Universal Theme Park's Jurassic Park

[MaastrichtianGuy]

so you think that the Disney's Animal Kingdom has a dinosaur themed area and Disney's Epcot used to have  a dinosaur ride well universal theme parks have three areas and a ride based off of the jurassic park movies, there's one built in the orlando park in florida, the one built in the osaka park in japan, the sentosa island park built in singapore and a ride built in the hollywood park in california, but im gonna start with pics from the area in the Islands of Adventure park in orlando florida, opened in 1999 as part of universal's newest theme park ever, it has a discovery center which it resembles the one from the first movie and it houses a gift shop, a dining area, a lot facilities and other activities they can do.

the silhouettes in the booth of the park are Bruce from Jaws, Kong from King Kong(the one from the 1976 remake) and the skeletal look of Roberta or Rexy from the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World movies

the banners of Kong from King Kong(the 2005 remake) and the T-Rex from Jurassic Park 3


the path signs of the park leading to the Jurassic Park area



the Jurassic Park themed path sign in the area

a sign to have a taken photo with Jurassic Park themed background to their card

a banner with a logo of UCF on it which they support this area

the iconic gateway in the movie

the paths in the area are covered with fossilized ferns and palm leaves



a photo scanner

a natural selections stand where guests can get fruit, pretzels, chips and other drinks they could eat and drink

a vacation information stand

a hair wrap and tattoo stand

a wristband and hat stand

the hot dog stand where guests can get hot dogs and turkey legs

a popcorn stand


a beverage stand where guests can get their favorite drink


the sun glass, t-shirt, sunscreen and sandals stand

a silhouette of a Camarasaurus in one of the stands

the rock climb which each guest has to pay $10 dollars to climb on it


the trash and recycling bins with dinosaurs around it


the Pizza Predattoria where guests can go get some pizza


the Watering Hole where guests can go get some ice cold refreshments like beer, wine, frozen cocktails, fountain sodas and lemonade



a triceratops fossil skeleton where it was used to be a sign that leads to the Triceratops Discovery trail or the Triceratops Encounter

the jeep wrangler and Roberta or Rexy from the first Jurassic Park movie

the Ford Explorer from the first jurassic park movie

a Mercedes Benz from the Lost World Jurassic Park and the Spinosaurus from Jurassic Park 3

there is an carnival themed area where guests can play four games by picking up an egg from a tank and put in the scanner to check to see which dinosaur is it to win a prize






the Thunder Falls Terrace where people can buy, eat and drink food and drinks they serve in there then they get in the stands also it has a replica of stegosaurus in it
















here's an employee named Joelica working in here

the Jurassic Outfitters where guests can buy any Jurassic Park merchandise and other related stuff in there, inside there is a Deinonychus replica, i also have pics of merchandise from the new Jurassic World movie






























the Camp Jurassic area which the archway is in the shape of a skeleton of a stegosaurus






some slides that kids can slide on

through the end of the slide its in the shape of Tyrannosaurus Rex skull

the water zone with vertabra and rib bones of a Brachiosaurus


some binoculars where guests can see everything closer from up here

the wet zone



there's a ride in it named Pteranodon Flyers where kids or people in small sizes can ride in three colors of Pteranodon shaped flying karts in it



the yellow and red kart

the red and yellow kart

and the yellow and blue kart

the Raptor Encounter that replaced the Triceratops Encounter or Triceratops Discovery Tail where guests can have a picture with notable Velociraptors such as Sani




a pic of Andy who works for this attraction

the most famous attractions in the park is the Jurassic Park River Adventure which is different from the ride in the Hollywood park







Ultrasaurus

Psittacosaurus

Stegosaurus and Baby



Parasaurolophus

Compsognathus

Velociraptor


Dilophosaurus

Tyrannosaurus Rex


here's the video of the ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmrbOImoBzU
there's a splash zone where guests can see and get wet from the splash of the boat that came down from the drop

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

EPIC pics! I love the whole themed area, every detail is fantastic.  One day maybe we'll do the same here!

[Tylosaurus]

Wow many thanks for sharing great pics of that epic place, seems like you had a ball of a time there sir!

