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Jurassic Park
The Tyrannosaurus rex
The paddock breakout is the most influential effects sequence of the 1990s and almost none of it is computer-generated. Stan Winston built a full-size hydraulic animatronic weighing somewhere around nine thousand pounds, and the sequence was shot in staged rain that soaked the latex skin and made the machine twitch and misfire between takes.
- First appearance
- Jurassic Park (1993), Universal Pictures
- Created by
- Steven Spielberg, Stan Winston, Dennis Muren
- Also known as
- Rexy, The T. rex
- Universe
- Jurassic Park
- Appears in
- film, books, games
Who is The Tyrannosaurus rex?
The paddock breakout is the most influential effects sequence of the 1990s and almost none of it is computer-generated. Stan Winston built a full-size hydraulic animatronic weighing somewhere around nine thousand pounds, and the sequence was shot in staged rain that soaked the latex skin and made the machine twitch and misfire between takes. The famous shot of water trembling in a cup was achieved with a guitar string plucked underneath the dashboard. What the film is remembered for technically — the first convincing digital creatures sharing a frame with actors — was originally a test the effects team built without being asked, which persuaded Spielberg to abandon the stop-motion he had planned. The animal itself is treated as weather rather than as a villain, which is why it works.
The Tyrannosaurus rex: the details
- First appearance
- Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park, 1990; the film followed in 1993
- Built by
- A full-size hydraulic animatronic by Stan Winston, with digital work by Dennis Muren's team at ILM
- Around nine thousand pounds
- The animatronic's approximate weight, and it misfired constantly once the staged rain soaked it
- The water cup
- The trembling was produced by plucking a guitar string attached beneath the dashboard
- The digital test was unsolicited
- ILM built it without being asked, and it convinced Spielberg to drop the planned stop-motion
- Treated as weather
- The animal is written as a force rather than a villain, which is why the sequence still works
- The park logo
- A skeleton in a circle, designed to read as corporate branding for a fictional company
Why The Tyrannosaurus rex endures
The effects sequence that persuaded an industry to move to computer-generated creatures, achieved mostly with a nine-thousand-pound machine that kept breaking.
What The Tyrannosaurus rex looks like on a shirt
Signature motif: The skeletal T. rex inside a red-and-yellow circular park logo
The park logo is one of the best pieces of design in blockbuster cinema — a dinosaur skeleton in a circle, functioning as a corporate emblem for a fictional company. It works in one colour at any size and identifies the property with no creature drawn.
The park logo is the asset — a skeleton in a circle working as fictional corporate branding, legible in one colour at any size with no creature drawn. Red, yellow and black. Excellent across all size bands.
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Who created The Tyrannosaurus rex?
The Tyrannosaurus rex was created by Steven Spielberg and Stan Winston and Dennis Muren, first appearing in Jurassic Park in 1993 (Universal Pictures).
What does a The Tyrannosaurus rex T-shirt usually look like?
The skeletal T. rex inside a red-and-yellow circular park logo. The park logo is the asset — a skeleton in a circle working as fictional corporate branding, legible in one colour at any size with no creature drawn. Red, yellow and black. Excellent across all size bands.
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Yes — The Tyrannosaurus rex appears on our kids pages, and shirts are commonly made from US toddler 2T up through youth XL.
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