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MYSTARA |
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First
appearance: Dungeons and Dragons
Author/Creator: TSR Hobbies, Inc.
Media: Role playing game
Year: 1980
Located: Outer Space
 Plot/Premise: Mystara's outer surface consists of three principal land masses: the continent of Brun, the continent of Skothar, and the continent of Davania, plus the island continent of Alphatia (up to AC 1010). In the officially published material, the Known World concentrated on the eastern portion of Brun along with the lands of the Sea of Dawn. The continents of Mystara resemble those of the earth approximately 135 million years ago.
The inhabitants of Mystara are diverse: humans of all races can be found here, along with myriad creatures such as elves, dwarves, halflings, orcs, and dragons. Dinosaurs exist at various locales on and in Mystara particularly on the Isle of Dread and in the Hollow World, a Pellucidar-like setting crammed with enormous diversity: yellow-skinned, horsemen orcs, pirates, tribal lizard men, Roman- and Egyptian-imperial analogs, dragon-riding elves, savage men, lost empires and of course, dinosaurs.
 This world is lit by an eternal red sun at the center of Mystara. The existence of the Hollow World is not, in general, known to the inhabitants of the outer world. The north and south poles are actually huge, subtly curving holes that allow passage between the outer and inner world, although it is a long, hard trek through a cold, unlit, stormy and anti-magic area. The curvature of the holes is so subtle that explorers from either surface do not notice the transition until after it is already made, causing quite a shock for most.
The Hollow World was originally discovered by Ka the Preserver, an ancient Immortal who began life as a giant carnosaur, who after finding it, decided to use the inner surface of the world as a refuge and preserve for creatures that were on the verge of becoming extinct in the ever-changing outer world. |
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Allosaurus |
Ankylosaurus |
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Brontosaurus |
Plesiosaurus |
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Dimetrodon |
Trachodon |
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 Explore
 Wikipedia: Mystara
Cyclopedia Mystara
The Piazza: Old D&D Campaign Worlds
Vaults of Pandius - the Official Mystara Homepage |
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ISLA NUBLAR and ISLA SORNA |
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Isla
Nublar |
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 First appearance: Jurassic Park
Author/Creator: Michael Crichton
Media: Book
Year: 1990
Located: 120 miles (190 km) off the
coast of Costa Rica and Isla Sorna is 87 miles southwest
of it and approximately 207
miles off the coast of Costa Rica.
Plot/Premise: Isla Nublar is the site of a disastrous
attempt by InGen Corporation to create a theme park
of cloned dinosaurs. Isla Sorna, also known as "Site
B", is another fictional island that serves as an
InGen laboratory and research centre, where dinosaurs
are hatched and reared before being moved to Isla
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Sequels/Other appearances: The Lost World (1995)
Adaptations: Jurassic Park (1993), The
Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Jurassic Park
III (2001), numerous videos, comics and computer games |
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Tyrannosaurus
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Pachycephalosaurus
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Stegosaurus
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Triceratops
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Mamenchisaurus
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Corythosaurus
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Ceratosaurus
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Spinosaurus |
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Dilophosaurus
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Compsognathus
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Velociraptor
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Pteranodon
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Wikibin: Isla
Nublar
Wikitravel: Jurassic
Park
Jurassic Park Wiki: Isla
Sorna
Wikipedia: Jurassic
Park (franchise)
The Big Waste of Space: The
Flubs of Jurassic Park
The San Diego Natural History Museum: The
Science of "Jurassic Park" |
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DINOHATTEN |
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First appearance: Super Mario Bros.
Author/Creator: Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel, Roland Joffé, Parker Bennett, Terry Runte and Ed Solomon
Media: Film
Year: 1993
 Located: A dystopian parallel world accessed via an interdimensional portal in a cave beneath the Brooklyn Bridge
Plot/Premise: Mario and Luigi, two wacky plumbers, undertake a daring quest to save a princess in "Dinohattan" -- a hidden world where the inhabitants evolved from dinosaurs. Mario and Luigi face deadly challenges from a diabolical lizard king and must battle giant reptilian goombas, outwit misfit thugs and undermine a sinister scheme to take over the world.
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The Koopahari Desert surrounding Dinohatten |
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Dinohatten |
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Fauna |
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King Koopa |
One of Koopa's Goomba henchmen |
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Yoshi |
Yoshi and Daisy |
Explore
Tvtropes: Film: SuperMarioBros
Wikipedia: Super Mario Bros. (film)
Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive
Destructoid: Everybody walk the dinosaur: The making of the Super Mario Bros. movie |
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AZEROTH |
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First
appearance: Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
Author/Creator: Blizzard Entertainment
Media: Video game
Year: 1994
Located: Outer Space
 Plot/Premise:
Azeroth is the name of the world in which the majority of the Warcraft series is set. The world of Azeroth is the birthplace of many races, most notable being elves (night elves, high elves, and blood elves), humans, dwarves, tauren, goblins, trolls, gnomes, and dragons.
