Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-26728172-20151212170333/@comment-1791057-20151215071903

Collector1 wrote: I think we should just stick with 40ft for now. JPLegacy is run by fans and their size chart is fan made. Fan made size charts shouldn't be used to find an animal's size in the films. I don't know where they found the sizes 42 ft for the females and males being 40 ft. The closest size I could get was from The Making of The Lost World: Jurassic Park book which when describing the size of the Tyrannosaur animatronics mounted on carts used in film, and I quote: "At its full extension on the cart, each T-rex reached a length of about thirty-seven feet and a height of twenty feet." The Making of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, page 47 I'm unsure if these animatronics had tails or not, but that's the closest I can get to a size for the two. It may be made by fans, but I garuantee my size chart is an accurate measurement. I got my measurement by researching the dimensions of a 1992 4-door Ford Explorer (like the one seen in the film) and added 6inches to account for the Plexiglas roof, to get an estimate of 6ft tall. When chasing Ian, we get a perfect line-up of the Tyrannosaurus as she passes the Ford Explorer, which gave me the opportunity to stack the Explorer to measure the height of the T. rex from her hip, which is the standard measuring point due to the hip height never changing should the Tyrannosaurus raise or lover her back. It's not perfect, but as you can see, she's well above 13ft at the hip. At most, Rexy is between 16 and 17ft in height