for those people that don't know the real dinos from attack and 2010, i am starting a guide for you.

first off

the mutant lizards/megablocky foam is the dinosaur

coelophysis

a triassic dinosur,actually the first dino/sauropod the reptile is a meat eater/cannibal that roamed north america.

the difference from the 'lego' version is is the colour of skin(light and dark green)

and no spikes on the tail.

NEXT WEEK:raptor/velociraptor

;)

Wow...those are some pretty damn big Coelophysis bauri

Next Week: Write the titel of the topic in small letters okay? not big...

hm... doesn't this fit more into the community thread or so? i'm not really sure it has anything to do with trains or city...; come to think of it, train, on the other hand, is becoming more and more part of pirate section. :P

as there are no more actual dinosaurs on the planet any colour of skin is as probable as any other. limiting the palette to shades of green and brown does not do the multitude of skin colours for reptiles/lizards justice.

so legosaurs might be doing just fine sporting pink...

as there are no more actual dinosaurs on the planet any colour of skin is as probable as any other. limiting the palette to shades of green and brown does not do the multitude of skin colours for reptiles/lizards justice.

so legosaurs might be doing just fine sporting pink...

I know I look great in pink

Wow...those are some pretty damn big Coelophysis bauri

I was thinking the same thing, lol. No Coelophysis would be 7 meters long...

And the Raptors are a little too big too. They look even bigger than Utahraptor!

And you can't say that the color is a difference, or even say the color. Its impossible to determine dinosaur color. They could have been pink for all I care! or violet!

Maybe you shouldn't be doing this guide.

as there are no more actual dinosaurs on the planet any colour of skin is as probable as any other. limiting the palette to shades of green and brown does not do the multitude of skin colours for reptiles/lizards justice.

so legosaurs might be doing just fine sporting pink...

I know I look great in pink

And what a pretty 'saur you are ;) I like it!

Guys I'll move this extremely fascinating topic in the Community forum ;)

time again,this time we look at the lego raptor, BJ's fave.

as you all guessed, the flesh and (mainly)bone counterpart is velociraptor

this speedy theif comes from th gobi desert,and unlike the lego counterpart,

has a very sharp claw for disembowling and also has feathers. Yes, feathers.

seeming that it is the fastest dino ever,it was crossing the desert during rex's time and before roadrunner.

NEXT WEEK: the pteradactyl ;)

Oh no! More Velociraptor mongolensis hype!

As sort of an amateur expert on Dromaeosaurs I feel pretty well qualified to tackle this one.

Of course, the book and movie Jurassic Park ushered the term "Raptor" for Dromaeosaurid dinosaurs into the general lexicon, and even in the paleontological community, Raptor is used as a slang term for any Dromaeosaurid, but just calling it a Raptor does not make it a V. mongolensis

The Raptors in the movie were Deinonychus antirrhopus. This is due to the fact that when Michael Crichton was writing Jurassic Park, he was advised by an illustrator and amateur paleontologist named Gregory S. Paul who, at the time, was pushing the idea that Deinonychus antirrhopus was actually just another species of genus Velociraptor and should be named Velociraptor antirrhopus. Paul's theory has been roundly rejected since then, but the damage was already done and the definition of "Raptor" has since been very murky.

So what does all this have to do with the Dino Attack/2010 toy? Not a whole lot, but I'm getting there.

First we have to discount the horns on the head and the spikes on the tail. Done. It's fairly easy to say that this is a mutant created by Ogel or some other LEGO baddy. Next we look at the head. The robustness of the posterior portion of the skull with it's even sloping to the anterior end suggests a larger and boxier skull then is present in V. mongolensis who has a very gracile skull with a slught curve between the optical fassa and the nasal cavity. The skull shape eliminates V. mongolensis and Dromaeosaurus albertensis from consideration.

Moving on to the rest of the body, it has the classic Dromaeosaurid shape, but the head is too big in relation to the body and length of the tail. This we'll put down to "toyification". So with the configuration of the torso to the arms and legs we can, for now, say with plenty of certainty that this is a Dromaeosaur of some kind.

Using a Minifig to estimate length, we get a size around 33 feet, or roughly 10 meters. This completley rules out D. antirrhopus and Utahraptor ostrommaysorum who check in at 10 feet and 20 feet long respectivly.

The next best candidate would be Megaraptor namunhuaiquii who at 25 to 30 feet is not a dino you'd want to meet in a dark alley, or any alley. While the LEGO version seems bigger then the largest estimated specimen of M namunhuaiquii, there are no known Dromaeosaurids bigger, so he's our most likley suspect.

So it seems we have everything in order and we get to the feet...

UH OH! The LEGO dino seems to lack the large sickle-shaped killer claw on the second toe of each foot, the hallmark of Dromaeosaurids. So this would technically eliminate him as a Dromaeosaurid at all...but the morphology of the body suggests no type of dinosaur but a Dromaeosaurid...so we're stuck and can just chalk the lack of claw up to bad cloning or mutation.

So what do we have. Well, technically the LEGO Raptor is no known dinosaur species. But the closest we can get is Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, which, for our purposes, is good enough

sir, Deinonychus, sir...May I present you with an update on Megaraptor.

Megaraptor's "feet" were recently shown to be manus.

We might be looking at a carcharodontosaurid or an odd abelisaur with big hands and hand claws...

And MP, its spelled Pterodactylus.

And all of these dinos are mutant dinos-not real dinos, and we can't really make anything out of them, so making this "guide" is a waste of time. We can't really identify them. So, just stop while you're ahead.

And the fastest dinosaur is...WE DONT KNOW.

Dromiceiomimus brevitertius might have been the fastest. Scientists have calculated its speed at 70 km per hour.

Velociraptor could go at 25-30 km per hour at max.

sir, Deinonychus, sir...May I present you with an update on Megaraptor.

Megaraptor's "feet" were recently shown to be manus.

We might be looking at a carcharodontosaurid or an odd abelisaur with big hands and hand claws...

Well crud...I musta missed that memo, thanks for the info

That'll teach me to get overly excited about giant Raptors. Although the last info I had still placed him as most probably a Dromaeosaurid, I'll look around tonight and see if I can't update myself :-D

That would kinda suck though...like when Therizinosaurus cheloniformis went from being a huge classic theropod with big grasping hands, to a bizzare looking turkey-saur that ate leaves instead of other dinos....

But discoveries and changes like that are half the fun of paloebiology

well all i can say is..... EXO-FORCE COULD KICK. SOME. DINO. BUTT!

a link smilie! i just cant stop making smilies can I!

sir, Deinonychus, sir...May I present you with an update on Megaraptor.

Megaraptor's "feet" were recently shown to be manus.

We might be looking at a carcharodontosaurid or an odd abelisaur with big hands and hand claws...

Well crud...I musta missed that memo, thanks for the info

That'll teach me to get overly excited about giant Raptors. Although the last info I had still placed him as most probably a Dromaeosaurid, I'll look around tonight and see if I can't update myself :-D

That would kinda suck though...like when Therizinosaurus cheloniformis went from being a huge classic theropod with big grasping hands, to a bizzare looking turkey-saur that ate leaves instead of other dinos....

But discoveries and changes like that are half the fun of paloebiology

I like Therizinosaurus. I like its turkey posse.

Too bad we don't have much information on it, or even a complete skeleton belonging to a therizinosaur. Except Falcaruis utahensis, which is 90% complete. Falcarius is gonna tell us a lot about therizinosaur life, habits, form, and everything else. Im happy.