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[Tunesmith]

I thought this was cool. They were pulling off tons of billboard ads and this was there. Not mine and I don't have a source

Is that an original ad?

Yes, September 2nd was the theatrical release in Australia.

Google Street view of the billboard:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.81...&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-AU

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Rex render in general needs work, she's still the doofy looking one from the last one from what I can tell, but it looks better than the art the used for the first World merch yeah.

So, with JW they didn't have ILM renders cooked up for the merch.. Universal did a solicit to do them for later waves, but changed their minds. That's why all the renders were sooo damn goofy - they were from early unfinished ILM meshes, and they had to be painted up.

This time, they had ILM render these, and they're from the film assets. I first saw these new renders back in May, but I do believe they have existed before that.. from my understanding, the newer dinos will appear in later 'waves' of promo material.

As for the Rex, she looks goofy simply because they fucked her up in JW and are retaining the look. It's unfortunate. She lost a lot of her hard angles, and everything has been rounded, giving her a very different, cartoony look.

 

[strafer]

Man, Colin just left Star Wars.

Dammit.

 

[Zabojnik]

Man, Colin just left Star Wars.

Dammit.

Well, that's a shame.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

but that's a good thing

At this point I'm wondering if he'll even be involved in JW3, or if Bayona or someone new will take his place.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

but that's a good thing

At this point I'm wondering if he'll even be involved in JW3, or if Bayona or someone new will take his place.

I'd be verrry surprised if Universal dropped Colin.. even if the JW2 script is meh, as long as it makes money and audiences have fun he'll be back.

But I would love to see Jaffa/Silver given another chance.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

I'd be verrry surprised if Universal dropped Colin.. even if the JW2 script is meh, as long as it makes money and audiences have fun he'll be back.

But I would love to see Jaffa/Silver given another chance.

I'm just wondering if any potential problems with IX beyond "he couldn't pull together a satisfying story" could be serious enough to spill over to a potential rift between Colin and Spielberg/Marshall severe enough to result in them ousting him. It seems likely it literally just wasn't working out, but there's always the theoretical possibility is was much worse.

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

"What if we land on Earth, but it doesn't look like Earth from space (where we'll be shooting from) because it's actually during the Mesozoic era and we see dinosaurs and stuff. And when Snoke crushes a small moon, a part of it crashes into the planet, causing the extinction event. From there, we'll see a mammalian alien that showed up on this planet with our heroes mutter 'well there it is' in its own language and accidentally gets left behind..."

 

[Fuchsdh]

I'm just wondering if any potential problems with IX beyond "he couldn't pull together a satisfying story" could be serious enough to spill over to a potential rift between Colin and Spielberg/Marshall severe enough to result in them ousting him. It seems likely it literally just wasn't working out, but there's always the theoretical possibility is was much worse.

It seems like the big studios are running into this weird thing where they want to hot directors but basically want them to produce something more paint-by-numbers, and everyone's coming into conflict.

It's interesting at this point that Marvel is off doing James Gunn-level stuff in the Marvelverse but they're being way more conservative over in Star Wars. Even Rogue One, for all the talk about how the side stories would be different, felt like a Star Wars movie just with more street-level action (and hell, even more callbacks to previous films than TFA.)

 

[Spiritual_Chaos]

Seeing the first movie on 35mm this weekend. Only seen it in digital 3D in theatres. Excited.

 

[WordAssassin]

I thought this was cool. They were pulling off tons of billboard ads and this was there. Not mine and I don't have a source

That looks so damn cool. I actually thought it was an official ad playing on the "returning to Jurassic Park" theme of these sequels.

 

[Amalthea]

That looks so damn cool. I actually thought it was an official ad playing on the "returning to Jurassic Park" theme of these sequels.

Yeah, even cooler that it has actually been unearthed after 20+ years.

It's like urban archeology...

(I'd have tried to steal that sign at night if I were there! lol)

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Could Ceratopsidiea breed with each other? Like lions and tigers can have kids?

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Could Ceratopsidiea breed with each other? Like lions and tigers can have kids?

