Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-1259419-20141019114635/@comment-1187034-20160311233945

ProfInGen wrote: All of that is true BUT Parasaurolophus was deisnged in JP so its design was already in existence. All they had to do was make a male/female color morph.

I do wonder when the decision was. It seems to me that they changed their minds at one point and it may have been cost prohibitive or time prohibitive or even Spielberg saying "no, change this."

The parasaurolophus was shown and designed in Jurassic Park. So to show another Hadrosaur, possibly even along-side Parasaurolophus may have, in Spielbergs opinion, been confusing to the audience. If you notice, the ONLY non-crash art of any of the animals is... Corythosaurus. Mamenchiasaurus doesn't have it either technically but is a cut and paste job of Brachiosaurus and Pteranodon Longiceps was newly designed as Pteranodon Sternbergi due to a size conversation with Jack Horner... but the crest was adjusted.

In JP, we know Spielberg changed the size of the Raptors to be human sized and changed the size of the Dilophosaurus to be smaller (at least what we see) so as not to confuse the audience with that similar "style" animal and may also have factored into the decision of including a frill on the Dilophosuarus so it would be, at least once attacking, Visually different.

TLW had so many new dinosaurs introduced that perhaps to save on time and money and also limit confusion/simplify, the change was made to just include the one we've already seen and already know but to change the colors morphs.

He did this with the town set. From what I read, they had begun building it and got a call one day saying "How far did you get? Oh, ok, just finish that and be done with it." Realizing the money was better spent elsewhere (the new extended ending) and not in ...Filming in New Zealand, Building a Full Workers Village (dialogue which was haphazardly changed), or producing yet another dinosaur when we could simply see the paras in a new way. Well, the Mamenchisaurus actually did have concept art made for it by Stan Winston Studios. I honestly don't who made the Corythosaur concept art seen in TLW. Its John Sibbick because I've viewed his website and I don't believe he ever did make paleoart of Corythosaurus.