Welcome to Prehistoric Kingdom
is a fanfic by Flameal15k. It is the sequel to Prehistoric Park: Returned from Extinction and is a crossover between Prehistoric Park (though it takes many elements from the show's Spiritual Successor Prehistoric Kingdom) and Walking with Dinosaurs.
Having successfully completed Phase 1 of the now renamed Prehistoric Kingdom, Nigel is now setting his eyes on both new targets and breeding populations of the species he already. But that's not the only thing going on at the park...
This story provides examples of:
- Adaptational Location Change: "Supercroc" from the original series was set in Cretaceous Texas, with the fauna shown implicitly specifying the location as the Aguja Formation. Due to Adaptation Expansion, part of the episode's plot is shifted to the Kaiparowits Formation in Utah at the same time period.
- Adaptation Expansion: There's a lot of new elements in play that weren't in the original show or the fanfic's immediate predecessor.
- The original version of Supercroc only featured a couple of misplaced animals from what is supposed to be the Aguja Formation (specifically Albertosaurus, Nyctosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Troodon, and the target animal, Deinosuchus. The prior story's version added in all dinosaurs known form the formation, including the hadrosaur Angulomasticator, the ceratopsian Agujaceratops, the ankylosaur Panoplosaurus, and a currently unnamed tyrannosaur which the story refers to as Agujatyrannus. In this story, while the mission happened offscreen, it also had Nigel visit the Kaiparowits Formation in Utah to rescue a second species of Deinosuchus, as well as all the animals living in that formation.
- Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Tristan and Michelle got a fair amount of Ship Tease in the original story, but never went much further before the story came to an end. Here, it is made explicitly clear that they were in a relationship sometime prior to Tristan joining the park.
- Extinct Animal Park: The newly rechristened Prehistoric Kingdom is the successor to Prehistoric Park which was already an example of this trope.
- First-Episode Twist: The first chapter ends with a titanosaur that had previously disappeared in a strange light when Nigel was trying to coral it into the portal reappearing out of an anomaly in the present, mainly to show new readers exactly how weird this story can get.
- Improbable Taxonomy Skills: Downplayed compared to the original - while Nigel is able to figure out the exact species of some animals that he rescues, he admits in the first chapter that the sheer number of titanosaur species in Cretaceous South America precludes him from accurately knowing which ones he encounters while trying to rescue Carnotaurus. Him knowing the one megaraptorid that he encounters is Maip is also justified because said species is the last of its kind known from the fossil record, so with the paleontological data available to him, there is nothing else it could be. That being said, the after chapter notes usually list the animals rescued for reader convenience.
- Sequel Goes Foreign: The original series focused almost exclusively on creatures from North America due to the author wanting to focus on each of the continents sequentially. Here, the first mission takes Nigel to Cretaceous South America to rescue Carnotaurus.
- Setting Update: The original Prehistoric Park was set during the decade it was filmed - the Turn of the Millennium. This story (or at least the present portions of it) happens in early 2022, per
Word of God. - Small Taxonomy Pools: As with the previous story, intentionally defied with extreme prejudice - the first chapter alone features dinosaurs from the relatively obscure groups elasmaria and megaraptora, as well as multiple varieties of South American land crocodilians, which hardly ever show up in fiction.
- Soft Reboot: Due to the final chapter of the previous story confirming that it was part of a Massively Multiplayer Crossover with several of the author's other works, this story serves as a slight reimaging of the original, mainly so that it fits better with the rest of the verse. So far, for example, the only member of the younger cast to appear is Tristan, and he only seems to be a member of the staff as opposed to planned heir to the park.
- Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Defied - the only Tyrannosaurus shown so far, Jane, is introduced lazily lying on her side while being cleaned of parasites, and views the keepers watching her with more curiosity than aggression.
