#dinosaur planet remade

[makairodonx]

Real. Big. Stories. 75-70 million years in the making.

Poster for my upcoming up-to-date webcomic remake of “Dinosaur Planet” which will use the 20 years’ worth of paleontological knowledge that has passed ever since the old Discovery Channel show first aired in December 2003. Having watched the show a long, long time ago, I personally believe that with its unique approaches to the dinosaur-documentary genre, such as having character-based storytelling and showcasing creatures from different geographic areas, Dinosaur Planet is worthy enough to have a remake like this for the occasion of its 20th anniversary.

[mapsontheweb]

Countries and territories the Doraemon franchise has visited through >70 movies.

UnadamantlySmall:

The Doraemon franchise takes place somewhere in suburban Tokyo, Japan. While some of its movie sets take place in another planet/world (2019 takes place on the Moon), they have also travelled throughout the world through its numerous movies. In order of mainline appearance, the list of places include:

1980: Nobita's Dinosaur in USA and Canada (remade in 2006)

1982: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil in Democratic Republic of Congo (remade in 2014, my personal favorite movie)

1984: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld in Croatia (remade in 2007)

1988: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West in People's Republic of China (also featured in 1989's Nobita and the Birth of Japan that would be remade in 2016. Xinjiang and Tibet were also featured in 2003's Nobita and the Windmasters)

1991: Nobita's Dorabian Nights in Iraq

1992: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds in Germany (also featured in 2001's Nobita and the Winged Braves)

1993: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth in Italy

1994: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen in France

1997: Nobita and the Spiral City in Slovenia

1998: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas in Oceania (country not specified)

2000: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King in Mexico (shut-out to Austria's Wiener Sängerknaben (GER: Vienna Boys' Choir) for providing the opening track for this movie)

2002: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom in Ukraine

2003: Nobita and the Windmasters in Mongolia

2004: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey in New Zealand

2010: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King in Palau

2012: Nobita and the Island of Miracles—Animal Adventure in Fiji

2013: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum in United Kingdom

2017: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi

2018: Nobita's Treasure Island in The Carribean (country not specified)

Edit: 1983's Nobita and the Castle of Undersea Devil took place somewhere in The Atlantic Ocean. While not part of the mainline movies, the Doraemon franchise has also visited The Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland in 藤子不二雄スペシャル ドラえもん・ヨーロッパ鉄道の旅 (JP: Fujiko Fujio Special Doraemon: Europe Rail Travel). The Doraemons spin-off includes characters from Spain, Russia, and Brazil.

[quillquiver]

Castiel has known beauty.

He has dipped his wings in stardust to paint nebulae across the endless expanse of the universe and rested upon Saturn’s rings to keep vigil over the Earth system’s other planets. He has seen the birth and death of suns—of stars—in riots of light and colour, sung in harmony with black holes, watched the violent, halting loveliness of the primordial soup as it burned and burned and burned.

Yes, Castiel has known beauty. In the slimy, grey fish that hauled itself up on an empty beach; in all things that crept upon the land and swam in the seas—the dinosaurs were his favourite, in their size, in their complex behaviours and dynamics. And then the mammals: the small ones, the megafauna… the giant sloths were gentle and artistic, the levyatan misunderstood in its insatiable hunger and ferocity. There was beauty, back then, even in violence. Even in death.

Even after the Garden; beyond Noah and Moses, Isaac and Abraham, David… Judith slew Holofernes and it was poetry. In moments of despair there were kernels of such unabashed loveliness—the sun rising over a mountain range, water lapping at a shoreline—love everywhere and in all things, just as god had intended.

Strange, to think all this beauty would pale in comparison to a single human soul.

My beloved is all radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.

Or perhaps not so strange—hadn’t that been the root of Creation? Beauty and love, the two inexorably intertwined? Dean looks to Cas, hopelessness plain on his features, and Castiel is struck, again, by him; his face, his hands… Cas remade that body. He cradled that soul. That heart.

His cheeks are like beds of spices, yielding fragrance.

The realization, when it dawns on him, is slow. It balloons in his chest, knocking around his ribcage until the thought forces itself from his mouth. There is no time to between thought and speech—it’s one single stream of consciousness, plucked directly from the depths of himself and set at the feet of this person. This man.

His legs are alabaster columns, set upon bases of gold.

He is love incarnate. Exemplar of humanity.

