Thomas the Tank Engine visits Jurassic Park III

***Thomas the Tank Engine visits Jurassic Park III*** is the third upcoming Thomas & Friends/Jurassic Park crossover to be made by Hiatt Grey. And it is the sequel to *Thomas the Tank Engine visits The Lost World: Jurassic Park*.

## Plot

Ben Hildebrand and Eric Kirby go parasailing, tethered to a boat, over the waters near Isla Sorna. The boat's crew disappears, prompting Ben to detach the line before the boat crashes. He and Eric drift towards the island.

Eight weeks later, paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby, Duck, Donald & Douglas, Oliver, Toad, Stepney, Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask, the Sailor Senshi, Luna, Artemis, Diana, Brian, Barney, BJ, Baby Bop, Tosha, Min, Shawn, Derek, Professor Tinkerputt, Cody, Abby, Marcella, the Powerpuff Girls, and Courage have made a new discovery about the intelligence of *Velociraptors*, but struggle to secure funding for their research. Grant discusses his discovery of a resonating larynx on fossilized raptor remains with his longtime colleague Ellie. This, and his and our heroes experience at Jurassic Park, leads him to believe that the original *Velociraptors* were socially sophisticated. He hypothesizes that if they had not gone extinct and continued to evolve, their descendants—rather than humans—would have become Earth's dominant species. His assistant Billy Brennan uses a 3D printer to replicate the *Velociraptor* larynx.

Paul and Amanda Kirby, posing as a wealthy couple, offer funding for Grant and our heroes's research if they will give them an aerial tour of Isla Sorna. Grant, Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby, Duck, Donald & Douglas, Oliver, Toad, Stepney, Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask, the Sailor Senshi, Luna, Artemis, Diana, Brian, Barney, BJ, Baby Bop, Tosha, Min, Shawn, Derek, Professor Tinkerputt, Cody, Abby, Marcella, the Powerpuff Girls, and Courage reluctantly agree and fly there with Paul, Amanda, Billy, and the Kirbys' mercenary associates Udesky, Cooper, and their pilot Nash. During the flight, Grant learns that the Kirbys plan to land on the island; he protests but Cooper knocks him unconscious.

Grant awakens to discover that they have landed. A *Spinosaurus* approaches the group, who board the plane to escape, leaving Cooper behind as he tries to reach the plane. The *Spinosaurus* emerges on the runway and devours Cooper. In avoiding the *Spinosaurus*, the plane crashes into the forest. The *Spinosaurus* destroys the plane and consumes Nash along with Paul's satellite phone. Fleeing, the survivors briefly lose the *Spinosaurus* but encounter a *Tyrannosaurus rex*. The *Spinosaurus* returns but the group escapes while the two dinosaurs fight. The *Spinosaurus* kills the *T-Rex* by snapping its neck.

Grant, Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby, Duck, Donald & Douglas, Oliver, Toad, Stepney, Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask, the Sailor Senshi, Luna, Artemis, Diana, Brian, Barney, BJ, Baby Bop, Tosha, Min, Shawn, Derek, Professor Tinkerputt, Cody, Abby, Marcella, the Powerpuff Girls, and Courage learn that the Kirbys are a middle-class, divorced couple who are looking for their son Eric and Amanda's boyfriend Ben, who are missing on the island. The group finds the parasail attached to Ben's corpse. They take the parasail and then encounter raptor nests, and find an abandoned InGen compound. A raptor chases them and summons the rest of its pack. The group flee into a herd of *Corythosaurus* and *Parasaurolophus*, causing a stampede, and separating Grant, Thomas, Usagi, and Udesky from the others. Raptors attack Udesky in an attempt to lure the others out of a tree. The raptors almost capture Amanda when she tries to descend to help Udesky. The raptors' trap fails and they kill Udesky before departing.

Elsewhere, Grant, Thomas, and Usagi watch the raptors communicating and suspect that they are searching for something. They ambush them but are rescued by Eric, who survives in an overturned water truck. That night while the Kirbys, Billy and the rest of the others are in the trees, Brian and Barney stargaze while Brian reveals to Barney that he's autistic and says that once they get off the island, he will build a wall around his home. When Barney persistently asks why, he says that every time he tries to be like Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna, and Hotaru, they judge him every time he messes something up that embarrass them; therefore, he feels he is better off alone, despite Barney's admission that he did not immediately judge him when they met. But unknown to the two, the four Outer Sailor Scoits heard the entire conversation. The next day, Grant, Thomas, Usagi, and Eric are reunited with Billy, the Kirbys, and the rest of our heroes. The group is then chased by the *Spinosaurus*, but manage to lock it out by entering an abandoned observatory.

Grant and Usagi discover that Billy and Chibiusa have taken two raptor eggs to use for funding, which provoked the raptor attacks. Grant and Usagi decided to keep the eggs to ensure the group's survival. The group unknowingly enters a large aviary used to house *Pteranodons*, which attack the group and fly away with Eric, Hotaru, and Diana. Billy and Rini rescue Eric, Hotaru, and Diana using Ben's parasail while Chibiusa transforms into Sailor Chibi Moon, but Billy and Chibiusa are then attacked and seemingly killed by the *Pteranodons*. The rest of the group escapes the aviary, unknowingly leaving the door unlocked. They find a boat and make their way down a river.

That night, the group hears the phone ringing buried in feces of the *Spinosaurus* and retrieve it. As rain falls, Grant tries to contact Sattler, but the *Spinosaurus* attacks the boat. Grant and Paul scare it off for good by setting the boat's fuel on fire. The next day, the group makes their way towards the shoreline, but are surrounded by the raptors once again. Grant has Amanda surrender the eggs and then uses the 3D-printed raptor larynx to confuse the pack, who run off with the eggs. The group flees to the coast and find that Sattler had called in the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy to rescue them. They discover that Billy, while seriously injured, is still alive. As they leave the island, they see the *Pteranodons* flying free, and Grant muses they are looking for new nesting grounds.

## Trivia

* Barney the Dinosaur, BJ, Baby Bop, Tosha, Min, Shawn, Derek, Professor Tinkerputt, Cody Newton, Abby Newton, Marcella Walker, the Powerpuff Girls (Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup), and Courage the Cowardly Dog guest star in this film.
* Cody Newton and Eric Kirby were both played by Trevor Morgan.
* The bits with Barney on TV will be cut out in this film.
* *The Powerpuff Girls - Season 4* and *Jurassic Park III* were both released in the year, 2001.
* The storyline continues in *Thomas the Tank Engine visits Jurassic World*.

## Scenes

* Opening/Parasailing on Isla Sorna
* The dinosaur man
* The dig site
* The Kirby's proposition
* Flight/landing
* The Spinosaurus
* Spinosaurus vs. T-Rex
* Explanation/Discovering the parasail
* Raptor Eggs/InGen Laboratory
* Eric/in the trees
* Reunited/Finding the stolen eggs
* The Pteranodon cage
* On the river/finding the phone
* The Spinosaurus attacks the boat/Scaring off the beast
* Returning the eggs/rescued/Pteranodon flyby

## Soundtrack

1. Randy Newman - Big Hat, No Cattle (End credits song)