Chased by Dinosaurs was my introduction to Giganotosaurus so that one still has to be my favorite. Every time I see the design, I just get instant goosebumps and nostalgic love out of it.
@@GTSE2005the paleo ark one is the better of the ark versions though, it’s much more elegant and intimidating, and looks less like a cheap dinosaur plush bought from Disney land.
The giga spike trend probably originated because it was supposed to be the “rival” of T.Rex, they wanted to differentiate it from the Rex so people wouldn’t be confused, this also helped because T.Rex never really had spikes so it made it more of a “opposite
I think the reason why Gignotosaurus is depicted with spikes/spines/quills might stem from two things. 1. The possible evidence of quill nobs on Concavenator 2. Paleoartist Dmitry Bogdanov's popular works depicting many dinosaurs like Gignotosaurus with either quills or iguana-like spines.
Loved Chased by Dinosaurs as a kid, especially when I saw the Giganotosaurus and it looked really fantastic. The hunt sequence with it and the Argentinosaurus was amazing.👍👌😁
I definitely prefer the first JWE Giga design over the one in "Dominion." The former looks like a believable animal and the spikes have a natural vibe to them (despite it not being a possible trait), whereas the latter looks more like a Kaiju with its crazy spikes and mangled teeth. Although I'll admit I felt sorry for the JWD Giga when it got killed during that forced climax.
Why does everyone keep throwing the word "kaiju" around so much now? Plenty of kaiju in media look like normal animals. They don't all look "generic" like the dominion giganotosaurus. Also, at least the dominion giganotosaurus looks like a carcharodontosaur with the sail hump serving as an exaggerated version of the front back hump that giganotosaurus had in real life and with the whole thing looking very distinct and not looking like a T. Rex with three fingers! In terms of looking like a giganotosaurus, the dominion giganotosaurus is much more representative than some others in the past, like the land before time giga and the journey to the center of the earth giga.
The two different gigs from fossil fighters is due to the third game in the series being vastly different to the two that came before. The red giga is from fossil fighters 1 and champions, while the gnarly looking one is from fossil fighters frontier (frontier is not very good)
If I'm correct, the anime sequel of the Beast Wars Transformers series, Beast Wars Neo, it also had a Giga that's one of the components that forms the Predacon antagonist, Magmatron.
Turok 2008 also had a Giga, it only appeared once in the game when you were crossing a large valley. It was an undefeatable enemy & you could only run past to escape the area. Giganotosaurus has been among my favourite dinos since I was a kid, it's cool to see many different interpretations of this animal. Great work on the video. 👍
you forgot about a mod called Paleo ARK where they give the giga a new design, and you also forgot about The Isle Evrima Giga as the Giga will have a remodel in Evrima
Same. I think it works really well for the Jurassic Park/World franchise, and didn't really understand the backlash. In a world where Raptors are huge and really smart, Dilophosaurus has a neck frill and spits venom, Pyroraptor swims as good as a penguin, and Mosasaurs grow to as large as entire pods of whales, why can't the Giga look the way it does?
Great Video of the Giganotosaurus in Dino media and I pretty much agree big time that the Giganotosaurus in Dino Dan and Dino Dana was actually really cool and it’s one of my absolute favorites of Giganotosaurus, not to mention Chased By Dinosaurs Giganotosaurus, Dinosaurs Giants of Patagonia Giganotosaurus and The Isle Giganotosaurus because those were really cool in my opinion. Great work on the Interpretations of Dinosaurs and other prehistoric prehistoric creatures and keep it up.
_Great_ one as always (👏)! You _did_ miss *one;* the 1995 Discovery Channel documentary _"Beyond T-Rex"_ featured Giganotosaurus (and I believe this paleo-doc in particular marks _the_ first ever media appearance of the theropod). This was produced right around the time both Giga and Carcharodontosaurus were first discovered & described, and there was that debate going on about which of them was _'bigger'_ than T-Rex.
