Random set of the day: Spinosaurus Attack
Posted by Huwbot,Today's random set is 1371 Spinosaurus Attack, released in 2001. It's one of 46 Studios sets produced that year. It contains 155 pieces and 2 minifigs, and its retail price was US$35/£24.99.
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I want Lego Studios revived. Hopefully we'll see https://ideas.lego.com/projects/41b66128-6300-4734-8562-53c8dd78fb2c as a set.
This was one of those odd Studios sets ... but I'm pretty sure I bought this purely for the Spinosaurus.
They seem a little amateurish and clumsy, now -- with the benefit of all those beautiful dinosaur moulds Lego has created for the Jurassic Park sets -- but at the time, those dinosaurs were amazing, and I absolutely loved them.
Oof. Studios-era dinosaurs were...something.
Pretty accurate to the movie scene, which is pretty good for a relatively early licenced set.
I've got this set. The Spinosaurus was great, al beit, not accurate at all, but hey man, something to coincide with Jurassic Park III was great when I was 7. Looking back at the movie now, yeah, it's not great, but the Spinosaurus makes up for its shortcomings. The Spinosaurus is the best dinosaur, and you all know it. If you say otherwise, you're only deceiving yourself.
@Slithus_Venom said:
"I want Lego Studios revived. Hopefully we'll see https://ideas.lego.com/projects/41b66128-6300-4734-8562-53c8dd78fb2c as a set."
That is a pretty cool idea. Supported.
Unpopular opinion, but I think JP 3 is the best sequel to the original JP. Jurassic worlds included. Wish they’d release a Spinosaurus to modern standards
The apparent "protagonist" of this set is seen with hair only above his eyes. The entire rest of his face is bald. Should this be called "Minifig - Pattern Baldness"?
@Your_Future_President :
I don't know how I'd rank 2 against 3, but they're between 4 and 5 for me. 4 was actually a promising start before they bodily-functioned all over the franchise with 5.
@HandPositions:
He's got a hat. It's hard to spot, but it's a bit above his head as the character is in the middle of a Scooby-style jump-take.
@purpledave
Yep. 5 lost me at the “let’s bring a bunch of meat eating monsters to the mainland and let them go”
Sorry guess I spoiled it for some.
That funky dinosaur is responsible for a majority of the list today:
Unique:
3039 2x2 slope 45 with dark red scale print in dark grey x2
6127 dragon arm right in dark grey x1
6128 dragon arm left in dark grey x1
30459 Spinosaurus head with dark red scales print in dark grey x1
40373 dino shoulder right with dark red scales print in light grey x2
40374 dino shoulder left with dark red scales print in light grey x2
40375 dino neck/tail ring in dark grey x2
40378 dino tail section medium with pin in dark grey x1
40382 dino leg pair with dark red scales print in dark grey x1
40385 dino sail fin with dark red scales print in dark grey x1
40390 dino jay in dark grey x1
40393 3x3 dino foot in dark grey x2
40395 dino tail section large with pin in dark grey x1
Rare:
4284 2x4x2 windshield inverted in trans light blue x1
30145 2x2x3 brick in brown x4
Fun set. One of my first non-duplo LEGO sets. Is it featured on of my favorite dinosaurs.
I would be beyond thrilled if they came out with a modern spino in a set. Hopefully this upcoming wave...
I haven't super paid attention to the new Jurassic World sets, have we gotten a new Spino yet? I'd say it's about time given how major a role it played in JP3 and how well the updates have been in the TT videogames. You know, I wonder if we'll ever get *any* JP 2 and 3 stuff other than these old Studio sets.
As many have said Studios would be fun to see updated for the modern day. I feel like with how popular those sitcom based Ideas sets are and how much people demand Legacy LEGO products it may be a good way to kill two birds with one stone.
@Your_Future_President:
Oh, I was rooting for the dinos to kill a couple of the "heroes". Or the lava. Or an anvil that had been conveniently dropped from a passing plane.
I only watched it once, so I can't remember exactly how the ending played out, but I know for sure I spotted a better solution than letting them all go. All they really had to do was open up the main doors and let the poison gas dissipate. Tada! Carnivorous dinos saved, but not unleashed on an unsuspecting human popoulation.
@GSR_MataNui:
They've done a few JP1 throwback sets, so I wouldn't rule out any JP2 or JP3 sets just yet. They'd need to find an iconic scene on the same level as what they've already done, but it could happen.
