Bud Brewster
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Today's Featured Threads focus on High Adventure!
~ A "rouge planet" brings dinosaurs to the solar system!
~ Russians land on Venus . . . and find dinosaurs!
~ One of Hollywood's many Lost Worlds lays hidden in Antarctica . . . where dinosaurs roam through prehistoric forest!
Pack your bags, grab your camera, load your guns! We're huntin' for critters from the prehistoric past! 
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King Dinosaur (1955)
Thinking Outside the "Plot"!
| Bud Brewster wrote: | | The film is a major disappointment — but the story sounds terrific. A group of astronauts (both men and women) land on a planet which has wandered into the Solar system, a rocky world populated by dinosaurs and giant mammals. |
It occurs to me that the premise for this low-budget movie has a lot more going for it than the way it was handled. 
~ A Question for the Members: Could a competently done version of this story would be the ultimate Lost World story? After all, in this case the "world" isn't in pon Earth! It just moseys into our neck of the woods, loaded with dinosaurs and just itchin' to be explored!
~ My Theory: It occurs to me that the premise for this low-budget movie has a lot more going for it than than the lousy way it was handled.
The idea of a rogue planet entering our solar system is interesting all by itsel! And the fact that it comes baring a bounty of prehistoric gifts is a novel idea to say the least!
Planet of Storms — aka Planeta Bur (1962)
Let's Create a Sequel!
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~ A Question for the Members: Could an "imaginary sequel" for this movie be made by the Russians back in the 1960s, based on the brief discussion between the characters' concerning a theory that the unseen Venusians were actually colonist who came from Mars?
~ Here's what I came up with.: I love the idea that the Martians fled they're dying planet eon's ago after spending a hundred years terraforming Venus!
They would realize that Mars' lack of a magnet field to protect it from cosmic rays, as well as its low gravity that couldn't hold an atmosphere, meant that the planet would eventually have to be abandoned. They had already taken their highly advanced civilization underground to take advantage of the subterranean water which (according to current theory) still exists today.
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Hollywood's Amazing "Lost Worlds"!
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All Sci-Fi's New "Lost World" Concept Threads
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From time to time we've discussed several original ideas for "Lost World" stories, and I figured they deserved honorable mentions here.
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A version of The Land Unknown
The first one was described in a post on Nov 14, 2018 in the SCIENCE now, add FICTION later forum under the title Beneath Antarctica's Ice, Evidence of Lost Continents!. (<— link)
I had a ball coming up with ideas for a hidden valley in Antarctica, located beneath the ice. To illustrate what I had in mind I whipped up the picture below with Paint.net in, using a nice picture of New Zealand, with the sky replaced by an aerial photo of the North Pole . . . turned upside down 
Naturally the bright sunlight is all wrong, but you get the idea.
The thread includes links to articles I found which state that a hidden valley under the Antarctoc ice might be possible.
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