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 Gitzbitah wrote:
Blue Raptor just made me imagine some grotesque instantaneous metamorphosis into a Voltron, with the raptors joining Starlord to become Velocitron, a creature of snarls and murder. If they give them voice simulators, like that dog in UP, I will be there opening night, hooting and hollering for them to 'Form Blazing CLAW!'

I'd pay good money to see Velocitron...

Potential Ending

 d-usa wrote:
How is that a facepalm?

If somebody is just breeding a punch of raptors in a row it would make sense to just name them Alpha, Beta, Charlie, Delta, Echo, etc etc etc instead of 1, 2, 3. It's an easy enough enough naming convention to implement.

I'm just gonna guess that they will be fighting Alpha and Beta at some point...

I suppose it makes sense as a naming convention.

It's just trying to legitimize a trained/domesticated (for lack of better terms) squad of Velociraptors, I find the concept ridiculous...

Dropbear Victim wrote:
Potential Ending

Spoiler:

I can see the bio-engineered dinosaur being hit by the train and taken over the pond to be fed to the mosasaurus. Shark feeding scene and train location are too convenient.

You know...there's a good percentage chance of that. Good call!

More toy leaks- possible Stegoceratops...



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And a better picture of Bucky, the Buck-toothed Dinosaur!

Hybrid dinosaurs and trained raptors. I think the human hybrids would have been a better plot at this point.

I think the train/big water beasty ending sounds plausable. Even if they perhaps lead it on to the track in some way.

In relation to feathered dinosaurs.
NSFW language - liberal use of the word Feth

Why just eat tourists ajnd cause mayhem when you can do a proper takeover. The park is automated right, so you just need a claws on solution at head office.


Corporate Raptor executive of Raptor Inc after the hostile takeover of Isla Nublar from the tasty humans.

 Alex C wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
How is that a facepalm?

If somebody is just breeding a punch of raptors in a row it would make sense to just name them Alpha, Beta, Charlie, Delta, Echo, etc etc etc instead of 1, 2, 3. It's an easy enough enough naming convention to implement.

I'm just gonna guess that they will be fighting Alpha and Beta at some point...

I suppose it makes sense as a naming convention.

It's just trying to legitimize a trained/domesticated (for lack of better terms) squad of Velociraptors, I find the concept ridiculous...

Yeah, I mean who tries to train or domesticate animals like that?

 AduroT wrote:


Yeah, I mean who tries to train or domesticate animals like that?

Yeah, no one is that crazy!

I don't fething care anymore... I. WANT. TO. SEE. THIS!

So far, the "vibe" is very similar to the first movie to me.

Me likey.

Know, if someone would get off their asses and make a big budgeted rated R Jurassic movie.

Trained raptors? Fine.
Genetically Engineered Killer-Dino? Ok, fine.
Stegoceratops?

WHY!? WHY!? why?

Maybe when I was 8 and doodled something like that in the back of a maths book it was cool, but... I just don't get it. Why?

Unless there's a very good reason (and no, Dinosaurs are boring doesn't cut it for me) then my interest in this is rapidly waning...

TBF it's probably just a toy based on the idea of mutant dinosaurs, like the old Chaos Effect toy line they had. More than likely it won't feature in the film- Character seems surprised they made a mutant Dino when talking about Indominus Rex, so I would assume it's the only one.

I hope so. Like I say, it's something that's cool when you don't get how science works, but in practice, it's somewhat stupid.

That said, I'm amused to see the toys still come with a battle wound and attack actions, I have some just like that from the originals all those years ago...

 Medium of Death wrote:
Hybrid dinosaurs and trained raptors. I think the human hybrids would have been a better plot at this point.

I think the train/big water beasty ending sounds plausable. Even if they perhaps lead it on to the track in some way.

In relation to feathered dinosaurs.
NSFW language - liberal use of the word Feth

Don't look at it as dinosaurs getting worse. Look at it as birds getting better.

I really hope the humanize the raptors....having them play tug of war and making sacrifices to save their master. Doing tricks and stuff. would be classic.

 Alex C wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
How is that a facepalm?

If somebody is just breeding a punch of raptors in a row it would make sense to just name them Alpha, Beta, Charlie, Delta, Echo, etc etc etc instead of 1, 2, 3. It's an easy enough enough naming convention to implement.

I'm just gonna guess that they will be fighting Alpha and Beta at some point...

I suppose it makes sense as a naming convention.