@purpledave
Oh trust me, you’re better off not remembering the ending. Something something something oh giant button to release dinos. Then little brat says oh theyre just like me. *presses button that inevitably leads to the demise of America*
And the people that write these movies make more than you and I combined plus some. Unless of course you just happen to be Elon Musk or Steve Jobs.
I’m glad LEGO is a toy company and not a Movie Studio. “Let’s wait out the first two but make a set based on Jurassic Park III, destined to be the best in the series. And while we’re at it, let’s go in hard with Prince of Persia, The Lone Ranger, Speed Racer and the later Pirates of the Carribean films. They’re going to be huge I tell you!”
Ah the days when Spinosaurus was just a T. rex with a sail on its back. What a ... horrible time.
I know that there's no spinosaurus on Isla Nublar, but it would still be awesome if this year's Jurassic World sets included a spinosaurus and stegosaurus. I think they're the only two major dinosaurs from the films not to get a modern Lego release.
I find it ever so silly that his cap is just flying out of his head, clearly revealing his "hair" that is only really meant to be seen under the cap.
I love old dinos as much I love old ones.
How fitting, i rewatched JP 3 just yesterday
The head and tail rotary joint to allow head and tail movement could have found so many more uses but only appeared here and in the Elephant caravan. The dragon arms with clip hands are cool but never used again, and the H shaped legs would have looked better for pose-able camera shots if they were two separate legs.
From the instructions there does seem to be a 2x2 tile and support in the tree for the plane to balance on but seems a bit precarious, does anyone know if the plane balanced ok? I would have used a classic 4x2 hinge and turntable to allow more dramatic camera shots.
@Your_Future_President said:
"Unpopular opinion, but I think JP 3 is the best sequel to the original JP. Jurassic worlds included. Wish they’d release a Spinosaurus to modern standards "
While I would probably agree that’s a very low bar to clear
@Your_Future_President said:
" @purpledave
And the people that write these movies make more than you and I combined plus some."
They do get a lot for each film but few get to work on many movies. The professional life of a Hollywood screen writer is precarious and usually short-lived. When you see a long list of writers in the credits, especially if they are credited in multiple pairings/groups, it’s not because lots of writers were working on the script together. It’s because one lot was replaced by another. The ones who got fired are unlikely to work on a high-paying Hollywood film again. Even ones who don’t get fired find it hard to work on multiple Hollywood blockbusters.
@Your_Future_President said:
"Unless of course you just happen to be Elon Musk or Steve Jobs. "
Steve Jobs is dead. I’m pretty sure that PurpleDave is Bill Gates III’s and Mark Zuckerberg’s love-child. No, I don’t know how that’s biologically or chronologically possible either. It just is. ;~)
@Galaxy12_Import said:
"That funky dinosaur is responsible for a majority of the list today:
Unique:
[...]
40375 dino neck/tail ring in dark grey x2"
I thought that piece was also in the Orient Expedition elephant in 7414? Or is there a subtle difference between that piece and the one used here?
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And... this is another one of those sets where Rock Raiders' Sparks was trying his brief career as an actor / stuntman. I've never seen a single Jurassic Park movie, so I've no idea if the original actor looked like Sparks at all, but... I would guess *not*?
I know, I know... my running commentary on sets where Sparks appears is probably unnecessary. He was just my favourite of the Rock Raiders - who themselves were my favourite Lego characters - back in the day, so I've always been particularly alert to his appearance in unexpected places / job roles; I guess he had difficulty holding down an single job after getting back from Planet U. Similarly, Docs, also of Rock Raiders, is the cameraman in this set, as he is in most of the rest of the studios' line.
@ambr said:
"From the instructions there does seem to be a 2x2 tile and support in the tree for the plane to balance on but seems a bit precarious, does anyone know if the plane balanced ok? I would have used a classic 4x2 hinge and turntable to allow more dramatic camera shots."
It was actually fine, balance wise. The tree had an upright hook piece that skewered the plate with hole on the bottom of the plane and held it in place.
It’s funny how all of the Jurassic Park sequels are lazy rehashes of the original with none of the heart, wonder nor depth. The message to treat science with reverence and to not play god feels earnest in the original - the sequels simply rehash the moral while simultaneously screaming, “Ooh, look at what Indominus is going to do next! Aren’t genetically modified dinosaurs so much cooler?!”
In the words of Ian Malcolm, “You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it.” Jurassic Park doesn’t need a sequel, it’s a perfectly self-contained story ending with the proclamation to not screw with nature and let dinosaurs remain a relic of the past. Any sequel with more dinosaurs is inherently self-defeating. Just because they could make a sequel to Jurassic Park doesn’t mean they should.
