Topic: Jurassic Park/World - Impressive how it's made!
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SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž

Mon 08/19/19 01:43 PM

I sometimes feel a bit PO that it always takes so long for a new Jurassic Park/World movie to come out. I guess they make it so good that I simply forget there are no dinosaurs so they have to create those, hihi.
You almost get to think they can round up a bunch of dinos and get going with shooting the movie, right.

Here's a clip of one animatronic they had to make, and wow, what a lot of work for just the one dino for a relatively short scene. It was supposed to be emotional, touching your heart, and it did for sure. Even when seeing this made and then the end result, knowing full well it's fake, I almost tear up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfcqQf61S-k
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Riverspirit1111

Mon 08/19/19 02:02 PM

That is impressive. Thanks Crystal. :)

I never really thought about how they created the dinosaurs. That's pretty cool.
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SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž

Mon 08/19/19 02:56 PM

Pretty amazing, isn't it!
I'd seen some of it on the first Jurassic Park but that was way back when. Much has changed!
And didn't that dino look real, I mean, wow!
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Tom4Uhere

Mon 08/19/19 10:53 PM

Jurassic Park 1 was brilliant.
All the movies that follow are entertainment but I wouldn't actually call them 'good'.
Jurassic World 2 was better than 1 but still lacking in what could be constituted as 'good'.
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SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž

Tue 08/20/19 02:23 AM


Jurassic Park 1 was brilliant.
All the movies that follow are entertainment but I wouldn't actually call them 'good'.
Jurassic World 2 was better than 1 but still lacking in what could be constituted as 'good'.

I watched another clip on YT on how JP1 & 2 differ from the rest as Steven Spielberg went for a different ratio that allowed more height on the screen, and different shots that gave a totally different perspective, making sure the dinos looked huge and any human in the shot small in comparison. Also keeping any other larger objects out of such a shot to make the dino big and tall, no distractions from a tall building or a jeep.
I never thought of such things, but as per usual the effect is in those small details. It's the same with a painting.
But when it talked about a brilliant transition between animatronics and CGI I was lost, haha. I don't see it, well, maybe that's why it's brilliant, hihi.
I do notice things like a mic being in view, an actors clothes suddenly being different. Once an actor's fly was open, hahahaha, and in the next shot it wasn't. I'm like, do that shot again, it's daft!
Or in one shot an explosive is seen on a lorrie while according to the story it shouldn't be there yet... in another shot it wasn't there yet. Dumb mistakes. They prolly think people won't notice, but I usually notice that stuff.
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SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž

Tue 08/20/19 02:26 AM

I btw LOVE both Jurassic Worlds!
But I guess they have to rely on different things as the first 'shock' effect of seeing dinos has gone. Like they say in JW1, people get bored, they want more, bigger, more viscious so we start breeding new species.
Theatre audience is the same, it's a nice statement with double meaning.
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Unknow

Tue 08/20/19 02:28 AM

They found the biggest graveyard of dinosaurs in the United states the other week. Can't remember where, possibly California. They reckon it will take 20 years to go through them all!
Maybe they'll do some stuffed marrow waving
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SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž

Tue 08/20/19 02:58 AM

It's called the Jurassic Mile in Wyoming. Nice! But a giant parrot? surprised And a monster penguin? scared
I had no idea there were penguins in the Jurassic, nor parrots for that matter. I do not like parrots, that beak worries me too much. Imagine it on a giant parrot?!
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Unknow

Tue 08/20/19 04:21 AM

Yes the parrot, I wonder if it was the first animal/bird to talk?
Maybe he taught humans to talk surprised laugh
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SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž

Tue 08/20/19 07:25 AM

Hihi, who knows! It would've been great had they posted some pictures of both the parrot and the penguin!