It's just trying to legitimize a trained/domesticated (for lack of better terms) squad of Velociraptors, I find the concept ridiculous...

Well, dogs are social pack hunters. Raptors are social pack hunters. They could theoretically be domesticated.

We'd probably want to try with actual Veloceraptors first, the ones the size of a chicken, before we tried what the films actually represent in the Deinonychus.

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
Hybrid dinosaurs and trained raptors. I think the human hybrids would have been a better plot at this point.

I think the train/big water beasty ending sounds plausable. Even if they perhaps lead it on to the track in some way.

In relation to feathered dinosaurs.
NSFW language - liberal use of the word Feth

Spoiler:

Don't look at it as dinosaurs getting worse. Look at it as birds getting better.

Mind blown.

First one was the best Malcolm and Grant were awesome 2nd one was really cool as well....

But the book was much better (considering that Muldoon was a BOSS and blew the heads off raptors left and right! Plus shooting a RPG at a T-rex)

I've been looking for a good link to that trailer- added to first post.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Alex C wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
How is that a facepalm?

If somebody is just breeding a punch of raptors in a row it would make sense to just name them Alpha, Beta, Charlie, Delta, Echo, etc etc etc instead of 1, 2, 3. It's an easy enough enough naming convention to implement.

I'm just gonna guess that they will be fighting Alpha and Beta at some point...

I suppose it makes sense as a naming convention.

It's just trying to legitimize a trained/domesticated (for lack of better terms) squad of Velociraptors, I find the concept ridiculous...

Well, dogs are social pack hunters. Raptors are social pack hunters. They could theoretically be domesticated.

We'd probably want to try with actual Veloceraptors first, the ones the size of a chicken, before we tried what the films actually represent in the Deinonychus.

That's another thing that always bothered me about their "Velociraptors".

There's already perfectly good Dinosaurs that fit the bill, without having to embiggen them.

And yes, I'm sure you could train them. But the film seems to present some sort of on-the-fly alliance. I'm half expecting a guy who "studied their vocalizations", complete with the 3D-printed Raptor voicebox, to issue commands...

After reading a little more in to what InGen is doing(weapons manufacture and what not), I'm thinking the Raptor squad and Indominus are being studied for military use. Maybe unbeknownst to the protagonists, but I'd bet money that's going to get mentioned

 Sinful Hero wrote:
After reading a little more in to what InGen is doing(weapons manufacture and what not), I'm thinking the Raptor squad and Indominus are being studied for military use. Maybe unbeknownst to the protagonists, but I'd bet money that's going to get mentioned

Because why build a bomb when you can genetically engineer prehistoric animals to unleash upon your foes?

Hey, if they're going to use dolphins for underwater espionage, why not raptors for jungle ops?

Ok, I'll be the one to say it:

This film is like the 9-year old version of me's wet dream. 20 years ago, this would have had me drooling with excitement. I'm gonna set 9-yr old me free in the theater. Damn the insanity, this looks like a triceratops' crapload of fun. Feth the haters.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Ok, I'll be the one to say it:

This film is like the 9-year old version of me's wet dream. 20 years ago, this would have had me drooling with excitement. I'm gonna set 9-yr old me free in the theater. Damn the insanity, this looks like a triceratops' crapload of fun. Feth the haters.

Hey, Roof-Horn-Faced-Lizard is just a bad name.

 Alex C wrote:

 Sinful Hero wrote:
After reading a little more in to what InGen is doing(weapons manufacture and what not), I'm thinking the Raptor squad and Indominus are being studied for military use. Maybe unbeknownst to the protagonists, but I'd bet money that's going to get mentioned

Because why build a bomb when you can genetically engineer prehistoric animals to unleash upon your foes?

Exactly, its a million times cooler.

XKCD is all over the bird situation. Replacing bird with dinosaur is mighty- as my toddler is eating a dino nugget, and anything that dies near the road is devoured by packs of dinosaurs.

 Gitzbitah wrote:


XKCD is all over the bird situation. Replacing bird with dinosaur is mighty- as my toddler is eating a dino nugget, and anything that dies near the road is devoured by packs of dinosaurs.

Couple other fun facts:

-There are almost twice as many species of Dinosaur as there are mammal alive today.
-Dinosaurs survive on more areas of a globe than any other group of animals (Reaching both poles, and occupying both the hottest, wettest, coldest, and driest habitats on our planet).
-Several lineages of Dinosaurs are among the most intelligent alive (Corvids and Parrots are scary smart).