I think the first, vivid, memory of dinosaurs I have is from the NYS Museum (in the State Education Building on Washington Ave.) when I was in elementary school. I remember they had a woolly mammoth and a model of a giant dragonfly that kind of freaked me out. Then came those awesome stop-motion dinos from "King Kong" (1933). All of the crazy, giant prehistoric critters taking out the unprepared crew, Kong fighting a giant snake, pterodactyl and then that epic Kong vs. T-Rex bout... Yeah, Kong remains very close to the top of my favorite movies list. In the 1973 there was this little show called "Land of the Lost," and it was awesome! Okay, awesome is maybe a stretch, but I was fan. Marshall, Will and Holly on a routine expedition... Chaka the monkey boy! Sleestaks! And everybody's favorite rubber dino Grumpy . No where near scientifically accurate, but so much Saturday morning fun! After that was the awesomely bad Doug McClure movie "The Land...