I googled the penguin, not what I call giant, but alas, approx 1.50-1.60 tall whereas the emperor penguin from the arctic now can become 1.20m tall.
They say "Stood as tall as a human." Really, 1.60? They must've compared to a Neanderthal, haha.
It would still be intimidating I guess to stand across a 1.60m tall penguin.
That giant one was found in NZ btw.




Also in NZ:
"Paleontologists have identified a fossil of the world's largest parrot, which weighed 15 pounds / 7kgs and stood 3 feet high, in New Zealand." 90 cms high?! OMG! That IS giant! I'd do a runner for sure.
It took them time to identify as they hadn't expected to find a parrot, never thought of a Jurassic parrot.
Hey, we're not the only ones!! Scientists were clueless too!
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SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž

Tue 08/20/19 07:27 AM

Maybe in the future, when Jurassic Park/World has lost its appeal someone will make a Jurassic something with penguins & parrots, hahaha.
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Unknow

Tue 08/20/19 09:30 AM

Reminds me of the monty pythons sketch about the dead parrot rofl
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Tom4Uhere

Tue 08/20/19 12:06 PM

Jurassic Park/World films have many flaws but still fun movies to watch.
Take a look at the IMdb "Goofs" lists.
There is however, a flaw that most people never seem to recognize but it is there for nearly any science fiction and fantasy film, including the Jurassic's.

The film showing this flaw most evident is the film Transcendence (2014) with Johnny Depp.
Technology is evil.
People are afraid of nanotechnology.
People are afraid of genetic technology.
People are afraid of AI technology.

Most scifi & fantasy films portray high technology as evil or a path to evil.
Hollywood (movie industry) is counting on our fear of technology to bring home the bucks.
The evil AI, the evil corporation the evil genius.
Lets weaponize it.

Then there is the depiction of the dinos.
"T-Rex can't see you if you don't move"
Just forget it could smell you in stereo.
Raptors (velociraptors) were about waist high to a man.

Then you have the 'idea' dino DNA can be extracted from a fossilized mosquito trapped in amber. Plus the idea that we could "fill the gaps" in that DNA with DNA from other species.
How "super" were those supercomputers?

Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct clade of large carnivorous flightless birds that were the largest species of apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era; their conventionally accepted temporal range covers from 62 to 1.8 million years ago.



Terror Bird vs. Wolves | National Geographic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQcduEj8lxI
National Geographic
Published on Apr 22, 2009


Jurassic Park (1993)
Goofs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf

As Dr. Grant lectures the cynical boy at the dig site about the velociraptor, he says that the velociraptor's claw was used to eviscerate and tear its victims apart, as opposed to going for the neck like many of today's predators. The fossilized remains of a velociraptor caught in a feud with its prey clearly show the velociraptor stabbing the prey in the neck with its claw. The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs also conducted an experiment to see if the claw could eviscerate flesh. It couldn't.

Grant says; "T-Rex doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt. Can't just suppress 65 million years of gut instinct". However he has it the wrong way round; dinosaurs had 200 millions years of gut instinct; 65 million is the period for which they were extinct.

When Grant is holding the baby raptor, he asks Dr. Wu, "What species is this?" and receives the reply, "Uh, it's a velociraptor." In fact, "velociraptor" is the genus of the animal, not the species.

Dominican amber is famous for its quality, but it was only formed 20 million years ago, long after the dinosaurs had died out

T-Rex can run up to 12 MP/H. While a Jeep Wrangler 4.0L top speed is 147 km/h 91 mph. With a 0 to 60 Miles Per Hour in 9.9 seconds. There for the jeep would be long gone.

The plot centers around finding dinosaur blood in fossilized mosquitoes trapped in amber. However, our first encounter with extinct life comes when Ellie examines a leaf and says "This 'veriforman' species has been extinct since the Cretaceous." No mechanism is provided for how they could have cloned the plants, given that mosquitoes don't drink plant juices. It is possible that DNA could have been extracted from the amber (hardened tree-sap), but this still doesn't account for other types of plants, such as ferns and bushes.

