Jurassic Park (location)

*This article is on the fictional location. For the themed land at Islands of Adventure, see Jurassic Park (Islands of Adventure).*

### Attractions

Canopy Flyer
Halloween Horror Nights
Jurassic Park River Adventure
Jurassic World: The Ride
Jurassic World: Velocicoaster
Raptor Encounter
Studio Tour

## Location information

### Inhabitants

Blue
Claire Dearing
Dan Curtis
Dennis Nedry (formerly)
Dilophosaurus
"Dino" Don Lessem
Dino-Men
Doctor Burton
Dr. Henry Wu
Dr. Margaret Ingel
Indominus Rex
InGen
Jake Dolapp
John Hammond (presumably deceased)
Owen Grady
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Velociraptors

### Visitors

Donald Gennaro
Dr. Alan Grant
Dr. Ellie Sattler
Dr. Ian Malcolm
Lex Murphy
Tim Murphy

**Jurassic Park**, later expanded and rebranded into **Jurassic World**, is a fictional theme-park from the book *Jurassic Park* (1990) by Michael Crichton and its 1993 film-adaptation. The location often appears in the Universal Studios parks, and is setting of the eponymous themed land.

## Description

Jurassic Park was an experimental theme-park, originally opened on the South American island of *Isla Nublar*. It used advanced technology to genetically-recreate non-avian dinosaurs and other prehistoric wildlife to be put on display for human guests. The island was largely run by the genetics company *InGen*.

### Features

Jurassic Park had various dinosaur compounds, enclosed by electric fences. The park was designed to be largely automated in hopes of reducing human error.

#### Jurassic Park

* **Boat Launching Area**: A building used to launch the raft, "Jurassic Park River Adventure" tours of the park.
* **The Burger Digs**:
* **Camp Jurassic**:
* **Central Control**:
* **Dilophosaurus Paddock**:
* **Jeep Safari**: An attraction path which went up one of the mountains.
* **Jurassic Park Discovery Center**:
* **Hadrosaur Cove**:
* **Helicoptours**: A base for helicopter tours of the island.
* **Medical Treatment Compound**: Park sector 317 is the medical treatment compound.
* **Pizza Predatoria**:
* **Raptor Holding Pen**: Park sector 328 is the Raptor Holding Pen, with elevated walls and security.
* **Stegosaur Springs**:
* **Technical Services Structure**:
* **Thunder Falls Terrace**:
* **Tyrannosaur Paddock**:
* **Ultrasaurus Lagoon**:
* **The Watering Hole**:
* **Water Treatment Facility**: Also known as, "Jurassic Park Environmental Systems", this building provided water to the river exhibits.

#### Jurassic World

Locations which were present when the park became Jurassic World. The park also had the *Jurassic World News Network*. Some parts of the park had gyrosphere tours.

* **Camp Cretaceous**:
* **Isla Nu-Bar**:
* **Mosasaur Aquarium**: An aquarium for the mosasaur, holding 3.5 million gallons of water. It has a stadium built overtop for observers.
* **Predator Cove**:
	+ **Dilophosaurus Paddock**:
	+ **Indominus Rex Paddock**:
	+ **Raptor Holding Pen**:
	+ **Raptor Lookout Point**:
	+ **Tyrannosaurus Rex Kingdom**:
* **River Adventure boathouse**:

### Staff

#### Jurassic Park Staff

* **Dan Curtis**: The chief-of-operations.
* **Dennis Nedry**:
* **"Dino" Don Lessem**: The founder of the, "Dinosaur Society" who educated park guests.
* **Dr. Burton**:
* **Dr. Henry Wu**:
* **Dr. Margaret Ingel**: Was Director of Veterinary Medicine at the park.
* **Gwen**: One of the excursion hosts for the river adventure ride.
* **Jake Dolapp**: The park's chief-security officer.
* **John Hammond**: The owner and founder of Jurassic Park and InGen.

#### Jurassic World Staff

* **Claire Dearing**:
* **Dr. Eva Gomez**: The veterinarian of the park.
* **Dr. Henry Wu**:
* **Guy Hudson**: A reporter for the Jurassic World News Network.
* **Monica Baird**: Anchor of the Jurassic World News Network.
* **Owen Grady**:
* **Trevor Hayes**: Park security director.

## History

*Jurassic Park's history as presented in the parks and its adjacent continuity.*

#### Original park

Jurassic Park was developed by John Hammond through his company InGen. They made genetic emulations of various dinosaurs through blood samples found inside of mosquitos in amber, and mixed the lost DNA fractions with those of living animals.

In 1993, Hammond invited his grandchildren along with palaeontologists Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler to defend him from the lawyer Donald Gennaro sent by InGen's investors *Cowan, Swain and Ross*. With him, Gennaro brought mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm in order to assess if the park was worth the company's money. Much to Hammond's surprise, the scientists all were opposed to the dangers of bringing back dinosaurs to make into an attraction while the one one on Hammond's side was the money-hungry lawyer.

While at the park, a hurricane hit the island at the same time as Nedry compromising the security to make his theft and subsequent escape (before getting killed by dilophosaurus). Nedry's actions resulted in the dinosaurs breaking free throughout the park, killing and terrorizing various people while Hammond and a few other survivors hid in the Discovery Center. Eventually, the survivors united and escaped the island.

#### Second Park

The reopened Jurassic Park utilized heavier amounts of automation, hoping to phase out human error.

At some point, the scientists of the park attempted to introduce scavenging compsognathus to reduce the amount of dinosaur feces in the park. They later began a recycling program where the waste is moved to local farms to be used as manure.

