What are you talking about? That's just a mangy normal sized large breed dog, like an Irish Wolfhound, in fact it looks a lot like an Irish Wolfhound. It's only the "camera" angle and the dog being in the foreground and people being in the background that makes the dog look freakishly big.the people from the dog. If you look at the shoulder of the person on the right, who is closest to the dog, but still behind it. The person's head (which is out of shot) would be slightly above the dog's. The beast in TLG is at least twice the height, possibly taller, than a full grown man.
There's nothing related about these things content-wise. But you may be right that development resources have been stripped from TLG and put into Project Beast.
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