Elec Man worked for the robot mob. They said that no one who saw him lived to tell the tale. But that all changed when he crossed paths with Proto Man, second-in-command to the criminally inept mad scientist Dr. Wily…
This is it. This is where you attempt what others didn't have the courage to try, and succeed where the show itself had failed. You're going to prove that even the silliest, stupidest ideas can be successful. You've got this!
I’m going to have fun with it, but will have to leave it up to readers whether it’s successful or not. :)
(I assume we’re talking Curse of the Lion Men here!)
But maybe adapting one of the ‘poorer’ RS episodes in a fic is something everyone who likes to write and likes RS should try? I had a blast with Robosaur Park, Bad Day at Peril Park, Master of Disaster, and Night of the Living Monster Bots…so far hoping Curse of the Lion Men will be the same!
Knew I was forgetting a major one! The Gryposaurus was one of the many robosaurs Snake Man befriended in part 2. I think these dinosaurs are really cute. :)
Continued from last post, here are some more species from part 2 of Robosaur Park.
Images aren't mine, but I forgot to credit them. Blame google search for its ease! :S
The Allosaurus is roughly half way between a Megalosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus in length.
Description of the Liliensternus was based off this image.
These dinosaurs aren't believed to have actually 'butted heads,' as popular media has lead us to believe, but hey robosaurs do what they want.
Okay, the Quetzcoatlus isn't actually the largest known pterosaur, but it definitely has the most badass name of anything from the Mesozoic era, named after the winged serpent god Quetzcoatl. It's just so freaking weird...look at that thing. Currently my favorite prehistoric reptile~
Disclaimer: this isn't the way I was taught to draft and edit in school. I'm not even sure if this is a productive way to write. To use an analogy, this is coming from the drawing school of thought, where you never start out a human portrait with the left ear and work your way over to the right; you first draw the general shape of the figure as a whole, then gradually add more and more details until 'presto, you're done'. Since I'm a designer (and therefore a little screwy), it doesn't make sense to start a story at its beginning and write down to it's end. This is my version of 'drafting,' and if nothing else, it'll explain where I get my % complete from.
First, I transcribe every word of dialogue from the episode to a word document, even if I'm pretty sure I'm going to change it later. Since I didn't hold on to Robosaur Park's dialogue, here's The Mega Man in the Moon.
Next I being cutting dialogue from this document and integrating them with the paragraphs, notes, research, and original dialogue I have already written for that episode in a separate document. As of Future Shock part 3, when chapters started getting too long to manage, I began color coding my notes by character, using light blue for the good guys, red for Proto Man, purple for Wily, brown for cartoon dialogue, etc. This made it easier to group estranged notes with their respective passages, ultimately saving time. Below is an example from Robosaur Park. Notice that I used green for notes pertaining to dinosaurs, bolding genus so I could keep track of where all the species were buried in the prose. There are many incomplete sentences and unfinished thoughts, but that's okay, I'm the only one reading it in this form! During this stage, I do a lot of construction work, rearranging the order of action, checking the pacing, and deciding where line breaks should go.
After I feel everything's pieced together into a nice 'beefy outline,' I begin to edit, focusing on shaping my frankenstien mess of notes, research, dialogue, and prose into something readable. Most of this involves fleshing out bare boned notes, completing my unfinished sentences, doing a final pass on research, adding dialogue tags, writing transitions, etc. etc. Whatever it takes. I never edit passages in chronological order, which is kinda quirky but editing linearly always felt unnatural.
Also new to Future Shock part 3, after I feel a section is more or less complete, I shrink the text down by 25% and make it green.This is to visually force my attention towards unfinished sections so I edit faster. HUGE TIME SAVER, plus it alows me to see progress.
This is the point where I can determine percentages, counting the green passages as complete against the total word count. Typically, my word count doubles from 'beefy outline' to final draft, so at early stages of editing I can only guess what percent is actually done, but it's still something. :)
After that, all that's left to do is read it through from top to bottom a few times, catching minor errors before publishing. And we all know how that goes.
I had a lot of fun writing the 'robosaur' parts. Because there are a lot of latin names in this chapter, I'll do a little overview of species apearing thus far in Robosaur Park that are less familiar than your typical stegosaurus. I did a toooon of research, even if it doesn't show. ;)
(image source)
There were no raptors in the original Robosaur Park, but since they are pretty iconic to Jurassic Park, I included them in the form of Deinonychus. (Dinosaur Fact from Otto Raptor: In the film Jurassic Park, the 'velociraptors' are portrayed several times larger than their real life counterparts, which were no bigger than road runners. The biggest known raptor is the Utahraptor, discovered a year after the movie). So if you don't know what a Deinonychus is, just think Jurassic Park raptor only smaller. I like Chicago's Field Museum model of a raptor (seen above) better than the models used for Jurassic Park, it looks more like a real animal as opposed to a movie monster. And yes...techinically this model is 10 years out of date...more and more research has proven that most, if not all, theropods have feathers! Wah! My childhood!
I'm one of those people who's still in the habit of calling these by their outdated name 'brontosaurus.' Gertie is a tribute to Gertie the Dinosaur.
(Image from Disney's Dinosaur)
(Image from BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs)
(Image from Wikipedia)
(screenshot from Jurassic Park (Yeah I know, I made a TON of Jurassic Park references. Coulldn't help it :))
(Image from Wikipedia)
Key 'antagonistic robosaurs' of Part 1. The coloring described is based on the coloring of the megalosaurus (or metalosaurus??) in the show.
See? Now if only the show had used the correct posture for its dinosaurs. I'm not going to give it a free pass, Jurassic Park came out in 1993, a year before Robosaur Park aired! They could have copied!
(diagrams from wikipedia)
Chart comparing the relatives sizes of a Deinonychus, Megalosaurus (substituted with an image of the similar Carnotaurus) and Tyrannosaurus rex.
