JPIV in winter 05/Spino returns...

jdjtcagle · Post by **jdjtcagle** » 31 Jul 2004, 18:57

As long as the Spinosaurus loses to the Big-T, I'm happy /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

~ jdjtcagle

tyrant_lizard_king · Post by **tyrant_lizard_king** » 02 Aug 2004, 21:01

Megaraptor wrote:And well don't forget the strength of those puny things

They could lift something like 300 lbs or so. Looks like Nagisa read my mind. I've wanted to say all that stuff a long time ago, I'm just not very good at writing it down. Carnotaurus' (an abelisaurid of course) arms are way way shorter than T-Rexes. Yet Horner doesn't think their scavengers. If Jaws was a dinosaur, it would have been the Spino from JP3.

pack raptor · Post by **pack raptor** » 03 Aug 2004, 09:08

What does the strength matter when it's arms are only a little bit bigger than a human's? For it's size it has little stubby arms. It probably couldn't grasp much of anything.

lilgamefreek · Post by **lilgamefreek** » 04 Aug 2004, 21:12

Why would it need to grasp anyways? It can just hide at the timberline surveying the hadrosaur herd, bust out at a sprint slow down as it gets closer to the startled victim bite down hard and snap it's neck! Or knock down the prey and bite several times and eat at it's leisure. The hands size were lost to increse the capabilities of the head while keeping the body still balanced.

pack raptor · Post by **pack raptor** » 05 Aug 2004, 07:58

Which is exactly why I said it's arms are useless, they're barely there, so what could it use them for besides scratching it's belly? Though I think that the rex could take a heck of a bite out of something I don't think that it was the invincible predator that everyone makes it out to be.

Paleomimus · Post by **Paleomimus** » 06 Aug 2004, 04:55

I think you are all forgetting one important thing. The animals in Jurassic Park are not dinosaurs. What you have to remember is that when the dinosaurs were made scientists were trying to match them up to something that we don't even know was like real dinosaurs. They made them to suit the expectations of visitors to the park. Take T-Rex for example, T-Rex has been regarded as one of the most feirce and terryfing animals ever to walk the Earth, when I-Gen cloned the dinosaurs and they found themselves perhaps with a scavenger it didn't fit what would sell to the visitors, so they changed it to meet the expectations. Even though the entire Jurrasic Park world is fictional it is still the case. Comparing these "edited" dinosaurs to real dinosaurs is stupid.

On the topic of the dinosaurs not matching up to their Jurrasic Park counterparts I would like to remind everyone about the velociraptor. Now in the movies we saw a what 6 foot animal. Velociraptor was alot shorter then this (around 2-3 feet) and was alot slimmer in build. But all you seem to pick at here is the change of diet for the movie version of the Spinosaurus when an entire dinosaur was changed for the movie version of the velociraptor. Anyways im new here and eagerly awaiting JP4!!!!!!!!

Nagisa · Post by **Nagisa** » 06 Aug 2004, 15:30

QUOTE Comparing these "edited" dinosaurs to real dinosaurs is stupid.[/quote]

So the filmmakers and all their advertisements and promotional jazz are stupid.

Eh, wouldn't be the first time...

QUOTE On the topic of the dinosaurs not matching up to their Jurrasic Park counterparts I would like to remind everyone about the velociraptor. Now in the movies we saw a what 6 foot animal. Velociraptor was alot shorter then this (around 2-3 feet) and was alot slimmer in build. But all you seem to pick at here is the change of diet for the movie version of the Spinosaurus when an entire dinosaur was changed for the movie version of the velociraptor. Anyways im new here and eagerly awaiting JP4!!!!!!!![/quote]

Velociraptor's old news, and it's already been well-enough exposed (numerous television specials & publications have even covered it). Spinosaurus is the newest fraud, and with the Raptor debate all tapped out, guess who's next on the chopping block.

Paleomimus · Post by **Paleomimus** » 07 Aug 2004, 01:08

QUOTE Velociraptor's old news, and it's already been well-enough exposed (numerous television specials & publications have even covered it). Spinosaurus is the newest fraud, and with the Raptor debate all tapped out, guess who's next on the chopping block.[/quote]

Yes but you still havent caught my drift. Im guessing you have read the novel, now remember in there it said that they had modified the animals to meet expectations, to make them "realer" to the visitors then what the real animal would have been. This Spinosaurus may be very vicious and may like to eat T-Rex's rather then fish, maybe they made it that way. Maybe it has PMS who knows. Im really not all that fond of Spino, i beleived the effects used on it were tacky and not well thought out. Hell it when from grey to orange in one scene, but it's behaviour is explainable even if the facts have been ignored.

lilgamefreek · Post by **lilgamefreek** » 07 Aug 2004, 02:23

in the novel henry wu wanted to make the slower to meet the expectations of the visitors, but Hammond disagreed saying he wanted them to be as real as possible. It's in the chapter called ver. 1.4 i think.
I don't refer to the rex as an invinceble predator. Sad to say i'm not to fond of rex. I like brachiosaurs more. /rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

Deepu_ravi · Post by **Deepu_ravi** » 07 Aug 2004, 10:22

what was the size of the t-rex in the jp and tlw.i heard someone saying that the size of the t-rex in jp3 was 37ft.i think that the jp3 rex was smaller than the jp or tlw rex.