The Legend of Abominable Snowman (TV series)

The Legend of Abominable Snowman is a 2012 ten part miniseries by HBO and Hasbro that was created to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the original King Kong film and featuring an ensemble cast. It received two Emmy's, one Creative for Outstanding Special Visual Effects and one Primetime for Outstanding Drama series. TV series
== Plot ==
=== "Jungle Fury" ===
"At the dawn of the 20th century" a band of adventurers, led by adventurer and scholar Professor Challenger, embark on an expedition to prove the existence of a lost world isolated from the rest of the modern world. The British expedition team, consisting of a mismatched group of enthusiasts, all with less than selfless reasons for making the journey, begin their trip under less than ideal conditions. The intrepid band consists of Professor George Edward Challenger, Professor Arthur Summerlee, Marguerite Krux, Major Lord John Richard Roxton, Edward T. Malone.
=== The Series continues ===
During their journey disaster strikes and their hot air balloon crashes in the uncharted Amazon jungle, where they end up on the prehistoric plateau. There they find themselves trapped and isolated in this dangerous land. The group is assisted by a young jungle-savvy woman named Veronica Layton, whose parents disappeared eleven years before. Her family was part of a research group that became isolated and was then lost under mysterious circumstances. Together with a young woman from the future named Finn (Lara Cox), the group fights to survive against carnivorous dinosaurs, vicious Neanderthals, a race of lizardmen, and other perils as they search for a way to escape. The stories usually worked out that two separate adventures were going on at the same time.
In the later series, it is clear that they actually landed on the plateau in 1919.
== Characters ==
=== Main Characters ===
* Kong (David Sobolov): He is the genetically engineered clone of the original King Kong created by Lorna Jenkins by using the DNA of the deceased original Kong and from her grandson's DNA. Because of that, he has a younger brother relationship with Jason. He is known as The Protector, using his strength and the Primal Stones to protect the world from the demon Chrios. Through the use of the Cyber-Link, Jason can combine with Kong and when angry can grow to twice his size to become Mega Kong. Both have strong wills so Kong can only stay in Jason, or vice versa, for a short period of time before causing each other harm. He has heightened instincts, able to tell if something is wrong or if someone is not who they say they are, however because he cannot speak the others assume he is overreacting
* Jason Jenkins (Josh Keaton):The orphaned grandson of Dr. Lorna Jenkins and "older brother" to Kong. With his DNA, Lorna was able to clone and recreate Kong after the original died from falling from the Empire State Building. He is an archeology major in college and best friend to classmates Tann, Sam and Kate. He is also a high level martial artist. After being tricked by Da La Porta and losing the Primal Stones Jason, along with Tann, Lua and Kong searches for them all over the world while thwarting De La Porta's attempts of activating them for evil purposes. It is obvious Jason has feelings for Lua.
* Eric “Tann” Tannenbaum IV (Scot McNeil): Best friend to Jason and fellow college student. Though he is very muscular he is a kind person who will go out of the way to help his friends. He also takes martial arts and trains with Jason, but is not as good as Jason as he was not accepted to a martial arts tournament. His parents are very wealthy and he always likes to buy new gadgets which often become very useful later on.With the trut fund his grandfather left him, he is wealthier than his parents. He is an accomplished pilot, always seen flying a plane (or any other vehicle). He has a strong love for pizza, and is often seen eating it with pineapple as a topping. He often states his toes are itchy if he believes something bad is about to happen (albeit it could also be an allergic reaction to pineapple pizzas).
* Sam Travers (Roger Craig Smith): Best friend to Jason and fellow college student. He wears an red bandana, , grey shorts. During a struggle, Sam manage to snag a few of Ramon's duplicated Cyberlinks
* Kate Stratas (Laura Bailey): Another friend of Jason . She's an attractive, lithe and beautiful young woman who has long black hair, dark complexion and brown eyes. She wears tight a tight, blue-black bodysuit.
* Tucker Baxman (Bumper Robinson):
* Dr. Lorna Jenkins : A scientist who is Jason's grandmother and the one who cloned Kong. She is in the midst of researching the different species on Kong Island as well as the Primal Stones when Da La Porta steals them in the first episode. During the missions she stays back on the island giving information from her research lab in a hidden cave with . She is able to help the team with her vast amount of friends in the archeological world to get the information they need.
* Lua (Saffron Henderson): The female shaman of Kong Island who she and her family are the last of the surviving natives and Jason's love interest. She knows many secrets on Kong Island and helps Dr. Jenkins with her research as she knows Dr. Jenkins only wishes to help. She takes her position very seriously even though she is only at the beginning level, keeping the Island secrets from the group and several times risking her life.
* Chon-Dar: A Sabre-Tooth cat and Lua's pet.
** Kip: Chondar's cub
** Soara:
* Dawn Darrow (Cindy Robinson): The great granddaughter of Anne Darrow and Jack Driscoll who lived in New York City. She reminds Kong of Anne Darrow when it triggers the memories from the original Kong. A capable martial artist and scientist. Revealed to be able with empathy.