On Azeroth dinosaurs inspire awe and respect wherever they go. While animals, dinosaurs possess a might and magnificence that places them above other creatures of the natural world; many sapient races revere dinosaurs, or consider it a test of personal honor to hunt one of the great beasts.
 While many types of dinosaurs exist, most are carnivores and thust share the same basic traits. Their forelimbs tend to prove ill-suited for combat, so they attack with their horned heads and teeth. They stake out territories and guard them fiercely. (This territorial instinct exists in herbivourus dinosaurs as well, but they tend to more peaceful behavior, attacking only when a creature wounds or threatens them.) |
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Devilsaur |
Diemetradon |
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Stegodon |
Threshadon |
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Pterrordax |
Raptor |
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World of Warcraft Universe Guide
World of Warcraft Community Site
Wikipedia: Warcraft
Petopia: A complete guide to hunter pets in the World of Warcraft |
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DINOTOPIA |
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 First
appearance: Dinotopia: A Land Apart from
Time
Author/Creator: James Gurney
Media: Picture book
Year: 1998
Located: Indian Ocean
Plot/Premise: Dinotopia is an isolated
island deep in the uncharted reaches of the Indian Ocean
and inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurs
that have learned to coexist peacefully as a single
symbiotic society.
 Dinotopia
is about 200 miles across, and is home to a full spectrum
of climates: the east is largely desert; the Rainy Basin
is a tropical region roughly in the center of the island;
the west is largely temperate; and the Forbidden Mountains
are frigid cold tundra. A number of offshore islands
are also populated. The island remains uncharted because
it is surrounded by storms and unnavigable reefs. Once
wrecked on the island, there are very few ways back
off. Continental drift separated Dinotopia from the
Indian subcontinent. Sixty-five million years ago, dinosaurs
found refuge from the effects of the asteroid that killed
off the rest of their kind by sequestering themselves
in the caverns of the World Beneath. Presumably, groups
of animals periodically escaped extinction in the World
Beneath in the eons preceding the great Cretaceous extinction,
explaining the broad spectrum of Mesozoic creatures.
During the great Ice Age, a land bridge invited the
large mammals to share the island, as well.
 Sequels/Other appearances: A Land
Apart from Time; The World Beneath; First Flight; Journey to Chandara; Dinotopia
Lost (1996) and Hand of Dinotopia (1999)
by Alan Dean Foster; Numerous children's books
Adaptations: "Dinotopia"
miniseries (2002, Hallmark); "Dinotopia" television
series; Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone animated film (2005); Dinotopia Adventure Game for PC
(PC: 1995); Dinotopia: Living the Adventure (PC: 1996); Dinotopia Game Land Activity Center (PC/Mac: 2002); Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates (Game Boy Advance: 2002); Dinotopia: The Sunstone
Odyssey (GameCube/Xbox: 2003)
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Dinotopia
Dinotopia Wiki
Gurney
Journey
The
City of Mists
Wikipedia: Dinotopia
Dinotopian
RP Forum |
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BENEATH THE TUNDRA |
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First appearance: Ice Age: The
Dawn of the Dinosaurs
 Authors/Creators: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier, Peter Ackerman, Michael
Berg, Yoni Brenner, Jason Carter Eaton and Mike Reiss
Media: Film
Year: 2009
Located: Enormous subterranean
cavern beneath the tundra
Plot/Premise: Scrat the saber-toothed squirrel, Manny the mammoth, Sid the sloth and
the gang are back for a third prehistoric Ice Age movie in which they discover a subterranean dino-infested
world beneath the tundra with locales like the Jungle
of Misery, the Plates of Woe, and the Chasm of Death. They they encounter Rudy the Baryonyx, Roger the Pteranodon, a Brachiosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Quetzacoatlus, Guanlong, Kentrosaurus and Chasmosaurus. |
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Sequels/Other appearances: Ice
Age (Film, 2002); Gone Nutty (Short film, 2003); Ice Age: The Meltdown (Film, 2006); No Time For Nuts (Short film, 2007), Surviving Sid (Short film, 2008)
Adaptations: Ice Age: Dawn of
the Dinosaurs (Video game, 2009)
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Diego,
Manny and Sid
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Momma T-rex
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Rudy
the Baryonyx
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Baby T-rexes
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Roger the Pteranodon
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Ankylosaurus
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Quetzacoatlus
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Guanlong
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Kentrosaurus
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Chasmosaurus
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Explore
Official
U.K. website
Ice Age Wiki: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Wikipedia: Ice
Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs |
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