Posted: Jul 19 2005, 03:16 PM
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since when were there t-rex in king kong
Posted: Jul 19 2005, 04:51 PM
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QUOTE (Sneaky Bob @ Jul 19 2005, 02:16 PM)
since when were there t-rex in king kong
Since the original one.
and this one is called a V-Rex.
Silly name, but what the hell.
Posted: Jul 30 2005, 04:06 AM
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QUOTE (Iamjacksusername @ Jul 19 2005, 03:51 PM)
Since the original one.
and this one is called a V-Rex.
Silly name, but what the hell.
http://oddboy.mindsay.com/?entry=27QUOTE
What does the V stand for? Well, we may never know what the V really means in the hallways and cubicles of Weta Digital and that is likely to be where the true meaning remains. For the characters within the universe of King Kong, the name of this beast is irrelevant. If they even bother to process the beast in their brains, they will assume it is a Tyrannosaurus rex, and for the most part that’s what it is. Peter Jackson has explained that the dinosaurs of Skull Island are different simply because they have had 65,000,000 more years of evolution than the species we know from fossils. We can refer to the V. rex as T. rex because the terms are not exclusive. If you need a name, I suggest Tyranno-Variant Rex. ‘V. rex’ is simply a marketing term for the animal and I’ve only seen the creature referred to as V. rex by Weta Workshops and Dark Horse in regards to the collectibles. That said, I will continue to use the name ‘V. rex’, mostly because I personally think it sounds cool.
The V. rex in the Kong trailer appears to be much larger. Below you see a screen
shot from the trailer. V. rex is attempting to bite Kong’s hand as Kong catches
Ann Darrow falling out of a tree. The gaping maw of the V. rex dwarfs the tiny girl in Kongs hand, in fact it dwarfs Kong’s entire fist! This alone illustrates the gigantic size of the V. rex. Obviously a study image showing the V. rex’s scale to Ann Darrow would answer the question, but in the absence of that resource I have made ‘naked eye’ estimates of the V. rex’s size. I believe that a very conservative estimate would be a length of 65 feet, a hip height of 22 feet and a 7.5 foot long skull, and that 75 to 80 feet long, 30 feet high at the hip and a 10 foot long head is not impossible. That makes for a monstrous villain a great deal larger than the frightening Tyrannosaurus Sue, even at my lower estimate.
The head of the V. rex appears very much similar to that of a typical Tyrannosaurus Rex. Large bony brows, flat forehead, and the bony ridge on the nose have been standard features in Tyrannosaur life reconstructions for the 100 years since the first Tyrannosaurus was discovered and are substantiated by fossil evidence. The biggest change we see is in the teeth of the V. rex. The lower jaw appears to be normal, until you get to the tip of the jaw. There we seem to find a double row of teeth, with large grabbing teeth augmenting smaller teeth better suited for sawing through meat and bone. I theorize that this second exterior row of teeth has evolved to catch smaller prey, something V. rex would need to be able to do in keeping with its larger size and it’s need, as a carnivore, to hunt prey of all sizes
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