Jurassic World

It's certainly a great way for Dodgson to perform the ultimate Hijacked by Ganon act ever. Whether it's authentic or not demands trailers to compare.

It would also be an awesome way to introduce feathered dinosaurs.

I like the idea of a titular Jurassic World, one in which dinosaurs are everywhere. The franchise owners have been kicking around the idea of something like that since Jurassic Park 3; I remember an early idea for the film involved militarized velociraptor kill squads in the Middle-East.

Fallen Kingdom is an underwhelming film but the reason for why it's underwhelming is pretty evident. They've been wanting to make movies outside the boundaries of Las Cinco Muertes for literally decades and Fallen Kingdom's job was to bridge that gap. They had to make that movie so that they can now make the kind of movies they've been itching to make since first making the decision to leave Crichton's novels behind.

I'm open to the idea, personally. My only beef is that Fallen Kingdom doesn't really do a very good job of setting up the idea that dinosaurs have now irreversibly rejoined Earth's ecosystem. 4 or 5 members of maybe a dozen species escaping from this one dude's garage in this one spot on the planet doesn't really scream to me, "And now we are forever a Jurassic World". Most of these animals would be dead in a week and then the world would move on as normal.

The intended takeaway is clear, but how they got there is sorely lacking.

If anything helps, the implication that more will be made now that dinosaurs have been auctioned to tons of black market circles along with possible new diseases or breeds is equally interesting as escaped dinos, because even if the escapees are rounded up, there's still tons of illegal and legal companies with legitimate access to genetic samples and the means to make more dinosaurs and other stuff.

It’s odd that it took this long to establish a story about dinosaurs loose in the mainland when the first Jurassic Park book ended with a Sequel Hook of exactly that (though it was retconned.)

Edited by Tuckerscreator on Apr 6th 2021 at 3:32:15 AM

One thing I'm less than enthusiastic about is the fact that Giganotosaurus is confirmed to appear in Dominion. It's one of my favorite dinosaurs, and I'd hate to see it be subjected to The Worf Effect against Rexy.

TBF, in real life it would've been a toss-up as both are very different predators meant to take on different species most of the time and with different builds. Also it'll at least make sense if it lost to a more experienced Rexy (Indominus beat her alone, but then again it's the Indominus Rex)

Well, according to this video, T. rex has a higher chance of winning in a fight with the Giganotosaurus unless the big G ambushes the Rex and rams her by the side at full speed.

Giganotosaurus can win with prep time, but in a Final Destination, No Items, Fox Only duel, Tyrannosaurus has the edge.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Apr 6th 2021 at 10:02:17 AM

Correction:

No Compies, T. Rex Only, S.S Venture

I mean, in "real" dinosaurs the intelligence/planning side of things probably wasn't that big a deal. Even the smartest of dinosaurs probably wasn't particularly smart by modern animal standards - closer to a regular cat or dog than something like an octopus or an ape.

T-Rex was built for raw power while Giganotosaurus was more of an all around athlete.

Giant theropods held a similar role/niche to Big Cats today, and like the modern equivalent they probably had different roles and choices of prey - some were solitary hunters, some may have hunted cooperatively etc.

I mean, lots of birds are pretty smart. Their cousins probably could be pretty smart too.

Updates to the Jurassic World ride.

While I still miss the old Jurassic Park ride, a lot of changes made here updated the latter half of the World incarnation for the better. In particular, there’s 3 sightings of the Indominus now, up close and personal to the riders, as opposed to before where there was only one sighting and it was off to the side barely visible near the end, not even near the T. rex it was “fighting”.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on Apr 13th 2021 at 6:48:31 AM

So this was just posted today: https://www.facebook.com/JurassicWorld/posts/4288925034485680

Ladies and gentlemen. . . WE HAVE FEATHERS!

After these all years and pretty much all modern dinosaur works using them.

We finally have feathers.

Still missing the wings^note adult Velociraptor and Deinonychus do not appear to have been capable of flight but their young possibly could and the adults may have used their wings to glide run up steep surfaces but it’s a start.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on Jun 9th 2021 at 5:06:17 AM

This isn't a raptor. According to Trevorrow, it's a Moros, a small tyrannosaur. Apparently, the scene is a flashback to prehistoric times. . . which raises its own set of questions, since the big dinosaur has been named as a Giganotosaurus, which Moros did not coexist with.

Yeah, if you look closely, you can tell it's got tyrannosaurid hands.

So Moros is officially the first feathered dinosaur to appear in the Jurassic Park movies. I don't think anyone predicted that.

Edited by ElSquibbonator on Jun 9th 2021 at 8:40:43 AM

Didn’t the raptors in three have like feather Mohawks

Those were more like quills than feathers; they hardly count.

Aight

Makes sense that the first feathered dinosaur is one in the past. A real dinosaur, not the manufactured park attractions of InGen made to sell and package, rather than be accurate.

Perhaps this will be a meaningful resonance in the film