The Lightning Claw: Dinosaur Encounter

The dinosaurs Oliver and Stacey encounter initially are identified as velociraptors.

The time machine allows the Casey's to travel to any place and any time in history, with complete freedom of movement for their house.

The Caseys' first time travel adventure was to 1974, where they encountered no issues.

Stacey receives a letter from her past self warning her to protect a recovered artefact.

The dinosaur Stacey and Oliver encounter is officially called a 'lightning claw'.

The lightning claw is small in size, no more than 1 meter in height.

The Brachiosaurus cooperensis had stripes like tigers, banded around their necks and legs.

The cooperensis were obviously herbivores when Dad, Stacey and Oliver first encountered them.

Dad damages the time machine when shifting time by warming it up first.

Oliver's suggestion to leave any cracks from the dinosaur was declined, as Dad could patch them easily..

Amelia didn't scream when she came face to face to cooperensis because she had never seen a dinosaur before.

Realizing that Cooper is a dinosaur, Amelia was happy to help Dad and Stacey get it back in the garage so that nobody would notice it.

Amelia has no friends and almost never shows any sort of emotion.

Dad refuses to share that the dinosaur is called cooperensis because its too much information to share at once.

Oliver states that the Australotitan cooperensis may be the dinosaur the news was covering in Queensland just a few years prior.

The artefact detects the same type of power as the lightning claw.

The 'rain-detecting umbrella that chimes when it gets wet' is one of Dad's many working inventions.

Dad tells Stacey and Oliver not to tell their parents about Cooper and says he will find a creative way to keep him secret for the weekend.

Dad has already conducted some research on Cooper and tells everyone that they can expect the Cooper to fit for about 2 months before running out of of space.

Dad decides to take his family to space to find aliens and tell them about Cooper.

On their next day at school, Amelia was very excited about getting back to Cooper.

Oliver notes to Dad that it is okay to be weird.

The old fashioned clothes that Dad purchased from 1880 are modern enough to fit in with today's fashion.

Before Dad puts the time machine to work, Amelia admits his outfit is 'Ridiculous for the day'.

They are travelling to 1800 to talk to Ford Marks.

The train station opened in Tynong in February 1800.

Australians knew a lot about science and the universe in 1880.

Dad states that if anyone asked where they were from, they were to tell the other Australians about their visit to the West of the continent.

All of the other train passengers in the first class carriage had English accents.

They need to stay out of the front of the train station because of the police.

Emily Creaghe is a famous pirate.

Oliver, Stacey and Dad are helping Emily finance her trip.

Dad has a feeling for Emily and calls her pretty.

The name written on the artefact is Lord Marten, 1883.

Isla Palmer stole money from Oliver's pocket to cause trouble.

Oliver is very worried and doesn't think they can make it out to the farm and make it safe.

Ned says if there are people from his town that he would help them at the bank.

After finding out about Ned, Stacey feels a bit ashamed that they are going on a ride in the wagon, surrounded by items the bushranger had stolen from honest people.

Ned's gang was called 'The Wombats'.

The story tells about how Dad would put others in harm's way to save himself.

Oliver initially identifies the dinosaurs as muttaburrasaurus.

The time machine requires the entire house to travel through time.

The time machine allows Dad to travel to the future.

Their first time-travel adventure took them to the year 1954.

The artefact had to be protected 'at all costs'.

The dinosaurs were found 1 kilometer away from the time machine house.

The muttaburrasaurus had been discovered by Stacey.

The lightning claws hunted like angry cows.

Stacey claimed that lightning claws were not real.

The lightning claw stood upright and had long claws on their feet and hands?

The lightning claw was about 2 meters tall.

The muttaburrasaurus had been scattering and running into the jungle.

The cooperensis had stripes like zebras.

The lightning claw lowered its head and roared when it spotted a few baby cooperensis among the herd.

Dad yelled at Oliver and Stacey to make sure the windows were open.

The cooperensis tail became visible as the house shifted through time.

The computer screen was flashing green.

Dad's time machine looked like a giant iron.

Dad gets terribly happy when Stacey tells him that his ideas are not good.

The computer screen was scrolling with lines of code and similes.

Jumping through that many years without letting it warm up has damaged the flux capacitor.

Short trips should be fine, a few years or even centuries won't worry it.

Stacey said the crack looked a lot worse than previously thought.

Oliver said that you should leave the crack there because it was a battle scar made by a cougar.

It was Amelia Grey that was walking past the house when the baby dinosaur ran out.

Dad said, 'Sorry, young lady, our dog got out' to Amelia when she found Cooper.

'It's a dinosaur,' Amelia stated it again in a such an excited tone that you might have thought she saw them every day.

Stacey reckons Cooper is a Tyrannosaurus.

Oliver exclaimed that Australotitan cooperensis were small.

Dad said, 'If we go back to a moment in time we have already traveled to, we will multiply in that moment.'

Amelia stated she will be coming with Oliver and Stacey on the next travel day back in time.

Dad stated to Amelia that they have to trust her now as the world knows of their time travels.

Oliver suggested that maybe they can take Cooper back to his family, and he lives a long and happy life, dies near Queensland, then his bones get fossilized 100 million years later.

There might be other time travelers out there, and Dad is sure of it.

Oliver was laughing because Dad invented multiple odd-bods and contraptions over the years and none of them work.

As soon as Amelia had left, Cooper started to bark and snort like seal.

Cooper will not be able to fit in the garage anymore in a few months.

Dad said that Cooper was happy to see Amelia.

Dad declares that they should go back 1000 years.

In 1880, Oliver and Stacey are going to say they are from England.

Stacey identified the dinosaurs in the clearing as velociraptors.

The time machine only transports people, not entire structures.

The family can travel to any time and any location using their time machine.

Mayor Rooney and a super grumpy policeman chased Oliver and Stacey on their first time travel adventure.

The muttaburrasaurus were the first dinosaurs the time travelers saw.

Oliver thought the muttaburrasaurus looked scary.

The 'Lightning Claws' are harmless and were likely named after where their fossils were discovered.

The lightning claw was about twice the size of a normal human and had dull claws and eyes.

The two-story house allowed the main characters to have a high vantage from which they could see the incoming dinosuars.

The Cooperensis did not seem to pay attention to what was going on around it.

Dad damaged the time machine by not letting it warm up before a long jump.

When Dad and the children exited the house, he inspected the damage and found large holes.

Oliver liked that the crack was there and noted that it was pretty cool because it was a battle scar.

Amelia screamed when she saw the Cooperensis dinosaur and attempted to run away.

The main character instantly recognized Amelia Grey as a person from her school.

Oliver was jealous that the dinosaur seemed to like Amelia.

When time traveling, if the time machine is used to visit the same place at the same time twice, everything in the universe with fold up on itself.

Amelia didn't ask any questions when Dad showed her and Oliver the time machine.

Cooper followed a strict diet and had an easy time in the garage.

There was tension between the main character and Amelia about letting her more and more into their secret.