I just saw King Kong, and there's this pretty cheesy scene where he picks up Ann in NY and goes sliding around on the ice in what I guess is Central Park.
I've taken a couple classes regarding materials and stress, but not anything near being an expert. I was wondering how thick a sheet of ice would have to be in order to hold up a 10-ton (pulling a random weight out of my ass there) gorilla without breaking.
( For people who try to tackle that problem, you can assume the gorilla is a point mass for simplicity's sake. )
Lower limit for King Kong's weight is 18510kg, upper limit is the "official" 38 tons, or 34474kg.
The lower limit was arrived at by scaling-up from a normal gorilla. I did it to find-out the amount of kinetic energy the giant monkey had upon impact, after falling of the Empire State Building. My results here and here.
Nice. But they gave you the wrong numbers for the '33 Kong (I can't believe I missed a King Kong Thread!)
In the jungles, '33 Kong was 17 or 18ft tall. In the city, he's 21. Millenium Kong is, however, 25ft.
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10 tons seems a bit much. Meat and bone aren't nearly that dense. I can see Kong being the weight of two elephants-- about six tons at high end given his size....
That is a production photo from the unmade "King Kong vs. Frankenstien", which is just nifty to share.
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How would that have worked out? It's pretty clear why that wasn't made.
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About 1 to 2 feet of ice based on the vehicles they use on the Rideau Canal. That's about the thickness of the ice there which of course depends on how cold it is that year. They use truck-mounted snowplows & snow blowers to clear snow off the ice and keep the ice nice & smooth, pickup trucks are used most of the time but I've seen them use what looks to be a 5-10 ton truck to clear some sections.
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How would that have worked out? It's pretty clear why that wasn't made.
One of the original concepts was that the Frankenstien Monster would not be the classic one--but an amalgamation of various African animals. The giant patchwork creature would need Kong's Arms to be fully functional.
ISARMA: Daikaiju Coordinator: Just Add Radiation Justice League- Molly Hayes: Respect Hats or Freakin' Else! Browncoat Supernatural Taisen - "[This Story] is essentially "Wouldn't it be awesome if this happened?" Followed by explosions."
Reviewing movies is a lot like Paleontology: The Evidence is there...but no one seems to agree upon it.
"God! Are you so bored that you enjoy seeing us humans suffer?! Why can't you let this poor man live happily with his son! What kind of God are you, crushing us like ants?!" - Kyoami, Ran
How would that have worked out? It's pretty clear why that wasn't made. Laughing
It was Willis O'Brien's idea, but he presented it to an unscrupulous prducer named John Beck, who, without notifying or compensating O'Brien for the use of his ideas, offered it to Toho Studios, who altered it into King Kong vs. Godzilla. Willis O'Brien died poor and heartbroken. Toho made the movie, which was an enormous hit in Japan and quite a clever satire besides, and then Beck re-edited it into a piece of crap and released it here.
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