| rdfs:comment | - It was built to use the power of the Element Stones to travel through time. Launched on Christmas Day in the year 2127, with a crew of Drs. Ancient and Cretacia, Jonathan, Seth, and Dr. Z and the Alpha Gang, it journeyed back to the Mesozoic Era. There the Ancients began turning dinosaurs into cards, succeeding in collecting 36 varieties to bring back to their present time. However, Dr. Z began using the dinosaurs for fighting, and developed Move Cards to make them stronger in combat. The Ancients intended to return to the future for the birth of their baby, but Dr. Z and Seth sabotage the time machine, keeping the group in the Cretaceous Period.
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| abstract | - It was built to use the power of the Element Stones to travel through time. Launched on Christmas Day in the year 2127, with a crew of Drs. Ancient and Cretacia, Jonathan, Seth, and Dr. Z and the Alpha Gang, it journeyed back to the Mesozoic Era. There the Ancients began turning dinosaurs into cards, succeeding in collecting 36 varieties to bring back to their present time. However, Dr. Z began using the dinosaurs for fighting, and developed Move Cards to make them stronger in combat. The Ancients intended to return to the future for the birth of their baby, but Dr. Z and Seth sabotage the time machine, keeping the group in the Cretaceous Period. The Ancients eventually repair the time machine, but Dr. Z and Seth mutiny mind-flight, ejecting Rex's family from the stasis chambers they had been resting in, with his parents disappearing and Rex along with Jonathan landing 12 years prior to the present day. However, the Stones had been knocked out of their holder, disrupting the ship's flight, and scattered themselves and the Dinosaur Cards across the planet in the modern day when the ship crashed. The Backlander then disguises itself as the island base of Zeta Point for the majority of Series 1, serving as the Alpha Gang's base of operations. Though its true purpose was never discussed for the audience to hear, it hinted at not being a regular island by moving at least once. Near the series end, Seth betrays Dr. Z, takes control of the island, and raises it from the ocean, blasting the island jungle disguise off to reveal the Backlander itself, flying it over to Japan with his newly-created Black T-Rex. After the mutant dinosaur is defeated and the Backlander reclaimed by the returned Ancients, Jonathan takes the helm, auto-repairing all damage caused across the world by any dinosaur since the timeship arrived in the present. It then leaves for the future with the Alpha Gang and Rex aboard, returning to the future.
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