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| − | This strip refers to ''{{w|Jurassic World}}'', the then new ''{{w|Jurassic Park}}'' movie, and the titular theme park. [[White Hat]] explains to [[Megan]] that, in their park, they have genetically engineered a better {{w|Tyrannosaurus}}. Megan doesn't feel that the historic Tyrannosaurus can be improved upon, but White Hat insists they've created an even more terrifying, smarter ''Tyrannosaurus'' for this new park. | + | This strip refers to ''[[wikipedia:Jurassic World|Jurassic World]]'', the new ''[[wikipedia:Jurassic Park|Jurassic Park]]'' movie. [[White Hat]] explains that the movie's plot involves genetically engineering a better {{w|Tyrannosaurus Rex}}. [[Megan]] doesn't feel that the historic Tyrannosaurus can be improved upon, but White Hat insists they've created an even more terrifying, smarter T-Rex for this new movie. |
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| − | White Hat refers to ''Tyrannosaurus'' as "two decades old", indicating that he has switched topics from the movie's plot line to the animation techniques that created the {{w|Jurassic Park (film)|Tyrannosaurus on-screen}} in 1993 versus today. Clearly, in the computer animation world, we should be able to create something more convincing with modern technology. Megan comments that she is fairly certain it is older than two decades, suggesting that she is referring to the actual Tyrannosaurus that lived millions of years ago. | + | White Hat refers to T-Rex as "two decades old", at which point he has switched from talking about the plot line, to talking about the animation techniques that created the T-Rex on-screen in 1994 vs. today. Clearly, in the computer animation world, we should be able to create something more convincing with modern technology. But Megan objects to this notion that T-Rexs are only 20 years old, staying with the line of thought that White Hat started with. |
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| − | In the final panel, White Hat introduces the "new" ''Tyrannosaurus'', who is immediately recognizable as the green ''Tyrannosaurus'' from {{w|Ryan North|Ryan North's}} ''{{w|Dinosaur Comics}}''; specifically, from the last panel of said webcomic - which in turn is from [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/interview-with-ryan-north-creator-of-dinosaur-comics-15523444/ clip art]. Anyone who has read so much as a handful of ''Dinosaur Comics'' will know that its ''Tyrannosaurus'' character "T-Rex" is about as far from smart and scary as it is possible for a ''Tyrannosaurus'' to be (see [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2739 this example] from the day this comic was released). | + | In the final panel, White Hat introduces the new T-Rex, who is immediately recognizable as the T-Rex from {{w|Ryan North|Ryan North's}} ''{{w|Dinosaur Comics}}''. The joke is that ''Dinosaur Comics'''s T-Rex is about as far from smart and scary as it is possible for a T-Rex to be. It is also not very funy (as suggested by the title text). |
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| − | The title text is an example of what T-Rex (the character) would say to a couple of humans, and it's a poor joke which would only be funny when it's a talking T-Rex saying it. Despite his goofy mannerisms, he is still a carnivore who attacks (or at least accidentally steps on) humans, as can be seen in panel 3 and 4 of the webcomic.
| + | Characters from ''Dinosaur Comics'' also appeared in [[145: Parody Week: Dinosaur Comics]] and [[1350: Lorenz]]. |
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| | ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
| − | :[White Hat holding one hand up in front om him and Megan are walking together.] | + | {{incomplete transcript}} |
| | + | :[White Hat and Megan are walking together] |
| | :White Hat: In ''Jurassic World'', we've used genetic engineering to create a ''better'' dinosaur. | | :White Hat: In ''Jurassic World'', we've used genetic engineering to create a ''better'' dinosaur. |
| | :Megan: Tyrannosaurus is the most charismatic animal that ever lived, and you think you'll ''upstage'' it? | | :Megan: Tyrannosaurus is the most charismatic animal that ever lived, and you think you'll ''upstage'' it? |
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| − | :[White Hat now holds both his hands up in front of him as he and Megan walk on.]
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| | :White Hat: ''Tyrannosaurus'' was cool, but it's two decades old! | | :White Hat: ''Tyrannosaurus'' was cool, but it's two decades old! |
| | :Megan: I think it's a ''little'' older than that. | | :Megan: I think it's a ''little'' older than that. |
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| − | :[In this frame-less panel White Hat points up as they continue to walk.] | + | :[White Hat points up] |
| − | :White Hat: We took ''Tyrannosaurus'' and we ''improved'' it. Made it scarier, deadlier, smarter. | + | :White Hat: We took Tyrannosaurus and we ''improved'' it. Made it scarier, deadlier, smarter. Look – there it is! |
| − | :White Hat: Look–there it is!
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| − | :[White Hat (drawn without his hat) and Megan are dwarfed in the bottom left corner as they stare up at a facsimile of the green T-Rex from ''Dinosaur Comics''. They only reach T-Rex to it's knees.] | + | :[White Hat and Megan stare up at T-Rex from ''Dinosaur Comics''.] |
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| | ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| − | *In the last panel [[Randall]] forgot to draw White Hat's hat so he looks like [[Cueball]], but from the first panel where White Hat walks with Megan and points up at the Dinosaur, it is clear that it is those two characters that are standing beneath it in this last panel. | + | * In the last panel [[Randall]] has made the error of forgetting White Hats hat, thus drawing him as Cueball. Since Megan is still there it is obvious that it is a mistake. |
| − | **Note that in the two other comics with T-Rex, Randall put in a small Cueball under the foot of T-Rex in the fourth panel of [[145: Parody Week: Dinosaur Comics]], and in the T-Rex [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:f2b12f1e-bbae-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd story line] from [[1350: Lorenz]], he also forgot to drawn [[Hairy|Hairy's]] hair, thus also there including Cueball though like here by mistake...
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| − | The entire ''Dinosaur Comics'' was parodied in [[145: Parody Week: Dinosaur Comics]], where Randall copied the drawings himself, and T-Rex has appeared in one of the story lines in [[1350: Lorenz]] (see this [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:f2b12f1e-bbae-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd example story line] and also the Dinosaur section under [[1350:_Lorenz#Themes|Lorenz themes]]), where the actual images from the first three panels of Ryan's comic are used, just like here where it is the last panel which is used.
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| − | *Unlike the surrounding comics, this comic does not have a 2x scale version. This is likely because T-Rex already appears at the highest resolution here, though [https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4005 a higher-resolution render may exist].
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