Sideshow Dinosauria: T-Rex vs. Triceratops Diorama Picture Thread

[Agent0028]

I was disappointed I was unable to get the JP dio when it came out. This line is more than making up for it.

 

[Slipfilth321]

WOW that looks great now that is worth getting bicose the last T-rex vs Velociraptor i was disappointed but this is awesome

 

[Scar]

I'm greatly looking forward to the upcoming Styracosaurus, and cant wait to see what we get in the future.

 

[Fives]

i have the t-rex on flex and just yesterday placed a flex order for this dio, the pictures are awesome and scars mini review is great. i hope we see alot more from the dinosauria line.

 

[PRTCLR]

I hope they will do a velociraptor soon and I hope they do it extremely well. T-rex is pretty popular and cool but I personally think no dino beats the slikness of a velociraptor.

 

[LOTRFan]

I'm greatly looking forward to the upcoming Styracosaurus, and cant wait to see what we get in the future.

You know I played the teaser vid for my six year old and he picked it out right away - he is a dino nut!

 

[Scar]

i have the t-rex on flex and just yesterday placed a flex order for this dio, the pictures are awesome and scars mini review is great. i hope we see alot more from the dinosauria line.

Another Dinosauria convert! Welcome to the dark side, brother! :chew:emperor:chew

I hope they will do a velociraptor soon and I hope they do it extremely well. T-rex is pretty popular and cool but I personally think no dino beats the slikness of a velociraptor.

Do you mean V. mongoliensis as it really existed, or the Jurassic Park Velociraptors? The JP raptors were basically Utahraptors, which personally are one of my favorite dinosaurs species; big enough to hold their own in packs against generally any competitor, and intelligent enough to outsmart both fellow predators and prey alike. Actual Velociraptors, to put things in perspective, were intelligent and feisty, but just slightly larger than a turkey; Deinonychus was around the size of a Timber wolf; and Utahraptor stood between six and seven feet high and tipped the scales at probably in excess of 600-1000 pounds. Utahraptors were lions of the Cretaceous, an intelligence matched both in size and ferocity. I can't think of many animals that these creatures would have had reason to fear if/when assembled in packs. THAT is something I want to see SS depict! Though it's definitely an extreme likelihood that we'll get a Velociraptor vs. Protoceratops dio. I would enjoy that heartily also.

You know I played the teaser vid for my six year old and he picked it out right away - he is a dino nut!

Awesome kid you got there, LOTRFan! I hope my hypothetical future offspring will be interested in dinosaurs and dangerous wildlife... and even if they're not they're going to hear me drone on and on.

 

[PhilboBaggins]

I got mine dropped off the other day. I Freaking LOVE it! The details are awesome. The depth of the scales are really something that you have to see in person. Looks great in natural light in contrast to some pieces that I have which vary drastically in appearance in natural light. The gums and teeth of the Rex are amazing. The blood the scars...it looks like it's happening right in front of you. I was dissappointed because I had to sell my JP dio a few months back for financial reasons but since things picked up I was able to keep this one. I honestly don't think I could position the two side by side if I still had it. This piece puts it to shame and I am a JP nut. The teetering battle falling off the rock face had me worried for the first few hours of display but worth the nerves being shaken because it looks great. I've got the maquettes on order and I am hoping my commissions pick up so I can keep them both.

 

[PRTCLR]

I thought the JP raptors were velociraptors, but you said they are Utahraptors, makes sense. I can't wait for a dio, maquette or a vs on them. I hope they make it soon before I ran out of money. Even if they make any other raptor I would be ok with it.

 

[Scar]

I got mine dropped off the other day. I Freaking LOVE it! The details are awesome. The depth of the scales are really something that you have to see in person. Looks great in natural light in contrast to some pieces that I have which vary drastically in appearance in natural light. The gums and teeth of the Rex are amazing. The blood the scars...it looks like it's happening right in front of you. I was dissappointed because I had to sell my JP dio a few months back for financial reasons but since things picked up I was able to keep this one. I honestly don't think I could position the two side by side if I still had it. This piece puts it to shame and I am a JP nut. The teetering battle falling off the rock face had me worried for the first few hours of display but worth the nerves being shaken because it looks great. I've got the maquettes on order and I am hoping my commissions pick up so I can keep them both.

Yea, I'm also curious about the JP fandom reaction to this piece. I'm sure there'll be caterwauling about "I wish SS would just make JP pieces this awesome" but still an acquiescence that this is far and away a sterling piece to usher in this new line. I guarantee the gents back from Jurassic Island, God rest its soul, would have adored this diorama. It's the guys who are still laying out in the grass at in their yard with toys, taking pictures of the screaming Velociraptor launching itself at the Wave 1 Alan Grant action figure, who are going to throw a ^^^^ fit and say, "Enough Dinosauria, bring on JP!" It's one thing to be nostalgic for a movie you love, it's another to honor what it stood for. JP was about nurturing a renewed love and fascination with dinosaurs by depicting them as real, living, breathing organisms in a story than grips the imagination palpably while remaining largely adherent to accepted paleontological theory. SS has done the exact same thing with the Dinosauria line by endeavoring to render dinosaurs in line with current scientific thought while enmeshing captivating stories with each statue. If anything, real JP fans should be clamoring for more Dinosauria.

