Dilophosaurus, Small or Big?

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Now before i begin to tell you everything of what im gonna say, Please know that this is not just another Dino sizing whine this is just a concerned so please dont Bug me about this dino sizing Crap I know its done and over with. Anyways Idk if some of you havent knowdest, But, Do you you all know our beloved Dilphosaurus? Well we know as kids see it creepy and curious little dinosaur, but some of you might noticed something fishy about the dilophosaurus. Remember in books that they say the Dilophosaurus is 20 feet long but in the movie and the game is over 6 feet long. And now im not fussing about the size of the dilo but im just concerned of why frontier kept the same Dilophosaurus small size? is it iconic,Classic or Something? Even though that i think Steven admits that the Dilo's in the movie are Young, Idk. Tell me what you guys think or you know why
 

DBlac

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Almost sure nearly everyone on this forum knows that the size of the dilo, along with a number of other things is inaccurate. It is accepted as film canon because they were depicted at this size in the original movie. They were never depicted again, so even if they were meant to be juveniles in JP, that information was never made easily available, so it just sort of became canon, reaffirmed by JW, with that hologram thing showing it the same size. It was also the same size in JPOG. It's just JP canon at this point, whether it was meant to be or not, and we know its not accurate, just like the frills of the venom spitting. I personally dont mind it, i love the little buggers as they wildly inaccurate.
 

blubbit

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It's pretty well understood that Dilophosaurus is a lot smaller than its real life counterpart. Some JP material (namely JP the Game) suggest that it's not its adult size, but that's a gray area. It shouldn't be thought of as canon. If there's any nail in the coffin on the size debate, it's JW and JWFK examples of Dilophosaurus being the smaller version.

Back into topic, Frontier probably wanted to remain consistent with the previously established Dilophosaurus, and I'm very much okay with this. I love Dilophosaurus, but I would not want the animal's size in JP to be the same as its real life counterpart unless it also had all if its physical features. It's just too different of an animal now.
 
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Steggs

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Hi there!

The Dilophosaurus in game is based off the ones you see in the Jurassic Park/ Jurassic World movies. While they were bigger in real life, the game bases the size of dinosaurs relatively closely to the movies. :)
 

jessydion

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Dr Wu filled the DNA gaps of Dilophosaurus with Chihuahua genes so it would be small, high pitched squeally and make the frill shake.! ;P
 

SotF

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Steggs said:
Hi there!

The Dilophosaurus in game is based off the ones you see in the Jurassic Park/ Jurassic World movies. While they were bigger in real life, the game bases the size of dinosaurs relatively closely to the movies. :)
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Technically, the ones in JP were juveniles if I remember right, the incomplete web thing about the retaking of Nublar (I think it was Return to Jurassic Park...Klayton did a video on it a while back) had artwork where an adult one showed up
 

Flint2025

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It would be cool to get an authentic larger version in the game. Either as a dr wu hybrid to make it larger (they could offer larger versions of other dinos to fit some story line). Or they could claim that the dilos from another region grow much larger but havent been classified as a new species per se or something to that effect.

Speaking of dilos. Is the idea they had very weak jaws and a weak bite something they come up with in the movie to explain the spitting venom? Or was that based on someones actual theory that they had weak bites due to jaw bones? Anyone know?
 

blubbit

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Flint2025 said:
It would be cool to get an authentic larger version in the game. Either as a dr wu hybrid to make it larger (they could offer larger versions of other dinos to fit some story line). Or they could claim that the dilos from another region grow much larger but havent been classified as a new species per se or something to that effect.

Speaking of dilos. Is the idea they had very weak jaws and a weak bite something they come up with in the movie to explain the spitting venom? Or was that based on someones actual theory that they had weak bites due to jaw bones? Anyone know?
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Possibly a bit of both, but idk enough about research on Dilophosaurus to make that claim. In the book, Dilophosaurus also spits venom. To quote it directly: "Scientists thought their jaw muscles were too weak to kill prey, and imagined they were primarily scavengers. But now we know they are poisonous."

So, based on the book, Dilophosaurus spitting venom is Crichton taking some creative liberties based on some evidence about the animal, assuming there are hypotheses on Dilophosaurus being a scavenger due to jaw strength. Again, I'm not too knowledgeable on this particular dinosaur.
 

South Tyrant

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This discussion will not lead to anything, the Dilophosaurus of the game is based on JP, the Frontier probably will not change the size or other thing, although I agree to be necessary that the Dilophosaurus. But like I said, I don't think there will be any changes to this particular dinosaur.
 

satch

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Like others have said, it is a gray area and ONLY little nods to the fact that true dilophosaur is 20 feet long when there is slight mention of it being juvenile in JP.

The *fact* is that Steven Spielberg wanted the dilophosaur to be something unique and not a similar thing to Velociraptor. So he made it smaller, the unique mannerisms and sounds it has, etc.
 

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Hmmmm.....I think the small Dilophosaurus is better cause In the Original Novel of Jurassic park the Dilophosaurus in Micheal Crichton's version was big enough to lift denis nedry's body by the head and lift him up like maybe 2 or 3 feet off the ground and for a big predator in the novel the spitting thing would'nt be useful anymore since it has grown large...sooooo i think the Steven Spielberg's Dilophosaurus is better since it makes for its small weak size makes it where the spitting action comes in handy
 

Alphacenturion

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This is an extract from Wikipedia.

"Dilophosaurus was featured in the 1990 novel Jurassic Park, by the American writer Michael Crichton, and its 1993 movie adaptation by the American director Steven Spielberg. The Dilophosaurus of Jurassic Park was acknowledged as the "only serious departure from scientific veracity" in the movie's making-of book, and as the "most fictionalized" of the movie's dinosaurs in a book about Stan Winston Studios, which created the animatronics effects. For the novel, Crichton invented the dinosaur's ability to spit venom (explaining how it was able to kill prey, in spite of its seemingly weak jaws). The art department added another feature, a cowl folded against its neck that expanded and vibrated as the animal prepared to attack, similar to that of the frill-necked lizard. To avoid confusion with the Velociraptor as featured in the movie, Dilophosaurus is presented as only 1.2 meters (4 ft) tall, instead of its assumed true height of about 3.0 meters (10 ft). Nicknamed "the spitter", the Dilophosaurus of the movie was realized through puppeteering, and required a full body with three interchangeable heads to produce the actions required by the script. Separate legs were also constructed for a shot where the dinosaur hops by. Unlike most of the other dinosaurs in the movie, no computer-generated imagery was employed when showing the Dilophosaurus".
 
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