Dr Wu claims "all vertebrate embryos are inherently female". This is inaccurate. In fact, it would have made more sense to breed the dinosaurs all-male, because there are far fewer variables, and may have eliminated the danger of breeding altogether.

While it is not clear exactly when Dr. Hammond started Jurassic Park, many of the species shown take 20 to 40 years to reach full maturity; thus, it would not have been possible for Jurassic park to be populated with the species shown in the short time between it's implementation and presentation.

In two instances, the carnivorous dinosaurs are being fed mammals (a goat and a bull), neither of which would have existed when the dinosaurs lived. It would be nearly impossible that the dinosaurs would have a digestive system that would enable them to digest them.


The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Goofs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119567/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf

Jurassic Park III (2001)
Goofs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163025/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf

Jurassic World (2015)
Goofs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369610/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Goofs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4881806/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf

Multiple human characters are sedated with animal tranquilizers, with Wu specifically naming the particular narcotic used as carfentanil at one point. Carfentanil is extremely potent and has a lethal human dose in the micrograms, meaning any human injected with a dinosaur-sized dosage of carfentanil should have experienced a quick and fatal respiratory failure. Wu and Owen recover fairly quickly and suffer no lingering side effects. Because the tranquilizer is so potent, real-world veterinarians who sedate heavy animals like elephants must be accompanied by assistants who can administer naloxone (the antidote) and provide artificial respiration.

Despite being based mostly on a theropod, the Indoraptor is shown walking and running on all fours. With the pronated-hands issue aside, another problem would be the structure of a theropod's shoulder blades, which would end up injuring its own neck muscles in such a posture (a reason why many paleontologists rejected the idea of Spinosaurus being quadrupedal when it was found to have very short hind limbs).

SPOILERS

During the volcano eruption, Owen runs from the ash cloud and is temporarily engulfed. But such pyroclastic flow can reach temperatures of 1,000 Β°C (1,830 Β°F) and go at speeds of up to 700 km/h (430 mph), making it neither outrun-able nor survivable.


Jurassic World 3 (2021)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 11 June 2021 (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt8041270/
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Tom4Uhere

Tue 08/20/19 12:22 PM

If you like checking out realistic looking dinosars...

Jurassic Fight Club (2008– )

Documentary, History
6.9
Jurassic Fight Club depicts how prehistoric beasts hunted their prey, dissecting these battles and uncovering a predatory world far more calculated and complex than originally thought.
Stars: Erik Thompson, George Blasing, Thomas Holtz, Lawrence Witmer

When Dinosaurs Roamed America (2001 TV Movie)

Unrated | 90 min | Animation, Documentary
7.6
The life of American dinosaurs is seen in amazing detail. The Feathered Dromeosaurs (Raptors) debut on this film along with the bizarre Therizinosaur. Each story is compelling and ... See full summary Β»
Director: Pierre de Lespinois | Star: John Goodman

Prehistoric Planet (2002– )

127 min | Documentary, Animation
7.4
Dripping with kid friendly sarcasm, this series presents various animals from several periods that thrived during the age of dinosaurs and explains how they thrived, reproduced and co-existed.
Star: Ben Stiller

Paleoworld (1994–1997)
Animal Armageddon (2009– )
Last Day of the Dinosaurs (2010 TV Movie)
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (2007)
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
Dinosaur Planet (2003– )
Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special
Bizarre Dinosaurs (2009 TV Movie)
Planet Dinosaur (2011)
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs (1999 TV Movie)
Prehistoric Monsters Revealed (2008 TV Movie)
National Geographic: Dino Death Trap (2007 TV Movie)
March of the Dinosaurs (2011 TV Movie)
Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough (2011)
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (2007)
Dinosaur! (1985 TV Movie)
The Valley of the T-Rex (2001 TV Movie)
Dinosaurs Alive (2007)
The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs (2005– )
The Dinosaur Hunters (2002 TV Movie)
T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (1998)
Chased by Dinosaurs (2002–2003)
Clash of the Dinosaurs (2009– )
Prehistoric Park (2006– )

Many are available on YouTube
Try searching the title and year
or
look at http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dinosaur+documentaries
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Tom4Uhere

Tue 08/20/19 12:29 PM

If you like Dinos, here are some webpages you might find fun (or enlightening)...

