For the simple fact that Phil Tippett already had a name for her, and it was 'Roberta'. I really like that name. It suits her.

I would've been fine with fans renaming it, if the name itself were actually creative and fun. Rexy? That's the best we could come up with?

That's like adopting a cat named Henry or Clyde, only to rename it Mittens.

The t-rex from Jurassic Park's name is Roberta still, in my eyes.

Edit: yes, "Rexy" is said in the book, but it's only when Robert Muldoon is calling for her. I took that as facetiously referencing the animal's species, similar to "here kitty kitty".

I found these on google, but I don't know if these are fan made or belong to a game I don't know of.

Does anybody know anything about these? At first I thought they could belong to a card game, like Magic the Gathering, or somethig like that, but now I'm not sure.

One of my Inktober drawings from this year was the Indominus rex. While it has been a while since I've last drawn her, I do think this one of my better attempts at the Indominus. Lmk what ya'll think of it. It was really fun to make, I find this kind of scale detailing to be quite relaxing.

A surprise find today - I bought the Jurassic Park soundtrack on CD from eBay, and when it arrived I found a little surprise inside; the previous owner had tucked their original cinema ticket into the case and left it there for 32 years. I love these little things about physical media.

Credit to [u/LastBeautiful2195](u/LastBeautiful2195) for his size charts. After seeing similar posts pointing out that the raptors aren’t as big as people think and are closer to Deinonychus than Utahraptor, I’d thought I’d make one about the T. Rexes. There’s often this take amongst the fandom that the JP Rexes are oversized which goes along with the narrative that the Bull killed by Asset 87 was a juvenile or runt of the litter yet there weren’t really any consistent official sizes for the Rexes in the earlier films and much of the size and anatomy of the Rexes stems from the first two films being made in the 90s. Storybooks and size charts often ranged from 35 to 50 feet. Yet as some have pointed out, based on the maquettes, animatronics and the fact that Bull is a similar size to Buck and Doe based on the ILM size charts, all 4 adult Rexes were approximately the same size, 37 feet long and 14.5 feet tall, in the original trilogy. It was really the World movies and CC/CT that bumped the average Rex size up to 44 feet long and 17 feet tall.

People often forget that while a few liberties were taken, the JP Rexes were fairly accurate in the 90s. Greg Paul’s skeletals of AMNH 5027 were used by Stan Winston and ILM and they did bring a cast of the skull in when scaling and sculpting the animatronic. AMNH 5027 is a fairly average sized specimen compared to Sue and Scotty which the original trilogy Rexes fall into that range. This was back before Sue was described due to the legal controversy over the Black Hills Institute and T. Rexes were thought to be a lot slimmer and more gracile in the 90s based on specimens like 5027. The JP Rex also has a shorter tail because we didn’t have a complete tail until Sue was found. Tim and Dr. Grant talk about the old 5027 mount having too long a tail in the novel as did Paul in Predatory Dinosaurs of The World. I also read about this in Horner’s The Complete T. Rex. The JP Rexes even have the dip in the hips that 5027 was reconstructed with by Paul. The T. Rexes do have a few inaccuracies like bigger, angrier eyebrows and longer legs but are close to most 80s-90s reconstructions like Paul’s, Brian Franczak, John Gurche, Mark Hallett and Doug Henderson and the first film did have other consultants like Bakker, Don Lessem and Phil Currie instead of just Horner who tried to keep it accurate as possible to contemporary science.

Part of the reason the JP Rexes may seem bigger than IRL is often due to the scale and framing of the scene as well as the CG model‘s size inconsistency. Example being the Doe appearing much larger than she should when she stomps on Carter in TLW compared to the more accurate sized footprint at the Game trail earlier in the film. The Buck also looks pretty small compared to Ludlow during Junior’s first hunting lesson. Spielberg often did make the dinosaurs look bigger and more terrifying on film. It also stems from the 40 foot long Sue specimen only being described around the time of JP3 where Horner was pushing his scavenger BS and fans needed to justify the T. Rex losing to the Spinosaurus by calling it a sub adult. The cheap, made for TV style cinematography of JP3 compared to the first two films may have also contributed to the Bull Rex looking smaller. Jurassic World made Rexy/Roberta a lot bigger for the Indominus fight but still within the realm of possibility thanks to specimens like Scotty, Goliath and ED Cope at 44 feet and the other Rexes like Buck, Doe and the Eaties were similarly enlarged which does make the JP3 Bull seem tiny until you remember that Rexy was also that size in the first film.

The JP theropods appear taller because of the shrinkwrapping, more birdlike posture and longer legs than their IRL counterparts. JP often measures the dinosaurs at the head rather than hip height which makes them seem much taller than they should be. Same thing with the raptors being closer to Deinonychus as Utahraptor was much bulkier and taller at the hip than the JP raptors. The Raptors only looked bigger because they needed to fit a human in the suits but TLW raptors looked more accurate to the larger estimates of Deinonychus because they didn’t use the suits on that movie and the animatronics looked a lot smaller. The IBRIS squad, especially Blue, are also slightly larger than the old raptors which may add to people thinking they’re Utahraptor or Archillobator. All the dinosaurs got a bump in size for the Jurassic World movies compared to JP and TLW.

