Jurassic Park/World megathread - Spared no expense.

[Dom Cruise]

Eh maybe but still these days it's hard to tell when something is trying to piss them off intentionally or not so hence my quick conclusion

It’s definitely a flaw with the movie and will badly date it in the long run, but it’s not as egregious as some examples in modern media.

 

[Muttnik]

The ending of Jurassic World where they bring out the T-Rex is such fan-pandering schlock....and I fall for it every time. I guess every now and then I'm willing to turn off my brain to enjoy the raw dopamine that is dinosaurs fighting each other. I hate the movie for being lazy and boring, but that ending is pretty fun.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

As much as I like the Velociraptor, I'm not a fan of romanticizing them to make the species more of a heroic dinosaur, especially when it comes to Blue having empathy (goddamn), however, I think there was an interesting concept in the idea of domesticating dinosaurs, even though it was an odd choice to use the Raptors for this. The book briefly brought up the idea of InGen making pygmy dinosaurs for the idea of making them children's pets, which I feel should be brought up as a cause of concern in Dominion now that dinosaurs are being stated to be the new normal. We had the petting zoo in World, but the debate wasn't there.

It'd be awesome to make a horror Jurassic movie, but it may just stick to being thrillers and that's fine, but that doesn't mean the subtle horrors still can't be utilized to show just how extremely dangerous dinosaurs are and that mankind should reap the consequences for playing God. Though I do have a feeling they want to tone down the horror aspect because of Hollywood attempting to keep the PG-13 rating as family-friendly as possible for more money even though a good percentage of us watched the first film as kids and made it out okay. It's been pointed out Fallen Kingdom had the setting of a horror movie, but it still doesn't seem to be considered a horror film at all, which is a shame, but that movie is a bit weird in execution anyway.

Yeah, it has its problems, but I still had fun with it. I don't think the World films are trying to become modern-day masterpieces like how Jurassic Park has become, like the producers are at least aware they can never top the first film and just aren't going to try, but still have that mindset of doing their own thing and let moviegoers/the fans decide how to judge it. I mean, at the end of the day, the movies rake in the big bucks, and luckily the franchise hasn't fallen into the same pitfall as the other franchises--but only time will tell.

 

[Biek Fowler]

Is anyone excited for Camp Cretaceous? I know it's more of a kids show but I'm excited to see parts of Jurassic World that wasn't shown in the film. Also the main "villain" dinosaur is a Carnotaurus so that's a plus.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Is anyone excited for Camp Cretaceous? I know it's more of a kids show but I'm excited to see parts of Jurassic World that wasn't shown in the film. Also the main "villain" dinosaur is a Carnotaurus so that's a plus.

Believe it or not that's not the first time they tried making an animated spin off of Jurassic Park. As far back as the beginning universal animation aka amblin animation had concept art and story boards ready for a show called escape to Jurassic Park. Which would have been about the survivors returning to the island supposedly to convert into from a theme park to a research facility only for the first season to end with hammond reopening the park to the public.

Supposedly the second series in the kenner toy line is all that remains of that series when speilburg turned it down and said no. Then there were two attempts to make direct animated follow ups to the lost world in 97 and 98. The first animated series has only recently been unearthed from the universal archives and would have been a straight up follow up to the events of the movie but the one made in 98 was known as Jurassic Park chaos effect and would have taken the franchise into full on sci fi territory...like more akin to GI Joe than Jurassic Park. While it was never produced (supposedly because of godzilla the animated series coming out the same year) it did a toy line by Kenner...the last one they ever made before Hasbro retired the name.

 

[Biek Fowler]

the one made in 98 was known as Jurassic Park chaos effect and would have taken the franchise into full on sci fi territory...like more akin to GI Joe than Jurassic Park.

So that's where that weird ass toy line came from. How do you feel about some of the lines including other prehistoric creatures besides dinosaurs. I know the first ever line included a Dimetrodon toy and the most recent line has animals like Postosuchus and Sarcosuchus. Do you think Jurassic Park or World ever planned on creating such animals for the park?

 

[A Grey Cat]

So that's where that weird ass toy line came from. How do you feel about some of the lines including other prehistoric creatures besides dinosaurs. I know the first ever line included a Dimetrodon toy and the most recent line has animals like Postosuchus and Sarcosuchus. Do you think Jurassic Park or World ever planned on creating such animals for the park?