#### River Adventure Incident

    During a riverboat tour of Jurassic Park, the computer system used to control the enclosures' electric fences went offline due to unknown circumstances. Various predators including velociraptors, dilophosaurus, compsognathus and the T-Rex escaped their enclosures as a result, causing various people, including park guests (and an apparent fan of the Disney Parks), to be killed by the predators.

One boat was knocked off its peaceful tour by an underwater hadrosaur, and floated into the compromised predator enclosure space. The boat was attacked by velociraptors and dilophosaurus, narrowly escaping them. While in the water treatment facility for an emergency evacuation, the boat was attacked by velociraptors and the Tyrannosaurus and dodged by going over the water treatment facility's waterfall.

#### Project Evilution

**Note**: *It is unknown if these events canonically occurred in the continuity of the Jurassic Park rides of Universal Studios, nor the shared continuity of Halloween Horror Nights.*

InGen genetic scientist Doctor Burton began experimenting on hybridizing human and dinosaur DNA, creating mutant "Dino-Men" (possibly from his fellow-scientists). It is possible (but unconfirmed) that Burton's crimes may have been influenced by the occult surgeon, Dr. Albert Caine AKA "The Caretaker" as part of his "Islands of Fear" incident of 2002. These Dino-Men escaped their captivity and commit a massacre during which time, dinosaurs such as velociraptors and dilophosaurus also escaped. Doctor Burton was killed by his own creations during this incident and hanged.

#### Jurassic World

At some point (by 2016), Jurassic Park was converted into the more expansive and high tech though less colourful theme-park, "Jurassic World". Amongst this theme-park's services were *Camp Cretaceous*, trained raptors, and a rollercoaster passing through caged parts of a raptor enclosure inspired by shark tanks. The park head scientist Dr. Henry Wu also developed a genetically-engineered dinosaur called the *Indominus-Rex*.

#### Indominus breakout

While a Jurassic World River Tour boat was on the Predator Cove section of the tour, multiple security systems failed. The Indominus Rex broke out of its paddock, along with various other predators who seemingly killed a gyrosphere of guests. Claire Dearing and Owen Grady attempted talking over screens to riverboat guests, warning them and telling them to stay calm. A velociraptor tampered with electrical wires before the boat dropped into the T-Rex kingdom area where the humans were attacked by dilophosaurus while stalked by the Indominus Rex.

The boats then encountered Grady's raptor, Blue, who clicked as if alerting the guests to the Indominus or calling to the T-Rex. When the Indominus prepared to attack the boats, the T-Rex emerged and fought the Indominus. The boats dropped out of the T-Rex Kingdom down an artificial waterfall and escaped.

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Islands of Fear

##### JP Extinction

This was a scarezone for the "Islands of Fear" in 2002 set on Jurassic Park amidst a breakout of dinosaurs and Dr. Burton's mutant "Dino-Men".

##### Project Evilution

This was a Haunted House set on Jurassic Park which centred around InGen scientist Dr. Burton creating mutant "Dino-Men".

#### Halloween Horror Nights 22

The Raptors of Jurassic Park were identified as belonging to the Cerebins Legion of Horror.

### Men in Black: Alien Attack

The Steven Spielberg alien is wearing a Jurassic Park baseball cap. This is more likely an allusion to Spielberg as director of Jurassic Park, rather than the fictional location.

### Tribute Store

In 2023 there was a Jurassic Park 30th Anniversary Tribute Store. Also in 2023, Isla Nublar was mentioned on post boards for mail deliveries in the Holiday Tribute Store.

## Trivia

* Jurassic Park's primary rival Walt Disney World has a tribute to Jurassic Park in *Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar* at *Disney Springs*, themed to the Indiana Jones franchise also directed by Spielberg. Inside is a dinosaur tooth and a note from, "SS" sent to Indiana Jones' aviator Jock Lindsey, thanking him for getting them off, "The island". This is in tribute to Lindsay's actor, pilot Fred Sorenson getting the crew of Jurassic Park off of Kauai during a hurricane.
* Jurassic Park has had some jokes about the Disney Parks:
	+ In the Jurassic Park river adventure are floating Mickey Mouse souvenir ears in the water, make dark humoured fun of Universal's rivals.
	+ In videos for the Jurassic Park river adventure, John Hammond says, "I hope we never lose sight of one thing, that it was all started by a mosquito". This is a parody of Walt Disney's line, "I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing, that it was all started by a mouse".
* Two different island maps appear in the pre-show videos for the river adventure ride. One more closely resembles the island from the film, while the other has a different shape.
* In the original concept for *Halloween Horror Nights: Islands of Fear*, the main icon was Cindy Caine and she would have tied into the backstory of the Jurassic Park features of HHN. Doctor Burton would have had visions of Cindy leading him to creating his Dino-Men. Some have speculated that Cindy's replacement (and father) the Caretaker could have replaced Cindy's role in this backstory.
* Near the entrance to Orlando's Rivers of Adventure ride is a diagram of Jurassic Park which tributes unbuilt expansions to the Jurassic Park area.

## References

1. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2023/11/holiday-tribute-store-2023-usf-full-tour/
2. ↑ https://allears.net/2019/02/27/grab-your-whips-and-satchels-here-are-all-the-cool-indiana-jones-hidden-details-at-jock-lindseys-hangar-bar/
3. ↑ https://www.parkeology.com/2009/12/jurassic-parks.html
4. ↑ https://touringplans.com/blog/s6\_disneyatuniversal/
5. ↑ https://orlandoparkstop.com/feature/easter-eggs/10-fun-easter-eggs-at-universals-islands-of-adventure/