In the Triassic episode, is there a scene with an egg-site on the beach? In the book, there's a picture of Nigel holding a Nothosaur egg. The animatronics company ( Crawley Creatures ) also said they made some eggs for this scene. Does anone know?
shareNo, there isn't. I guess it was scrapped from the TV program. The Triassic part was pretty short.
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Another part which must have been scrapped was Nigel in the shark cage, during the cretaceous. The cover of the book supporting the series shows a giant Mososaur, mouth wide open, face to face with Nigel in the spherical shark cage. If they had made this scene, it was obviously scrapped because they already had two perfectly good cage scenes, thinking the viewers would be bored of the cage by part three. Unless, their original intention was to have a standard segment of "cage time" per episode. I would have liked to see the Mososaur having a go at swallowing the big cage though, heh heh!
J. Ord
United Kingdom
I don't know, that picture could have been made just for the book. All they'd need would be a nice shot of the cage and a CG mosasaur.
But I think a mosasaur would just crush the cage between its jaws. The 'dog and a beach ball' principle of the round cage doesn't work with something that big; then it becomes 'dog and a tennis ball'. Maybe that's why they cut it or never shot such a scene at all.
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Well, one other notable thing on thre cover of the book is that the cage doesn't seem to have any wires or anything going up to the surface, it's just there under the water. Perhaps one of the original ideas was to have the mososaur bite the chord above the cage, causing it to sink, with Nigel inside. This maybe would have been the finishing "disastrous ordeal" instead of, or maybe even as well as the mososaurs knocking Nigel's boat over.
J. Ord
United Kingdom
Possibly. But I think they just made that shot for the book, with no elaborate reason behind it.
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Yeah it's a shame they deleted the egg part completely. Had they put it as it is described in the book, the Triassic would have been my favorite part in the series. For people that have not read the book, the Triassic part is as follows (more or less):
- Nigel arrives first at night, and sees the nothosaurs laying their eggs at the beach like turtles do today.
- Then jumps to day. The beach part is as follows. Nigel swims with the nothosaurs.
- One of the nothosaurs hunts three fish at once, but one of them escapes its teeth badly injured. The fish swims to an algae reef, and a dwarf nothosaur (Neuticosaurus) grabs it.
- As Nigel leaves the nothosaurs, he has the opportunity to see some placodonts feeding on the deep before meeting the Tanystropheus.
- Tanystropheus scene more or less the same, but it is the Cymbospondylus itself that attacks it and forces the Tanystropheus to leave its tail. Then Nigel swims with the Cymbospondylus.
- Nigel returns to the beach when the nothosaurs egg hatch, and the babies have to race to the sea (again repeating the sea turtles' behaviour) while a bunch of opportunistic coelurosaurs, cynodonts and giant amphibians prey on them.