He was wondering where you saw the creature you described...

The SeaRex is a huge aquatic creature... good pictures can be found in the Art Of book or on the Movies of Oddworld DVD

In fact, I saw it in the artbook. Thank you Xavier. But did it appear in MO? (Excuse me Bullet Magnet for my arrogance.)

No, it never appeared in the game, it's one of the many things that didn't make it.

No. It was designed for MO initially to be included in the game’s brand new swim gameplay, but then its contract was scaled down so it would appear only in an FMV. The FMV was made and released in an early trailer, but not included in the game. It’s viewable on the Movies of Oddworld DVD.

Pelican? What thing at the start of MO looks like a pelican?

Unlike RuptureFarms, ‘Sea Rex’ is not CamelCase.

BM: If it’s grid reference–related, then it’s not according to any traditional grid reference that might be applied to the Oddworld Map. A less regular location system, like a postcode, also seems unlikely given the close proximity of the two Sloghuts. What it might just be is that the numbers are recycled if older factories are destroyed. For example, AzGasCo Refinery 1027 might have ceased to be between the construction of Daily Deception Distribution Center 2805 and what would otherwise have been Sloghut 2806.

I thought that a pelican or simply a seagull, could live near Oddworld's oceans.

Possibly, but I didn’t see anything that looked like a pelican.

For pelican I meant that strange bird, the SeaRex :).

New question: who is Luskan Marauder?

Lusks are marauders. That’s all we know. That one concept image in the book is literally the complete extent of our knowledge.

Though there is some descriptive text written too, and I assume they're somewhat intelligent, being they're referred to as a 'race' rather than animal/species.

But in that page we see a lot of screenshots. It explains that they are conception of AO and of AE. Is Luskan Marauder related to those games?

The Luskan Marauder seems to be an MO concept, as noted on the image.

Ok, we know just a few things about Luskan Marauder. But I have a new question anyway ;). And I think it's a strange and complicated question. When Abe enters a door, how can he reach another area passing, for example, a lot of ravines and unreachable places? What is there among two doors? What's the mechanism that leads Abe from a door to another door?

It's a mechanism, that's just it, it's part of the game, and inside the doors is probably a hallway or a stairway of some sort. Nothing to it.

As for the pelicans, I believe he is talking about the toucan-like birds you see in SW in the sniper forest.

No, I am not. I am talking about the creature that I saw in the artbook.

Personally, I think you may have looked at the wrong thing. The SeaRex and the Color Birds were on the same, if not adjacent, pages. The SeaRex is the black and white picture of a creature with a huge tail that covers the majority of the body, a sort of rib area, and a eye-less head with rows of teeth sticking out. The Color Birds are the birds that may resemble a cross between a seagull, a peligun, and a toucan.

Why have they become known as ‘Color Birds’? They should be Max Birds! I blame Hulaabeo! :p

I don't know. I think Slaveless misunderstood me. Anyway I read in that page of the artbook the word "SeaRex", and in that page there is an image of a bird (it looks like a seagull). So I asked my first question about SeaRex.

What?!?

AIN, I blame Hulaabeo for making them known as Color Birds. As best I can tell with Google searching, he was the first Forum member to call them that.

No, I'm saying you are misunderstanding what is being said on the page. Go to page 226 (the page you are referring to) and you will find pictures of these said seagulls, a Meetle (which should look a little like a rabbit crossed with a guinea pig), and Sea Rex, which I have already described. You said you read the page and saw the word Sea Rex, right? Now, look on the picture of the creature that teeth and appears to be swimming (not flying, not standing still). This should be the most bottom picture on the page. There should be on the picture the word Sea Rex. That is a Sea Rex.

Thanks, Slaveless, but I think by this point AIN was himself just describing how the confusion came about.

Sorry, I was a little unsure of myself on what he was trying to say.

I don't mean the old conception of the Meetle. I mean the SEAGULL!!!!

I never even talked about the Meetle, I just mentioned it! I was only describing the page so you will know exactly what I am talking about!

