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[J0shuaKane]

i see 2 small legs and the underside of one small part of a huge shell moving forward. the "shell" is moving too fast/smooth for those to be its only 2 legs and be that big.

it still looks upright(kind of), but there is definitly a helluva lot more to the monster than what we see.

and i dont think the monster would drag his head near the ground in any case.

i think it will be a crab/squid/whale, but right now to me it looks like a giant crab.

[Blacraven]

[IronJ146]

Wow, very nice loop. Too bad I missed this...
So, I'm gonna say this, and I expect to catch hell for it, but I'm being incredibly honest here...
You know what I think it looks like?

A dude in a suit...Not saying it's good or bad. Just my opinion on the first thing I thought of when I saw it...

[detranova]

[Lasher]

Only one thrid seen

[AnthonyWC70788]

 Oh Come On It Is Obvious (Just my Opinion, lol)

[J0shuaKane]

that "neck" is just part of its shell.

this thing is not godzilla like at all, you are just looking at it wrong.

[Caerwiden]

[J0shuaKane]

[Caerwiden]

[cloverfreaky]

The Magic Eye puzzle continues!

While I can see the head/shell/turtle/dino thing that people are currently outlining now, that image appears more like a "look what that cloud looks like" kind of thing. It doesn't seem fluid or static enough, especially given that we're assuming to see the whole head. It looks way out of scale to me, too. (Even monsters have to make sense...his head would be bigger than his leg!)

I'm still with the "upright creature, but too little to tell anything for sure" crew. I also seriously doubt that the movie crew would give us such a clear view of the monster that could be found by simply still-framing on the trailer. There's no way they are going to reveal that thing in full before opening weekend.

[Sasori]

I think it looks more like the crap/isopod leg to be honest. When it strafes to the right behind the building, try to look at the leg as it moves right. It seems to bend about a few floors up and shoots up and left. (This is looking at it from our perspective). So it would resemble an N shape.

I would agree that this thing looks enormous. In fact, I would say its more like 1/5th and not 1/3rd. In the back of the N leg, you can see that there is a little joint there like a crab's.

That's what I see.

[Headman]

Here is an update to the cut and past of the frame by frame stills of the monster I did. I cut and pasted pieces of the monster and blened them together. I have updated the picture to show the arm folded back next to the head. I thought originally it was part of the head and the arm but now I see it is only the arm we see and not the head. Maybe it is protecting it's head from the military firing at it or it could be the creators covering it so we cannot see what it looks like.

[SlushoLover]

Ok, I made my video originally as a flash animation, but it got so big that if 10 people watched it I would have to mortgage my house to pay for the bandwidth I was using. So then I exported it to a video file, (see it here) but it too is huge, plus the aspect ratio is off and quite frankly I don't have time to correct it. It outlines the monster as several others have seen it and I think they are correct. Thanks to Sigrada who pushed me in what I think is the right direction with his persistent posting of this theory that made me re-think my theory.

Here are some stills from the video that might show everyone what I think I see in the trailer:

monster head monster ribs
claw front leg

And here is an animation that comes from the video that outlines the monster as it moves within the 11 or so frames it appears in the trailer. I tried to stay true to the shape as it was shown in each frame, so the shape changes quite a bit from frame to frame. I think this is probably due to (a) auto-focus of the video camera struggling to keep the frame in focus, (b) smoke and debris from the damage the thing is doing and (c) the darkness of the scene.

monster moving ~2 Meg

Edit - sorry those pics and gif are the hugest yet, they'll make dial-up users explode - MikeyJ

[e2c]

what you think is its head is actually its leg. trust me. just believe me for a moment and watch the gif again. u can see the knee there and how it ties in with the rest of the motion.