It's possible the lost world novel briefly mentioned the possibility of ingen using their cloning technology on animals like the quippa or even the wooly mammoth and dodo. The toy lines as far back as series 2 had creatures like the lycanopes which feels like it was meant to be a saber tooth tiger since it uses a similar color pattern to one.

Not mine btw first pic I found on google even loose out of package this guy can cost a pretty penny.

 

[Biek Fowler]

Fallen Kingdom had a cut scene where Owen passes a skeleton of an unidentified crocodile, probably not canon since it was cut but it could be an extinct crocodilian. Ingen had Deinosuchus DNA that was used to make the Indominus but the skeleton looks too small to be an adult one. I just find the idea that Ingen cloned non-dinosaurian animals interesting since the franchise is known for it's dinosaurs.

 

[Travoltron]

I know the first ever line included a Dimetrodon toy and the most recent line has animals like Postosuchus and Sarcosuchus. Do you think Jurassic Park or World ever planned on creating such animals for the park?

Correct me if my science is outdated, but aren't all the flying creatures (pteranodon, pterodactyl, etc) not dinosaurs?

 

[Biek Fowler]

Correct me if my science is outdated, but aren't all the flying creatures (pteranodon, pterodactyl, etc) not dinosaurs?

Pterosaurs broke off from the reptile tree a little bit before dinosaurs. They share a common ancestor but that's about it. There were a few flying dinosaurs though, like Archaeopteryx. Sorry for sperging, I just really like ancient life stuff

 

[Dom Cruise]

Believe it or not that's not the first time they tried making an animated spin off of Jurassic Park. As far back as the beginning universal animation aka amblin animation had concept art and story boards ready for a show called escape to Jurassic Park. Which would have been about the survivors returning to the island supposedly to convert into from a theme park to a research facility only for the first season to end with hammond reopening the park to the public.

Supposedly the second series in the kenner toy line is all that remains of that series when speilburg turned it down and said no. Then there were two attempts to make direct animated follow ups to the lost world in 97 and 98. The first animated series has only recently been unearthed from the universal archives and would have been a straight up follow up to the events of the movie but the one made in 98 was known as Jurassic Park chaos effect and would have taken the franchise into full on sci fi territory...like more akin to GI Joe than Jurassic Park. While it was never produced (supposedly because of godzilla the animated series coming out the same year) it did a toy line by Kenner...the last one they ever made before Hasbro retired the name.
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It's a shame because I would have absolutely flipped for a Jurassic Park animated series as a kid, I also remember the Chaos Effect toys, I had a few of them and always wondered what the deal was.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

I'm shocked JP didn't get an animated series. I mean Christ, almost everything else did.

 

[BooneHelm]

Has anyone ever ready any of the Jurassic Park comics? I always wondered if they were worth looking into.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Has anyone ever ready any of the Jurassic Park comics? I always wondered if they were worth looking into.

Funny story, the first comic book collection I ever owned sometime around the year 2000 or so included the Topps trading card company's adaptation of the movie and I remember seeing ads in the back for their raptor and escape from Jurassic Park series books.

I've heard mixed things about idws comics they range from good to just meh and forgettable, at one point they tried to get the original human dinosaur script to jp4 made into a comic bit universal refused to budge cause they were trying to pretend that script didn't exist at the time.

 

[Biek Fowler]

I've heard mixed things about idws comics they range from good to just meh and forgettable

I got the first issue of the Redemtion comics almost a decade ago when it came out. I was a kid then and really wanted it only because it was JP related and had a Carnotaurus on the cover. I've always been a theropod nerd

 

[Owen Grady]

Has anyone ever ready any of the Jurassic Park comics? I always wondered if they were worth looking into.

I've read all of them in one form or another. All of the Jurassic Park comics from the 90's are campy sci-fi fun and if you are interested in reading a zany sort of extended AU spinoff of the original film the comic books are definitely an enjoyable read. I will emphasize that they are very 90's but that is only a plus in my opinion as you simply cannot find story material like that anymore.

In terms of the newer comics, Redemption is shit. Terrible art and an absurd story that makes very little sense, but when it came out in 2010 I ate up every issue because there wasn't a lot of Jurassic Park stuff getting released at the time and I wanted to support the franchise. I will say however that the cover art of each issue is very nice.

