Dinosaur Park, Part 1

**Dinosaur Park, Part 1** is the eighth Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the seventy-fifth episode overall. It is the first half of a two-part episode.

## Summary

After finding out that dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, King Leonardo and Tommy order a mad scientist from NLE to create their own.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* King Leonardo
* Tommy
* Dr. Fossilic (*debut*)

### Secondary

* Athena
* Beatrice
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Chimera Dinosaurs (*debut; only Leo-Rex*)
* Daisy
* Felix
* Gamba
* Gene
* Hover
* Lady Chanter
* Madeline
* Manny
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Miss Yuubin
* Parker
* Professor Antico
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen (*no dialogue*)
* Snowdrop
* Whitehead
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins out in the Usapian countryside, where Milly is reading a book about dinosaurs to Leeko, Manny, and the Puffy children, who have never heard of dinosaurs before. As they do this, Hover flies by and mocks the notion that dinosaurs once roamed in Usapia, and carelessly crashes into a cliff face. Leeko pulls Hover out of the dirt, but in the process, causes the cliff to collapse and reveal a fossilized foot of a giant dinosaur. Later on, many Puffies from the village gather as formal excavations begin in the area to discover more fossils, led by Professor Antico. As he and the kids dig, they uncover more pieces of the skeleton, and try to reassemble it; assuming it to be similar to a tyrannosaurus. Shortly into this process, King Leonardo and Tommy arrive in the Royal Racecar to find out what the Puffies are looking at. King Leonardo then decides to join in the excavation, and - due to extraordinary luck - manages to find the remaining pieces of the skeleton after collapsing the cliff further.

Later on, King Leonardo becomes more interested in dinosaurs and starts perusing his castle library for more information. After going through several books, King Leonardo dreams of riding a fire-breathing tyrannosaurus and battling other dinosaurs. The next day, he insists on going on an expedition to find more dinosaurs, but Tommy points out that they are all extinct, and has Leonardo confirm this with Milly. Still not satisfied, Leonardo then runs over to Professor Antico's shop and antagonizes the poor man, but Antico also affirms that all the dinosaurs went extinct. Saddened by this news, King Leonardo runs out of the shop, insisting that there must be some dinosaurs left. He tries to convince people by mentioning the Loch Ness Monster on Channel Lion Out Loud, and promoting a book called "Dinosaurs are Alive" that does not end up selling any copies. Later on, he tries to fool the Puffies by using a Virus-powered crane to pound giant "footprints" into the ground, but they catch him in the act, and Leonardo finally blows his top.

King Leonardo calls up Nebula Enterprises and asks them to send him a dinosaur monster, but Gene insists they cannot do that. Instead, he sends him an expert geneticist named Dr. Fossilic who offers to "make" a dinosaur for them in exchange for funds to build a research facility and capable assistance to help him in this task. After failing to qualify to be assistants themselves, King Leonardo and Tommy rope in Milly and her friends for the job. Meanwhile, Milly herself is trying to get the Puffy kids to stay enthusiastic about the excavation, but they grow bored and leave, since they would rather see a living dinosaur. At that moment, Dr. Fossilic introduces himself to the remaining excavation group and leads them to his new laboratory deep in the Tonka Sahara jungle. There, he explains that he aims to modify the DNA of existing lizards to transform them into dinosaurs, and asks Milly to aid him in this task. After already being impressed by the laboratory, and seeing Fossilic deride King Leonardo and Tommy as "bumbling fools", Milly earnestly accepts the proposition on the condition that nothing is harmed in the process.

To help with the experiments, Manny and Leeko go hunting for lizards in the forest and catch some. Meanwhile, Professor Antico and Milly help set up the equipment in the laboratory and monitor the zygotes they injected with the modified DNA. As King Leonardo and Tommy watch from their monitor at Castle Leonardo, the research team manages to successfully produce dinosaur eggs, which Dr. Fossilic explains will be ready to hatch soon. As the research team spends the night sleeping at the laboratory, a loud crash startles them awake, and they run back into the main research room to discover that all of the eggs are missing. The next day, Tommy and King Leonardo promote a new dinosaur-themed attraction on Channel Lion Out Loud called "Dinosaur Kingdom", and insist that there are real dinosaurs there. Despite initial doubts, most of Puffy Town comes to the park, the entrance of which is situated on the edge of Tonka Sahara. There, Milly and the research team tell Chief Gordy and Mayor Bay what happened in the laboratory, explaining that Dr. Fossilic disappeared along with the eggs, but they have little to offer in return.

King Leonardo and Tommy then direct everyone to the main attraction of the park, telling them to hop into boats on the river and go for a ride. Milly, Manny, and Antico complain to Leonardo about having their research stolen, but they hop into the boat anyway with Leeko and several of the Puffies. After passing through a gate into the park proper, King Leonardo and Tommy act as tour guides to the assembled group, and murmur to each other about whether or not Dr. Fossilic pulled through. After getting far enough in, King Leonardo stops the boat and pulls out a cage containing several sheep stolen from Mayor Bay's villa, intent on using it to bait out the dinosaurs. At that moment, a giant yellow dinosaur appears and gobbles up the sheep. It then reveals itself, having a face, crown, and a head of shaggy hair resembling that of King Leonardo. The episode ends on a cliffhanger as the dinosaur proceeds to chase after the boat with the intention of gobbling up everyone inside. The story continues from here in the next episode: Dinosaur Park, Part 2.

## Trivia

* The episode’s title and the next one are a reference to and are heavily based off of the science fiction film *Jurassic Park* and the H.G. Wells story *The Island of Doctor Moreau*.
* This is the fifth two-part episode of the series and the first two-part episode in Season 3.
* The twentieth episode of *The Beginning* trilogy that does not feature a Copy Ability.
* This is the first two-part episode in *The Beginning* series to not have a narrator speaking.
* On the display screen in Dr. Fossilic’s laboratory, after showing a lizard morphing into a tyrannosaurus, it proceeds to cycle through several other animals, including Numnum, a sparrow, and the smaller monkey from the episode Wood Wars.
* In Athena’s bookstore, a poster depicting Wizard Wally and two other Puffy-like characters can be seen behind Athena.
* In the episode A Dash Of Fiction, King Leonardo is revealed to be illiterate. However, it is possible that he has learned to read before this episode, otherwise he won’t be able to study about dinosaurs in the library.
* This is one of the few episodes where Leeko flies by inhaling air.