This is my beloved and this is my friend.

Castiel has never felt more holy.

“I love you.”

Dean’s confusion and despair are plain, and it’s all Cas can do to touch him—to grasp his shoulder. Dean wraps his arms around Castiel’s back and their foreheads knock together. He shakes his head. “Cas—”

But there’s no time. Cas brushes the bolt of Dean’s jaw and steps back. He gives a shaky, joyous exhale—“goodbye, Dean”—and then pushes his beloved out of harm’s way.

This is my beloved and this is my friend. This is my beloved and this is my friend. This is my beloved and this is my friend.

He’s ready.

***

(italics from the Song of Solomon)

[doraemonfanclub]

🧐 Countries Doraemon visited in the movies

👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/Doraemon/comments/vn7m35/countries_and_territories_the_doraemon_franchise/ 🙏 u/UnadamantlySmall

👉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doraemon_films/

The Doraemon franchise takes place somewhere in suburban Tokyo, Japan. While some of its movie sets take place in another planet/world (2019 takes place on the Moon), they have also travelled throughout the world through its numerous movies. In order of mainline appearance, the list of places include:

1980: Nobita's Dinosaur in USA and Canada (remade in 2006)

1982: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil in Democratic Republic of Congo (remade in 2014, my personal favorite movie)

1984: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld in Croatia (remade in 2007)

1988: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West in People's Republic of China (also featured in 1989's Nobita and the Birth of Japan that would be remade in 2016. Xinjiang and Tibet were also featured in 2003's Nobita and the Windmasters)

1991: Nobita's Dorabian Nights in Iraq

1992: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds in Germany (also featured in 2001's Nobita and the Winged Braves)

1993: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth in Italy

1994: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen in France

1997: Nobita and the Spiral City in Slovenia

1998: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas in Oceania (country not specified)

2000: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King in Mexico (shut-out to Austria's Wiener Sängerknaben (GER: Vienna Boys' Choir) for providing the opening track for this movie)

2002: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom in Ukraine

2003: Nobita and the Windmasters in Mongolia

2004: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey in New Zealand

2010: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King in Palau2012: Nobita and the Island of Miracles—Animal Adventure in Fiji

2013: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum in United Kingdom

2017: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi

2018: Nobita's Treasure Island in The Carribean (country not specified)

Adapted from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Countries_where_Doraemon_visited_in_the_movies.svg#/media/File:Countries_where_Doraemon_visited_in_the_movies.svg

Note: 1983's Nobita and the Castle of Undersea Devil took place somewhere in The Atlantic Ocean. While not part of the mainline movies, the Doraemon franchise has also visited The Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland in 藤子不二雄スペシャル ドラえもん・ヨーロッパ鉄道の旅 (JP: Fujiko Fujio Special Doraemon: Europe Rail Travel). The Doraemons spin-off also includes characters from Spain, Russia, and Brazil. Feel free to add to this comment if there are anything else incorrect and/or missing.

[dinosaurloverman]

This is copy and pasted from the r/dinosaurs subreddit. It's from a post I made.

SO YouTube channel Dead Sound decided "HEY IMMA UPLOAD A DINOSAUR ANIMATION TRAILER TODAY" and I gotta say: I love this man/woman.

I legit cried watching it. It was amazing! (So to explain why I cry when I see dinosaur media. I'm autistic. I'm super emotional. And dinosaurs are the only true 100% good thing I've had in my life) I was so ecstatic I had to make this discussion post just to talk about my love for dinosaurs.

Ever since I was little I was fascinated by these unkown animals. I had so many books for all ages and even for scientists about them, so many movies and shows and episodes, and figures and stuffies and so much more. I loved them all so much. I didn't even care if the material was wrong I just loved them so much.

I still can't tell which dinosaur movie was my favorite. Was it the jurassic park series, or was it Disney's dinosaur? Even today I still don't know. Both seem like such adventure. On one hand a man wanted to bring back these creatures and show them to the world, learn about them and perhaps let them live with mankind. On the other is a land before time story after the possible mass extinction event of the dinosaurs to find a safe place to live while a monster from a continent away stalks them breathing down their neck.

Speaking of land before time, it's still one of my favorite stories even if its super outdated, dark, and had the death of a young actress at the hands of her father. I still love it even with all the crappy sequels. I still cry for little foots mom. I still hate Sara. I miss ducky. Petrey is amazing. Spike is best boi.