 

[Agent0028]

Yea, I'm also curious about the JP fandom reaction to this piece. I'm sure there'll be caterwauling about "I wish SS would just make JP pieces this awesome" but still an acquiescence that this is far and away a sterling piece to usher in this new line. I guarantee the gents back from Jurassic Island, God rest its soul, would have adored this diorama. It's the guys who are still laying out in the grass at in their yard with toys, taking pictures of the screaming Velociraptor launching itself at the Wave 1 Alan Grant action figure, who are going to throw a ^^^^ fit and say, "Enough Dinosauria, bring on JP!" It's one thing to be nostalgic for a movie you love, it's another to honor what it stood for. JP was about nurturing a renewed love and fascination with dinosaurs by depicting them as real, living, breathing organisms in a story than grips the imagination palpably while remaining largely adherent to accepted paleontological theory. SS has done the exact same thing with the Dinosauria line by endeavoring to render dinosaurs in line with current scientific thought while enmeshing captivating stories with each statue. If anything, real JP fans should be clamoring for more Dinosauria.

I think that's what makes the first one so much better than the other two, it really is awe inspiring to imagine the dinosaurs being real and being able to see and touch them. Whereas the second still had a little of that, but was more focused (imo) on being an actiony movie, and the third was just, well let's not go there.

 

[Scar]

I think that's what makes the first one so much better than the other two, it really is awe inspiring to imagine the dinosaurs being real and being able to see and touch them. Whereas the second still had a little of that, but was more focused (imo) on being an actiony movie, and the third was just, well let's not go there.

I always found TLW an awesome movie from an ethological standpoint, but JPIII razed the foundations of everything the first two movies established. "Dinosaur George" Blasing, the man behind Jurassic Fight Club on the History Channel, and I were just discussing this a few weeks back. We couldn't think of anything from JPIII that is scientifically salvageable. Epic fail.

 

[Agent0028]

My problem with TLW is that the last bit where they take the Rex to San Francisco, I'd like it more if I shut it off when Malcolm and co. get rescued.

 

[Scar]

My problem with TLW is that the last bit where they take the Rex to San Francisco, I'd like it more if I shut it off when Malcolm and co. get rescued.

In the original script they had a much longer sequence with the raptors, including a chase with Sarah on a motorcycle. Following that there's a Pteranodon attack as the team tries to get away, and Ludlow is brought back to the T.rex nest on the island and fed to the infant.

The reason I like the ending in the movie is because we all know how dangerous it is when an elephant becomes enraged, breaks loose from the circus and rampages; now what TLW did was remove the elephant, and instead make the rampaging animal an eight ton carnivore given a hefty dose of adrenaline and having been deprived food and water for the past 24 hours. Granted, the T.rex would have been killed eventually, but letting an animal like that loose in a populated area is an interesting thought, and one which gives an excuse to make the animals known to the public, vindicate Malcolm's account of the JP incident, and bring the dinosaurs under governmental protection. Big fan of TLW, but JPIII should never have been made. At all.

 

[Agent0028]

Those are good points. It just felt a little gimmicky to me.

 

[PhilboBaggins]

Yea, I'm also curious about the JP fandom reaction to this piece. I'm sure there'll be caterwauling about "I wish SS would just make JP pieces this awesome" but still an acquiescence that this is far and away a sterling piece to usher in this new line. I guarantee the gents back from Jurassic Island, God rest its soul, would have adored this diorama. It's the guys who are still laying out in the grass at in their yard with toys, taking pictures of the screaming Velociraptor launching itself at the Wave 1 Alan Grant action figure, who are going to throw a ^^^^ fit and say, "Enough Dinosauria, bring on JP!" It's one thing to be nostalgic for a movie you love, it's another to honor what it stood for. JP was about nurturing a renewed love and fascination with dinosaurs by depicting them as real, living, breathing organisms in a story than grips the imagination palpably while remaining largely adherent to accepted paleontological theory. SS has done the exact same thing with the Dinosauria line by endeavoring to render dinosaurs in line with current scientific thought while enmeshing captivating stories with each statue. If anything, real JP fans should be clamoring for more Dinosauria.

amen my friend amen

 

[Scar]

Those are good points. It just felt a little gimmicky to me.

And you're not alone. I think what ended up souring a lot of people on the film was its denouement, and actually it was intentionally a "gimmick", in a way. Steven Spielberg also intended it to be an homage not only to monster movies of old, to the original TLW by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when an animal is brought back to the mainland, escapes, and rampages through the city. One of the more terrifying things to conceptualize is when you plop a large, dangerous animal down in a heavily-populated area with which it is unfamiliar; now add one hell of an appetite and you have a recipe for disaster. In those respects I actually thought it was done quite well, particularly when they had the helicopter circling at the end trying to sight in the Tyrannosaur and put him down. It's the tragedy that's played out far too many times with elephants, big cats, and bears that have broken free of their constraints and run amuck in urban settings. It puts a neat little bow on everything, but instead of thinking about the animal slipping within the grip of death, being given essentially a hearty dose of adrenaline, and throwing it into the middle of San Diego similar to what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did with a gargantuan sauropod in London, a lot of people unfortunately just ended up dismissing it as camp. It's a shame.

 

[Havok]

Me and JC got our Dio in the other day and we're totally impressed by it. We originally had the Exclusive on order but canceled cause we were concerned how the paint apps were going to turn out. After seeing your guys pics we were convinced, this thing is a work of art. It's probably the most detailed statue that I've seen and I think SS has a real seller on their hands here, as long as they can keep the paint apps up to this standard. Anyway here's some pics that I just took and if there's anyone else out there still not sure.......If you like Dinosaurs you have to jump into this line. I think it'll be hard to be a completist cause there's so many Dinos that SS can do, but this piece at least I think is an iconic one in the Dino world. OKay here's the pics.........

 

[Havok]

 

[Havok]