It’s named that way because of the raptor intelligence. “Can this raptor open doors?” “You bet jurassican”
Daaad!
It wasn’t even a park, it was a zoo.
Welcome to Cretaceous Park!
Doesn’t quite have the ring to it.
I think it would, if that was what they named the book and movie.
COME TO THE MESOZOIC MEGAPOLIS!
Billy and the Cloneasaurus
We spared many expenses. Mainly IT and personnel expenses.
We spread no extents!
Don’t be pedantic. They picked the name because it sounded cool and got the point across.
It’s a pun on “electric park”, which is what amusement parks were called when electricity was still a new thing.
that is a perfect TIL.
thanks
And “they” means the characters, not the writer.
Not just that but a character that is written as glossing over important details for profit
Cropped off the final text because fuck everyone that’s why
We really won’t talk about those “velociraptors”? The annoying kid at the beginning of the movie was the only one to get their description surprisingly accurate when he said they looked like a 2m turkey.
Also, wrong continent for Velociraptors (they were in Hell Creek Montana/South Dakota). Velociraptors are found in China/Mongolia.
Deinonychus or UtahRaptors are the right size and continent, but don’t sound as cool as “Velociraptor”
I mean, I don’t think the film says that they stuck to cloning local dinos.
I’m referring to the beginning of the first movie where Grant discovers a Velociraptor, while being in South Dakota.
Ah. Been many moons since I watched it.
Velociraptors? Nowadays we have Wall Street
But a very smart one!
iirc John Hammond covers this in the book. I was so young, but something is triggering it for me. Could just be the subconscious trying to protect grade 4 nostalgia, though.
Hell, I could’ve picked that up off playing Jurassic World Evolutions in the last six months and it’s backpedal lore.
Whatever it is, Michael Crichton was no idiot.
Yeah he talks pretty openly about it being a marketing term, and the scientists later criticise the accuracy too.
Jurassish Park
Jurassish Parkish
The name itself was foreshadowing of their ignorance.
What if Neil deGrasse Tyson was a paleontologist
Your personal paleontologist.
The Huge Animals of Various Geological Periods Park.
Dino Land!
