So with @Jwelegendary In control of the series and it being delayed a bit. I thought I'd share some of the scrapped ideas I had for my season's of camp cretaceous.
Dinosaurs Cut from season 4:
Monolophosaurus
Originaly meant to fill the role of troodon, it was on a boat and the gang would run into a pack of them on isla sorna. It was cut because, come on its troodon absoloute icon, Plus its my sisters favorite dinosaur and we realy want it in jwcc so I felt obligated. Monolophosaurus returned in season 5 however.
Scutosaurus
Large and tough scutosaurus was going to be a new herbivore introduced in the season. It was cut because I didn't love the idea of just casualy introducing permian creatures.
Styracosaurus
Filled the role of triceratops for a while, we'll get into its deleted scene later. It was cut when I found it was already cut from jwcc (plus come on, be honest if you were a little kid. You would confuse it with sinoceratops) plus it was just cool to give a big welcome back for triceratops. It did get a brief mentoin in season 5 by alan grant though.
Protoceratops
Small herbivore which at one point filled the role of mussaurus. It was present for a lot of stampede scenes. Cut because I felt mussaurus would have had a more intresting dynamic with pteranadon, and I wanted it to interact with velociraptor at least once. And as such it did apear in season 5 where it did get to confront its mongolian nemesis.
Scenes cut from season 4:
Styracosaurus Vs tyrannosaurus
Kenji, brooklyn and darius enter the former game trail. We see some styracosaurus locking horns, whilst some protoceratops feed on shrubs. We see a scutosaurus resting underneath a tree, with a pteranadon resting on top.
Suddenly a roar echoes through the field, The male tyrannosaurus aproaches a styracosaurus. The styracosaurus makes multipe mock charges as the rex snaps its jaws in the air. This scares the scutosaurus herd who stampede towards the kids. Who barely hide behind a log, we see the tyrannosaurus kick the ceratopsian in the face. It bites onto the herbivore's spine before the styracosaurus tackles it to the ground. The styraco roars shaking its frill however doesn't realize its backing into the edge of a cliff. It turns around to stop itself from falling, however reveals its vunerable throat. The rex charges and bites onto its neck killing it.
Why was it cut?: I liked the idea of returning to the game trail. But the idea of a new mating ground was more apealing, plus I kind of like just having a scene with t.rex and triceratops. Since they never got to have that moment together in the movies.
Ruins of ingen:
Brooklyn, Sammy and ben search through the ruins of the embryodic chamber, to try and see if its been active since 2001. However stumble upon a dead Jp3 velociraptor which has been turned into a troodon nest. The troodons upon seeing the kids threatening their babies go nuts. Their eyes turn pure white, and chase them through the facility.
The kids were going to escape by setting the facility on fire, forcing the troodon to leave them so they can evacuate the eggs. The big cliffhanger was that it was revealed that a shadowy figure (later revealed to be burton) was watching it go down in flames.
Why it was cut?: I wanted to slim down the episodes because originaly the idea of more than 10 episodes was the most outlandish thing ever to me. The idea of a troodon nesting site in the ingen facility was later used in season 5.
Saurian Saviour:
The gang's cornered by one of burton's soldier. They nearly fall of a cliff, suddenly they see their right beside a familair gate. Suddenly he opens the gate and a pteranadon flies out grabbing him in the air, he fires his gun trying to shoot at the pteranadon. Before suddenly it drops him into the jungle below before swooping off, the kids escape as the pteranadons in the bird cage begin to swarm outside once again claiming dominion over the sky.
Why was it cut?: I wanted to set up the jp 3 pteranadon as a future threat, but ultimately I couldn't think of a good excuse to get the kids to climb up a giant mountain. Plus I think it would have opened up the question to "Well why didn't the pteranadons just fly to the mainland again? "
Is that?
Kids are still on the run but darius see's something In the ground, he takes it out and it turns out its a velociraptor claw. The others tell him to keep moving. As the kids walk away we see a human-shaped shadow looking over the claw.
So this was to foreshadow the later reveal of alan grant, cut because I think it works better as a surprise.
Monolopho mercy:
This one is pretty short, the gangs running through the jungle and their cornered by a pack of monolophosaurus. They all call at each other excitedly, however one member who is grey with yellow stripes (the same monolophosaurus who snuck on the boat, and sammy let go earlier) barks at the rest of them. Convincing them to go after a nearby herd of protoceratops instead.
Why was it cut?: It was kind of goofy, and when I wrote it, it felt like evrey five seconds something was cornering the kids before a dinosaur saved them.
Alt burton death:
In one draft he was going to be eaten by a troodon which snuck aboard the boat.
Why was it cut?: I rather like this deleted scene actualy. It pays off the fact that troodons sneak aboard boats as established at the start of the season. Plus it felt like a beat for beat copy of tiff's death, and I wanted to realy establish pleisiosaurus as the main villian of season 4.
Dinosaurs cut from season 5:
Corythosaurus
When season 4 was released their was this guy who for some reason was REALY into corythosaurus. Like that was his main problem with my season 4, so I initialy considered putting it in the sequel but I also wanted edmontosaurus. So I held a vote and edmonto won. Literally evrey scene with edmontosaurus (such as the scene where the t.rex hunts it) would have just been corythosaurus. Thats as intresting as it gets.