Out of all of the newer comics, Devils in the Desert is the best one and I would recommend a read. It was written by John Byrne who I believe is a big name in comic book writer circles. So the story is of course quite good and the illustrations themselves are well done. The story is about what happened to the Pteranodons seen flying outside of the helicopter windows at the end of Jurassic Park III.

Dangerous Games is okay I guess. I don't remember too much about it other than I thought the hot red-headed raptor-rearing girl on the island was annoying and I got kind of a pseudo "stronk independent wahman" vibe from her. But the art is alright (it has a slight anime stylization to it if that's your thing), and it has feathered raptors in it for some reason.

 

[Muttnik]

I'm low-key fascinated with JP: Trespasser. I know it's a shitty, buggy game but I'm so drawn in to the lore and atmosphere they had going on. I feel like it's one of those games that begs for a modern remake to patch things up and update the AI and graphics. It really could be something amazing with just a little bit of tweaking.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I've read all of them in one form or another. All of the Jurassic Park comics from the 90's are campy sci-fi fun and if you are interested in reading a zany sort of extended AU spinoff of the original film the comic books are definitely an enjoyable read. I will emphasize that they are very 90's but that is only a plus in my opinion as you simply cannot find story material like that anymore.

In terms of the newer comics, Redemption is shit. Terrible art and an absurd story that makes very little sense, but when it came out in 2010 I ate up every issue because there wasn't a lot of Jurassic Park stuff getting released at the time and I wanted to support the franchise. I will say however that the cover art of each issue is very nice.

Out of all of the newer comics, Devils in the Desert is the best one and I would recommend a read. It was written by John Byrne who I believe is a big name in comic book writer circles. So the story is of course quite good and the illustrations themselves are well done. The story is about what happened to the Pteranodons seen flying outside of the helicopter windows at the end of Jurassic Park III.

Dangerous Games is okay I guess. I don't remember too much about it other than I thought the hot red-headed raptor-rearing girl on the island was annoying and I got kind of a pseudo "stronk independent wahman" vibe from her. But the art is alright (it has a slight anime stylization to it if that's your thing), and it has feathered raptors in it for some reason.

I remember when they came out with those new comic books in the early 2010s, I never got around to reading them but I remember finding it interesting that those along with the Telltale game were the first things being done with the franchise after a long lull.

I'm low-key fascinated with JP: Trespasser. I know it's a shitty, buggy game but I'm so drawn in to the lore and atmosphere they had going on. I feel like it's one of those games that begs for a modern remake to patch things up and update the AI and graphics. It really could be something amazing with just a little bit of tweaking.

Oh, I've been fascinated with Trespasser for over a decade now, I even tried playing it myself once, there's an entire fansite dedicated to the game and one really cool thing someone did is convert all of John Hammond's lines into an audiobook called Jurassic Time.

The lore is really fascinating and I used to like to consider it canon, but sadly Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom contradicted it, since in Trespasser the first dinosaur clone was created on Site B, but in Fallen Kingdom it's that California mansion (if it's one thing I don't like about the World movies it's that they don't seem to acknowledge The Lost World at all), but it's still fascinating stuff.

I know there was an attempt to remake the game in Unreal 3 but I don't know what became of it, it sure would be cool if we could get a modern Jurassic Park game in that vein.

 

[Biek Fowler]

I've always wanted to try Trespasser because it takes place on Sorna. I really love the idea of a Site B and how the labs on Nublar was just apart of the show. Also Sorna gave us really cool locations like the Worker Village and the Aviary. While looking over images of Site B locations I found a pic of the worker village that looks like a cursed image. Enjoy

 

[Dom Cruise]

I've always wanted to try Trespasser because it takes place on Sorna. I really love the idea of a Site B and how the labs on Nublar was just apart of the show. Also Sorna gave us really cool locations like the Worker Village and the Aviary. While looking over images of Site B locations I found a pic of the worker village that looks like a cursed image. Enjoy

I never thought Sorna was as cool as Nublar but Sorna is still cool too and it's lame that it's not clear what's supposed to have happened to it (which is an ironic reversal because for the longest time it wasn't clear what happened to Nublar)