few years ago, but are actually a step back from Walking With Dinosaurs.

The fauna on display seem, well, rather thin. Compare the BBC's Chased By Dinosaurs, which also covers Cretaceous Mongolia and Argentina. There are at least twice as many animals depicted in Chased, for much less pointless screeching, and Nigel Marvin (while not Kenneth Branagh) has more gravitas than Slater.

Finally, I CAN'T STAND the paleontologist cut-ins. Not only do they scrounge up a no-name (Discovery can't get Bob Bakker?) scientist, but it just isn't necessary. If the information is SO necessary, why can't it be worked into the narrative?

Dino Worlds.......2005-08-20

I LIKED WWD BETTER BECAUSE IT GOES THREW ALL THE PERIODS. BUT I LIKE THE WAY DP NAMES THE DINOSAURS.

Great Dinosaur stoies.......2005-07-08

This is a very fascinating program. The stories take you back
to a time long ago. My grandson seen this program on the Discovery channel and fell in love with dinosaurs. So I purchased this for him and I watch it also.

Discovery Channel - When Dinosaurs Roamed America / Dinosaur Planet - Real Big Stories (2 Pack)

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Discovery Channel - When Dinosaurs Roamed America / Dinosaur Planet - Real Big Stories (2 Pack)

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