Walking with dinosaurs was the first piece of media I really cried to. At the time I played episode 4 first and not episode one because I was dumb. And I was bawling at 5 years old to the ornithacirus. I was legit bawling. I actually stayed away from walking for a full year before I started at the beginning and skips 4 to get to 5 then the end. I loved walking with dinosaurs and its series. Even if its wrong and outdated. I love it and I wanna remake/remaster of it. Hell I even watched it again a few weeks ago and guess what? I cried again to the entire thing. Beginning to end. I love it.

Jurassic park has done nothing wrong to me ever. Even if 3 was and is still controversial. I love world. I loved park. I love the spin off and games. I love the whole of it. Hell the brachiosaurus scene and theme still makes me cry from amazement and even talking about it gets me teary eyed. I love it so much despite its issues and wrongs. I'm excited for domionon but also terrified it'll end with the death of every dinosaur and that'll be it. That's what I'm most scared about. I don't even care if world or fallen were as top notch at park. They were still great stories and I love them all. Even the sound tracks and spin off materials. I love it all. I even plan to get a tattoo one day of jurassic park.

One thing I don't like is the majority of games or stories where it's "hey. Go hunt all these dinosaurs for fun." I am not a hunter at all. If I had the will power and the geuinin goal to not eat meat ever again I would. For now I eat from very selective sources and from ethical farms. But truly I dislike the common paleo story of "dinosaurs are monsters. Kill them all." They arnt. They are animals just like all of us. Just like every creature on this planet beginning to end are animals. We are all connected by a single cell ancestor.

I know most of this post was paleomedia and paleo fiction but I still love dinosaurs. These were amazing animals and If someone helped bring them back or make something super similar to them I'd f**king run away from home and work there no cap. I'd throw everything away just to see them. Hell to even know someone tried to remake them. I know the DNA thing won't work as most paleo DNA is gone and unravels every 500 years or so. But still...I love to see them. I'd probably be happy crying every day before bed.

Dinosaurs are amazing creatures. I love them so much I'd probably do what happens at the end of fallen kingdom and let them all go. For three major reasons. One: no living creature, not even the most evil of human beings deserves to die chocking on gas in a small room. Two: they deserve life. They deserve to live until the day of their death be it by external forces of their clocks run out. Three: Just because we remade them we don't own them. They deserve love and protection. Even if they are so common 100 years of industrial fishing happens. Even if they are so rare they are described as ledgends. Every living thing here on earth (except negative cells and parasites and nasty things) deserves life and love and care and their story recorded.

That's all I can say now. My eyes are burning and I'm super teary eyed. Sorry. Thank you all for reading my post. I hope your day is well.

[storyofsauria]

So, yeah. Story of Sauria’s been at a standstill for a while, but I have been working on a few DP-related things in the background. This, mainly. Long story short, “i did a complete overhaul of my sorted MPEG.bin transcripts after noticing that the voice clips may be sorted by location to some extent. said details about it in the ANOTHERNOTE.txt file i included with the older package (and this one), but i feel it was way due for an overhaul anyway. can't guarantee that this revision is more accurate, but hopefully it's a little tidier.“ Using these as a reference point for a redone DP “remade” outline, which is why I’m posting them here instead of FYeahDP. But yeah, you can grab it here if you want!

[ernmark]

I got tagged by @rileywrit, who is absolutely wonderful and far more patient with me than I deserve.

Name: Ernmark

Gender: nonbinary

Star Sign: Leo

Height: 6 foot (1.82 meters)

Age: 28

Wallpaper: Because my computer wallpaper is boring, here’s my wallpaper for my hallway:

And for my partner’s office:

And right next to my bathroom:

House: I’m a textbook Gryffindor 

Ever crush on a teacher?: No, but there was one teacher I had in college who was amazing, so I took all of the classes he taught, and I jokingly referred to myself as his stalker. Does that count?

Coolest Halloween Costume: Given that Halloween is my favorite holiday, I haven’t actually worn a whole lot of super cool costumes. Probably my favorite one involved a green snuggie and a homemade dinosaur hat.

Favorite 90’s TV Show: For shows that actually aired in the 90s, definitely Gargoyles. If we’re counting 2001 as still part of the 90s, then add Samurai Jack and The Zeta Project to that list. 

Actually, looking at that list, the person I wound up marrying is not at all surprising. 