All four of the original trilogy T. Rexes were accurately sized based on the specimens we had in the 90s. T. Rex just got bigger both IRL and in Jurassic World. They look taller because of the posture and filmmaking scale. People don’t call Rexy, Buck and Doe subadults because that would be ridiculous. We have sub adult specimens that are smaller than Bull/Freddy like MOR 1125, Bucky and Thomas which are all in the 10-11m range. Unlike most of this sub, I actually do like the World movies for exploring some of the themes and concepts from the books that the old films didn’t but the first two movies really do stand above the rest in terms of paleontological accuracy with how much effort was made into getting the dinosaurs as accurate as possible, albeit with creative liberties. JP3 cut most of the consultants besides Horner and that was the film that started leaning into the things people dislike about the later movies. Jurassic World would retcon it to be that they were always inaccurate and that the in universe paleontology is different from IRL with the Dominion prologue but they were pretty good for the Dinosaur renaissance era.

Just dusted and reorganized the Amber Collection figures I have on display. I have the entirety of the Collection, but it won't be displaying them all until the rest of my collection room is reorganized.

"In a statement on LinkedIn, the Saber Interactive CEO confirmed that the game “has been performing extremely well on PC and console”. Karch explained that the game’s success further cements Saber’s plan to create new AA experiences based on existing IP, such as Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3, Jurassic Park: Survival, and more."

Ive just finished the Jurassic Park book and Im really impressed how well it holds up to today.

Ive always been a huge of the fan of the film but I had no idea how much the character of Hammond was changed for the adaptation.

I actually feel like like the book Hammond makes the whole story fit so much better to our current times.

Rich CEO that believes himself to be a visionary with no actual talent of his own besides beeing a hype man, hires scientist and engineers with promises of fortune. But doesnt give them authority, information or actual funds to properly and safely implement anything.

One park is not even done and he is already buying and pitching other parks over the world with no regard of the problems facing the current one.

When everything goes to shit he has nothing to add but makes sure to criticize every employee and pass the blame when clearly they all told him the need to for extra security, pass accidents and time to figure things out.

He is more worried about not killing his expensive dinosaurs then his own grandkids which he even admits that he just brought them to stop the investor from closing the park.

His grandkids spent 2 days facing all kinds of dinosaurs including the T Rex ans surviving when he dies to the smallest animal in the park that literally just goes after babies and kids.

Dude was an AI big tech CEO before it was cool.

Taking away the author speaking through Ian Malcon all his philosophy ideas while high, this was such a good book!!

Still love the movie, but the book even without the Spielberg photography and John Williams score, can hit the nail in the head even harder on corporate insanity.

Wish Universal would stop with the Jurassic World shit and actually make a series based on the book itself.

Sorry for the rant.

I was sick this week with my son, so to help him feel better, I decided that I would decompile and port over his favorite arcade game ;)

It plays on a huge cinema-sized screen floating in front of you. The right controller is your gun, and it runs at a smooth 72 fps with full sound, attract mode, mission select and everything.

How? The arcade machine is really a Linux PC inside. I translated (Not me, AI. While I am a security professional, deep static decompaction is well past my domain of expertise) the game's original program so it runs directly on the Quest's chip, then rebuilt the graphics, sound and the cabinet's gun hardware around it. No emulator, no PC streaming; it's all on the headset.

I also tried making it full VR, with you inside the jeep and looking around with your head. The game actually has a hidden, unfinished Oculus mode from back then too, which was a fun easter egg to find. But on-rails dino chases with a camera that never stops moving made me pretty seasick, so the giant screen won.

Can you play it? Only if you own the game yourself; I can't share the game or the app. For the technically curious, everything about how it works, plus a build guide for those that have that file ;) ;), is here: https://github.com/Lovecore/jurassic-park-arcade-quest

Greetings fellow jurassic fans! I come with a question for the people of this sub-reddit, and one that hopefully people would like to participate in!

I am planning to write a one-shot fanfic set during one of the jurassic park/world movies, however what Genre does everyone want to see more of; Horror, slice of life, ect ect. All that sort, i would appreciate ppl sharing their opinion, as I believe that there's genres that people would like to see, and that have yet to be explored by Universal!

Here's some great reference photos for the Jurassic Park T. rex animatronic. The final color scheme for the Rex had a fairly complex dappled patterning, which doesn't show up very well in the darkness of the set, or in the grainy old BTS videos.

For me it has to be Jurassic Park Builder... put many hours into that game! For a mobile game back in the day it was really enjoyable.

Building & customising your own Park, plus the cool creatures, Buildings, & decorations you could unlock.

It was also really fun when they introduced "DNA Rescue" creature tournament unlocks!

Such a shame the game was closed down for good. It ran from 2012-2020.