Bad Archaeology: exposing frauds, misconceptions and distortions
http://www.badarchaeology.com/

Dino Hunt
http://www.sjgames.com/dinohunt/

Dinosaurs from A-Z
http://dinodictionary.com/

VELOCIRAPTOR
Pronunciation: veh-loss-ih-RAP-tor
Translation: Quick Plunderer or Rapid Robber
Also Known As:
Description: Carnivore, Bipedal
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Infraorder: Tetanurae
Micro-order: Maniraptora (of the microorder Coelurosauria)
Family: Dromaeosauridae
Height: 2.5 feet (0.8 meters)
Length: 5.9 feet (1.8 meters)
Weight: 200 pounds (91 kg)

Period: Late Cretaceous

Notes: Found in Mongolia, China and Russia, Velociraptor was a ferocious predator with the second toe of each foot bearing a formidably large, retractable claw. Velociraptor was similar in appearance to the larger Deinonychus and the much larger Utahraptor. Like Deinonychus and possibly Utahraptor, it may have hunted in packs -- although Velociraptor and Utahraptor fossils have never been found in groups like Deinonychus. Velociraptor was not as fast as a cheetah, nor as smart as a chimpanzee, as suggested in the movie Jurassic Park.


Prehistoric Pulp is a blog dedicated to fiction about dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, with reviews, cover blurbs and news about upcoming works.
http://prehistoricpulp.blogspot.com/2007/07/footprints-of-thunder-by-james-f-david.html

Dinosaur Fact
http://www.dinosaurfact.net/

Enchanted Learning: Zoom Dinosaurs
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html
Edited by Tom4Uhere on Tue 08/20/19 12:46 PM
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Tom4Uhere

Tue 08/20/19 12:37 PM

If you want dinosaur pictures try http://www.newdinosaurs.com/

Giganotosaurus
http://www.newdinosaurs.com/giganotosaurus/
Quick Giganotosaurus Facts

Giganotosaurus had a 6 foot long headβ€”as big as the average human!
This dinosaur could swallow a human being in one bite
It had almost 80 serrated teeth
Its largest teeth were 8 inches long
This dinosaur was as almost as long as a railroad car.

http://www.newdinosaurs.com/giganotosaurus/#pictures-start

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SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž

Tue 08/20/19 12:57 PM


Jurassic Park/World films have many flaws but still fun movies to watch.
Take a look at the IMdb "Goofs" lists.
There is however, a flaw that most people never seem to recognize but it is there for nearly any science fiction and fantasy film, including the Jurassic's.

The film showing this flaw most evident is the film Transcendence (2014) with Johnny Depp.
Technology is evil.
People are afraid of nanotechnology.
People are afraid of genetic technology.
People are afraid of AI technology.

Most scifi & fantasy films portray high technology as evil or a path to evil.
Hollywood (movie industry) is counting on our fear of technology to bring home the bucks.
The evil AI, the evil corporation the evil genius.
Lets weaponize it.

Then there is the depiction of the dinos.
"T-Rex can't see you if you don't move"
Just forget it could smell you in stereo.
Raptors (velociraptors) were about waist high to a man.

Then you have the 'idea' dino DNA can be extracted from a fossilized mosquito trapped in amber. Plus the idea that we could "fill the gaps" in that DNA with DNA from other species.
How "super" were those supercomputers?

Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct clade of large carnivorous flightless birds that were the largest species of apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era; their conventionally accepted temporal range covers from 62 to 1.8 million years ago.



