crossbows shoot bolts because that is what they are called. and you don't need sights, 7 centuries of hunting with crossbows have proven that.

http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/master-class/2013/06/bolts-or-arrows-which-correct-crossbows

Y'all should start arguing over 30 round banana clips and those damn pingy things Garands are loaded with, then finish off with whether you feel "good" or "well" about the whole thing. Fucking Grammar Meter Maids.

For comparison, Jordan Hare Stadium has a seating capacity of 87,451:

Ben Hill Griffin  88,548

gimbel and notero on talking Dead said about 1000 were used.

1000, tops

That's actual actors. The CGI of the overview was by my guess around 10k

Here's an interesting little easter egg I found on that Enid girl that Coral is banking to lose his virginity on:

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See the pic I posted?

The amount in the quarry is a small fraction of what is in those stadium pics.  2k to 10k is my guess- really hard to tell more details from the screenshots in B&W

So is the consensus prediction that Alexandria "falls" this week because of the walker horde?  I missed the previews.

That was actual extras in makeup. And then they filled in the rest with CG. Way more than 1000 in the pit


 

ETA:  Beat, I was

In the pit, bet Rick wished he had grabbed Humvees aalong the way with 50s and Mk 19 grenade launcher instead of clapped out Fords.

I think they are building up to one of the big Alexandria "events" from the comics for sure.

But...

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That would have been fun with a Mk 19

No thanks.

I think you'd be better served with a few friends and:

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Call the US Park Police.  They're pretty good about giving accurate crowd counts.

Suprised smell is not mentioned

Or the noise... you would think that many walkers in one place would be quite the cacoffiny. Even if there was no groaning or verbal noises that many shambling bodies in one place would make a very audible sound that they should have heard... like a rushing stream you can hear from quite a ways away before you actually see it.

ETA: Appropes...

Yeah I did a quick count of 100 used that area to approximate through the quarry and came up with about 8-10k. Its certainly way more than 1k.  I am sure they used 1000 actors but you can see the pixels There is definitely cgi multiplication. Look at the stadium pictures that were posted. There's enough zeds to fill at least an endzone section upper and lower deck.

In TWD universe 22 LR never recovered from the panic buying
There are probably a  few neckbeard walkers still dragging crates of 22  LR behind them as they shamble along

Its pretty simple really. Zoom in and enhance the image, sample a small section, and overlay that with the rest of the area you can easily come to a solid number. By my math I come up with about 87 zeds in the quarry.

Outstanding



 

I suggest you do some research on the matter before talking out of your ass.  

yeah--agree that it doesn't look like it in that shot.  we just have to figure out how big the quarry is.  i forget where i was reading this, but renaissance infantry formations could put 10,000 men into a 60m x 60m block.  in a busy nightclub, you estimate 1 person per square yard in social areas, and 3 people per square yard in crush areas like the bars and stagefront.

to get a sense of scale, those trailers are ~53' long and ~8' wide, for about 47 square yards per trailer.  from the angle at which they're parked, it looks like the lower road is at least as wide as the trailer is long, and probably more--call it 20 yards.

i dunno--hard to get a bead on it, and i can't find location information to google earth it.  my estimate was high based on that pic, especially since you can see the ground in places over on the left, but the total is certainly more than a couple of thousand.

a thousand live actors, plus CG characters.

edit: beaten many times.

Oh god...

I would love to see a zombie with a gunshow sign on his neck selling ammo dressed in camo pants with one of the concealed carry vests on.

Or a super fat zombie on the side of the road with a sign saying please feed a wounded vietnam vet.

...reminds me...

Beside the pic that is already up, they just don't appear that dense to me:

Was just watching the extras on my iTunes subscription. The foreigner that plays Rick said they had to wrangle 20,000 walkers.

Well I believe we all agree that leading the Walkers out like a Pied Piper was stupid and some pretty shitty writing. . Moving on.