Last kiss: I kissed my partner as I tucked him in to bed for the night.

Favorite pair of shoes: I’ve got a pair of leather men’s shoes that are dusty and have had their heels chewed off and remade, and they’re still the most comfortable things on the planet. 

Have you ever been to Vegas?: No

Favorite Fruit: Chocolate, and things so spicy that they’ll melt your face off. Though not spicy chocolate?

Favorite Book: An Ember In The Ashes, and the guards books among the Discworld series. 

Stupidest thing you’ve ever done: I assumed that salmon chowder that had been sitting out unrefrigerated for three days would be safe to eat if I microwaved it. Surprise: it wasn’t.

I also got in a car with a total stranger after midnight because he saw me crying and offered to take me home. That was also profoundly dumb, though it turned out he was just a really nice guy.

All time favorite shows: The Zeta Project, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fringe, Full Metal Alchemist

And now to name some people to tag!! Let’s do @dangersocks, @briwhosaysni, @tane-p, @ryosei-hime and @citricsunshine

[godsavetheq]

1-30 c;

*GALE FORCE SIGH COMES IN FROM CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA*

1: Do you try to stay away from walkthroughs?

Yes. I want to win through my own merit. But I need that old ass game guide magazine for Perfect Dark because I want to unlock all the things and beat all the things (Perfect Dark will be a recurring theme from start to finish so buckle up)

2: Company you're always loyal to?

For consoles, Sony for the most part. XBox is the devil. But I do most of my gaming on PC these days. 

For games, the Creative Assembly (which makes the Total War series of grand military strategy games). Although my loyalty is being tested because their cranking out fantasy Warhammer: Total War games like hotcakes now, presumably because their SEGA corporate overlords like the money they’re making off them. Though apparently they have a separate team that’s pretty far into developing the next historical Total War game so I’ll come back around when that comes out, probably.

3: Best game you've ever played?

What a hard question. You know I have 111 games in my Steam library? We’ll say 100 because some of those are like expansions of other games or test servers of WIP games. So 100 games just on PC, plus god knows how many PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, N64, GameCube, and Wii games I’ve played. It comes to a point where I can’t objectively single out one game from all of my favorites, so I’ll take “best” as meaning like highest production quality and best execution of the game, and I’ll hand it to Resident Evil 7. So professional, so fun... so Shoney’s.

4: Worst game you've ever played?

Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015. Yes that’s a real game, it costs like $1 and someone bought it for me on Steam and it is the simplest, stupidest game that it probably belonged on a free online game site to justify its existence in some way.

5: A popular series/game you just can't get into no matter how much you try?

Well there’s a lot of popular games that I can’t get into, but that’s partially because I’ve internalized that I hate them without having given them much of a chance (looking at you, Dota, League of Legends, Overwatch (Or as we in the trade call it, “$40 Team Fortress 2″))

But now that I think of it, World of Warcraft. I got my free trial and played it some with Perry & Good Old Boys™ from Steam, but I just did not enjoy myself. I also had a prejudice against this one before I played it but at least I tried it and confirmed that I didn’t like it.

6: A game that's changed you the most?

Fallout series I guess. Kind of got me into post-apocalyptic stuff, RPGs and the like. Kind of opened the door for fantasy for me somewhat. I generally don’t like fantasy and I like to make the distinction between sci-fi and fantasy to justify my liking Fallout but truthfully half of the shit in Fallout is too over-the-top to qualify as like realistic fiction. Still haven’t played Skyrim because it’s too fantasy, but I’d at least consider it because it’s not all that different from Fallout if I’m willing to excuse the magic and shit.

7: A game you'll never forget?

Surgeon Simulator. What a titan of ridiculously clunky medical malpractice. 

The Stanley Parable because that game messes with you and is comedy gold

POSTAL 2 because rarely does a game execute low-quality production and lack of taking itself seriously so beautifully 

Hotline Miami because it fucks with you even worse than the Stanley Parable. I mean seriously, what a rollercoaster ride of mental fuckery. Am I a good guy? Am I a bad guy? All I know for sure is I’m killing a copious amount of Russian mobsters while masked figures in my head whisper nonsense at me and everywhere I go I see my dead best friend and........

Rollercoaster Tycoon (the old one for like Windows 98) because muh childhood

Destroy All Humans! 2 because they just don’t make any alien games that compare to it. Also muh childhood.

