History Trivia / WalkingWithDinosaurs

** After ''Walking With Dinosaurs'', there came a whole onslaught of documentaries with CGI dinosaurs. ''WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica'', ''Series/DinosaurPlanet'', and ''Series/JurassicFightClub'', to name a few.[[note]]The latter show gave the [[StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs allosaurs]] and ''[[StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Utahraptor]]'' identical color schemes to the original show.[[/note]]

** ''[[StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Baryonyx]]'' and ''Cetiosaurus'' were to appear in the main series, but they were replaced with ''[[StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Utahraptor]]'' and scrapped entirely, respectively.

** The ''Sea Monsters'' book describes a number of scenes that didn't make it into the series, such as the female [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles nothosaurs]] leaving their eggs on the beach at night (there is also a picture of Nigel inspecting those eggs, meaning it was filmed) and Nigel meeting the utterly bizarre [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassocnus aquatic ground sloth]] ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals Thalassocnus]]'' before going to look for the shark ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures C. megalodon]]''.
** Originally ''Walking With Beasts'' was going to air first (the idea being that the trilogy would be moving backwards through time), but they only recieved enough money for a show about dinosaurs, and they made ''Walking With Dinosaurs''.
** Among the proposed episode ideas for ''WWB'' was one based around the Riversleigh fossil site from Australia. They chose to abandon it, as they already had enough stories planned.
*** For people wondering, such episode [[http://www.create.unsw.edu.au/research/files/Archer%20et%20al%20%281989%29%20Fossil%20Mammals%20of%20Riversleigh,%20Northwestern%20Queensland.PDF could have featured]] diprotodonts, thylacines, a ''Gastornis''-like bird (''Bullockornis''), running crocodiles and a python (since then included into ''Morelia'', but hard to believe they would pass the chance to drop the original name ''[[Creator/MontyPython Montypythonoides]]'').

** The film gets inexplicably re-wound when Patchi falls in the river (originally, Alex questions patchi's claim of diving in to save Jennifer)

* ActorAllusion: From the 3D movie, this wouldn't be [[WesternAnimation/IceAge the first time]] John Leguizamo played a prehistoric animal, although this time he's playing a bird. And not [[Film/SuperMarioBros the first time he's been surrounded by dinosaurs]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: The narrator is, of all people, [[Film/HarryPotter Gilderoy Lockhart]].
** [[WesternAnimation/IceAge Sid the sloth]] is the narrator for the 2013 film.
** The choice of voice in the Russian localization of the main series was ''extremely'' unoriginal - Nikolai Drozdov, the TropeMaker for NatureDocumentary throughout the former Soviet Union.

* ActorAllusion: From the 3D movie, this wouldn't be [[WesternAnimation/IceAge the first time]] John Leguizamo played a prehistoric animal, although this time he's playing a bird.

*** For people wondering, such episode [[http://www.create.unsw.edu.au/research/files/Archer%20et%20al%20%281989%29%20Fossil%20Mammals%20of%20Riversleigh,%20Northwestern%20Queensland.PDF could have featured]] diprotodonts, thylacines, a ''Gastornis''-like ratite (''Bullockornis''), running crocodiles and a python (since then included into ''Morelia'', but hard to believe they would pass the chance to drop the original name ''[[Creator/MontyPython Montypythonoides]]'').

* HeyItsThatVoice: The narrator is, of all people, [[Film/HarryPotter Gilderoy Lockhart]]

*** For people wondering, such episode [[http://www.create.unsw.edu.au/research/files/Archer%20et%20al%20%281989%29%20Fossil%20Mammals%20of%20Riversleigh,%20Northwestern%20Queensland.PDF could have featured]] diprotodonts, thylacines, a ''Gastornis''-like ratite (''Bullockornis''), running crocodiles and a python (since then included into ''Morelia'', but hard to believe they would pass the chance to drop the original name ''[[MontyPython Montypythonoides]]'').

* ExecutiveMeddling: For the ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' movie - 20th Century Fox decided to add voices to the dinosaurs to help kids get the film, but the decision was made really late in production to the point where there isn't even lip syncing. The majority of viewers disliked the change, as they found the voices annoying and distracting. The DVD thus contains a "Cretaceous cut", which cuts out all the voices.

* ExecutiveMeddling: For the ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' movie - 20th Century Fox decided to add voices to the dinosaurs to help kids get the film, but the decision was made really late in production to the point where there isn't even lip syncing. The majority of viewers disliked the change, as they found the voices annoying and distracting.

** Originally ''Walking With Beasts'' was going to air first (the idea being that the trilogy would be moving backwards through time), but they only recieved enough money for a show about dinosaurs, and they made ''Walking With Dinosaurs''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: 20th Century Fox decided to add voices to the dinosaurs to help kids get the film, but the decision was made really late in production to the point where there isn't even lip syncing. The majority of viewers disliked the change, as they found the voices annoying and distracting.

** Originally ''Walking With Beasts'' was going to air first, but they only recieved enough money for a show about dinosaurs, and they made ''Walking With Dinosaurs''.

** Originally "Walking With Beasts" was first, but they only recieved money for "A show about dinosaurs", and they made Walking With Dinosaurs.

** Originally "Waling With Beasts" was first, but they olny recieved money for "A show about dinosaurs", and they made Walking With Dinosaurs.

** The ''Sea Monsters'' book describes a number of scenes that didn't make it into the series, such as the female [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles nothosaurs]] leaving their eggs on the beach at night (there is also a picture of Nigel inspecting those eggs, meaning it was filmed) and Nigel meeting the utterly bizarre [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassocnus aquatic ground sloth]] ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals Thalassocnus]]'' before going to look for the shark ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures C. megalodon]]''.

** The spinosaurid ''[[StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Baryonyx]]'' was to appear in the main series, but it was replaced with the dromaeosaurid ''[[StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Utahraptor]]''.

** The spinosaurid ''Baryonyx'' was to appear in the main series, but it was replaced with the dromaeosaurid ''Utahraptor''.

** The spinosaurid ''Baryonyx'' was to appear in the main series, but it was replaced with the dromaeosaurid''Utahraptor''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The ''Sea Monsters'' book describes a number of scenes that didn't make it into the series, such as the female [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles nothosaurs]] leaving their eggs on the beach at night (there is also a picture of Nigel inspecting those eggs, meaning it was filmed) and Nigel meeting the utterly bizarre [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassocnus aquatic ground sloth]] ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals Thalassocnus]]'' before going to look for the shark ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures C. megalodon]]''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The ''Sea Monsters'' book describes a number of scenes that didn't make it into the series, such as the female [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLife nothosaurs]] leaving their eggs on the beach at night (there is also a picture of Nigel inspecting those eggs, meaning it was filmed) and Nigel meeting the utterly bizarre [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassocnus aquatic ground sloth]] ''[[http://www.darwiniana.org/WaterSloth3LowRes.jpg Thalassocnus]]'' before going to look for the shark ''C. megalodon''.