Comments on: Lockwood Goes Jurassic

By: riffraffse7en

riffraffse7en — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:25:55 +0000

yes I understand that out of place feeling all too well -as all my constituents in third grade were running about in pink ribbons and kissing boys, yours truly was enthralled that I had achieved learning how to spell Pterodactyl by memory. I brought the book I had been reading on dinosaurs to class and showed it to one of the female teachers -explaining to her in a very animated way about what I had learned -and she gave me an odd look and then they put me in a separate room with a man that asked me a bunch of questions. He said he was testing my knowledge. (IQ I assume) It went on for a few weeks. Etc. I am sure they wanted to find out if I was disturbed or intelligent (result, I am probably a little of both- and much good it has done me- heh). But, I have since lost my ability to remember how to spell dinosaur names, and now had to look pterodactyl up to spell it correctly. (Who needs intelligence when we have internet, spell check, and reality TV?) Needless to say I have always had a fascination with all things scientific. The Dinosaurs being one of the great mysteries of global evolution, of course they would not escape my curiosity. (I probably have more of this than intelligence). I don’t know if I would buy the companion but I would certainly frequent a game that embodied “Land of the Lost” -Hokey but true, I loved that show with the sleestack, and that weird time traveling thing… it was the “Ancient Aliens” of the 1970s.

By: FEMAELSTROM

FEMAELSTROM — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:45:08 +0000

Hey there, just thought you would like to know that here in the California desert, there are places (don’t know if they are still open) but they were road side diners and they were in the shape of full sized dinos. It was real cool. I have a picture of myself as a yungun there, but we aren’t going to see those anytime soon…lol. Also I agree that I wish that we could get our mitts on that place where the video was shot.

By: FEMAELSTROM

FEMAELSTROM — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:36:18 +0000

Gotta admit, I only had enough to buy the brachiosaur, but I love him. This is another great example of Lockwood doing it’s magic. These are great and I do want the other two. Good job Lockwood!

By: SealWyf_

SealWyf_ — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:31:05 +0000

I’m hoping that the landscape in the video is a new Jurassic Apartment. How awesome would that be? We also need huge, life-sized dino models to set around in our private spaces. Preferably next to Black Stallion Props. Want. Totally want. (How old am I again?)

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:10:03 +0000

Not into dinos much myself but I have a friends who is crazy about them and he hasn’t been coming into Home much at all. I told him about them and he jumped on Home immediately and bought the pack. Bringing this kind of new content may help bring people back, there are a lot of dino fans out there.

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:18:37 +0000

Just did exactly that, it’s a beautiful place Norse, I hope you admire that every time you look outside in the mornings.

Also, my bad for not running the vid, glad they put in some size comparison, least they ain’t pulin’ an OUYA on us then eh!

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:43:52 +0000

Fast-forward in the video to the :50 mark — there are several shots which provide a companion-to-avatar scale.

I’m always happy to play tour guide any time someone makes it out to Kauai; the island itself is insanely beautiful, and it gives me an excuse to see all the cool sights again. Run a Google image search on “Polihale” to see one of my favorite hangouts.

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:36:19 +0000

I was fascinated by Jurassic Park as a kid, not the idea of being so close to dinosaurs like most of my friends though, who’d caught the Dino-bug, no. I was stunned by the sheer processing power of the computers that generated these lost beasts. Then more so with the animation team that brought them to life. Y’know what I did the first time I saw that hulking (now just a little inaccurate) T-Rex? Nope, I didn’t scream of gasp like the rest of the cinema, I shed a tear. Heh, yep. The animation was so fluid, the lighting was perfect, the whole thing just skins into place within the “real” footage, and I shed a tear of joy and appreciation. Yeah, CG and animation can do that to me.

Anyway, what I’m tring to say here is; I did love that film, but for very different reasons to the rest of the world it seemed. I have to give credit to LW for a nice logical idea, but being pets they’re also rather underwhelming for dinosaurs. They should call them “Baby Dinos” or something, but I can see by the still ad (sorry -- no time for vids just now) and correct me if I get this wrong, there’s no Dino-to-avatar scale. Bit misleading, s’not a giant thing that you could crush nooks with and comically name Stompy. Just to warn any of you who’s salivating at the prospect of tearing up the Hub with massive lizard death.

And Norse, I’d take you ip on that island tour mate. Maybe after I can take you the beach Chariots of Fire did that scene on to call it even eh. ; )