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Glad to see more love for Rebirth. The franchise as a whole has more often than not fared better with audiences than critics. Dino fans are pretty faithful when it comes to seeing and supporting Jurassic movies.

I do hope they make some more Hammond Collection figures from Rebirth, though most of the main dinos being larger does worry me a smidge on their likelihood. Obviously first and foremost I'd love a new Spino- any of the 4 will do. A Quetzal would be awesome, but I'd imagine a bit hard to do. Same with the D-Rex- I'm sure they want to at least attempt tackling it, but I can't imagine how difficult a proper one would be to execute properly. A Mutadon might be first on my list, though- what weirdly cool looking things.

I suppose we could always get an HC Dolores. I'd happily take an HC Zora, Henry, and Duncan too. And, though they had all of maybe 10 seconds of screen time, I'd also take
a Rebirth Raptor. Truly kind of a nothing appearance (which part of me appreciated, due to the overuse of the Raptors in everything else), but I really liked their design. If only to one day complete the lineup of Raptors, I'd take one.
 
I for one will not see this movie because I won’t support a franchise that demotes the use of dinosaurs in favor of these mutants and hybrids that keep showing up in their stead. This isn’t a dinosaur movie anymore. It’s a monster movie and it shares nothing in common with Michael Crichton’s original vision. Not to mention the first Jurassic Park inspired an entire generation of dinosaur nerds to grow up and become paleontologists as adults. If anything, this new film is more likely to inspire kids to believe that dinosaurs are stupid or fake. So I think this movie is insulting and I have no desire to support whatever monstrosity this franchise has become.


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Picked up the Stegosaurus this week, and I'm feeling very content that I have one realistic dinosaur to represent each of the five original G1 Autobot Dinobots.
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Now repaint 'em!

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Stoopid_Sandwich said:
I for one will not see this movie because I won’t support a franchise that demotes the use of dinosaurs in favor of these mutants and hybrids that keep showing up in their stead. This isn’t a dinosaur movie anymore. It’s a monster movie and it shares nothing in common with Michael Crichton’s original vision. Not to mention the first Jurassic Park inspired an entire generation of dinosaur nerds to grow up and become paleontologists as adults. If anything, this new film is more likely to inspire kids to believe that dinosaurs are stupid or fake. So I think this movie is insulting and I have no desire to support whatever monstrosity this franchise has become.


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To be fair, NONE of the dinos in the first movie were "true" dinos either, since they explicitly state they had to combine the mosquito amber DNA with frog DNA to complete the strands.
 
SalemCrow said:
To be fair, NONE of the dinos in the first movie were "true" dinos either, since they explicitly state they had to combine the mosquito amber DNA with frog DNA to complete the strands.
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WHY WOULD YOU RUIN MY CHILDHOOD LIKE THIS!?

I BET NEXT YOU'RE GOING TO TELL ME THEY WERE JUST ANIMATRONICS & COMPUTER EFFECTS!?!?
 
Lost World was my favorite. The original is objectively the best film and Jurassic World was second, but I dug Lost World more than both.

I just liked the actors more, and Spielberg's films are always directed extremely well. It's a dark film, but I liked that. Goldblum is always fun so making him the lead was a great idea, Pete Postlethwaite was quite compelling as a game hunter, I LOVE Vince Vaughn, and Hammond's nephew played a great bad guy. Plus we got to see SO many more dinos than in the first one. Love those game trail scenes particularly the one where the guy on the bike rides it through the legs of the apatosaurus.

Lots of people hated the San Diego rampage, but I have always dug it immensely. That scene where the kid calmly tells his parents that there's a dinosaur in their back yard and they start fighting about why he's up in the night cracks me up every time.
 
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Lost World was my favorite. The original is objectively the best film and Jurassic World was second, but I dug Lost World more than both.

I just liked the actors more, and Spielberg's films are always directed extremely well. Goldblum is always fun so making him the lead was a great idea, Pete Postlethwaite was quite compelling as a game hunter, I LOVE Vince Vaughn, and Hammond's nephew played a great bad guy. Plus we got to see SO many more dinos than in the first one. Love those game trail scenes particularly the one where the guy on the bike rides it through the legs of the apatosaurus.

Lots of people hated the Los Angeles rampage, but I have always dug it immensely. That scene where the kid calmly tells his parents that there's a dinosaur in their back yard and they start fighting about why he's up in the night cracks me up every time.
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The sauropod that was featured in the lost world is a Mamenchisaurus not an apatosaurus. An apatosaurus held its neck horizontally with its tail since the bones in its neck vertebrae were mostly fused so it couldn’t articulate itself to reach for schutes and vegetation amongst the tall branches and high canopies of the mid-late Jurassic era. At best it was a mid sized sauropod which looked more like a suspension bridge rather than its larger cousins like Brachiosaurus or Sauroposiden or Dreadnaughtus. Even diplodocus (which is also a mid sized sauropod) had more in common with mamenchisaurus because it could articulate more of its neck vertebra into the high tree tops.
 
Stoopid_Sandwich said:
The sauropod that was featured in the lost world is a Mamenchisaurus not an apatosaurus. An apatosaurus held its neck horizontally with its tail since the bones in its neck vertebrae were mostly fused so it couldn’t articulate itself to reach for schutes and vegetation amongst the tall branches and high canopies of the mid-late Jurassic era. At best it was a mid sized sauropod which looked more like a suspension bridge rather than its larger cousins like Brachiosaurus or Sauroposiden or Dreadnaughtus. Even diplodocus (which is also a mid sized sauropod) had more in common with mamenchisaurus because it could articulate more of its neck vertebra into the high tree tops.
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Oh yea, I remember learning that when Mattel released their basic line mamenchisaurus, but I forgot. For years I assumed it was a diplodocus, but at some point about 5 to 10 years ago I heard people referring to it as apatosaurus. I didn't know until then that diplodocus was so much smaller than some of the other giants as depicted below.

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Is Brontosaurus a name they still use? I thought that’s what Apatosaurus replaced.
 
My understanding is that apatosaurus was named first, and later the original fossil named as brontosaurus was found to be an apatosaurus. Since the apatosaurus came first they resinceded the brontosaurus name.

Even later another fossil labelled as brontosaurus was found to NOT be an apatosaurus so brontosaurus suddenly came back. For all I know that one has been found to be another dinosaur as well because I haven't followed this story for a decade or more.

This sounds spurious, but most fossil specimens are so incomplete that I've always wondered/assumed if it's the rule to misidentify them and not the exception.
 
Brontosaurus eventually became its own distinct genus after more discoveries were found in recent years but it doesn’t belong to the same order of sauropods that dinosaurs like Apatosaurus belong to. If anything it is more closely related to a Capmtosaurus or Camarosaurus.

And for the record the reason for the misidentification in the late 80’s/early 90’s is due to the shape of a Brontosaurus skull was shown to be too big and robust to fit atop the neck vertebrae of the body of Apatosaurus and the configuration was completely incorrect. So the apatosaurus skeleton was adjusted with a new skull attached to the body and it redefined the animal and what we understand about it. It even changed the way the neck articulated at the cervical spine once the animals body had its posture adjusted. And in the 25 years in the meantime the brontosaurus skull sat in the display bins at a museum hall at I believe the Peabody Museum of Natural History until more discoveries were unearthed around 2009 and the new species and its lineage could be determined.

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One miss for me with the movie is the OG raptors and Rex felt like antagonists with personality, and this one did just throw Quick Time Events at us with different monsters for the sake of it. The raptors had a build up, the mutodons were just there.

But they did take another go at one of my favorite scenes from the novel, so that was fun.
 
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