The mountain dragons are supposed to look like they don’t belong in the mountains The humans drove the dragons to the mountains when humans started domesticating livestock Also, the male in this section flew from Africa Just makes you think just how much their range has shrunk
This was a bloody brilliant mockumentary. It was epic. And the score! The music for Tanner's segments was needlessly badass, whilst the score for the dragon's segments was absolutely beautiful! Nah, nah. Its Ian Holme? You learn something every day, and thats a hell of a thing to learn. But of course! Of course Bilbo Baggins would narrate a documentary on a discovery of dragons in the mountains lol. Brilliant.
Same, I saw it when I was maybe 7 and thought it was a true documentary. I remember wondering why I hadn't heard about this and why nobody was blown away that we found real dragon bones
A wonderful and thorough review! The designs for the dragons are superb and I'm sad we never got to see the desert dragon. I might just have to make my own video on this someday...
For the roars of the T-Rex, they are reused Tarbosaurus and Giganotosaurus roars from Chased by Dinosaurs. As far as the pterosaur models are concerned, they look and sound like the Pteranodons from 2001's The Lost World and 2003's Chased by Dinosaurs second episode Land of Giants and Sea Monsters.
This is by far my favorite science fiction documentary I love it since I was a kid I like both versions of the animal planet version and the movie version I guess you can call it. To be honest I just called it a science-fiction documentary but that’s just me though you can call it a mockumentary as you want
@@mariobalestrieri7488 At the end when the guy learned that a second Dragon had been discovered, I thought that we were going to get a sequel that would show more Dragons including the Lindwyrms and Wyverns turning the special into a franchise and maybe we’d get spin offs for other Mythical Creatures like Griffins and Unicorns.
Great video! I loved your review, voice and narration. Personally, I fancy dragons as creatures of the land, sea and air, and I don't care how farfetched that sounds to anybody else. Resolution.
Thanks for bringing this up in the comments on Hodgepodge’s review of Chased by Dinosaurs: Land of Giants. Also, you have a great voice. Sounds like a young Alan Rickman (RIP).
@@AncientRealms1999 You’re welcome. You just earned yourself a subscriber. I hope you do reviews on the Walking with series. Also, that opening to this review was perfect. Finally, while I get why you’re not a fan of the Animal Planet version, I actually like it. Patrick Stewart’s narration is awesome. If they ever do a sequel to this TV movie, he’d be a worthy successor to the late Ian Holm to tell the story of Jack Tanner.
@@speedracer2008 Oh yeah Patrick Stewart has an amazing voice very suited for the role, nothing against that. And thanks I might do some walking with reviews at some point in the future but quite busy with the primeval episode breakdowns currently.
My babysitter actually recorded it On her VHS way back in the day and this was on the discovery channel version the same way she did it with the discovery channel version of walking with dinosaurs much later on I did watch the movie version the one called dragons world of fantasy main real or last Dragon and it’s much better than the animal planet version in my personal opinion
To be fair to your criticism about how the explanation of how dragons evolved in the first place wasn't explored, that concept ALONE could honestly take up the length of a documentary. Plus, the documentary also has to address Tanner's story, so some things have to be left unexplained for the sake of pace. Honestly, I feel this documentary could have been even better as a miniseries, as it would have allowed us to learn more about this world in which dragons existed.
Hi Ancient Realms! A big "thank you" from Italy, for having made these videos on this (sadly) unfindable documentary. I wanted to share with you a little detail that you might have missed. The models for the Tyrannosaurus and Pteranodon used in this special (despite looking quite similar in shape and texture to the ones used in other scientific series of BBC) are far more closely related to the ones present in the miniseries Dinotopia 2003. My best regards to You!
The dragon designs are pretty cool I do like the mountain dragon design I also like the story of the mountain Dragon much better story and you kind of feel sorry because she is the last of her kind or her species. The prehistoric dragon design was also pretty cool and I did like the fight scene with the t Rex and the prehistoric dragon. The Tyrannosaurus design looks pretty cool in my personal opinion it looks better than prehistoric parks and obviously the primeval Rex. The narrator it’s a really good buy their own right like Patrick Stewart from the animal planet version he did a good job and the movie version the narrator that narrated monsters we met a.k.a. land of lost monsters and the music is awesome I enjoy it a lot
And also I forget other 2 ones. ,,MonsterQuest'' is about a expedition searching of crypzology history creatures where hiding of humans and live they natural habitats in modern today. And ,,Prehistoric Planet'' is another dinosaur documentary is actually same with Walking With Dinosaurs but most accuarate documentary ever.