Some pairs within the same genus (lions and tigers share the genus, Panthera), likely. But Ceratopsidae is a family (that existed over a very large amount of time), so members weren't necessary all closely related enough to produce hybrids. In fact many, if not most pairs wouldn't be able to produce hybrids, particularly those distinctly separated over time and/or distance. So Styracosaurus and Triceratops, which were separated by 7 million years and belong to different genera, quite likely wouldn't be capable of interbreeding. Triceratops and Torosaurus, which coexisted chronologically and geographically, and shared a sub-family and a tribe within that sub-family, perhaps could have.

Granted, the specific examples are guesses on my part and are by no means definitive (I'm not sure a definitive example could be given granted the inability to study genomes and the statistical unlikeliness of hybrids being preserved and found), but you get the idea.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Same applies for Hadrosauridae, right? They are often shown in even scientific media or documentaties as living close together, in large hordes, but I guess this is more to illustrade how many different dinosaurs belong to the same group

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Fallen Kingdom Pez!

“The Jurassic World assortment will be released April [2018] with T-Rex, Dilophosaurus and Blue the Raptor. The dispensers feature just the head of the dinosaur on pez stems and they look pretty awesome!

This is in addition to the Jurassic World Gift tin which will be coming out June [2018] with full body T-Rex, Blue the Velociraptor, Triceratops and Mosasaurus on click and play stems. This tin will feature Jurassic World Click and Play Pez and a Jurassic World board game in which the tops of the pez can be used as playing pieces.”

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

So's the mosasaur expected to come back, or is it just a holdover from Jurassic World?

Also, gotta get me some Rexy PEZ. Ah fuck it, I'll get the collector tin.

(I wish Jurassic movies came out closer to my birthday or Christmas)

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Wouldn't the Mosasaur literally just died in its tank?

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Wouldn't the Mosasaur literally just died in its tank?

Life... uh... finds a way.

 

[Gunslinger]

Wouldn't the Mosasaur literally just died in its tank?

He ate the indominus rex right? He will be full for a day or two. But yeah since he is alone in a confined space I think it will die from hunger eventually.

 

[DonMigs85]

He ate the indominus rex right? He will be full for a day or two. But yeah since he is alone in a confined space I think it will die from hunger eventually.

Maybe he jumped out of the tank and belly flopped to the ocean.

 

[Amalthea]

1. It's merchandise
2. It's mosasaurus, mosasarus is cool.

 

[strafer]

holy shit, Pez still exists?

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

I'm still annoyed by how huge and not mosasaurus-y it was in JW.

holy shit, Pez still exists?

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

holy shit, Pez still exists?

My new job come Tuesday will be right next door to Pez lol. Its plant is in my hometown.

 

[strafer]

 

[Jawmuncher]

Damn that's awesome. Even if it's unintentional.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Jurassic World Evolution Concept Art

(Sadly, they apparently weren't allowed to share this art and already removed it + issued takedown requests, so it's gonna be a while before we get more)

I love this so much.

 

[Development]

Really looking forward to the game

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Some new early Indominus Rex concept art surfaced:

 

[Curler]

Some new early Indominus Rex concept art surfaced:

Is this for Fallen Kingdom, then? I like it!

 

[Ric Flair]

Just finished my first read ever of Jurassic Park, kind of wish the movie could have followed the book a bit more closely, it was sooo good!!!!! That being said the movie is amazing, but that book is easily one of my top 5 favorites now

 

[strafer]

Just finished my first read ever of Jurassic Park, kind of wish the movie could have followed the book a bit more closely, it was sooo good!!!!! That being said the movie is amazing, but that book is easily one of my top 5 favorites now

I read the book while listening to the score once, it was a really great experience.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Some new early Indominus Rex concept art surfaced:

Kinda iffy on it. Not a huge fan of how all the "quills" mesh with that particular design, and the black portions kind of make it look like it's slathered in tar, at least in that piece, which is kind of a weird look.

I like the red and black design with the snout horn better.

Is this for Fallen Kingdom, then? I like it!

No, this is JW1.

 

[antonz]

Just finished my first read ever of Jurassic Park, kind of wish the movie could have followed the book a bit more closely, it was sooo good!!!!! That being said the movie is amazing, but that book is easily one of my top 5 favorites now

It is a fantastic book. Book and Movie have enough differences to make for very enjoyable experiences on their own.

