Somewhat shocked to have won one again......
I would have preferred to have built Mark_man's robust carrier than my risky and dangerous bareback daredevil. But my early attempts got nowhere close.
Also loved the snapthrough portal catcher. Why does it seem like the most deserving solution was denied the win again?
The "perfect result" would have seen the dillo riding the rocket just a fraction longer. He should land slightly above the middle anchor. The right-hand bar of the portal catcher itself would be a plate, to stop the dillo, and ramp him up to the portal. Then all of the plates and ropes presently catching his short flight can be deleted. Net price - 1932.
But for all of the pixels I tired to hunt through, this was the closest I got. And because the deflector plate has two ends to move, there are two pixels to hunt, not just one. The combinations were beyond me finding it manually.
Some good news, is that my main PC appears to be trojan free at last. It required a rather drastic restoring of the master boot sector on the system reserved partition, but it's looking like all might be well again.
But not quite ready to post the next challenge. It should be posted by Thursday 8.00pm GMT