Oh yeah there's plenty I didn't include I just used the ones which have special effects made by Impossible Pictures or are related like Primeval New World
11:57 George Fenton's scores for The Blue Planet (2001) and Planet Earth (2006) deserve some mentions here, too, I think (admittedly, they feature extant animals, rather than prehistoric animals, so that might explain the lack of a mention here).
I don't think that is too farfetched that Prehistoric Dragons where capable of reaching those sizes. Taking into consideration that they weighted 400kg at best (About twice the weight of a Quetzalcoatlus) and is implied they were ambush predators. They could take down quite a lot of preys big enough to feed at least two adults of these things. Triceratops would be out of the menu because if it wasn't the T-Rex would have been outcompeted long ago. My assumption is that they focused on Hadrosaur species, maybe young sauropods and cannibalism. The thing I find wierd is that the father is not present being a hardcore K-selective species. Why? You may ask, well. Female and male territories overlap, that means that the young is being raised inside a male territory. Aka: Papa. He knows it is his ofspring and yet ignores him risking his young to die. I also assume that the father was dead, because the old dragon managed to enter the territory and the father of the young didn't go to eat the carcas of the mother earlier
@@AncientRealms1999 The only thing I don't like about the Prehistoric Dragon are the wings. I don't like those purposely reduced wings. I'd rather a more natural take on those, more extended towards their hips. Although they are good each time I see them I find them worse
@@hoshikun6605 Fair enough, they are a bit small but if they were the true size in proportion to the creature they'd probably look too large for what the show wanted to use them for and look odd. I don't mind either way really plus we get the hydrogen explanation as to how they can fly.
I think "The Last Dragon" is easily the best Animal Planet "mythical creature documentary" and it's unfair to lump it in with actual garbage like, "Finding Bigfoot" and "Mermaids: The Body Found"
❤You know, there is a possibility that dragons really did exist, at least like four limbed ones. For example, most of them would have hollow bones and delicate skeletons like birds, and even big bird bones don't fossilize very well. That can explain why we can't find any fossils of them. Another one is that they also could have air sacs inside them, also like birds, to make them lighter and fly better. Not to mention, if dragons can belch hydrogen out of their mouths and had an organ to spark it, like electric mussels. Similar to electric eels, the mussels spark the gas and BOOM, fire! I know it may be wishful thinking, but when you really think about it, dragons may not be so outlandish as you think. There are stranger beasts in the real world more outlandish than dragons. There is a real reason for saying, "Truth is stranger than fiction.", after all. ❤
5:39 how is it far fetched? animals are smarter then we give them credit for and an animal with the ability to breathe fire learning that cooking it's food makes it easier to eat seems like the logical next step for an animal wit such an ability
The mountain dragons are supposed to look like they don’t belong in the mountains
The humans drove the dragons to the mountains when humans started domesticating livestock
Also, the male in this section flew from Africa
Just makes you think just how much their range has shrunk
This was a bloody brilliant mockumentary. It was epic. And the score! The music for Tanner's segments was needlessly badass, whilst the score for the dragon's segments was absolutely beautiful!
Nah, nah. Its Ian Holme? You learn something every day, and thats a hell of a thing to learn. But of course! Of course Bilbo Baggins would narrate a documentary on a discovery of dragons in the mountains lol. Brilliant.
It is so perfect isn't it, sadly forgotten but I'm glad there are fans out there still
I USED TO THINK THIS SHOW WAS REAL! Loved it.
It's so well written it feels real and the visual effects definitely help with that.
Same, I saw it when I was maybe 7 and thought it was a true documentary. I remember wondering why I hadn't heard about this and why nobody was blown away that we found real dragon bones
A wonderful and thorough review! The designs for the dragons are superb and I'm sad we never got to see the desert dragon. I might just have to make my own video on this someday...
Thank you! And yes I'm sure you'd make an excellent video about it. Lots of interesting things to cover in it.
