Favourite Jurassic Park Dinosaur

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Decided to see what the most popular dinosaur from the Jurassic Park trilogy is most popular. I think that the Velociraptor will be, but, you never know. Mine is T-Rex. I love T-Rex. The Raptors may have been the main killers in all 3, but T-Rex is my favourite. I guess it was the way they introduced it, with the water in the cup rippling, the goat disappearing, and then the leg falling onto the car as the Rex swallowed the goat whole. I liked all the Rex scenes in the trilogy (maybe not as much in the third). The Raptors are important, but so is Rex, and the final roar at the end of the first one was awesome (I saw it in IMAX 3D with surround sound, it was so loud). The Raptors will likely be most popular because they were the main killers, they had a kind of, "creepy" for a lack of better word, quality to them. Their appearances were not as open as Rex or Spino (who I will get to next). While Rex and Spino chased after their human victims, the Raptors lied (not sure about spelling) in wait, sticking to the dense brush, darkness, and long grass. Spino, in my opinion, will be the least popular of the three I am listing. I think this because they introduced it wrong. Just because they were replacing Rex, didn't mean they had to kill it off. It also had a minor role in the film, it took out an airplane and was the reason they were stranded, but after that, it was minor didn't contribute much. Nothing against Spino, just my thoughts.

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July 08, 2013

I didn't think that Rex had a good grip on Spino. The fight wasn't completely inaccurate, but it wasn't very accurate either. Rex would have gone for the neck and tried to bite, not headbutt Spino. Spino, and all theropods, didn't have the necessary wrist action to snap a Rex's neck the way it did. I believe Spino could beat Rex sometimes, but not that way or easily. Imagine if Rex and Spino were the same size, instead of the 20 foot length difference, 5 foot height difference, and possible 2 ton weight difference, all in Spino's favour. Horner better not make Rex look like it was just a scavenger, and make it what it really was, a killer. What scavenger needs a 3-9 ton bite force.

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July 08, 2013

I thought that Spino twisted t Rex's neck to the wrong position and that killed it. Mr Happy, is that a tractor, because I hate driving tractors.

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July 08, 2013

It did twist the Rex's neck. That snapped it. But Spino could not have done that in real life. That's what we are getting at. I really don't "like" Horner that much. His theories on Tyrannosaurus are so off in my opinion. In another bonus feature, Horner stated that he had uncovered a 45 ft long Tyrannosaurus and a hadrosaur of similar size. I will be honest I don't know what happened with that Rex, but if it was 45 ft, then it was 2-3 ft longer than Sue and would be the biggest T-rex yet discovered. Just figured I would mention that.

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July 08, 2013

How do you know?

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July 08, 2013

Know what? The battle or the 45 ft Rex?

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July 08, 2013

Yeah, how do you know Rex Fan? (Sorry, not trying to sound rude.) We can only estimate these things. Like I said above, in the case of the Jurassic Park III fight scene, Spino's jaw strength doesn't matter. It's his [b]neck[/b] strength. Spino has a good grip on Rex's neck, not powerful enough to crush bone, but strong enough to keep hold as he TWISTS Rex's neck, snapping it. His jaws are holding, but his NECK is twisting. Spino was a massive, powerful predator, quite capable of twisting and snapping a rival's neck. The jaws don't matter in this instance. That's what [i]I'm[/i] getting at.

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July 08, 2013

I'm not talking about the neck muscles. I'm talking about the wrist action. If you notice, he holds the Rex in his jaws and places one hand right above the shoulder region and the other on the Rex's head. He then twists his hands and snaps the neck. He was simply using his jaws, and neck muscles I suppose, to hold the Rex relatively still. But he used his arms/hands to do the twisting motion. Spino, along with just about every other large theropod out there, did not have the wrist action needed to perform this. I watched that fight a few times to make sure I was getting the neck-snapping part right.

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July 08, 2013

I also watched the scene several times. I see what you mean about the wrist action, but Spino's action is a combination of wrist AND neck. And you must admit, Spino's wrist action relative to Rex must have been at least slightly more powerful. It's arms were built for scooping and grasping, all in the hands and wrists.

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July 08, 2013

Oh yeah. Spino used it's hands and arms far more than Rex did. T-rex is all about the jaws and teeth while Spino is all about the arms and claws. Basically, they are polar opposites when it comes to how they fight and hunt. So we all agree that the way the Spino won was wrong. Not saying that Spino could not win once and a while, but not like that. In my opinion, he would have won by slashing the throat of the Rex with his hand claws. On a different note, I have an interesting thought. The Spinosaurus has been said to be a male. Or at least that's what I've heard. If it's a male, then did it change gender like the original dinosaurs in the first JP, or is it the offspring of earlier Spinos? We know that the Rexes, Raptors, and many other species were reproducing, but were the Spinos? If they were, that raises another question. How many other Spinos were on the island? If the one from JP 3 simply changed it's gender, then perhaps only 1. But if it was the offspring of other Spinos, then there would at least be 2 others, am I right? Just another unanswered question I thought of. Or perhaps iGen just made it a male and did not bother making it female because they never planned on having more than 1 Spino. I don't know. This thought is becoming more complex the more I think about it, haha

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July 08, 2013

Spino's way [i]would[/i] be wrong if he was attacking fish, except he is fighting a Rex. Spino makes good use of his arms in twisting Rex's neck, as well as his powerful neck muscles to twist, along with his long jaws, not bone-crushing, but ideal for gripping Rex's neck. I would agree that Spino's methods were unusual, but in combat with a Rex, they were just right. That's an interesting point. Who knows if Spino was the first of embryos created, or if it was the offspring of several others? This makes me wonder why Malcolm and Sarah didn't run into one in The Lost World.

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July 08, 2013

Spino used his height advantage to get his jaws from horizontal, to vertical. This twisted Rex's neck to the killer position. An also, Spino might have had the wrist flexibility.

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July 08, 2013

Good point. Since Spino has the advantage of height, he was able to attack from slightly above. While I think that Spino's wrist action was in fact superior to that of Rex and other therapods, I don't think Spino's hands alone could break Rex's neck. The wrist action would be developed for groping in rivers, grasping and clawing for fish, but not for breaking bone, like Rex's jaws. It was the combined motion of hands, neck, and jaws that made Spino the victor.

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July 08, 2013

It was a combination of Spino's hands neck and jaws, as well as Rex's inexperience, being a juvenile, and a scavenger according to Mr. Horner, probably never fought in it's life. Looking at it scientifically, Spino won for the reasons listed above. Slink also won because Horner wanted it to win. Spino may have been taller, but it could have worked against it too. Rex could have attacked Spino from below the same way Spino could have attacked from above. @Deltasromeus15 A Ram 2500 Mega Cab is a pickup truck that weighs about 3 tons. I also drive tractors at my place (manual is fun and easy for me).

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July 08, 2013

In JPOG, the Rex wins the death duel by swinging it's head down and grabbing the Spino's throat. He basically mangles it and then twists the Spino's head nearly 180 degrees. Is this accurate, maybe. Is it inaccurate, maybe. Same goes for the JP 3 fight.

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September 13, 2013

I believe the compsognathus had to be my favorite just because of how many there were and the way they remembered the guy shocking one it was like revenge when killing him. They were very minor characters but it was awesome.

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December 21, 2013

I like JP:1 Because the t.rex sign crashed the ele. fence and eaten the goathttp://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Jurassic_Park_%28film%29

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January 12, 2014

I think I'm one of the few who liked the Spinosaurus, after all, that must've been an extremely battle-hardy Spinosaurus, since it managed to kill a T.Rex

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