@Zander:
I’m pretty sure I’m older than Zuckerberg, but if you can figure out a way to prove that in a court of law, I’m certainly willing to collect any inheritance that I may be due, in the event that I survive either of them.
At first glance of the picture without magnifying, it looks like a puppy - snout and mouth of the Spinosaurus the nose and tongue, and the reflective light off the pilot's hat the eye.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Your_Future_President :
I don't know how I'd rank 2 against 3, but they're between 4 and 5 for me. 4 was actually a promising start before they bodily-functioned all over the franchise with 5.
@HandPositions:
He's got a hat. It's hard to spot, but it's a bit above his head as the character is in the middle of a Scooby-style jump-take."
Yes, but under the hat is only that small chunk of hair.
JP3 is the only Jurassic movie that I haven’t watched yet. Our of 2, 4, and 5, I’d say that 2 is my favorite because of how much Jeff Goldblum we got in it.
@Zander said:
" @Your_Future_President said:
" @purpledave
And the people that write these movies make more than you and I combined plus some."
They do get a lot for each film but few get to work on many movies. The professional life of a Hollywood screen writer is precarious and usually short-lived. When you see a long list of writers in the credits, especially if they are credited in multiple pairings/groups, it’s not because lots of writers were working on the script together. It’s because one lot was replaced by another. The ones who got fired are unlikely to work on a high-paying Hollywood film again. Even ones who don’t get fired find it hard to work on multiple Hollywood blockbusters.
@Your_Future_President said:
"Unless of course you just happen to be Elon Musk or Steve Jobs. "
Steve Jobs is dead. I’m pretty sure that PurpleDave is Bill Gates III’s and Mark Zuckerberg’s love-child. No, I don’t know how that’s biologically or chronologically possible either. It just is. ;~)
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Screenwriters and directors make way less than you’d think. Tech people make even less than that. Big-name and/or prolific actors make a solid amount of money, but filmmaking is not actually the most profitable job. I mean, consider this year’s just-announced best director Oscar nominations. Out of those, David Fincher is the only one who fits in the big studio system. Emerald Fennell, Chloe Zhao, and Lee Isaac Chung are all independent filmmakers whose movies were distributed by studios. Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish auteur who functions outside of the studio system, as well.
@TheRightP_art:
Cheap rehashes or not, there’s a legitimate hook for each movie. In JP1, it’s as Malcolm said. They figured out how to do it, and didn’t stop to think if they should. By the end of the movie, they’d abandoned Isla Nublar to the dinos. For JP2, it’s as Hadden said in Contact: “Why build one when you can build two for twice the price?” Given the enormous investment, it does make sense to maintain an off-site reserve in case something happens to your display stock, which is when Isla Sorna enters the picture. And there’s always going to be one Wall Street type who thinks they’ve figured out a way to reap a windfall out of disaster. JP3, I believe, was some idiots thinking they could sneak in and do some _real_ big game hunting, and ended up needing to be rescued. JW1 was a red herring. The park was just a cover for developing a weaponized dino program, and they did a little too good of a job. And finally, JW2 was clearly an attempt to get two morons killed by sending them to the most dangerous place on earth, only to see them survive and doom all of humankind.
@TheRightP_art : In addition to what @PurpleDave said, JP2 is based on Michael Crichton's follow up to the original "Jurassic Park" novel - his sequel was also called "The Lost World."
@PurpleDave Actually JP3 was just a rehash of the 2nd act of JP2 with people trapped on the island (albeit in the 3rd, they were trying to find someone and not "to hunt") and trying to escape. Entertaining enough, but none of the sequels hold a candle to the first 2 sadly. Would be great to see a remold for the spino though given its major role and just how cool it looks!
A T-rex in a spinosaurus costume.
Come on, guys! They’re still filming the movie. The Dino will look better in post once the CGI is finished.
Maybe.
@PixelTheDragon:
Last week on Talking Dead, they showed the “stand in” for Darryl’s dog, Dog. It was a lifesize plush dog, and it looked pretty rough, like someone was in a crunch for time and just had to get it done no matter what it looked like.
@Zordboy said:
"This was one of those odd Studios sets ... but I'm pretty sure I bought this purely for the Spinosaurus.
They seem a little amateurish and clumsy, now -- with the benefit of all those beautiful dinosaur moulds Lego has created for the Jurassic Park sets -- but at the time, those dinosaurs were amazing, and I absolutely loved them. "
Man, LEGO really needs to make more sets based on the first three films.