Carcharadontosaurus
Originaly the role of siats was going to shark tooth boi (in my initial vote as to wheather or not I would do a season 5 you can see I included a carchara instead of siats )
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. I chose against it because it looked to simular to giga. And yes whilst siats did look simular to the indominus its coloration and more slimmed down desgin I felt was enough to distinguish it. And whilst carchara would have made its feud with spinosaurus more intresting, It was nice giving something to a theropod. Which despite being one of the all time largest has such a nothing reputation. And it was cool to give it some attention, @Zilla199 even admitted he put it in one of his fanfictions because of the story which was pretty cool.
Zuniceratops
At one point I considered having zuniceratops in season 5, basicaly filling the role of protoceratops. When I realized I could just bring protoceratops back I wrestled with the pros and cons before realizing the small ceratopsian would face off with a velociraptor. And at that point it was pretty obvious.
Albertosaurus
Originaly planned for season 5, albertosaurus would have filled lythoronax's roll. It was cut because lythoronax was cooler needed more attention and was more distinct from Big T.
Pachyrhinosaurus
I wanted to include it so badly, due
Scenes cut from season 5:
Raptors at the river:
The gangs on their merry way across a river, on the boat from jp 3. when suddenly they see a male jp 3 velociraptor. It roars at them but suddenly they see a tiger raptor pounce on it causing it to get into a fight. A female jp 3 raptor tackles the the lost world raptor off of its mate, before the 1997 raptor calls in a second member of its pack. The four velociraptors roar at each other. The gang decides to park the boat on the other side of the river before a tiger raptor chases a male jp 3 raptor along the side, before turning to look at them. They steer the boat away from the bank. We see brooklyn steer the ship's crane which is holding a wooden box next to a tree.
The rest of the gang climbs it and gets onto a nearby tree. Brooklyn goes to join but the tiger raptor from earlier jumps onto the boat, she runs back into the crane controls but the raptor beats her to it and pounces through the window. Brooklyn runs up the stairs but the raptor yet again jumps up cutting ahead of her, its tail knocks alan's resonating chamer into the river much to the horror of the paleontologist panicing in the trees. It prepares to pounce however instead of pouncing on her it pounces onto a nearby female jp 3 raptor.
We pan outside and see an all-out war between the two packs is raging on. Brooklyn climbs up the crane and a jp 3 male tries climbing after her before sammy throws a tree branch at it, knocking it unconsious into the river. She makes it to the tree and suddenly evrey one goes silent as the roar of the tyrannosaurus booms through the jungle.
Why was it cut?: Well for starters its long as helll, I felt like the more clean romeo and juliet intro worked better.
Corythosaurus vs Edmontosaurus
A scene unintentionaly suggested by savage almond, it would have featured an edmontosaurus fighting with corythosaurus for territory, based on this piece of paleoart.
Cut because their was enough large dino fights in season 5. And it was absoloutely pointless, unlike tyrannosaurus vs allosaurus which was at least somewhat plot relevant.
The boss of biosyn
Mills walks into a room with a giant screen, he turns it on revealing dogdson's face masked in shadows.
Mills: " how are you doing sir? "
Dogdson: " Skip the pleasantries cowardly snake, "
Mills; " yes alright. "
Dogdson: " Is project chimera imminent? "
Mills: " We have the prototype, but Dr. Wu says we require the empathetic specimen on nublar in order to get control of the indoraptor. "
Dogdson: " then get the specimen "
Mills (fustrated); " we are trying sir, but she is evasive. Not even the greatest hunters money can buy can find her. I have a plan though, its a bit of a gamble but their is one man on this planet who can find her. And their is one person on the mainland we could use to lure him in if required. "
Dogdson: " Very well mr mills I shall play along. Any other news for me? "
Mills gulps.
Mills: " aparently mantah corp are opening their own dinosaur theme park. "
Dogdson: " I didn't realize you did your own comedy. "
Mills; " I know it sounds like a joke but it is serious. What do we do if they become sucessful? "
Dogdson: " if they somehow manage to pull it off, I'll unleash an indoraptor or two on them, But I wouldn't if I was you I wouldn't worry to much. Are golden days are within reach. If you do your job. "
Mills: " Yes sir. "
Screen cuts to black.
Mills grabs his own hair and starts yelling, Dr wu walks in.
Mills: " Henry we need a way to control that thing at least until we get that raptor. "
Wu: " I'll see what I can do. "
This did little to nothing for the plot and dogdson deserves to be reintroduced in dominion. It works better if he was their for the begining and he returns for the end.
Mantah corp gyrospheres
This idea was that manrah corp would have its own variation of gyrospheres based on old jurasssic world concept art.
Their was no purpose for this, and the safari truck was cooler. Siats v gyro just felt like indominus v gyro.
Pachyrhinosaurus or sinoceratops?
Out of all the deleted scenes I wanted this one to get included the most, Basicaly darius and alan complain about the terribll mantah corp signs showing fake facts. Darius says that the sinoceratops is labelled as centrosaurus, Alan however argues its the pachyrhinosaurus. They both debate both sides of the fandom arguement before Something interupts them.
It was sadly cut because alan spend's most of his time on isla muerta seperated from the kids. So it was hard to organize, I do wish I added it because whilst I initialy called sinoceratops when I wrote it, but now I call it pachyrhinosaurus and It would be cool to write a canon excuse for it.
Goodbye
I initialy wanted the kids to give a goodbye before leaving at the airport. Darius would walk outside seeing brandon putting up missing posters for darius, in the shape of the jurassic world logo. Upon seeing darius brandon would hug him with tears in his eyes saying " I never gave up on you ".
Cut because I wanted it to feel like darius reuniting with the gang to feel like slightly bigger of a deal. He had last shared a scene with them a few paragraphs ago, so seeing him together with them and then a few seconds later making a big deal out of their reunion felt cheap.