I believe it's the Wolves who are laying on the horn. In the season finale they found the pictures that were left behind at the warehouse. I'm sure there were some clues in there that would lead them to Alexandria. The Preacher and Porchdick Jr are possible too but I think in order to move the storyline along the Wolves need to attack.

Porchdick Jr is likely going to try to pull an Alpha move on Carl and learn a valuable lesson.

Preacher, well, we know what happens to Red Shirts.

I don't see why either would do this, they have no where to go if Alexandria is lost.

Preacher thinks Alexandria is already morally lost since he tried to convince Deanna that Rick is evil, and now Deanna has figuratively hopped in bed with the devil.

Porchdick Jr sees the people his dad used to serve approve of throwing him out like a piece of trash because Rick was sniffing around his mom.

That being said, not sure either of them have the tactical savvy to know that noise can turn a horde.  Porchdick Jr has been in town, Preacher has been hiding in a church.  So, they have the motive, just not the know-how.

I don't know about the kid, but it's already been shown the Preacher is crazy, and not in a good way.

 
No way Gabriel has the spine or gumption to pull a stunt like that; the kid's hatred for Rick (if it even exists) hasn't festered long enough for him to be behind the horn.

Good point, but would it be a herd of 1,000 or 2,000 or 10,0000 or 100,000?    
Sorry, couldn't resist...

Father Pudpocket has more of a benign action thing going on. Almost all of his antics have been indirect at best. He hid in his church, when he did venture out he was a long-tailed cat in the proverbial world full of rocking chairs, he more or less kept to himself and stewed in his own batter until he tried to get Deeeeeana to do something about the Ricktatorship, he then sheepishly left the door open after I'm not sure what his deal with his little "walk" was.

Long story short Father Cocksocket is, to misquote USPT, a pussy. He would never do anything directly himself. He has shown he lacks the minerals to cross a street against the light not in a crosswalk let alone do something as direct as sounding a loud alarm that he knows would draw in the horde. Because he also is a self-aware pussy... he knows he cannot survive in this world without protection and shelter. He just wants to be extra douchey about who his protectors and shelterers are (trying to be both beggar AND chooser).

As for Porchdick Junior he is just a pissy kid. New guys in town ice his dad and steal his girl. That doesn't mean he is going to sound the dinner bell... I imagine he is going to do what any teen would do... wear his little wool hat, pout, be passive aggressive towards Rick and Coral and go run off and jerk it behind his house when no one is looking. If he is the alarmist then I will be pretty surprised.

And as for Coral's trim Enid, I think she has the same issues as Porchdick Junior. She is just a teen girl... pouty, rebellious and probably waiting for Coral to smash some heads so she can see if he is superior to PDJ. If she is a "Wolf" then I will also be suprised... The Wolves strike me as a pair of nut bars who, if they HAD a teen girl in their ranks, would have carved a W in her head, raped her ten ways from Sunday, lashed her to a tree and I dunno used her as a camp stove. I do not see them having this uber tactical "inside girl" in Alexandria. For all we know the first time they even saw Alexandria was when they picked up the photos out of the Ambiguously Gay Duo's runnin' bag they left at Wolfden. If Enid is in any way related to the Wolves I bet she was running from them, her parents or someone she was with got kacked by the Wolves and she got away. Her little travels outside the Alexandria gates are her way of looking for "W is for Walker" walkers to know if the Wolves are indeed not far.

So after all that blather, I still think the alarmist is the Wolves. They just pulled one of the semi's up from their Wolfden and laid a brick on the horn. I still think they might be the ones who penned in the quarry in the first place. They realized the Ricktatorship was taking it on the road and decided to monkey wrench their little pride parade.

They need to shitcan Rick Grimes and follow Rick Sanchez.

But that would make Coral into Morty... Corty?

and many people still call them bolts. Also most medieval bolts were wood shatfs

The one truck blocking them from getting out fell off the cliff. The walkers were on their way out on their own.

dbl