Speaking if the acro comment for JWD's Giga, ive heard rumors that Giga *was* supposed to be Acro, but universal said to change it to Giga because it was more well known
First time I was introduced to the Giga was in ark. I remember watching poet plays and when he played ark and one of his friends had a giga who wouldn’t stop harassing her lol. The ark giga hold’s special spot thou cause it’s on the few Dino’s that actually scares me a bit
The enormous Giga from Dino Crisis 2 is what really got me liking this southern giant as a dinosaur and antagonist in media. Though exaggerated in terms of size and strength likely in part due to nuclear radiation exposure ala Godzilla, the design is pretty cool and works as a final boss. W-Dragon also made a really cool 6 inch model of the Giganotosaurus from the game that I own in my collection, it is the scarred variant from the final boss fight of the game.
Jurassic World’s Giganotosaurus is stated to “look similar enough to the Tyrannosaurus to be mistaken for the latter,” according to the Jurassic Park Wiki. Personally, I think only the Indominus Rex and Indoraptor should have had osteoderms.
I swear I remember this sort of bonus documentary on the disc of some other doc (I think it was the Big Al one) about the Giga and Argentinosaurus and the design they used for the giga was literally just the Walking With allo painted green
To me the most nostalgic look for the Giga will always be the model used in those DK books. I remember one of them had two Giganotosaurus on the cover and that instantly got the attention of my 5 year old mind.
@alexgeorge501, The JW Giganotosaurus is my recent favorite dinosaur from the Jurassic Franchise. Fun Fact: The Jurassic World Giganotosaurus recently appeared in Jurassic World: Dominion, not Jurassic World. Giganotosaurus DNA was used to create Indominus Rex! The Giganotosaurus gonna originally appear in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom in a deleted scene, cut from the theatrical version!
Kind of a hot take but I really like the Dominion Giga design I didn’t like it much in the movie but I grew on me a lot after it got skins in JWE2 Chased by dinosaurs Giga still on top
Honestly I take particularly umbrage with just how badly Giganotosaurus has been portrayed in palaeomedia, it’s one of my favourite Dinosaurs & it’s almost always been done dirty, given an ugly monster design.
Great video, Buddy. I really enjoy watching people who appreciate the not so popular theropod. I have a hammond collection figure of the giga myself! BTW, you look like Kayce from the "Yellowstone" series.
Fun fact: there is a japanese transformers show called "beast wars neo" where i the main antagonist is made up of a giganotasaurus, quetzalcoatlus and an elasmosaurus. He's called magmatron and recently got a new toy
Primeval designs were often stylised but very cool renditions, they did think giga was more lythe back then, but Frederic Wierum did a rendition of it with accurate anatomy, and its so cool. Primeval may be the reason I think Carcharodontosaurs look like dragons, because the same people did 'The Last Dragon' mockumentary and they gave the Prehistoric dragon similar patterns. Very cool.
My introduction to the Giga was the Lost world game and warpath. My favorite Giga thougu has got to be the Gojulas Giga from Zoids due to it's lore. Here's a quick run down: The Giga along with some other Zoids were developed using a different method than most other Zoids. They took the Wild Zoid in the case of the Giga the wild Giganotosaurus type Zoid and made it undergo a forced evolution into the Gojulas Giga. My head cannon theory is that they didn't actually took the wild Zoids as i suspect they are difficult to control without proper taming but rather a young Zoid core that'd just split from it's mother core upon the adult Zoid's death and while it is still in embryonic stage is set to undergo a forced evolution. Not much is known regarding the wild Giganotosaurus of Zi, it was known they were carnivorous and just like all theropod dinosaur Zoids of Zi, they had 3 fingers in their forelimbs, very similar to earth's Gigas. There is a pretty cool rendition of the wild Giganotosaurus Zoids printed in the box of the Japanese model kit. Regarding the Gojulas Giga itself they stand at 17m in height, 29m in lenght they are very intelligent, with great instincts pilots say they are lot easier to pilot than even the regular Gojulas, and their strenght is just insane, they are unmatched in terms of melee combat. They can equip a veriety of heavy weapons due to their size and weight but they are mostly seen equipping the Gojulas Super Cannons or the Buster Cannons for long range support, and purge these weapons when they have an opening to close in to use melee. I think the best rendition of the Giga is in the video game Zoids Full Metal Crash, where you can see the Zoid at it's full insane potential.
