The ronto was created for the 1997 Special Edition of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, as the favored pack animals and mounts of the indigenous Jawas of Tatooine. Industrial Light & Magic modified the Brachiosaurus model from Jurassic Park to create the ronto, and its animators referred to the creature as "Bronto" throughout production. George Lucas dropped the "b" from the nickname when asked what the creature was to be called.

In 1993, in the motion picture Jurassic Park, the Brachiosaurus became the first dinosaur to appear in a movie through the use of computer generation.

Brachiosaurus has been called one of the most iconic dinosaurs. In fact, it's so famous that a main belt asteroid, 1991 GX7, was named 9954 Brachiosaurus in honor of the genus.