KHOLAT because it’s like a clinic in how to do horror right. And it came out at a time when it was a sad time to be a horror fan because Resident Evil was all “hurr durr our games need to be like Call of Duty” and there were no new Silent Hill, Outlast, or Slender games coming out. Of course eventually Resident Evil got good again, Outlast 2 came out, Silent Hills was SUPPOSED to come out (RIP)

Kerbal Space Program. I held out on this one for so long because I was turned off by the little green alien people and I figured it wasn’t serious. But holy fuck it’s actually like the best simulation of running a space program and designing rockets and shit oh my god like they train Astronauts with that game no lie.

8: Best soundtrack?

Slender: The Arrival. Honorable mentions go to Hotline Miami and Supreme Ruler: Cold War

9: A game you turn your volume off every time you play it?

None

10: A game you've completely given up on?

Five Nights at Freddy’s, like, all of them. I can’t beat all of the levels in any of them. I beat the five nights in the original FNaF but not the edgy sixth night. Didn’t even get that far in the second or third. Kinda lost track of which is which too...

11: Hardest game you've played?

Fucking Perfect Dark. I’ve been playing that game effectively for my entire conscious life and only just this summer have I begun to win A FEW levels on Perfect Agent difficulty. For context, I beat the entire game on Special Agent difficulty years ago, but at the time, I could not even beat the first level on Perfect Agent. 

12: Shortest time you've beaten a game in?

When I got GTA V for Christmas several years ago I did almost nothing but play it all day every day and beat it in a few days.

13: A game you were the most excited for when it wasn't released yet?

Probably Total War: Rome II. Honorable mentions go to Saurian, Resident Evil 7, Silent Hills (RIP)

14: A game you think would be cool if it had voice acting?

I dunno, I feel like most games that SHOULD have voice acting DO have voice acting. Nothing comes to mind.

15: Which two games do you think would make an awesome crossover?

I got nothing.

16: Character you've hated most? From what game?

I have to do it. Ashley from Resident Evil 4. I don’t care if you are the President’s daughter, you are useless and annoying.

17: What game do you never tell people you play?

I mean, games that I don’t like I guess.

18: A game you wish your friends knew about?

I got nothing, my friends know about most such things.

19: Which game do you think deserves a revival?

Spore, 100%. Nobody before or since has saw to completion a game where you literally design your own organism from a microscopic sea creature, evolving onto land, gaining sentience, building a civilization, uniting your planet and pushing out into space to build a space empire. It deserves to be remade, and done right this time.

20: What was the first video game you ever played?

The first REAL video game was GTA 3, but I may have played something stupid before that.

21: How old were you when you first played a video game?

I dunno, young.

22: If you could immerse yourself in any game for one day, which game would it be? What would you do?

Kerbal Space Program. I’d finally make that manned mission to Duna (Mars), baby. It has eluded me for so long, and to see it with my own eyes... 10/10

23: Biggest disappointment you've had in gaming?

Rome Total War - Alexander expansion. It seemed like such a simple thing. Make an expansion for Rome Total War about Alexander’s Empire. It was the most pitiful thing I’d ever seen. I mean, I know the original Rome Total War is old as dirt, but the base game and the Barbarian Invasions expansion were pretty good.

24: Casual, Hardcore, or in the middle?

In the middle. I tryhard sometimes and just fuck around other times.

25: Be honest; have you ever used cheats (like ActionReplay or Gameshark)?

I mean... do the cheats in GTA 3 count that spawn a bunch of guns and tanks for you? I didn’t use them to beat the game, I just wanted to fuck around because that’s the best way to play GTA 3 :P

26: Handheld or console?

Given those choices, console. Never was too into handhelds after Gameboy Advance. I had a DS Lite and was into Scribblenauts on that for a while, but since then, nah.

27: Has there ever been a moment that has made you cry?

Don’t think so, but it hit me in the feels when John Marston got killed by the crooked wild west cops in Red Dead Redemption.

28: Which character's clothes do you wish you owned the most?

The only thing that comes to mind is Trent Easton from Perfect Dark because he has like a fucking red velvet suit and it’s so ridiculous like he’s the head of the NSA you’d think he’d wear a black suit but no, bright red. I’ll take 20.

29: Which is more important, gameplay or story?

Don’t make me choose. Depends on the game I guess. I like Perfect Dark despite the fact that its storyline is an incoherent mess. Try to follow along.

