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[Caught Looking]

In the center of the body, just above the left knee, there appears to be some sort of appendage, similar to a pincer, that opens up just as it disappears from view behind the building.

The camera angle looking down the street is identical to the shot where the head of the SOL comes crashing down. However the wall of smoke that was there in the trailer is missing.

I think it would be kind of neat if anyone could flip this animation upside down to give us a different look.

[Patrick Star]

Looks like a green plasma pooper bug

[fleabit]

I think it's just a mix. Seems like the head of a crawfish, and a shell too boot. The "ribcage" looks like the bottom of a crawfish. I think it's just a mix of seacritters, probably part whale, part shrimp/crawfish, part a little of this, and a little of that.

I am thinking it might be longer, and climbs more than walks, but too hard to tell from the small bit we've seen.

[the_velociraptor]

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It's making me have flashbacks of Zilla. I'm getting visions of Ivy Biolante or Destroyah, though. Possibly Space Godzilla.

[e2c]

oh my...starship troopers 3...now THAT would kill it for me hehe.

ye i agree w/ most people n say its a mix....wud make sense cuz it wud make it quite "unique".

[Jaxe]

OK, I made some changes as asked:

- Put exposure up a bit.
- Flipped horizontally and vertically.
- More slow-mo.

[rjharris1960]

I have no idea what that thing is but if I saw it I would run the other way.

[avpruler]

lol on the wall to the right in big black letters it says:

THE TEXT

a clue perhaps?

[Kaliyuga]

Great footage. My two thoughts on it are probably of no use:

The first thing I think of when I see its 'legs' and that kind of extended looking 'head' is "Someone call Ellen Ripley, her good friend just got a shitload bigger." Also, it got into the twinkies; it has a bigger 'waist' than a xenomorph. But hey.

The other is because I do the BS Hindu crap and feel free to disregard - I keep thinking of 'makara,' which is the Hindu version of a sea monster. They're chimeric, often start with some sort of elephantine head (the roar?), are closely tied to oceans, and are associated with the zodiac symbol of Capricorn, which generally covers mid-January.

I don't see too many representations that are bipedal, but clawed, yes. To tie it a bit more to the real world and disregard my mythological crap, as one site I read up on makara did, there are also 'fishapods' - not bipedal, but a kind of fish/lizard potential new link in the evolutionary chain. The first fossils were found in the Canadian arctic in early 2006.

Two articles from Time on the fishapod:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1181611-1,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1180415,00.html

[Caerwiden]

[Kaliyuga]

[Caerwiden]

[SlushoLover]

Well my movie link of the monster I posted made digg and hits went through the roof, then bandwidth went out of control. Then about two dozen other sites stole it and slapped it up. A few others work has also been ripped from here with no credit to this site, or the people who did the work whatsoever. Heathens out there!! Hope the monster eats their families.

[Caerwiden]

[Sigrada]

Hello. I haven't really posted here before but you might remember that old Behemoth, Leviathan, Ziz theory I made (Posted originally on 4chan's /tele/ text board on July 15. The original is still available at http://dis.4chan.org/read/tele/1184513886/1-40 , and I was quite surprised it actually started spreading from there). Of course all the factors in that theory turned out to be gigantic coincidences but that theory is not why I am posting here.

I just felt like pointing out that everyone, or most people anyway, seem to have gotten a wrong idea of how the monster is positioned in that brief glimpse we get. For instance, people seem to think that the monster is moving forward, or that we see the back of it's head, and that we see it's back legs, and the bizarre movement of the back legs makes people think the monster is insect-like. This is, however, untrue.

Though I speculated this in the original trailer, all these cool non-shaking gifs people have made have really proved my point. The creature is, infact, moving backwards. The legs we see are it's front legs. And we quite clearly get to see it's head. And the monster is.... a really big goddamn turtle. What the hell, J.J?

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5116/monstr2yf4.jpg

So some proof. This first image is the first sharpest image of the monster and the picture people usually look at the most, while trying to guess what the monster is all about. In black lines I have marked out the countours of the creature. The red line is what people think is what the creature is shaped like, but in reality the shell is round like a turtle shell, might not be obvious in this picture, but the brightened up version that was recently posted here makes that quite clear. The front leg looks also totally natural this way. We can also see a very small portion of the creature's head on the bottom left, more on that to come.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/972/monstr15qo1.jpg

This second image is from the middle of the animation. The monster has moved a bit more backwards, I have again drawn out the approximate contours of the creature. If you look at the movement of the front leg on the gif between these two images, you can see it is quite natural for something pushing itself backwards. Also, the head is well visible in this image, though some smoke is in the way and it's quite hard to understand it is the head. I have drawn the line by looking at the backwards gif and observing the movement of the head. However, the third pic shows it all best.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5702/monstr1su8.jpg

In this one, we can clearly see the head in it's entirety, eyes, nose and everything. And the rest is just approximate since it's all behind the building by now.

To really make sense of the creature, just look at the last frame of the gif and try to think the head is there (not that hard, the contours are so easily comprehendable) and imagine the rest of the body to move according to that. If you do that, everything about the shape of the monster and the way it's moving makes perfect sense. So what this entire glimpse is all about is the monster pushing itself slightly backwards in order to look down the street.

Thanks.