@@AncientRealms1999 You and Hodgepodge should do a joint review in the future. Maybe on Prehistoric Park?
For the roars of the T-Rex, they are reused Tarbosaurus and Giganotosaurus roars from Chased by Dinosaurs. As far as the pterosaur models are concerned, they look and sound like the Pteranodons from 2001's The Lost World and 2003's Chased by Dinosaurs second episode Land of Giants and Sea Monsters.
15:38 you forget to put ,,The Future is Wild'' and ,,Alien Planet'', because those documentarys are awesome to.
This is by far my favorite science fiction documentary I love it since I was a kid I like both versions of the animal planet version and the movie version I guess you can call it. To be honest I just called it a science-fiction documentary but that’s just me though you can call it a mockumentary as you want
The Prehistoric Dragon is my favourite Dragon from the mocumentary.
The prehistoric dragon is my favorite dragon in the show I would like to see the other species of dragons like the desert dragon .
@@mariobalestrieri7488 That is a real shame that they didn’t show the Desert Dragon, maybe they were but didn’t have the time or budget to at it in.
@@dragonzilla6482 I agree maybe the desert dragon would have been planned as a wyvern or a lindwyrm I would have love to see it
@@mariobalestrieri7488 At the end when the guy learned that a second Dragon had been discovered, I thought that we were going to get a sequel that would show more Dragons including the Lindwyrms and Wyverns turning the special into a franchise and maybe we’d get spin offs for other Mythical Creatures like Griffins and Unicorns.
@@dragonzilla6482 I hope we get a sequel to dragons a fantasy made real where they discover other dragon species and other creatures.
Great video! I loved your review, voice and narration. Personally, I fancy dragons as creatures of the land, sea and air, and I don't care how farfetched that sounds to anybody else. Resolution.
Thanks for bringing this up in the comments on Hodgepodge’s review of Chased by Dinosaurs: Land of Giants. Also, you have a great voice. Sounds like a young Alan Rickman (RIP).
Thank you!
@@AncientRealms1999 You’re welcome. You just earned yourself a subscriber. I hope you do reviews on the Walking with series. Also, that opening to this review was perfect. Finally, while I get why you’re not a fan of the Animal Planet version, I actually like it. Patrick Stewart’s narration is awesome. If they ever do a sequel to this TV movie, he’d be a worthy successor to the late Ian Holm to tell the story of Jack Tanner.
@@speedracer2008 Oh yeah Patrick Stewart has an amazing voice very suited for the role, nothing against that. And thanks I might do some walking with reviews at some point in the future but quite busy with the primeval episode breakdowns currently.
My babysitter actually recorded it On her VHS way back in the day and this was on the discovery channel version the same way she did it with the discovery channel version of walking with dinosaurs much later on I did watch the movie version the one called dragons world of fantasy main real or last Dragon and it’s much better than the animal planet version in my personal opinion
Excellent analysis and delivery. Your thoughts on Tanner made me guffaw. Great montage around 13.45 onwards 😅
Thank you!
To be fair to your criticism about how the explanation of how dragons evolved in the first place wasn't explored, that concept ALONE could honestly take up the length of a documentary. Plus, the documentary also has to address Tanner's story, so some things have to be left unexplained for the sake of pace. Honestly, I feel this documentary could have been even better as a miniseries, as it would have allowed us to learn more about this world in which dragons existed.
Hi Ancient Realms!
A big "thank you" from Italy, for having made these videos on this (sadly) unfindable documentary.
I wanted to share with you a little detail that you might have missed. The models for the Tyrannosaurus and Pteranodon used in this special (despite looking quite similar in shape and texture to the ones used in other scientific series of BBC) are far more closely related to the ones present in the miniseries Dinotopia 2003.
My best regards to You!
Thanks!
8:21 Primeval T. rex isn’t real. Primeval T. rex can’t hurt you.
Great review bro I’ve always loved this fictional documentary
The dragon designs are pretty cool I do like the mountain dragon design I also like the story of the mountain Dragon much better story and you kind of feel sorry because she is the last of her kind or her species. The prehistoric dragon design was also pretty cool and I did like the fight scene with the t Rex and the prehistoric dragon. The Tyrannosaurus design looks pretty cool in my personal opinion it looks better than prehistoric parks and obviously the primeval Rex. The narrator it’s a really good buy their own right like Patrick Stewart from the animal planet version he did a good job and the movie version the narrator that narrated monsters we met a.k.a. land of lost monsters and the music is awesome I enjoy it a lot
The prehistoric dragon was always favorite dragon in the series.