It involves a plot between Cassandra de Vries, owner of a shady arms manufacturing corporation with private paramilitaries on the march in every corner of their corporate HQ as well as all over the city streets (I, too, voted for Trump so that he could legalize corporate-owned private armies) that also has a massive underground research lab hidden inconspicuously under the city of Chicago; Trent Easton, the fashionable Director of the National Security Agency, whose goons start shooting up Air Force One in a plot to kidnap and clone the President of the United States, and a mysterious tall blonde man known only as Mr. Blonde who wears evil clothes and, unbeknownst to the other two conspirators, is a massive alien dinosaur thing that sounds like a jaguar in disguise who eventually kills both of them once they’re no longer useful. But don’t worry! The plot to give the dinosaur aliens a super-weapon fails when some guy sends his on-staff professional mass-murderer to go kill endless corporate militias and NSA agents to get to the bottom of it with the help of a flying laptop that has developed a moral code and a different race of aliens who look much less impressive. Or something. So that game makes a compelling case against storyline, but in other cases it’s not so XP

30: A game that hasn't been localized in your country that you think should be localized?

Everything that I care about is localized to the US.

[pojkflata]

i listed pretty much every movie from the disney animated canon that hasnt gotten a live action remake yet and talked abt why it should or should not get one, check it out under the cut

snow white: ehhhh? i know some people think this one hasn’t aged very well, but imo i think it’s perfectly fine as is and i dont know what a remake would achieve

pinocchio: it has 100% on rotten tomatoes, what exactly can you do to add to this movie?

fantasia: this one cannot exist within the realm of live action. leave it olone

dumbo: not sure? but tim burton is apparently making one so we’ll see how that’ll turn out

bambi: this sounds weird but i’d kinda like to see one? it has a lot of nice artistry in the scenery that i think would look amazing in live action

any package film: ehh? i’m not even sure if this format even works in live action, and what would it even achieve

peter pan: yeah, this movie kind of needs some fixing. in the right hands, it would be really nice

lady and the tramp: i know the original is amazing but i think a remake would be really cute if done right. however, there are movies more deserving of being remade

the sword in the stone: see peter pan

the aristocats: like lady and the tramp but this remake would be more warranted

robin hood: yeah, if only so we can have a version that isn’t a frankenstein’s monster of reused animation

the rescuers: this is a kinda forgettable movie, so a remake would make sense. however, id think of that remake as just a warm up for a remake of down under

the fox and the hound: i’m not sure honestly. there isn’t a lot wrong with this movie and it’s fondly remembered despite being made during the dark age. so probably not

the black cauldron: if there was any disney movie that had significant flaws without being an irredeemable piece of shit, it’s this one. and there’s apparently a live action remake in the works! good

the great mouse detective: i have mixed feelings, i think this movie is good enough on its own. but if they’re gonna remake every other musker & clemens movie, they might as well remake this one

oliver and company: see the aristocats

the little mermaid: it’s a disney renaissance movie. you can’t improve on it

the rescuers down under: if there’s a renaissance era movie that warrants a remake, it’s this one. not because it’s flawed, but because it’s awesome and nobody remembers it

aladdin: see the little mermaid

the lion king: see the little mermaid

pocahontas: i’m iffy on this one. it is pretty flawed, but i think it’d be really easy for a remake to fuck it up even more

the hunchback of notre dame: see pocahontas

hercules: this movie could be improved on a lot since it’s essentially “Please Let Us Make Treasure Planet” stretched out to feature length. in the right hands, a remake would be nice

mulan: see the little mermaid

tarzan: whatever, do it as long as phil collins fucks off. okay he won’t... nevermind

fantasia 2000: see fantasia

dinosaur: isn’t this movie its own live action remake?

the emperor’s new groove: this is an awesome movie and everybody knows it’s awesome. a remake is not needed

atlantis: this movie could improved on a lot, and the stunning animation in this movie can carry over to great looking visuals. id say go for it

lilo & stitch: see the emperor’s new groove

treasure planet: this is massive bias from my side but hear me out. nobody gives a shit about harry potter anymore. jk rowling is now a laughing stock more than anything. nobody cares about the supplementary material she puts out. this is the perfect opportunity to remake treasure planet and not have it murdered in the box office. just do it. make your dreams come true

brother bear: see tarzan

home on the range: no

chicken little: NO

meet the robinsons: since everybody forgets about this one, i guess a remake to bring it back into people’s memories wouldn’t hurt as long as it’s done well

any later movies are way too recent to get remade

[darkcloud-kcalifornia]

