The Case of the Stolen Film by Gareth P. Jones

Author:Gareth P. Jones [Jones, Gareth P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: The Case Of The Stolen Film
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2008-12-03T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

As a thank you for the long day of filming, World Studios had given all the extras from the school concert scene free VIP passes to the movie theme park next door.

Mr Bigsby and his wife had dropped Holly and Archie at the gates and gone shopping, saying they would pick them up in time for dinner at Brant Buchanan’s mansion in the evening.

The theme park was brilliant. All of the rides were based on films. There was loads to do and it was all free. Even better, the VIP tickets meant that wherever there was a long queue, Holly and Archie could jump it and whenever they fancied a snack they didn’t have to pay.

‘This is the best holiday ever,’ Holly said as they entered an open-air walk-through jungle full of moving models of dinosaurs called Dinoworld.

‘I’m here in the jungle with the lesser-spotted Holly Bigsby,’ said Archie, using the ice cream he was eating as a microphone. ‘Holly, tell me what it’s like being a VIP.’

‘I think it’s very V to be a VIP,’ said Holly.

‘So you’re saying that it’s V V to be a VIP?’

‘If not V V V,’ replied Holly, laughing.

‘This model represents a dimetrodon,’ said a young American boy with an extremely large head and an annoyingly loud voice, pointing at a plastic lizard beneath a plant. The lizard scuttled unconvincingly across the rock. ‘Interestingly, although it looks like a dinosaur it is actually an ancestor of the mammals,’ continued the boy with a self-satisfied smile.

Holly and Archie moved quickly to the next section, but the boy followed them. ‘We’re now entering the Triassic period, in which dinosaurs first appeared,’ he said.

A long-necked dinosaur loomed over them, its neck moving mechanically and a strange roaring coming from a speaker by its side.

‘This is a plateosaurus,’ said the boy, who was beginning to get on Holly’s nerves. ‘And over here is the pterosaur, a flying reptile. And here is a … oh, that’s not right. This isn’t a dinosaur.’

Holly and Archie looked at the model the boy was pointing at.

‘Dinosaurs don’t have smoke coming out of their noses and they certainly weren’t red and green.’

Holly gasped and Archie almost dropped his ice cream. Standing frozen to the spot, moving his head robotically, was Dirk.

‘How do you know what colour they were?’ said Archie. ‘They could have been bright pink for all anyone knows. All they’ve ever found is bones.’

‘Well, that’s not a dinosaur. It’s a dragon and that’s stupid because dragons don’t exist,’ said the boy, stamping his feet.

Dirk paused then moved to look at the boy. ‘No one likes a know-it-all. Beat it, kid,’ he said.

‘Th … th … that’s so rude,’ stammered the boy, bursting into tears and running away.

‘Dirk!’ said Holly, throwing her arms around his neck.

‘And you’re right, Archie, some of them were pink,’ said Dirk.

‘You remember dinosaurs?’ said Archie.

‘I’m not that old,’ replied Dirk, ‘but I once met a dragon that claimed to have kept a pink tyrannosaurus rex as a pet.

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