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The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs

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134: 1024: 796:; the cartoon version of said book). Unlike in the two adaptations (the book and TV adaptation) where the Bus transforms into a time machine, the Bus in the software adaptation does not transform into a time machine. In this version, the Bus instead transforms into three different prehistoric animals (one for each of the time periods). The prehistoric animals (prehistoric reptiles) it transforms into are 388:) were seen in the book. Unlike in the book (which focuses with all the time periods), the cartoon adaptation only focuses with the Cretaceous. This version shows only the Cretaceous because it was due to time constraints. Time constraints forced this version to show only that period in order for the episode (The Busasaurus) in the TV series to be up to 30 minutes (like all other episodes). 22: 784:
Ms. Frizzle is missing three photographs of prehistoric animals from her photo album of her last trip to the age of dinosaurs. As usual, the user has to find replacements. There are seven different places, including "Triassic Arizona", "Triassic Argentina", "Jurassic Colorado", "Jurassic Tethys Sea",
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The rest of the class and Ms. Frizzle re-group, Liz explaining that Arnold and Phoebe ran off. Carlos, being paranoid about getting eaten by dinosaurs exclaims, "I knew this would happen! The dinos did them in!" The class hides out on a river bank, looking out for Arnold and Phoebe, and Ralphie spots
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The kids are transforming their classroom into Dinosaur Land for Parents Night, as they are studying dinosaurs. Ms Frizzle then gets a letter from an old high school friend who is now a paleontologist and she decides to take the class on a trip to the dig. When she discovers that they are missing the
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This game has very elaborate CGI forms for the bus. Although the classroom location song has changed in the following games, the game's classroom location song is the same as The Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth, but had added more rhythm in between. The classroom theme song in this game
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Phoebe does not say "At my old school...". Instead, she somewhat uses Arnold's catchphrase and says, "It's a good thing you didn't stay home today, Arnold". Arnold (about the fossilized egg and when he gets it back to a fossil again) replies, "Well, I should be glad when this egg is a rock again.
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In this episode, the kids visit Ms. Frizzle's old friend, Dr. Carmina Skeledon at a dinosaur dig, as opposed to Jeff in the book. Dr. Skeledon lets Arnold see a fossilized dinosaur egg that Ms. Frizzle finds as the kids are leaving, and he still has it when they go back in time. The kids watch as
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also eats meat. Arnold and Phoebe are unaware, and as they look, Arnold finds the egg near a large "rock". Phoebe helps him pull it free saying, "Something tells me we shouldn't be here". As Arnold asks, "Like what?", they wake the tyrant king and Phoebe exclaims, "Like that!" The two run as the
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attacks the bus, and he scares it away, the class learning that the carnivore only wanted "an easy meal without a fight". In the future, back at the fossil dig site (and before going back to school), they find a fossilized sneaker footprint. It's a fossilized footprint from a sneaker; which was
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they entered the Ice Age and finally end in the Cretaceous. Having gone back "67 million years, give or take a month or two", as Ms. Frizzle tells them, the kids are frightened away by the appearance of large, long necked dinosaurs called
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steals it from her. Arnold runs after the dinosaur, yelling "That egg doesn't belong to you! Come to think of it...it doesn't belong to me either!". Phoebe runs after him, Liz quickly running to tell Ms. Frizzle.
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chases them, and they find themselves in the same field as the class. Arnold trips into a mud puddle, losing the egg, and he hides under the bus as Phoebe runs back on. Ms. Frizzle grows Arnold as the
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Throughout the episode, the egg is shown being tossed around wildly at different points. Dinosaurs didn't turn their eggs like birds today. Because the embryo inside would have died.
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The episode's main aim was to show that dinosaurs weren't all terrifying monsters, like movies often make them out to be. This episode is loosely the television adaptation of
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They separated and scattered, Arnold running to Phoebe and Liz. He trips on a rock, and the egg went flying, Liz catching it in time. Arnold lets Phoebe see the egg, but an
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to travel back to the age of dinosaurs to find the bones. The class sees dinosaurs and learns the name of the different periods of the era and other information.
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This is the first appearance of Keesha and Carlos in the original series books; the TV series debuting the same year this book was released.
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was also most likely not an egg thief (as depicted in the episode). It was an omnivore and ate both meat and plants.
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Arnold acts courageously, rather than being unsteady and cowardly as he is normally portrayed.
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was re-used in the following game, The Magic School Bus Explores the Rainforest. This game (
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bones, but have difficulty finding their nests. An astute reader will notice that the
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don't have any feathers, as was commonly thought in research at the time of writing.
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This game in the original software series is loosely the software adaptation of
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caused by giant Arnold's sneaker (from their time travel to after he fought the
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but not with any books (book series or TV tie in books). The last two games (
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was a carnivore. At that, Dorothy Ann sees them and takes note that the
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nest. The class continues on their way, only to find themselves with a
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scene, the "screen" behind the crest of the dinosaur changed color.
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This book is the first time Ms. Frizzle's first name is mentioned.
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pack the class inadvertently led to their nesting grounds.
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were apparently separated from their nests because of the
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Joanna Cole
Bruce Degen
The Magic School Bus
Scholastic Corporation
Hardback
Paperback
ISBN
0-590-44689-4
OCLC
33156881
Joanna Cole
Bruce Degen
The Magic School Bus
time machine
predestination paradox
Maiasaura

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