There is something that has been bugging me about the ending of the most recent game in the Ys series, Ys VIII: the Lacrimosa of Dana.  Well, several somethings.  The ending of that game was like watching a gymnast after their performance on the parallel bars not only fail to stick the landing but land face first in their failure and just kinda stay in an undignified heap with their butt in the air. But regardless there is one particular matter that I think needs addressing, and it at least is something that can be addressed.  Needless to say, spoilers ahead.  Not just for this game but also the remake of the fourth.  Spoilers for both Lacrimosa and Celceta below.

 Now then, in one of the previous games, Ys: Memories of Celceta, the hero Adol is chosen to receive knowledge on how to reach a new continent to the west.  However the ending of Lacrimosa makes that decision make no sense whatsoever. This is because the one who has chosen Adol to become his slightly off-brand version of Earth’s Columbus is Eldeel, an ancient being worshipped as a god who has access to the Akashic Records, which in this series is supposed to be a record of everything that was, is, and will be, among other things.  Now it is not a perfect record, but one of Eldeel’s jobs is to edit it so that the record is accurate.  This means that he will consult the thing with at least some measure of frequency. But this means that he had to have seen what was coming in Lacrimosa.  Specifically, that either humanity would be completely destroyed by suddenly remerging dinosaurs, or that Adol in his attempt to stop that would accidentally, and here’s the facepalming bit, destroy all life on the planet.  And yes, you accidentally destroy everything in that game.  The only reason they can have that game not be the furthest in the series timeline (that would be VII) is that everything is remade afterward by the Earth Goddess Maia, who decides while she’s at it to change things a bit so that the events of the game never happened and humanity could live for a while longer.  But this doesn’t change the fact that Eldeel should have never bothered trying to choose Adol, because what would be the point if everybody was just going to die in a few years anyway?  It’s doubtful that the Akashic records could account for reality rewrites, so he should have been worried about the unavoidable calamity coming, not trying to make long term plans.  This is a huge plot hole introduced by Lacrimosa, but it’s one that I think can be accounted for.  My theory is that Memories of Celceta takes place in a world that’s already undergone Maia’s retcon.  If that’s the case than humanity has the time left to it for Eldeel to still make those long term plans of his for humanity’s progress.

 The problem with this theory however is that it leaves the question of just what Eldeel wanted with Adol before the world was changed.  We do know that the events of the game did happen in the original timeline in some form or other as there’s an NPC from that game who remembers Adol from that specific adventure.  But this means that whatever Eldeel wanted Adol for, he was still split on the use of the Akashic Records which led to the split personality battle and Adol getting amnesia from siding with the white-winged Eldeel only to get blasted by the black-winged Eldeel.  But I just can’t see Eldeel being split on the issue.  His two sides were very divided on how humanity would best prosper and grow, but they were united in their desire for humanity’s ultimate well-being, so averting an extinction level event seems like the kind of thing that shouldn’t have even been an internal debate for him.

 Maybe it would just be best to take the classic angry fan approach and protest that the game isn’t canon.  It really would be the simplest way of resolving plot holes.

[makairodonx]

Cover for the first episode of my webcomic series “Dinosaur Planet Remade” which focuses on a lone female velociraptor’s quest to start a new family of her own after she had lost her previous mate and chicks to a rival male.

[storyofsauria]

Some FAQ-ish questions! And answers!

Jotted down a small list of questions related to the Story Of Sauria project that some people may have. Still working on a couple studies and an essay script for a possible video related to the project, but I figured I’d write this up to help clarify some things.

Will be adding to this as time goes on. If you got any more questions, feel free to stick them in my askbox.

Q: How come you want to make a Dinosaur Planet remake?

A: If you asked me this question when I was younger, I'd go "because I'd really love to play this game in its original form".

My answer now is still the same, with an additional "and now we have the tools more readily available to make it a reality".

Q: Why Dinosaur Planet and not Conker 64 or Dream?

A: Simply put, far more information for Dinosaur Planet exists as opposed to those games. There's various footage, screencaps, and even bits of original DP text and audio in the SFA game discs. On top of that, the condensed story up on RareThief's DP page essentially details the entire game outline save for the ending.