=== Villains ===
* Professor Ramon De La Porta (David Kaye): One of the principle antagonists of the series. He and his men tried to steal scientific secrets from Lorna Jenkins. An encounter with Jason and Kong resulted in him accidentally getting his right hand into a hot chemical when trying to reach for his gun. He and his henchmen escaped and twenty years later, Ramon gets a job as a professor at the university which Jason and Tann attend. He is shown wearing gloves with one of them hiding a cybernetic hand to replace the one he lost. When Lorna Jenkins sends an e-mail to her grandson, Ramon hacks into it to make it say that he should be invited as well. Once on Kong Island, Ramon reveals himself to Dr. Jenkins as he steals one of the Cyber-Links and merges with Lua's smilodon Chon-Dar. Kong fends Ramon off, but he does managed to kidnap Dr. Jenkins in order for her to lead her to the Primal Stones When Ramon discovers the temple where the Primal Stones are, he manages to steal them even when defeating Kong while merged with a giant snake. Jason manages to recover two from him. During the series, Ramon uses the Primal Stones for his own purposes in different locations, even modifying the Cyber-Links he stole to merge with anything that resembles an animal or merge with two animals to form a hybrid.
* Hunter Stag (Troy Baker):
** Spike (Vocal effects from JP III): Stag's pet ferocious Spinosaurus that has scars on his sail.
* Gaw (Frank Welker): A giant deathrunner, the leader of the deathrunner species and an ancient enemy of Kong, She's was once a queen of this island until the original King Kong kill her, now she is back and wants revenge on Kong, she can be appeared in the flashback and in the final episode.
=== Other Characters ===
* Howling Jack Crockett (Richard Newman):
* Damos (Keith David): An African sage
* Tareq (Erica Mendez): Lua's 10 yr old little brother who likes to cause trouble on Kong Island and is capable of taking care of himself. Despite his immature behaviour, he can be reliable and loyal to his friends, especially Jason and show a little respect to his big sister.
* Rex (John DiMaggio): A male Tyrannosaurus Rex and Tareq's best friend. Rex wanted to be King of the island until Kong came and their feud is born and states that no man or creature touches Kong but him on the island. He has dark green skin with dark reddish- brown splotches on his body with a lighter shade of green covering the underbelly. He has the same roar sound effect from the Jurassic Park series.
== Animals of Snow North Pole Island ==
=== Plateau Animals ===
There are various prehistoric animals and other types of creatures that reside on the plateau, including:
* Tyrannosaurus Rex - 
* Brachiosaurus - A massive sauropod and contemporary of Allosaurus and Diplodocus. It uses the same CG model from the Walking with Dinosaurs series.
* Triceratops - 
* Velociraptor - appear in Blood Lust, Cave of Fear. It uses the same CG model from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1999 TV series).
* Stegosaurus
* Wooly Mammoth
* Parasaurolopus
* Brontosaurus
* Lambeosaurus
* Megatherium
* Styracosaurus
* Compsognathus - 
* Pachycephalosaurus
* Edmontosaurus
* Allosaurus - A well known theropod dinosaur from the late Jurassic North America more than 150 million years ago. It uses the same CG model from the Walking with Dinosaurs series.
* Ceratosaurus - A well known theropod dinosaur from the late Jurassic North America more than 150 million years ago. It uses the same CG model from the When Dinosaurs Roamed America.
* Pterodactyl − A large flying fish-eating pterosaur from the late Cretaceous period. This creature is the only proof from Challenger's very first expedition, and later he named the species as "Pteranodon sumerleensis". It uses the same CG model from the Chased by Sea Monsters.
* Embolotherium -
* Deinonychus - Dromaeosaurus
* Gallimimus -
* Spinosaurus -
* Carnotaurus -
* Platybelodon -
* Ankylosaurus - Ankylosaurs appear in Cave of Fear, Blood Lust, and Paradise Found. It uses the same CG model from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1999 TV series).
* Protoceratops -
* Java Man − An ape-man originally called Pithecanthropus erectus, today classified as Homo erectus, is a primitive hominid from the early Pleistocene epoch 2 million years ago. This creature is described as the missing link between primates and humans. In the third episode an undiscovered species appear, and Challenger named them "Pithecanthropus challengeris".
* Hypsilophodon − A small herbivorous ornithopod from the early Cretaceous England 130 million years ago. This is the first prehistoric creature which is discovered by Challenger's team in the plateau.
* Iguanodon − A giant herbivore from the Cretaceous Europe and contemporary of Hypsilophodon. Professor Summerlee thought these creatures moved like a kangaroo on two legs and their tail kept on the ground, but this idea is debunked when he sees the quadrupedal animals.
* Entelodon − A strange, primordial pig-like animal related to hippos from the Oligocene and Miocene Asia. This is the only prehistoric mammal in the third episode besides the Pithecanthropus.
* Southern coral snake − A venomous snake from the rainforests of South America.
* Brazilian black tarantula − A venomous spider which lives in the South American jungles, but sometimes travels to the village to hunt insects or reptiles.
* Atlas moth − A large moth from the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Professor Sumerlee found the moth while a Pteranodon carries away the team's dinner.
* Scarlet macaw − A large and colourful macaw from the American tropics of south-eastern Mexico to the rainforests of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. It is a more than 80-centimetre-long bird with a weight of about 1 kilogram.
* Brown capuchin − A small New World monkey from the tropical rainforests of the Amazon basin.
== Trivia ==
* The sound effects used for the Pterodactyls are roars of tigers and mountain lions. For Freefall, the albino pteradon who bonds with David Scott, sounds of baby black bears were added, to give Freefall's character a different tone from the other pteradons.
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