[Cretaceous Crab]

For its time when it was opened during the summer of 1996 (along with with the release of The Lost World: JP), the ride was pretty cool.

However, over 20 years later, I feel the ride needs a revamp. I can totally understand the nostalgia, but the last time I rode it couple years ago, I was not impressed. With Universal Studios along with its sister park in Orlando, Islands of Adventure, updating other franchise-themed rides (Transformers, world of Harry Potter, Skull Island: Reign of Kong, etc), they certainly have the means & technology to do so. And of course, with new more films under its belt and another less than 2 months away, there are so many more elements to consider, such as the Spinosaurus, pterasaurs, Indominus, Mosasaurus, etc.

On a side note, the Pteranodon Flyers Ride in the same area of the park is absolutely terrifying to a parent. I rode it with my (then) 4-yr-old son, and those harnesses seemed so loose! The ride being so jerky and swaying along with the hyper nature of my son, I almost had a heart attack. THAT was a thriller!

[Neosodon]

Looks very cool. I would feel a little uneasy on a JP themed amusement ride though. Expecting a power failure or something along those lines.

[Loon]

Pretty neat photos, planning on going when I head out to Florida for Disney World.
Here's a video about some of the props that are at the parks:
https://youtu.be/JfY-cbdIX98

[MaastrichtianGuy]

here is the visitor center from the first movie. but it is also called the discovery center in the area








the 3D Cretaceous Mural



the 3D Jurassic Mural


the banner signs of the facilities you can do in here


the mural poster of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

in the interior is a Tyrannosaurus Rex fighting an Alamosaurus while a Pteranodon is up in the ceiling


a door with a biological hazard sign on the door

a dog tag machine

a pic of Shane with Savannah the Triceratops on her right arm with a veteran Eddie behind her

the Beasaur facility where you can control three dinosaurs in it


Tyrannosaurus Rex


Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus


Stegosaurus



the Burger Digs and the Jurassic Cafe












the murals of Isla Sorna by Greg Pro







the Discovering Dinosaurs is where you get to use the scanner to look around the fossil wall to see what species in there you could find, then when you find a bone or fossil piece of something, the scanner will up scale the fossil skeleton then form into a skeleton, then form the dinosaur into the flesh identifying the species





Albertosaurus

Barosaurus

Allosaurus

Heterodontosaurus


Camarasaurus

Dilophosaurus

Hypsilophodon

Oviraptor

Velociraptor

Dromaeosaurus

Ovaloolithus

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Triceratops

Thescelosaurus

Coelophysis

Oil


Osteichthyes

Bacteria

next to by the Discovering Dinosaurs facility is the Apatosaurus. the kids can not climb on it but it has dinosaur sounds they could make, inside has tissue and illustrations of hearts of Compsognathus and Coelophysis






next to the Apatosaurus, is the Stegosaurus where kids can hear sneezes of any dinosaurs, has three facts for personalities of dinosaurs and has bones and eggs of Stegosaurus(plate and thagomizer), Ankylosaurus(egg, leg and armor scute), Edmontosaurus(vertabra), Allosaurus(claw, vertabra and tooth), Tyrannosaurus Rex(brain, claw and tooth), Camarasaurus(tooth and foot), Triceratops(tooth), Tarbosaurus(tooth), Velociraptor(egg), Ovaloolithus(egg), Troodon(egg), Oviraptor(egg), Human(adult leg, hand, baby and brain), and some other stuff which are gastroliths, a coprolite a football shoulder pad and some waste



















the Nursery where the guests can examine the eggs to see what dinosaur is inside the eggs and can see a Velociraptor hatchling animatronic in it. i also have a pic of Ramsey holding on to the hatchling


















