Thread:BastionMonk/@comment-26955212-20160213201607/@comment-1187034-20160306233803

BastionMonk wrote: That HUGE Mosasaurus size is probably a film goof. The JW website says it is ~18 meters; like the actual animal.

In many JP films, museum reconstructions and Walking With Dinosaurs etc. the on-screen sizes of dinosaurs is actually far to big. Sorry TLW fans, T. rex feet were not nearly large enough to splash an entire human. So, film goofs like that are nothing new. Actually, ILM conifmred that the large size of the Mosasaurus was intentional. To quote Geoff Campbell who was Digitial Creature Model Supervisor for JW: "On Jurassic World, I don’t remember the original length of our Mosasaurus but we did get into similar territory by scaling her up larger than any known fossils to look bigger on screen for her death match with Indominus Rex. That’s where you need artistic license because that final scene wouldn’t work if a tiny Mosasaurus flittered out of the water and bit Indominus on the cheek."

He even says that famous Brachiosaur scene was purposely scaled up because Speilberg wanted it bigger. So some of these size issues with dinosaurs in media, such as Jurassic Park, could just be more of a case of making things more spectacular than they actually are instead of just film goofs.