While a lot of assets would have to be remade from scratch, we have a skeleton of the game's original form in the condensed story, so at the very least we have something to work off of.

Q: Is this remake actually in development?

A: Currently no, and likely won't be for some time. Story Of Sauria is a project focused on various exploratory sketches and studies for Dinosaur Planet, and while those could and may be used in a remake of the game, the remake itself isn't actually a thing. At least not YET.

Q: What things are you going to focus on first IF this begins development?

A: Keep in mind I'll probably be more of a director/consultant for the project (I have no idea how to program). When we get a crew ready for the actual remake, ideally we'd probably plan on getting the basic "framework" of the game down first, specifically core gameplay elements, things such as sidekick AI, inventory menus and base puzzle design among other things. Generally, major gameplay development is likely going to be top priority, while things like non-placeholder graphics and audio would follow after.

Granted, the actual flow of development may differ from this. Keep in mind we're basically attempting to reconstruct the game and assets from scratch since there's no possible way to dredge up DP's code from the SFA discs. It's gonna take more than a while, and part of it is figuring out how to go about with certain things. Gamedev’s pretty hard!

Q: Gameplay-wise, will it be the same as SFA?

A: The original DP contains significantly more content than SFA did, not just in terms of playable characters, but also has more levels and different gameplay elements than SFA.

Outside of new designs for other levels and characters (since no DP screenshots of said levels/characters exist as a reference point), there may be a few tweaks to the flow of the game, such as improved combat and less reliance on tollbooths to progress. Levels that existed in both SFA and DP might also get some remixing so the puzzles play out differently than their SFA counterparts.

In short, basically no.

Q: What engine do you plan on using for the Dinosaur Planet remake?

A: Likely either Unity or Unreal Engine 4 due to the amount of support and documentation that exists for those engines, plus the two are generally free for personal projects. Ultimately it really depends on what the crew are familiar with when we get to that point.

Q: If you're going to use a modern engine, why stick with the blocky N64 graphical style?

A: We want to be authentic to the original game's style as a bit of a throwback to that graphical style, but with modern touches like increased draw distance, better texture filtering, and better framerates than on the original N64. Aaaand because we need more games in the N64 style. Pixel stuff isn't the only "retro" graphical style, yanno.

Plus it'd be pretty funny to make a game in a modern engine while using the most "primitive" looking models compared to the stuff usually made in said engines.

Q: If the models and textures will have to be done from scratch, does that mean the same for music and audio?

A: Definitely for voice acting since the hour-long DP audiorip doesn't encompass the entire game.

As for music, music sequence files for Dinosaur Planet exist on the SFA discs, and the instrument samples have been compiled into a soundfont, so remasters and rearranges of most of DP's soundtrack are definitely possible. New music may be added as the available DP tracks from the disc may be only a fraction of DP's soundtrack, as the original DP wasn't completed prior to the SFA transition.

Redone dialogue will require voiceactors to cover them. For music, we will need composers if we want new/rearranged tunes. Priority at the moment is getting a base of the game done; non-placeholder audio will likely be on the backburner until most of the gameplay and graphics are done.

Q: Will you get in trouble with Nintendo or Rare for making a Dinosaur Planet remake?

A: This is where things get a bit muddy. There's always the risk of getting into legal trouble for making a fangame or remake game of an existing IP. However, the case of a Dinosaur Planet remake is kinda weird since it's based off a cancelled IP, but said cancelled game was retooled into a game based off an EXISTING IP. There's also the fact that Krystal and Tricky and other DP elements were mentioned in other Star Fox games after SFA.

Well, as far as things on the Nintendo side of the ordeal go, I guess. No idea on Rare's stance on fangames/fan-remakes.

It's a confusing situation, but generally the project as a whole will be nonprofit, and plus DP isn't exactly a carbon copy of SFA. This project is purely out of fan dedication and desire to see a playable version of Dinosaur Planet that's close to the original game as possible.

Q: Do you have any intentions to add any Star Fox cameos/easter eggs in the game as tribute to SFA?

A: It's definitely in the cards! Starfox Adventures is an important part of DP's legacy, and it'd be a bit wrong to not pay tribute to it in some fashion or another. While I wouldn't expect any references to Star Fox in the main story, we may have little easter eggs related to it hidden across the remake, perhaps even a little Arwing minigame. It's definitely something we'll look into!