And also I forget other 2 ones. ,,MonsterQuest'' is about a expedition searching of crypzology history creatures where hiding of humans and live they natural habitats in modern today. And ,,Prehistoric Planet'' is another dinosaur documentary is actually same with Walking With Dinosaurs but most accuarate documentary ever.
Oh yeah there's plenty I didn't include I just used the ones which have special effects made by Impossible Pictures or are related like Primeval New World
*Tanner’s theme on repeat
Quality music
There is no male mountain dragon. The male is the dessert dragon. It took me years to realize that.
11:57 George Fenton's scores for The Blue Planet (2001) and Planet Earth (2006) deserve some mentions here, too, I think (admittedly, they feature extant animals, rather than prehistoric animals, so that might explain the lack of a mention here).
I don't think that is too farfetched that Prehistoric Dragons where capable of reaching those sizes. Taking into consideration that they weighted 400kg at best (About twice the weight of a Quetzalcoatlus) and is implied they were ambush predators. They could take down quite a lot of preys big enough to feed at least two adults of these things. Triceratops would be out of the menu because if it wasn't the T-Rex would have been outcompeted long ago. My assumption is that they focused on Hadrosaur species, maybe young sauropods and cannibalism.
The thing I find wierd is that the father is not present being a hardcore K-selective species. Why? You may ask, well. Female and male territories overlap, that means that the young is being raised inside a male territory. Aka: Papa. He knows it is his ofspring and yet ignores him risking his young to die. I also assume that the father was dead, because the old dragon managed to enter the territory and the father of the young didn't go to eat the carcas of the mother earlier
Yeah that all makes sense, I don't have anything against the size of the dragons but your analysis sounds like something that would happen.
@@AncientRealms1999 The only thing I don't like about the Prehistoric Dragon are the wings. I don't like those purposely reduced wings. I'd rather a more natural take on those, more extended towards their hips. Although they are good each time I see them I find them worse
@@hoshikun6605 Fair enough, they are a bit small but if they were the true size in proportion to the creature they'd probably look too large for what the show wanted to use them for and look odd. I don't mind either way really plus we get the hydrogen explanation as to how they can fly.
@@AncientRealms1999 Oh, no. The wingspan is Ok. I just want a bit more skin towards their body
@@hoshikun6605 Yeah that would probably look better because there can't be enough muscle attachments for those wings otherwise
Thank you, I thought I hallucinated this as a kid. I have to go rewatch it now!
I think "The Last Dragon" is easily the best Animal Planet "mythical creature documentary" and it's unfair to lump it in with actual garbage like, "Finding Bigfoot" and "Mermaids: The Body Found"
❤You know, there is a possibility that dragons really did exist, at least like four limbed ones. For example, most of them would have hollow bones and delicate skeletons like birds, and even big bird bones don't fossilize very well. That can explain why we can't find any fossils of them. Another one is that they also could have air sacs inside them, also like birds, to make them lighter and fly better. Not to mention, if dragons can belch hydrogen out of their mouths and had an organ to spark it, like electric mussels. Similar to electric eels, the mussels spark the gas and BOOM, fire!
I know it may be wishful thinking, but when you really think about it, dragons may not be so outlandish as you think. There are stranger beasts in the real world more outlandish than dragons.
There is a real reason for saying, "Truth is stranger than fiction.", after all. ❤
Interestingly, there is a version of this show which does not have the dragon make those pig-like vocalizations.
From what I have seen, it looks like the T.rex and Pteranodon share the same design from Dinotopia miniseries.
I'm still looking for a copy of Monsters We Met. lol
For the mountain dragon not have fat or feathers I have a theory that they use there fire breath to stay warm
I didn’t know that Tim Haines was there
The Lost World 2001 or 1925?
2001
5:39 how is it far fetched? animals are smarter then we give them credit for and an animal with the ability to breathe fire learning that cooking it's food makes it easier to eat seems like the logical next step for an animal wit such an ability
Omg I also have the companion book and I have the poster still