Post AWilJB0N5veDesF2qu by josephfclark@awscommunity.social
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(DIR) Post #AWiYExqam3FuHuKR1M by markwitton@sauropods.win
2023-06-15T14:00:54Z
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Working on #paleoart of a rearing Kentrosaurus for the Palaeogames book today. It's not doing any favours to dissuade my opinion that Godzilla is best interpreted as a gigantic, bipedal, carnivorous stegosaur - official canonical backstory be damned!
(DIR) Post #AWiYOeW9Up0dEYO66K by DEGL_TOONS@mastodon.social
2023-06-15T14:02:39Z
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@markwitton That's what I am saying for years!
(DIR) Post #AWia9Z51d8pBvydHs0 by kevinteljeur@mastodon.online
2023-06-15T14:22:19Z
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@markwitton The Thagomizer Pro
(DIR) Post #AWiaQXge3zzsXIKBYu by mike@sauropods.win
2023-06-15T14:25:21Z
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@markwitton I thought the official backstory was just "giant mutated dinosaur", nothing about which dinosaurian clade.
(DIR) Post #AWicJ8e6xyJckpjjkW by markwitton@sauropods.win
2023-06-15T14:46:23Z
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@mike I'm pretty sure theropods were mentioned somewhere in the early films, but now that I'm looking it up, I'm struggling to verify that.
(DIR) Post #AWicckOCrS7RJdeCmW by mike@sauropods.win
2023-06-15T14:49:54Z
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@markwitton I highly doubt anyone involved in making the early films even knew the word "theropod".
(DIR) Post #AWifTVC4Hz3VRXFkqu by TKSivgin@sauropods.win
2023-06-15T15:21:56Z
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@markwitton If I remember correctly, in the first movie it is stated that Godzilla is a hybrid of a Stegosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus, which is of course ridiculous for many, many reasons, but does describe the design-process behind him quite well.In addition to that, in some iterations, his face has quite mammalian features reminiscent of Asian dragons, such as a rhinarium and external ears. Perhaps he is no dinosaur at all but a kind of synapsid.
(DIR) Post #AWih0SEQQFtRlcdGLY by markwitton@sauropods.win
2023-06-15T15:38:40Z
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@TKSivgin The folks behind the film stated that Tyrannosaurus, Iguanodon and Stegosaurus were used to design Godzilla, but I don't think they talk about hybrids in the film. IIRC, it's just ID'd as a mutated dinosaur. The theropod stuff comes later - they find the dinosaur species Godzilla was mutated from, and it's a T. rex-knockoff.
(DIR) Post #AWilJB0N5veDesF2qu by josephfclark@awscommunity.social
2023-06-15T15:29:13Z
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@mike @markwitton The Hesei films of the 1990s are their own continuity, but depict a pre-irradiated, pre-mutated Godzilla, “Godzillasaurus.” (There are some time travel shenanigans, and two different versions of Godzilla in branching timelines. They are mutated by radioactivity caused by an atom bomb test and a nuclear submarine accident, respectively.) This is what it looked like; the back plates are much smaller than the irradiated morph.
(DIR) Post #AWilJBwraSR4aHbl1U by markwitton@sauropods.win
2023-06-15T16:27:21Z
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@josephfclark @mike Aha - this must be what I was thinking of.
(DIR) Post #AWissPiv3xEt7apPGq by llewelly@sauropods.win
2023-06-15T17:52:07Z
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@markwitton Time Traveller: "hey Stegosaurus, you're just an herbivore, aren't you?"Stegosaurus: "Technically, I'm allowed to eat anything that doesn't run too fast. I'm not very fast so that's mostly plants. Mostly."
(DIR) Post #AWithNlg5p3vpEQEHw by llewelly@sauropods.win
2023-06-15T18:01:22Z
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@markwitton Wikipedia:"Art director Akira Watanabe combined attributes of a Tyrannosaurus, an Iguanodon, a Stegosaurus and an alligator[55] to form a sort of blended chimera, inspired by illustrations from an issue of Life magazine.[56] To emphasise the monster's relationship with the atomic bomb, its skin texture was inspired by the keloid scars seen on the survivors of Hiroshima.[57] "I take this with a grain of salt, but it seems plausible.
(DIR) Post #AWiuNXuwkPfZSwrXeK by llewelly@sauropods.win
2023-06-15T18:08:55Z
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@markwitton @TKSivgin oops, sorry for my earlier wikipedia comment; I didn't see this comment until after I posted it.