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Post by dinosauria101 on Sept 28, 2023 1:48:14 GMT 5
Anyone seen the 2002-2003 kid-friendly version of WWD that was called Prehistoric Planet? www.imdb.com/title/tt0397820/So far I can only find clips from it as opposed to full episodes. If I can find any full episodes, though, I might as well review it like I will with WWD (because the CGI, narrative, and music are all more kid-friendly, so that's plenty enough differences to merit its own review IMO). |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 28, 2023 2:19:12 GMT 5
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Post by dinosauria101 on Sept 28, 2023 20:40:46 GMT 5
Gabriel M. R seems to have full episodes of at least the WWD episodes, but not the WWB ones. I really hope someone can find the WWB ones: I'm honestly very curious what a kid friendly Dinosaur Planet-style (Christian Slater narrator) take on WWB would be like. Good thing Gabriel has the WWD at least. Thank you for sharing that. |
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Post by theropod on Sept 28, 2023 21:09:42 GMT 5
This is the one, right? archive.org/details/prehistoric-planet-2002/(1)+Dawn+of+the+Dinosaurs.mp4I’d already forgotten that existed, even though I stumbled across it just a few weeks ago. So that actually makes not one but TWO TIMES (!!!) a recut of a production titled "Walking with Dinosaurs" (although the other one was that 2013 movie with the talking dinosaurs) was released in a modified form and rebranded as a "prehistoric planet" of some kind. That has to be a new pinnacle in terms of uncreative naming conventions for paleo documentaries. I mean compared to this, "dinosaur planet" and "planet dinosaur" are downright original. |
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Post by dinosauria101 on Sept 28, 2023 23:24:22 GMT 5
That it is.
I completely agree that the 2013 movie recut could have done way better - Arctic Dinosaur Journey, for example, or maybe Polar Prehistory. March of the Dinosaurs with a similar premise had a unique name. Why not the 2013 one?
With 2002/3 PP I think that was acceptable because that would have been the first PP. But that name has been taken for recuts, so it'd be best they thought up something else - I figure maybe they got lazy and decided to copy their namesake.
Better search Web Archive for the 2003 WWB version!
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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 29, 2023 2:52:02 GMT 5
That it is. I completely agree that the 2013 movie recut could have done way better - Arctic Dinosaur Journey, for example, or maybe Polar Prehistory. March of the Dinosaurs with a similar premise had a unique name. Why not the 2013 one? With 2002/3 PP I think that was acceptable because that would have been the first PP. But that name has been taken for recuts, so it'd be best they thought up something else - I figure maybe they got lazy and decided to copy their namesake. Better search Web Archive for the 2003 WWB version! You might have a hard time finding it. I came across a YouTube comment on one of those videos saying that the WWB version was never released on DVD. And so far I've only been able to find the WWD episodes on sale (if old, discontinued copies). In fact, according to Wikipedia, most of the marketing was for the dinosaur episodes and their bonus episode ("Prehistoric Planet Top 10", which I also remember seeing as a kid) only had dinosaurs in it. It's a shame, because the WWB episodes are a pretty nice example of Christian Slater's narration in documentaries (the other, better known one being Dinosaur Planet of course). I was actually exposed to the WWB episodes a lot more when I was young too, and this in turn helped expose me to the real WWB. If we actually can find them, I'd actually be pretty pleased (as much as they're literally just retooled Walking with). |
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Post by dinosauria101 on Sept 29, 2023 3:11:42 GMT 5
That it is. I completely agree that the 2013 movie recut could have done way better - Arctic Dinosaur Journey, for example, or maybe Polar Prehistory. March of the Dinosaurs with a similar premise had a unique name. Why not the 2013 one? With 2002/3 PP I think that was acceptable because that would have been the first PP. But that name has been taken for recuts, so it'd be best they thought up something else - I figure maybe they got lazy and decided to copy their namesake. Better search Web Archive for the 2003 WWB version! You might have a hard time finding it. I came across a YouTube comment on one of those videos saying that the WWB version was never released on DVD. And so far I've only been able to find the WWD episodes on sale (if old, discontinued copies). In fact, according to Wikipedia, most of the marketing was for the dinosaur episodes and their bonus episode ("Prehistoric Planet Top 10", which I also remember seeing as a kid) only had dinosaurs in it. It's a shame, because the WWB episodes are a pretty nice example of Christian Slater's narration in documentaries (the other, better known one being Dinosaur Planet of course). I was actually exposed to the WWB episodes a lot more when I was young too, and this in turn helped expose me to the real WWB. I f we actually can find them, I'd actually be pretty pleased (as much as they're literally just retooled Walking with).RIP if I might not find them:( . As I mentioned a few comments above, what has me so excited to find it seeing what formal WWB would be like in a kid-friendly broken-fourth-wall way like we saw from Slater in DP (the latter). It is for that reason that I fully subscribe to the bolded. I will try and email Christian Slater to see if he might by any chance have any clips he can email me. And if he does, I'm sharing them here! |
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Post by dinosauria101 on Jan 28, 2024 23:31:19 GMT 5
4 months later and I still haven't found Slater's email to ask him with. However I did find the intro to the WWB version.....which just makes me want to watch a kid-friendly Slater-narrated WWB even more, lol.
That being said, if the intro is out there, it's possible some episodes are too! Fingers crossed.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Feb 6, 2024 2:37:00 GMT 5
It looks like this website may in fact have the 2003 WWB version for streaming!  watch.plex.tv/show/prehistoric-planet/season/2Forget an Apple TV trial, I'm signing up here so I can see those Slater-narrated kid-friendly WWB episodes!  |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Feb 6, 2024 4:04:18 GMT 5
It looks like this website may in fact have the 2003 WWB version for streaming! watch.plex.tv/show/prehistoric-planet/season/2Forget an Apple TV trial, I'm signing up here so I can see those Slater-narrated kid-friendly WWB episodes! Well I'll be...I didn't think literally any service would care to still have this streaming. Great job! |
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Post by dinosauria101 on Feb 6, 2024 4:27:07 GMT 5
It looks like this website may in fact have the 2003 WWB version for streaming! watch.plex.tv/show/prehistoric-planet/season/2Forget an Apple TV trial, I'm signing up here so I can see those Slater-narrated kid-friendly WWB episodes! Well I'll be...I didn't think literally any service would care to still have this streaming. Great job! Thanks! It pains me to write this comment, but.....the old saying about stuff that seems too good to be true is applicable herein. I finally got the time to sign up, and although all the episodes have their own pages, they do not give the option to watch when clicked on for me - probably due to 'no watch locations'.  IDK why they are advertising something as watchable with no watch locations, but this seems like a farce to me. Not happy.    |
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Post by dinosauria101 on May 11, 2024 0:34:09 GMT 5
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