Terror Bird vs. Wolves | National Geographic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQcduEj8lxI
National Geographic
Published on Apr 22, 2009


Jurassic Park (1993)
Goofs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf

As Dr. Grant lectures the cynical boy at the dig site about the velociraptor, he says that the velociraptor's claw was used to eviscerate and tear its victims apart, as opposed to going for the neck like many of today's predators. The fossilized remains of a velociraptor caught in a feud with its prey clearly show the velociraptor stabbing the prey in the neck with its claw. The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs also conducted an experiment to see if the claw could eviscerate flesh. It couldn't.

Grant says; "T-Rex doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt. Can't just suppress 65 million years of gut instinct". However he has it the wrong way round; dinosaurs had 200 millions years of gut instinct; 65 million is the period for which they were extinct.

When Grant is holding the baby raptor, he asks Dr. Wu, "What species is this?" and receives the reply, "Uh, it's a velociraptor." In fact, "velociraptor" is the genus of the animal, not the species.

Dominican amber is famous for its quality, but it was only formed 20 million years ago, long after the dinosaurs had died out

T-Rex can run up to 12 MP/H. While a Jeep Wrangler 4.0L top speed is 147 km/h 91 mph. With a 0 to 60 Miles Per Hour in 9.9 seconds. There for the jeep would be long gone.

The plot centers around finding dinosaur blood in fossilized mosquitoes trapped in amber. However, our first encounter with extinct life comes when Ellie examines a leaf and says "This 'veriforman' species has been extinct since the Cretaceous." No mechanism is provided for how they could have cloned the plants, given that mosquitoes don't drink plant juices. It is possible that DNA could have been extracted from the amber (hardened tree-sap), but this still doesn't account for other types of plants, such as ferns and bushes.

Dr Wu claims "all vertebrate embryos are inherently female". This is inaccurate. In fact, it would have made more sense to breed the dinosaurs all-male, because there are far fewer variables, and may have eliminated the danger of breeding altogether.

While it is not clear exactly when Dr. Hammond started Jurassic Park, many of the species shown take 20 to 40 years to reach full maturity; thus, it would not have been possible for Jurassic park to be populated with the species shown in the short time between it's implementation and presentation.

In two instances, the carnivorous dinosaurs are being fed mammals (a goat and a bull), neither of which would have existed when the dinosaurs lived. It would be nearly impossible that the dinosaurs would have a digestive system that would enable them to digest them.


The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Goofs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119567/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf

Jurassic Park III (2001)
Goofs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163025/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf

Jurassic World (2015)
Goofs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369610/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Goofs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4881806/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf

Multiple human characters are sedated with animal tranquilizers, with Wu specifically naming the particular narcotic used as carfentanil at one point. Carfentanil is extremely potent and has a lethal human dose in the micrograms, meaning any human injected with a dinosaur-sized dosage of carfentanil should have experienced a quick and fatal respiratory failure. Wu and Owen recover fairly quickly and suffer no lingering side effects. Because the tranquilizer is so potent, real-world veterinarians who sedate heavy animals like elephants must be accompanied by assistants who can administer naloxone (the antidote) and provide artificial respiration.

Despite being based mostly on a theropod, the Indoraptor is shown walking and running on all fours. With the pronated-hands issue aside, another problem would be the structure of a theropod's shoulder blades, which would end up injuring its own neck muscles in such a posture (a reason why many paleontologists rejected the idea of Spinosaurus being quadrupedal when it was found to have very short hind limbs).

SPOILERS

During the volcano eruption, Owen runs from the ash cloud and is temporarily engulfed. But such pyroclastic flow can reach temperatures of 1,000 Β°C (1,830 Β°F) and go at speeds of up to 700 km/h (430 mph), making it neither outrun-able nor survivable.


