Lost World poster

[Graeme Worth <endocrin@opera.iinet.net.au>]

>I recently had a roll of film developed at Shopko and received a Lost 
>World packet in with my pictures.  This contains a poster sized fold up 
>with a drawing of the island on one side and individual drawings of 
>dinosaur species on the other.  The individual drawings side also 
>contains size comparisons of the dinosaurs.  

>Has anyone on the list seen this poster?  Is it accurate and should I 
>allow my kids to hang it on their wall as valid information?

I have recently received a pack of Lost World dinosaur maxi-cards (first
part of many installments if I sign up) that offers a number of free gifts
including a poster, which I have not seen but appears to have a large
basically green and brown forest picture on the front. I would guess that it
is probably the same one - published by Orbis Press and released here in
Australia by Collier-Newfield. 
I can't comment on the poster, but if the cards are anything to go by I
would be very careful about believing the data. I found a large number of
apparent errors (information that doesn't agree with what I already have -
maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt that is the case in all of them). One glaring
error that comes immediately to mind is a card on Hypacrosaurus, where it
comments on the problems Hypacrosaurus would have had protecting its eggs
from Oviraptor. Apart from Oviraptor as an egg thief now being in doubt, the
beasts come from different continents! There are a number of pairings of
predator/prey that also look pretty unlikely based on time and place of each
member of the pair, and some rather dubious location data. Is there really a
T. rex known from India? Some of the dates they give differ markedly from
what I have. Most of the sizes seem about right, but they do tend to differ
a bit on the large side on occasion.
The art work is very patchy on the cards - some great stuff taken from
Orbis's 'Dinosaurs' magazine, and some very ordinary and on occasions
inaccurate stuff. The T. rex is appalling - arms too big, tail dragging on
the ground, looks slow and ponderous ie about 20 years out of date?
I won't go on - you get the drift by now. I won't be siging up for the
series, and I'd be interested if anyone else can confirm my impressions of
this series?
(of list if you like - I don't want to start another thread on pick the
errors in the Lost World cards, although maybe we should - these don't have
the excuse of being a movie 'so to hell with accuracy' )
Graeme Worth
HyperWorks Reference Software (The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia)