Forum:Utahraptor in JP

If you want two JP fans to fight each other to death, you just ask them this question:

To what real-life Raptor do the Velociraptors of JP resembe most?

I think that, as far as size is concerned, Utahraptor resembles the JP raptors most. Velociraptor Height: 0.5 meter Length: 2 meter

Deinonychus Height: 0.87 metres (at hip) Length: 3.4 metres

Utahraptor Height: 2.2 meters ? see picture Length: 7 meters (longest known skeleton)

Now, what are the sizes of the JP raptors? Different sizes are mentioned in JP media.

On the JPIII poster, these sizes are given:

Deinonychus Height: 1.65 metres Length: 3.9 metres

In the JP films the raptors are about shoulder-height of the humans. I recall the at one point they can look the humans in the eye. So, I think they're slightly taller than 1.65 meters.

The length of the JP raptors matches best with a very large Deinonychus. However, the JP raptors are twice as tall as Deinonychus.

Utahraptor was discovered when Stan Winston was building/finished builder the JP raptor animatronics. He said:

"Later, after we had designed and built the Raptor, there was a discovery of a  Raptor skeleton in Utah, which they labeled 'super-slasher'. They had uncovered the largest Velociraptor to date - and it measured five-and-a-half-feet tall,  just like ours. So we designed it, we built it, and then they discovered it.  That still boggles my mind." (The Winston Effect, p.175)

For me, this indicates that Stan Winston thinks that (the first discovered) Utahraptor matches the JP raptors best in size. If they really modeled the JP raptors after Deinonychus, Winston wouldn't have said this.

So, the JP raptors are either very tall and longer Deinonychus or less-long Utahraptors. I bet my money on the second option.