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Five years ago, a lost story from 2015 began to be revealed to the public in its entirety. A story of danger, adventure, chance, friendship, love, heroism...and dinosaurs.

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Monday, February 29, 2016

On a day that may or may not exist depending on the circumstances, Darius wakes up early to assess the damage from yesterday's storm. While searching for food, he falls out of a tree and is scavenged by a maternal Tarbosaurus, and makes a hasty escape by climbing down a vine to safety...

...or did he jump into another tree?...

...regardless, Darius finds a camera that was gathered into the creature's nest material. Using it, the CampFam gains a lead to a new source of food. They cautiously enter the nearby Velociraptor paddock to find more information about where the food was hidden...and the blue Velociraptor finds them soon afterwards. Thankfully, they escape because of...

....was it Darius's quick thinking or the fact that Bumpy was there to shield them?...

...regardless, they make their way on a path to...

...Main Street? Was that they day they went to Main Street and ran from Rexy again? Did Darius carefully clamber up a fence to save the map Sammy found? Or did they go into the tunnels and fight off Compies and get stuck with a Sinoceratops before Sammy found their way out?...

...anyway, time is slipping and the sun is setting, but Darius finds some Gyrospheres and they follow a herd of Brachiosaurs south until their battered vehicles run out of batteries. Then, they explore the unfinished, wind-powered amusement park, and ultimately locate the food by...

...riding a roller coaster to get a good view? Or did they stumble on it when Tarbosaurus chased them back into the park after they tried escaping in what they thought was a getaway car?...

...regardless, Tarbosaurus shows up and Darius realizes that she's been stalking them all day because he smells like her rotten eggs. He gets himself cleaned off thanks to...

...was it jumping in the water or using one of those Dilophosaurus fountains?...

...he did something. All that matters is that Bumpy got a nice mango treat, because it turns out that Ankylosaurs are very fond of mangoes.

Regardless of how exactly that happened, the kids live on to find their next adventure...whatever, and whenever, that may be.

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Happy Birthday, Kenji Kon!

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

It's the thirteenth day of the kids being in their tree fort...and it's the thirteenth and final straw for Ben.

He drinks his water without fear. He gathers berries without hunger. He climbs a tree without fear, and determines that all his injuries are negligible, and he can do anything now...so he fashions himself a spear and moves to get off this island...one way or another.

Toro is minding his own business, wondering whether he should leave his nest on such a cloudy, ominous day, and then some strange creature comes stumbling out of the bushes. His annoyance grows as this creature refuses to die, but as Toro prepares to get serious, he realizes that the fight has attracted the attention of another animal: a young Ankylosaurus.

Ben and Bumpy are reunited at last.

Together, they defeat Toro, driving the poor Carnotaurus from his home, and from this point on: the island is theirs.

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Sunday, July 10, 2016

The Kons board a boat in the morning and set a course for Isla Nublar, leaving the CampFam behind in isolation....but Darius is always working through a problem, and he quickly figures out the patrol pattern of their security robot. Before noon, he's found a path to escape, and the group takes to the sewers....but even those are not without their own dangers.

On Nublar, Mantah Corp is not the only group to breach the island's defenses: Brandon Bowman, Roxie Keynes, and Dave (just Dave), have also finally arrived, fifteen days after Darius's call for help. They brave the dangers on their search for Brand's little brother, unaware that Kenji is exploring the island in a search for new MantahCorp dinosaurs.

But they are all unaware of the doom about to transpire: Mantah Corp's robots cause an accident in the reactor core of the base's geothermal power plant, triggering a tremor that shifts the cavern ever so slightly...and resulting tremors are felt all the way at Isla Nublar. Shaken into the path of danger, Kenji and Hawkes team up to subdue Toro, bringing the menacing Carnotaurus to heel...but nature is not done. As Brooklynn disables the drone system in an attempt to calm the nervous Tyrannosaurs, another earthquake shakes the islands, burying Kenji and trapping Big Eatie.

Kenji uses the power of Mantah Corp to enlist Toro's aid, while Darius calls on his friends for help to rescue the distressed dinosaur. As night falls, the would-be-rescue-party sleeps, Darius affirms his devotion to his friends, and Kenji believes he is in his father's good graces.

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If you wanted to know what would happen if the CampFam were COWARDS and had to go HUNGRY, here you go!

Enjoy the work the animators and voice actors did for something the kids would Never Do. Or did they?

Also, Sad Bumpy...

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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Grounded after their little nighttime excursion, Kenji and Darius are stuck behind at camp to clean up a pile of dinosaur dung across the bridge. Meanwhile Brooklynn, whose popularity and promotional value kept her out of trouble, decides to go double-or-nothing on her luck by conducting corporate espionage. Ben accidentally becomes the target of a baby dinosaur's imprinting--Happy Birthday, Bumpy--and falls in love, which gives Yasmina something to contribute today by teasing him. As for Sammy, well...she has an evening appointment after everyone else has gone to bed.

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Five of the Nublar Six make it to the tunnels as the last ferries begin to leave, the first ones returning for a second pass to take on all the passengers who would have otherwise stayed the night...but the tunnels are locked down, and the open paths are far from safe. As first light arrives, their sixth member awakens in the woods--and realizes that he is alone...except for Bumpy, who finds her first taste of battle against a swarm of sharp, breakable teeth and glittering eyes.

Meanwhile, Darius leads the others in a fight against Toro, who is about to have a terrible day and terrible burns...but he will have another chance at finding his prey, as his five enemies are stranded on the island with him. Blue the Velociraptor also finds herself facing a strange world on her own, while Rexy greets the dawn and goes to find food when she realizes no one is giving her any goats today (despite her new nest arrangements). She sleeps last night's battle off in the woods for a good, long time, while the kids find their way to her home. Toro, moving into the home of some smaller predator who didn't blow him up a few hours prior, finds another human waiting there...and fails to catch this one, too.

Darius and his newly-christened "CampFam" search Main Street for an emergency beacon, but as they search, Darius finds himself wracked by guilt at his failure to protect Ben...who manages to build himself and Bumpy something resembling a shelter in the wilderness. Night falls, and six children wearily rest, hoping that maybe tomorrow will bring something hopeful....