AIN, I have a question for you; do you now know what a Sea Rex is?

Excuse me, I didn't read carefully.

If I asked what is a Sea Rex in Oddworld, it is because I don't know what is it!!!

Who came up with the Sea Rex? And what does it eat? Gabbits maybe?

It probably eats whatever it can swallow (and more). It may have been Gabbits though, hence it's extinction. If there's no food it dies.

Vote Max for New Bird Names :p

What is the foetus on the cover of the artbook meant to be?

Err this is thread to ask questions right...
Well I have some questuons:
- why don't you allow better avatars then 8.0 kB?
- I heard stranger's wraith theme is coming. When?
- why is there no Mudokons in Stranger's wraith?

Thanx, AlienMagi

Grubbs are a branch of the Mudokon family. Not Mudokons as such but it's the closest thing to them. You may think it's a bit daft, but I think it's quite clever. You can go to one part of America and find a species of bear living in that area. Yet you can travel miles and find none of that particular species, yet that area is populated by a different type of bear.

Fuzzles seem to be a world wide creature, like Rats.

Vykker are sophisticated enough to travel from one area of Mudos to the other, so the presence of the Vykker is nothing special. Just like a someone away on bussiness really.

And the rest of your questions belong in the Forums Suggestions and Help forum.

This should be in Forum Suggestions and Help, AlienMagi.

Fair to say, but now that we’ve told you what a Sea Rex is, do you know what one is?

Since when did Sea Rexes become extinct?

This is awesome; it shall soon be done!

They are the fœti of twin Mudokons! Xav managed to get Alf to explain more:
Theme for what? For the Oddworld Forums? Well, it was an idea, and there was some work done on it, but in the absense of anyone with the perfect combination of vBulletin template experience, graphic manipulation skills, time, and enthusiasm, the Stranger’s Wrath theme was put to rest several years ago.

Lorne says they wanted to use a (virtually) completely new cast of characters (races) so that when writing the story they wouldn’t be tied down to the behaviour fans expected of the more familiar creatures like Mudokons. I’m not sure exactly how.

WHOA, HOLD IT! Mudokons evolved from birds. Grubbs evolved from fish. They’re no where near that closely related! Mudokons are probably more closely related to Clakkerz. :p

Oh dear. I'm still living in the past. Three years later and I'm still going by the rumour of Mudokons and Grubbs being related.

Maybe I was mistaking it with something else about the Sea-Rex. I've probably mixed it up with a T-Rex and somewhere in the back I've my head I thought the Oddworld one was extinct.

Question: when Abe stops extracting tears from Mudokons in SoulStorm Brewery, why do Mudokons become sick?

Good question! My guess is that with all the tears they shed, these Mudokons would quickly become dehydrated if they didn’t have liquid intake. This would be in the form of SoulStorm Brew.

I have always thought this. But I wasn't sure. Or another possibility is that they have drunk SoulStorm Brew and they have been punished with the tear tractor. And so they were already sick when they started being "extracted". But I prefer your opinion Max. Iy's more credible. Thank you :)!!!

I always figured that they, like many of the muds in the brewery, were already sick from brew before they were shoved into the Xtractors. Perhaps being ill makes Xtraction more efficient.

In fact. Or maybe they were forced to drink SoulStorm Brew before so they couldn't understand where they were going to go and so they couldn't rebel. And to have a better quality of tears as you told.

Does it ever speak of Sam in Munch's Oddysee? At the good ending of AE when you save all the Mudokons when the Weirdos say "We'll tell you all about Sam when you meet Munch" or something like that. =/

The egg crates say "Sam's Labor Eggs" and have a cartoon of her on them.

That was actually an idea introduced to us in AE. ;) The Mudokons were given Brew bottles in their native habitats, and were given the chance to work for brew in the factories.

Do you mean when Phleg and Sligs gave Mudokons free bottles in the desert telling them that if they'd worked, they could drink SoulStorm Brew when they wanted?