Jurassic World 3 (2021)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 11 June 2021 (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt8041270/

I really am not bothered by all that. Some of the things you mention are also up for debate.
The only thing that I did think was daft was the pyroclastic cloud engulfing Owen. He would've been burnt to a crisp.
And the injection you mention.
The other stuff I'm really like "Who cares?"
Dinos not eating goats & cows. Cats never eat a real cow either, yet they eat it when it comes out of a can. I assume a cat could eat a chicken when in need, but I never heard of it. Out of a can they do.
No one can tell whether or not a dinos digestive system could or could not handle it since there are no dinos to test it on, nor any organs and intestines.
I pretty much think they never ate a human either. But a wild animal is a wild animal.
Doesn't bother me. Only that cloud and the injection, and also leaving him there. That was total BS, basically murder.
I also doubt if one could be that close to lava and not get burnt but I'm not sure about that.
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Tom4Uhere

Tue 08/20/19 01:26 PM

Yeah, fun movies to watch fer sure.

Sure beats the dinosaur films I watched when I was a kid.
They look like dinos should look in the movies.
They behave like movie dinos should behave.

I saw JP1 with my kids when it hit the theaters.
Had to find out about all the dinos I saw.
Found out, while they looked really cool and acted really frightening, the REAL ones were very different.

I imagine some distant future (if we don't kill ourselves off and still make movies) a reboot of the franchise will show the dinos in a better informed way.
Who knows, maybe by then movies will be holographic environments you interact with, hahaha.
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SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž

Tue 08/20/19 01:44 PM

For me it was the first movie I saw in theatre again in a long long time!
I went to see it with my then husband. We didn't go out much, or not without the kids, since we had a family and the kids were too young to tag along to Jurassic Park.
But we wanted to see it in the theatre.
And man, the noise when that first T-rex cleared its vocal chords with all them speakers in the theatre! Holy cannoli! Dolby-surround roaring dino, haha. I put my hands over my ears laugh
I wasn't used to so much noise anymore, at home usually keeping sound levels down a bit so the kids could sleep/wouldn't wake up.
I did LOVE the movie though!
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Tom4Uhere

Tue 08/20/19 04:10 PM

Just found this:

http://sauriangame.squarespace.com/

SAURIAN
THE WORLD'S MOST ACCURATE DINOSAUR SIMULATOR

Here's a youtube video too.
LOADS OF NEW DINOSAURS! HUGE SAURIAN UPDATE!! | Saurian Update Gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGkj0Ktc26w

Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurian_(video_game)

Saurian is a survival simulation game set in an open world environment where the player takes control of one of the six dinosaurs (Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Dakotaraptor, Pachycephalosaurus, Anzu and Ankylosaurus from a third-person perspective.[5][6]) and attempt to survive within a scientifically accurate environment based on fossil evidence from the Hell Creek Formation. Starting as a hatchling, the player must avoid predators and manage their thirst, hunger and stamina wisely in order to reach maturity and reproduce. The world is populated by A.I-controlled dinosaurs, which respond to the game's mechanics in the same way players do. Players will be able to customize their dinosaur's physical and pattern traits,[7] and will be able to play with genetic variants, such as albinism and melanism.[7][8] These genetic variants will have the same impacts on gameplay as they do on real-life animals.[7][9] A Spectator mode is also planned, allowing players to explore the game world without the challenges of its survival simulation mechanics.[7][8][10] Virtual reality is also under development due to substantial campaign funding.[11] Both the fauna and flora of Saurian were developed with the guidance of leading paleontological and anatomical experts, including Dr. Victoria Arbour, Robert DePalma, Dr. Denver Fowler, Dr. John R. Hutchinson, Dr. Ali Nabavizadeh, Dr. Matt Wedel and Dr. Gregory Wilson.[12][13] Dakotaraptor will be the first and only playable animal available when the game is first released into Early Access on Steam. The five remaining playable dinosaurs will be added as follows- Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus in Early Access, with Anzu and Ankylosaurus thereafter.[14] Note that stretch goals will not be implemented until the base game is complete.