You Bet Jurassic is a gameshow where the guests can test their knowledge against other guests to win, also it has footage from the two first Jurassic Park movies, the 1925 Lost World movie, King Kong Vs Godzilla, Bambi Meets Godzilla, Land Before Time, The Birds, Gorgo, Gertie The Dinosaur and other old movies
























the DNA Sequencing is where they get to have the guest to meet Mr. DNA to put how what dinosaur they can be, choose if he/she is a herbivore or plant eater, pick if he/she is solo or pack hunter, put their hand, have its brain scanned and having their face placed on a 3D mesh of a dinosaur to have their own hybrid dinosaur








the Dinostore which they now have the toys for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom but also have the head maquette of the Bull T-Rex from TLW, signs from the first movie, an Apatosaurus with Baby, a head mount of a Parasaurolophus, prints of dinosaurs by Timothy J. Bradley for the Jurassic Park Institute Website and models from Sideshow Dinosauria and Dinostoreus

[MaastrichtianGuy]

just got back from IOA and here are some shots that i have missed

the sign for the DNA sequence

the Barbasol can from the first movie

a handmade replica of Mr. Dna

the Krill at Discovering Dinosaurs

the wall fossils of Dilophosaurus and Camarasaurus

a cart with fossils of Allosaurus(hand claw), Velociraptor(toe claw), Utahraptor(toe claw), Spinosaurus(tooth), Giganotosaurus(tooth), Tyrannosaurus Rex(tooth), Oviraptor(egg), Eubrontes(footprint), a juvenile Triceratops(upper beak piece), a juvenile Brachiosaurus(vertebrae), gastroliths, pieces of amber and the amber prop from the first Jurassic Park movie with a mosquito inside taken out


here's Eddie with the cart

some footage from the first Jurassic Park movie, the Lost World: Jurassic Park, King Kong vs Godzilla, Gertie the Dinosaur and other movies played in You Bet Jurassic








a glass sign of the Dinostore

a gate

a foot of a Pteranodon holding a light bulb

a video of the Triceratops Encounter that used to be in the park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybVnzLZprk
a feral Rock Dove and a female feral House Sparrow fighting over a crumb at the Lost Continent area

a pair of Florida Ducks bathing in the pond by the Poseidon Fury show

a pair of Boat-Tailed Grackles in the rocks of the pond by the Poseidon Fury Show

a Boat-Tailed Grackle and a pair of feral House Sparrows bathing in the pond by the Poseidon Fury Show

a male feral House Sparrow in the Lost Continent area

a school of feral Blue Tilapia in the river between the Harry Potter World and Jurassic Park

a feral Brown Anole and Eastern Grey Squirrel in the Jurassic Park area


a female feral House Sparrow inside the Thunder Falls Terrace in Jurassic Park

a White-Winged Dove in Seuss Landing

a Eastern Grey Squirrel by the exit of Skull Island: Reign of Kong

a Boat-Tailed Grackle, a female feral House Sparrow and a feral Rock Dove in the Port of Entry


a feral Rock Dove in the Marvel Superhero Island area

outside of IOA is a candy factory in San Francisco with Petting Zoo dinosaur plushies and Jurassic Park/Jurassic World styled candy products



models of Roberta/Rexy, Blue and the Indominus Rex in the Film Vault

the props from the Jurassic Park area and Isla Nublar poster in the Williams of Hollywood


some Jurassic Park 3 trading cards

a Tyrannosaurus Rex head hat

the statues of the Lost Continent




a shop in the Lost Continent with Unicorn and Dragon merchandise










the windows of owl plushies at the Owl Post


a snowman with a snow made owl

some Hogwarts wizards performing the Frog Choir

two statues of winged wild boars by the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey

a sign that says Welcome To Hogsmeade

in the stands of the carnival styled games in Toon Lagoon are Rainbow Dash plushies

some Cat in the Hat series books and other Dr. Seuss books at All the Books You Can Read at Seuss Landing


the mural showing the universal parks in florida where at the left it shows the Jurassic Park area with the T-Rex, Velociraptor and Pteranodon from Jurassic Park 3 in it

some posters of various movies universal made at the photo store in the port of entry



some more merchandise and ride photos at Jurassic Outfitters including the logo of the store painted on the floor








the Trading Company store with skulls and engraved illustrations of prehistoric and modern animals





Lesser Kudu Horns

an engraved rugs with Indian Elephants on it


an unknown species of Pliosaurus from Russia


some Jurassic Park merchandise


a Dinosaur Fossil Bar with the skeletal look of Roberta/Rexy the Tyrannosaurus Rex on it with candy bones in the back of it



who ever leaves the park gets to go to the Port Provisions shop








some easter eggs i found in the Port of Entry



here is the Pharos Lighthouse the iconic part of the park

and that is the Jurassic Park area and most of the other things in Universal's Islands of Adventure so what do you guys think of the Jurassic Park area and some of the parts of some other areas in the park?

