# Zepplins vs Pterodactyls! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567 "2008-03-08T05:21:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/1 "2008-03-08T05:21:29Z")
[The movie that _needs_ to be made!](http://airminded.org/2007/05/25/the-movie-that-time-forgot/) > [@](#): > > While discussing the early 1970s, when Hammer’s fortunes were declining, he refers in passing to ‘the tragically unmade _Zeppelin vs Pterodactyls_‘. > [@](#): > > And I managed to find a very brief plot summary: > > The story was along the lines of THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, with a German Zeppelin being blown off-course during a bombing raid on London and winding up at a “lost continent”-type place. > > Oh man … tragically unmade is right! What more you could want from a film, I ask you. Naked boobies is all this film would need. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/2 "2008-03-08T15:08:18Z")
If they could have hired Vincent Price to star…golden! ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/3 "2008-03-08T15:11:07Z")
If the Sci-Fi channel hasn’t done this already, I can almost guarantee they will eventually ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/4 "2008-03-08T16:07:20Z")
This is Hollywood we’re talking about. Someone will make it eventually. I see Troy McClure in the lead role. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/5 "2008-03-08T16:08:57Z")
The [USS Akron](http://www.ciderpresspottery.com/ZLA/greatzeps/american/Akron_Macon.html) which _really_ did have parasitic fighters, was lost at sea during a storm. That would make a great premise for traveling in time, space, 4th dimesion, whatever. I believe the Bermuda triangle gets moved all over the place, so New Jersey shouldn’t be difficult. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/6 "2008-03-08T16:24:45Z")
[_THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT_](http://monstermovieblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/land-that-time-forgot-1975.html) was a B-movie rush, perfect Drive-In fare. Unfortunately it was made at the beginning of the end of the drive in era. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/7 "2008-03-08T18:24:49Z")
Why don’t we go straight to the source? [Tarzan at the Earth’s Core](http://www.amazon.com/Tarzan-Earths-Pellucidar-Classic-79851/dp/0441798519/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204999956&sr=1-11) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It has a zeppelin, with parasitic fighters. It has dinosaurs. It has scantily-clad cavebabes. It has Tarzan. It has lizard-men. (It’s been a while since I read it, but I think it even has some pirates in it.) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/8 "2008-03-08T21:36:28Z")
Oh my. That is win with awesome sauce… ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/9 "2008-03-09T03:16:14Z")
[The Sky People](http://www.sffaudio.com/2007/06/review-of-sky-people-by-sm-stirling.html), by S. M. Stirling has just such a passage.Airship expedition setting out from American basecamp across the largely unexplored main continent on Venus crashes after pterosaur attack ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/10 "2008-03-09T04:16:57Z")
I sing baritone, and am skilled in 1930s overacting. I own a naval aviator’s uniform, with goggles and everything. I know not to pronounce the p in pterodactyl. You need me on this picture. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/11 "2008-03-09T05:29:59Z")
[QUOTE=mbh] Why don’t we go straight to the source? [Tarzan at the Earth’s Core](http://www.amazon.com/Tarzan-Earths-Pellucidar-Classic-79851/dp/0441798519/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204999956&sr=1-11) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It has a zeppelin, with parasitic fighters. It has dinosaurs. It has scantily-clad cavebabes. It has Tarzan. It has lizard-men. (It’s been a while since I read it, but I think it even has some pirates in it.) [/QUOTE] It’s a pretty good one, but as I recall the earlier Pellucidar books were even better. Too bad people only ever remember his first Tarzan book anymore. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/12 "2008-03-09T05:40:28Z")
[QUOTE=Risha] It’s a pretty good one, but as I recall the earlier Pellucidar books were even better. Too bad people only ever remember his first Tarzan book anymore. ☹ [/QUOTE] What? No love for his _John Carter of Mars_ series? How could anyone forget the [incomparable Dejah Thoris?](http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/516B07TS2XL.jpg) 😕 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/13 "2008-03-09T05:45:31Z")
_Dinotopia_ could’ve had such a scene. In fact, perhaps it did - I fell asleep after the first half hour. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/14 "2008-03-09T13:17:30Z")
Guano- My younger daughter (the geek) confirms that there was no zepplin-related scenes in Dinotopia, which made it an extremely disappointing movie. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/15 "2008-03-09T14:07:24Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] How could anyone forget the [incomparable Dejah Thoris?](http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/516B07TS2XL.jpg) [/QUOTE] Indeed, a pair of parasitic fighters as I have never seen. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/16 "2008-03-09T14:51:44Z")
Pterodactyls would have made that _Sky Captains…_ atrocity, er… less of an atrocity. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/17 "2008-03-09T15:21:32Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] What? No love for his _John Carter of Mars_ series? How could anyone forget the [incomparable Dejah Thoris?](http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/516B07TS2XL.jpg) 😕 [/QUOTE] Well, it wasn’t bad, but I wasn’t really the target audience for beautiful alien princesses when I was working my way through his catalog, being a) a straight female, and b) seven or eight years old. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/18 "2008-03-09T19:13:53Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Pterodactyls would have made that _Sky Captains…_ atrocity, er… less of an atrocity. [/QUOTE] As I recall, there was one, wasn’t there? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_No_Saint)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/19 "2008-03-09T20:43:44Z")
Is it anything like _Cadillacs and Dinosaurs_? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567/20 "2008-03-09T21:58:45Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] As I recall, there was one, wasn’t there? 😕 [/QUOTE] Maybe. I couldn’t watch it all the way through. If there was one, they sould have put it in earlier to keep me awake. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zepplins-vs-pterodactyls/440567.md?page=2)