The coverage of the Skull Island ceremony was actually pretty informative, as well as some pretty funny things.
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"What is this supposed to be?" asked Sophie at the Pirate Museum, showing a flintlock pistol with four barrels arranged horizontally.
"It's a duck-foot pistol, a relative of the pepperbox pistol." said one of the tour guides.
"Doesn't look too practical." commented Roland.
"It's supposed to be used by pirates to clear the decks of ships they were attacking. But I get what you're saying." replied the tour guide.
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During one of the boat tours of Skull Island, everyone was shocked when an animatronic feral Dunkleosteus breached the water and gnashed its teeth before submerging.
"That wasn't in any Jurassic Park Movie!" said one visiting tourist.
"It's supposed to be a prehistoric adaptation of a scene from one of the Jaws movies." said the tour guide.
"So why didn't you use a megalodon?" asked another tourist.
"You really want a sixty-foot long shark with a mouth just as big to attack?" replied the tour guide, to that almost everyone confirmed in one way or another that they didn't want to get attacked by that.
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Another tourist was just getting off the boat from an earlier boat tour when he collapsed facedown on the dock.
"What's wrong?" asked Sophie going over to him.
"...giant, sea scorpion..." mumbled the tourist, still face down.
"Oh yeah," said Roland, "the jaekelopterus."
"A giant scorpion!" said the tourist, now clearly venting his fear, "A scorpion! What?! How?! Why?! Nope!"
"If you think that's bad," Joked Sophie, "You should know that they're going to have an animatronic version of the giant prehistoric millipede arthropleura at the other Dinotopia colony.
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The final amusing things from the coverage was the things from the gift shop. It was a mix of pirate souvenirs, aquatic fossil souvenirs, and similar things.
"What is this supposed to be?" asked Jen holding up one of the vinyl sharks from one of the souvenir tubs.
"It's a helicoprion." answered Andrew, "It's one of the few sharks that we don't know what the tooth whorl was used for. One person actually thought that it was placed on the top part of a shark's mouth."
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There were also a number of t-shirts that showed what real pirate flags looked like, and who they were associated with. What made them surprising was the fact that the stereotypical skull-and-crossbones flag was actually quite rare. What confirmed them as coming from skull island was that sometimes they were adapted with Dinotopian parts, such as dinosaur skulls, and included the motto of the Skull Island Pirate Museum: "...And Under a Black Flag We Shall Sail..."
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Fortunately, when Sophie and Roland got back to school, the were able to watch the video that was recorded of the Back To School Assembly at WSA. Both of them were rather glad that they were finally able to be with their friends at WSA.