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Flappo the Fearless(there is no collector card!)
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Full Name
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Teggs Horatio Stegosaur
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Age
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25
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Rank
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After spending so long in that costume, what do you think?
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Planet Of Hatching
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Steggos
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Likes
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A good clean flight.
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Dislikes
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Air sickness, feathers up his nose.
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DSS Rating
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10 - Teggs becomes Flappo so he can take on the wicked Grandum. Let battle commence!
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Flappo
Flappo the Fearless only appeared in The Skies of Fear, but he was really Teggs dressed up in a pterosaur costume. "Flappo" appeared to be a massive red pterosaur, covered in feathers, with a purple stripe down his beak. Teggs took on the disguise of Flappo so that he could challenge the evil Grandum, who was secretly a woolly mammoth in disguise. Grandum and Flappo participated in the Trials, but Grandum replaced Chief Judge Floss with one of his mammoths when he realized that he was losing. Not surpisingly, he began to win every round after that, despite protests from Joss and Moss.
During the final Trial, Grandum attacked "Flappo" and exposed him as Teggs when the stegosaurus sneezed from a loose feather in his nose.
Trivia[]
- No real species of pterosaur had feathers, though they did have fuzzy pycnofibres which covered their bodies. However, many dinosaur families are known or suspected to have feathers or protofeathers, and it’s believed that even early dinosaurs - which shared a recent common ancestor with pterosaurs - may have had at least some of them. Feathers themselves are modified scales.
- An adult Stegosaurus weighed 5.5 tons. Considering their size and body weight, it would be impossible for one to fly even in a suit - larger flying animals need special adaptations in order to fly, like hollow bones or small, lightened bodies. Ironically, though, there were dinosaurs who could fly - birds.