Re: Jurassic Park 2

[Stang1996@aol.com]

Dan Lipkowitz wrote:
<<One quick question -- could anyone tell whether the two-toed hatchling
prints in the film were meant to be those of "Raptors" or the mistakenly
two-toed Gallimimi?  The latter, I would assume -- except that I understood
that the original design of the animal *did* have the proper number of toes,
but when they were modelled over ostriches for the CGI sequence, they were
accidentally "maimed" by the animators. Any theories?>>

I think that they were meant to be raptors (because they had two walking
toes).  I think that Galimimi had three toes, but I'm not exactly sure.  This
leads us to an even more interesting questiong.  Where did the raptor mommy
and daddy come from?  Muldoon said that they had made eight, but Queen
Raptora had killed five.  Does he know that they were definately killed?  I
mean if I was him I would need dead raptor bones confirm death; if they were
just missing I would be VERY worried and not ASSume them dead.  Anyway, if he
did find the bodies of five dead raptors, where then did mommy and daddy come
from?

Anyway.. maybe we'll see some of the other dinosaurs, like the Brachiosaurs
or Parasaurolophuses and less of those baddly deformed theropods.  And for
gods' sake maybe people will start calling them by their real names instead
of "raptors" and "spitters".  Believe me, I worked as a volunteer in The
Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park for three months, and I never once was asked about
the VELOCIraptors or the Dilophosauruses.

The roster of dinosaurs in the movie is inane.  There are eight theropods
(Galimimus, Proceratosaurus, Metriacanthisaurus, Segisaurus, Tyrannosaurus,
Velociraptor, Dilophosaurus, and Baryonyx), and a primative carnivore
(Herrerasaurus); compaired to one sauropod (Brachiosaurus) and two
ornithischians (Parasaurolophus and Triceratops)!  Some theropds are put into
the herbivore section for obvious reasons like Gallimimus.  I'm not saying
that Ornithomimids would pass up a nice juicy beetle or slug, but big game is
another story.  Segisaurus is questionable as to why they put it into the
herbivore section; too small to do any damage?  Proceratosaurus even moreso.
 What I really don't understand is the inclusion of Metriacanthosaurus
(Obviously agreeing with Greg Paul's synonomysation of Metriacanthosaurus and
Yangchuanosaurus) in the herbivore section.  This thing is a monster, why is
it in the herbivore section? you might as well put T. rex (T. rex, NOT T -
rex) in there.  I also have problems with why at least seven of the twelve
dinosaurs in the movie's roster were big-game hunters.  With only .5% to 10%
of all dinosaurs being carnivores at all, why would over 50% of the JP
dinosaurs be carnivores (I know the REAL reason is that they look cool and
wanted to scare people).

Peter Buchholz
Stang1996@aol.com

Hoping that we'll see the other dinosaurs in JP2 and that they'll be made
right this time.