Who needs CG, when you can build these!

[Maverick Eagle]

That show has put out the most realistic dinosaurs to date. The raptors and the baby rex were of course the most realistic of course due to the fact that a actor was partially in the suits to give them the ability to walk, and all other features were done by puppeters. It would be very cool to see several of them in a large enough pack in a city parade scaring the crap out of people. infact I could also see them being used in movies as actual characters instead of mock ups for a cgi version. Although in Jarrassic Parks defense they used a combination of animatronic costume and CGI for some of there dinosuars. There JP3 raptors in the movie and special featurs showed them to be very realistic for puppets and animatronics.

Still for lower budget films these costumed raptors would be perfect as the only real work would be to erase the actors lower body and legs. The Raptors theyselves would still be right there interacting with its fellow actors and possibly scaring the crap out of them as the puppeters and actor would go through great lengths make the best ouf of there costumes. I highly doubt a person is going to stand still well a life sized raptor comes bearing down on them in a run, with its mouth opening and closing showing teeth or surprising them around a corner, or worse several of them stalking or surrounding a person in a pack. (that would be a cruel evil joke) . . The same could be done for the larger dinos although any faster movement especially in faster walking would still need to be done with a CGI counterpart

[backstept]

the only thing I noticed with the human operated raptors was that the stride was still human sized so it looked like the raptors we're taking baby steps

[cooloneinca 2224]

nice cool AWSOME Hem Hem

[DAve]

I want one of the raptor suits for my next fancy dress party

DAve