JWD Giganotosaurus reminds me of Gorosaurus or atleast what the Monsterverse version of Gorosaurus would look like, and who ever made that gameskin blue/yellow underbelly clearly did that as a reference.
Honestly, I really like the JWD design of the Giga. But I will say that the Nanmu Studio statues definitely has better colors that makes it’s design shine a bit more. I also really like the Dino Crisis 2 Giga design. Really love the dark orange and navy blue color combination an it’s blind eye.
I remember seeing big green from lbt: the Mysterious Island way back when I was a little kid and we'd rent the film from the local store. Didn't now he was a giganotosaurus, but I do remember that every time he came on screen, I thought, "Oh no, it's the nasty one." Not bad. Not mean. Nasty. This dinosaur and an El Tigre villain embodied that concept for me when I was a kid.
I hope the Jurassic Park franchise uses the designs for the dinos in the Jurassic World Evolution game there is no excuse for them to go back now that they have made the dinos look so good and a more accurate depiction of dinos based on the info we have now.
I like both designs for Evolution and the updated cosmetics for the Dominion look. I'm sure they're keeping the Dominion look for the third game, but I would love for them to use the old Giga look for a Carcharodontosaurus redesign.
For the fossil fighters Gigas, the first design was from the first two games (Fossil Fighters and Fossil Fighters Champions). The second design is from the third game, Fossil Fighters Frontiers, in which most of the returning dinosaurs got redesigned.
Giganotosaurus kind of did steal the spotlight from Mapusaurus due to Chased by Dinosaurs - Land of Giants referring to Mapusaurus as Giganotosaurus at a time when Mapusaurus has been discovered, but before Mapusaurus was described/published, making people think Giganotosaurus could have also hunted Argentinosaurus in packs in addition to estimates at the time putting it as larger/heavier than T. rex, leaving Mapusaurus in the dust. Even Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia couldn't decide to call it Mapusaurus or Giganotosaurus despite it releasing a year after Mapusaurus got described/published, it took until Planet Dinosaur until it was consistently called Mapusaurus.
To add to the largest theropod part, even more recent findings have proven that Tyrannosaurus rex can surpass the 8.7 tonnes we thought it would reach. I think the specimens passed 10 metric tonnes
The T. Rex-like Giganotosaurus in Journey to the Center of the Earth was designed and animated by Meteor Studios, which ironically designed more accurate carcharodontosaurids in the documentary Dinosaur Planet. The skin colours are also similar, though not exact. The species in Dinosaur Planet is debated by some to be Giganotosaurus. I also remember reading that the creature designer of the JTTCOTE Giga said his concepts changed overtime into a T. Rex form, so maybe at one point Journey 3D would've had a variation that might've resembled the Dinosaur Planet species. It's also interesting how this albino hybrid of rex and Giga predates the Indominus rex by 7 years!
Love your vids and especially learning about projects I didn't know about from your research. I myself can't wait for the 3 hour video of Velociraptors. Or much like your Moosasaur vid, what they call Velociraptors cause for a long time Jurassic Park made everyone think raptors were 6 feet tall. And I know if one dinosaur is probably more used than T-rex or nearly so it's raptors of some sort.
I just noticed that Chomper's parents have two clawed fingers (ala Tyrannosaurus), while Chomper has three clawed fingers, more like an Allosaurus or a Giganotosaurus
Also related to Chased by Dinosaurs there is another documentary on the Chased By Dinosaurs DVD that's more or less the 'science' behind the Land of Giants. . . and what do they do for the Argen & Giga? They take their Diplodocus model and make it all brown and their Allosaurus model and give it a green tinge.
