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[edit] Skull Islanders in Kong 2005

  • "They were portrayed by a number of different Pacific Island people, who were sprayed with a brown paint to make all of their skin tones coincide. Many also have bright red eyes, presumably an evolved evolutionary trait" I dunno about the red eyes being "evolved". They could indicate disease. Some people in Africa also "redden" their eyes with red fruit, so perhaps the Skull Islanders do the same thing.
  • Is it true that "the only race is the human race"? People frequently use terms like "mixed-race" or "racial tension" to describe topics which deal with more than one "race". My husband is African-American and I am Caucasian and we have referred to ourselves as a multiracial couple. All P.C.-ness aside, isn't it perfectly fine to say "The native people of Skull Island appear to be of a mixed-race Pacific Island descent."? I would be interested in peoples' thoughts. -Binder
Human race is only one true race (species/subspecies), Homo sapiens sapiens. Until recently it was suggested that some specific african tribes (Kongo-pigmies and Kalahari Bushmen) and most of the Oceania natives could be different Homo sapiens subspecies due to some of their unique distinct traits and the lack of other traits common in the vast majority of humankind. Though even the previous was outplaced since a discovery from DNA research, that have shown that almost all of present humans descent from a relatively small population of Homo sapiens sapiens, somewhere in central Africa, that was the only one to survive (along with the mentioned unique races)a worldwide extinction event that wiped out the rest of the cosmopolitan Homo sapiens sapiens subspecies. That explains why the Humans are so genetically similar to each other, even for conspecific standards [1](and also why the Pigmies, Bushmen and Maori though unique cannot be separated from the rest of humanity by taxonomical standards).--Draco ignoramus sophomoricus (talk) 16:14, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Deleted information about the spider pit sequence from the original King Kong. That information belongs under King Kong, not here. Here, we are just discussing the landscape, animals, and people of Skull Island. Not specific scenes from the films. -Binder

[edit] Merge with Monkey Island?

Merge has been made. Article now focuses on all forms of Skull Island.

Several other islands (not as minor as Skull, of course) have their own articles. I strongly object to the concept of merging this with the main Monkey Island article; perhaps if none of the other islands' articles are much more substantive than this one, they could all be merged into one "Islands in the Monkey Island series" article. -DynSkeet (talk) 16:35, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

  • I agree. If for any reason this article would be merged, this should be to the Blood Island. Pictureuploader 21:00, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I also agree. Is there some reason why this island has its own article but Blood Island doesn't?-- Supermorff 21:43, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
I think it should stay since Dinky Island, another small island has its own article as well and it is about the same length. Also, there now is an article for Blood Island.

[edit] Location

"2 degrees south, 90 degrees east, off the cost of Sumatra" is in the Indian Ocean, not the South Pacific.

--User:tbarron

In Son of Kong Captain Englehorn describes the island as exactly 1,753 miles from Dakang, a fictcional(?) port town in Southeast Asia. - Kevingarcia 06:45, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fauna

I'd like to see some mention of animals found on Skull Island, aside from giant apes of course.

In the original film there are variations of Tyrannosaurus rex, Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, Pterodactyl, Tanystropheus as well as unique creatures such as two-armed giant lizards (like wingless wyverns), and in the lost scene, giant spiders, giant crabs and incectoid mollusks.

In Son of Kong there are cave bears, Styracosaurus, a dragon-like cave-dwelling meat-eating sauropod, a savage Plesiosaur relative and other creatures.

In The King Kong Show there are many of the same creatures, as well as a few new ones like a strange-looking vulture with a fez-like crest on its head.

In the aborted Creation film (that would become the original King Kong) there were several modern species (like chimpanzees, jaguars, herons) as well as extinct creatures like the Arsinoitherium.

In the 1976 version there was (at least) a giant snake.

In the 2005 film there are several creatures listed in that entry.

The short-lived Kong: The Animated Series also featured a wide variety of strange plants and animals.

Perhaps a "Beastiary of Skull Island" article or list could be created?

-- Kevingarcia 06:45, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other appearances

As noted, Skull Island appears in several other Kong features, but more importantly, they add more information about Skull Island. Son of Kong, Creation, and even the 1960s animated and unofficial 2001 animated series all hinted at a long-lost civilization on Skull Island (echoed in the 2005 film). Also it should be noted that Kong Island self-destructed in a violent volcanic explosion in the unmade Creation and Son of Kong. So, in the original film continuity, the Island is no more. Kevingarcia 06:45, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Optical illusion

"'If you turn your head and squint your eyes, it looks like a bunny,' a reference to a well-known optical illusion". Which optical illusion is this? Scorpionman 19:57, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

This one [2] Poulsen 20:01, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Skull island is real. And kong is real to.

Don't I wish. If it was, however, it'd be gone by now, because of the earthquake. *sniff* Scorpionman 16:55, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
There should be a section describing why the fauna of the island could not be anything but spawn of a wild Hollywoodian imagination. To give you some tips: insects and out-of-water arthropods in general cannot grow over the size of a large tarantula because they would suffocate (under some unique respiratory characteristics), Mesozoic reptile mega-fauna could not have survived in such a large variety in just one place while completely extinct from the rest of the world for the last 60+ MY (not impossible ecologically but VERY unlikely statisticly), even if we could suggest that as an ecosystem it evolved in isolation for the last 65 MY then the existance of large apes would not be expected, an evolutional history of less than 15 MY (pongidae age)would not be enough for the appearance of a primate of such large proportions through mutation that would be vital and I guess that even if an ape of this size could evolve I dought if its anatomically possible for that creature to live. And last but not least isolated ecosystems like islands mostly press evolution to reduction of animals' growth not the oppossite. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.118.191.48 (talk) 13:01, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Map

I removed the sentence (Skull Island not seen in this image) from the picture subtext. Of course Skull Island is seen in this image, in fact it is the ONLY thing seen in this Image. -- Imladros 10:14, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Actual Skull Island

So, there are two ACTUAL Skull Island's that I can find, and was about to do an article for the one in the San Juan Islands (in Massacre Bay!), but found this article, and wanted to suggest changing Skull Island to a disambiguation page, with links to this and the two articles for the "real" Skull Islands. Any opposition? Murderbike 18:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] King Kong 1976

Should we put any information about the 76 Skull Island in this article? -- Majin Gojira 13:41, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:SkyCap5.jpg

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[edit] Far Use Rationale

Fair Use Rationale for this image has been updated.Marcd30319 (talk) 14:52, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kong claimed to be REAL!

In the special edition DVD of "king Kong(2005)", They state that there REALLY WAS a skull island, which sank into the sea after World War 2. They they went on to list all sorts of very real-sounding data, from how dino's survived extinction - to a population of humans on a tech level of the Mayans. AND, according to the information, there REALLY WAS a giant ape captured from there - the bones of which they claim are now in the national archives! And that the film crew was denied permission to even so much as see them, much less film them.

So, with that said, who feels like getting off their duff and forming up a team to either prove or disprove the information presented o the DVD????

75.8.43.93 (talk) 01:58, 21 February 2008 (UTC) eehhh it's an obvios fake documentary with the people in the movie talking as experts, are you talking seriously? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.97.184.208 (talk) 13:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)