The Amandatorium

a·man·da·to·ri·um /ə-`mæn-dətôrēəm/ noun A space (much like an auditorium) where it is mandatory to be Amanda.

[didanawisgi]

Sansa Stark Oil, gold leaf and Porcelain on wood panel by Jay Johnstone

[straightwhiteboystexting]

notaburritowhore

[lukefitzsimons-deactivated20221]

Drogon and Daenerys.

[petyrbaelishs]

Sophie Turner and Aidan Gillen at the Game of Thrones Season 6 Premiere, Los Angeles, CA

[pr1nceshawn]

Animal Facts You Didn’t Know

[mairah-ariana]

[tastefullyoffensive]

This is my favorite sport.

[pipistrellus]

is this curling

[computersaresadtoo]

XP/98 remix

[mishalak-deactivated20200713]

What is the word for simultaneously impressed and freaked out?

[queenclefairy]

Bob’s Purse- The Compilation

[nevver]

Untreated anxiety, Aaron Tilley and Kyle Bean

[vinniecampos]

BOB THE DRAG QUEEN

[witdiseased]

A very serious show about cooking

[puppycastiel]

[cosmic-noir]

When your dad is a twin 😊 This is so cute!

[kenaabik]

ANUBIS NO

So I see this

and all I can think is 

this

[roachpatrol]

[roachpatrol]

oh my god this got so many notes

[knightsolaireofthesun]

Eat shit, Ra

[elegantmess-southernbelle]

There’s always that one god in any pantheon whose name is all in caps and ends in “NO”.

[plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact]

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

[suicunesrider]

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

[drtanner-dickery]

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

fucking look at this shit though

[mauridianhallow]

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

[mizushimo]

amazing

[shadowthorne]

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

[mad-dyspunktional]

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

[datneeks]

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

[muck-raker-deactivated20181222]

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

[alessariel]

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

[alessariel]

This is getting better and better.

[red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161]

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

[teslasturtle-deactivated2023011]

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

[myloverhammurabi]

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

[gorsime]

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

[myloverhammurabi]

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

[flamingbluepanda]

Old movies had the best special effects

[megan-e-pearson-deactivated2016]

Practical effects are legit and Jurassic Park is still one of the highlights of the best special effects ever. It’s not a “was” it’s a “is”. NOTHING in Jurassic World looked as good as Jurassic Park 

[sleezy]

[westeroswolf-deactivated2026050]

That cat has expensive tastes. 

[thelionsmayne]

[shorelle]

“You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun.” (Star Wars TFA/Avatar AU)

Happy birthday to my beloved @matereya!! ♥ ♥ I’m sorry for the lateness of this gift, but I hope you enjoy Zuko and Katara as lightsaber-wielding badasses in the final TFA duel (BECAUSE OF REASONS OK ;D)

Also a tribute/thank you for always inspiring me with your beautiful SW and ATLA art, and for being such an epic friend in the trash compactor across these two fandoms!! _(:з」∠)_