Trex Vs Helicopters Manhattan Part1 Build

A construction timelapse: the effects crew builds the entire miniature Manhattan from a bare

taped-out street grid on the stage floor, the shrink-wrapped animatronic rex is uncrated,

hung on its support arm, skinned and posed mid-stride in the avenue, the miniature

helicopters go up on their wires, and in the final real-speed seconds the set wakes up:

rotors spin to speed, the rex's hydraulics flex through one slow jaw test, the firing board