 

[Curler]

Kinda iffy on it. Not a huge fan of how all the "quills" mesh with that particular design, and the black portions kind of make it look like it's slathered in tar, at least in that piece, which is kind of a weird look.

I like the red and black design with the snout horn better.



No, this is JW1.

Darn, was hoping for a version 2.0. I do like the bony "mask" look.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Darn, was hoping for a version 2.0. I do like the bony "mask" look.

Well, there's always "Indoraptor".

 

[Curler]

Well, there's always "Indoraptor".

Forgot about that. Name still sounds bad and needs to be changed.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Forgot about that. Name still sounds bad and needs to be changed.

Sadly, I don't think the name is changing.

And from what I have seen, it won't have a bony face mask. There was concept art for one species of dino with a bony face crest, but I think it was cut.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

It's such a bad name though. It doesn't sell what it's supposed to be at all, and sounds entirely un-intimidating.

Granted, I'm still not a fan of the concept to begin with.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Finally, there are official asset pictures of the Stegoceratops from Jurassic World (yes another hybrid, but it's also the only know 'cut' species from the films)

Colin Trevorrow on why he cut it:

“In an earlier draft there was a scene where Chris [Pratt] and Bryce [Dallas Howard] come across another hybrid in the jungle. It informed them that Dr. Wu has been making other hybrids under her nose. Then my six-year-old son watched Return Of The Jedi, and said to me, ‘Dad, if Leia is also a Jedi that means that Luke isn’t unique.’ It was like, ‘Ha! Okay.’ And for some reason I applied that to this other thing and felt like there could be only one [hybrid dinosaur]. The idea that there was more than one made it feel less like the one synthetic among all the other organics, and suddenly it seemed entirely wrong to have it in the movie. I suddenly hated the idea but the toy still exists as a kind of remnant because Hasbro toys are locked a year out.”

While I'm glad we didn't get more hybrids, the weird chimera bullshit aside, this is some great artwork. In fact, remove the plates and spikes and you're left with an incredible Nasutoceratops:

^ If that appeared in the films it would be the best, most 'Jurassic Park' looking new dinosaur since additions from The Lost World IMO.

 

[strafer]

Why is Dino Crisis not available on the EU Playstation Store?

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Honestly, the Volcano is the worst kept secret:

 

[Fancyarcher]

They can't hide that thing, especially not in "plane sight".

 

[bengraven]

Are they really trying to make it a secret though?

 

[strafer]

What is this volcano stuff?

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

What is this volcano stuff?

Theory is that JW2 is gonna basically be The Lost World Redux, but in a different package. There's a Tech Dino Boom and everyone wants a dinosaur to showcase at "Macworld". So they go poaching. There's also a volcano about to explode, which could act as a mask for illegal activities.

I doubt the volcano plotline will be that big. I'm sure it's just the "reason to go back".

 

[Curler]

Theory is that JW2 is gonna basically be The Lost World Redux, but in a different package. There's a Tech Dino Boom and everyone wants a dinosaur to showcase at "Macworld". So they go poaching. There's also a volcano about to explode, which could act as a mask for illegal activities.

I doubt the volcano plotline will be that big. I'm sure it's just the "reason to go back".

I'll put $20 on a scene where a hero is dangling over the volcano, with suspense that they may or may not (they won't...) fall in. But... I have the sneaking suspecious that rexy may die from it, going out like a hero.

 

[Boem]

I'll put $20 on a scene where a hero is dangling over the volcano, with suspense that they may or may not (they won't...) fall in. But... I have the sneaking suspecious that rexy may die from it, going out like a hero.

If there's a volcano, surely someone is going to fall in. Not necessarily one of the heroes, but this movie's human bad guy, or something.

I'm going to ask for a refund if nobody ends up falling in that volcano, dammit.

 

[Curler]

If there's a volcano, surely someone is going to fall in. Not necessarily one of the heroes, but this movie's human bad guy, or something.

I'm going to ask for a refund if nobody ends up falling in that volcano, dammit.

I'm going for a struggling rex grabbing on the volcano walls for one last snack - the bad guy, and then she falls into the lava after consumption...