[MaastrichtianGuy]

i took some more pics during many visits to the resort especially a few on universal studios Florida and on IOA. also big surprise coming soon!

the window sign painting to the Dino Store and they add back that Velociraptor back in the store.


some shots from the nursery including clipart images of the dinosaurs from Jurassic World, cage full of dinosaur eggs, a Tyrannosaurus Rex Tooth, a silhouette of Brachiosaurus on the right, illustrations of Tuojiangosaurus, Deinonychus, Dromaeosaurus and Tyranosaurus Rex on the posters, a map of Isla Nublar, the rewards that are done in Jurassic Park, a Triceratops shaped dinosaur book, drawings of Charlie, the Mosasaurus and a Doedicurus, a few dinosaur toys and done there are fossil replicas of a Coelophysis Skull, a Berlin Archaeopteryx fossil and a Velociraptor skull but not the ones that are cloned Isla Nublar but the real ones









so inside the nursery you have to pick six of these eggs in the nursery to know which dinosaur it is by inserting an egg, scan it like x-rays or something like that then choose which dinosaur that's that inside that egg which you can get







so when i was in the nursery part of the discovery center in Jurassic Park in IOA it has six dinosaurs you can scan and identify which are.

Ankylosaurus



Gallimimus



Stegosaurus



Triceratops



Tyrannosaurus Rex my favorite



and my all time favorite Velociraptor



a cart with a checklist, a Brachiosaurus toy and some random things

a checklist with the birth certificate of the dinosaur that's hatched in the park

a banner on the window doors with an Albertosaurus Skull on it

another fossil wall with a Camarasaurus on it

there is a segment that is in the queue of Jurassic Park River Adventure called Jurassic Journal which it showcases the dinosaurs that are in the ride and not on the ride.


Dilophosaurus

Gallimimus

Parasaurolophus

Psittacosaurus

Stegosaurus


Triceratops

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Ultrasaurus



Velociraptor

some Tyrannosaurus Rex footprints on the way to the boats

in one part of the queue there's a child swap area which it had screens showing clips from various Land Before Time movies


some more shots from Jurassic Outfitters and it looks like they had some wild safari dinos in there now








a Jurassic Park themed freezer

the Thunder Falls Terrace with banners for the new movie in the franchise

a wall lamp with a Camarasaurus on it in Pizza Predattoria

a sign about the memory of Joseph H. Linesch who did the landscape and the architecture of the park

in the parking lot lobby has a coin printing machine with a printed coin that says Jurassic Park the Ride but its in the Hollywood Park not the Orlando Park

so when i went back to the Raptor Encounter big surprise! they got Blue in now! my all time favorite character in the franchise

here are some team members that i met in many visits of the park

Scotty

Orlando which he was named after the city he lived in and where the Universal Orlando Resort is located in

Danielle

Gabriel

Jarrett

Janette

Daniel Needhammer the chef tournant of the park

Nate

and here are some foreign team members that i met in there which are.

Tone from Vietnam

Lee from Singapore

Aki from Miyagi, Japan

Manuel from Catania, Italy

Brittany from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates

Shamima from Zimbabwe

Marlaine from Brunssum, Netherlands

and a team member all the way from the Northern Territory of Australia which is Down Under


some more animals that i saw in the park especially one in the other parkwhich a pair of Florida Ducks, a lone Florida Duck, a school of Blue Tilapia and a bale of Florida Softshells





in those drink machines Minute Maid is showing a limited time flavor to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Jurassic Park franchise which is Lime-A-Saurus



some Jurassic Park trading cards in the Williams of Hollywood Prop Shop


a bag of enriched dino chow from the closed down Triceratops Encounter from the Jurassic Park area in IOA

some merchandise in the Owl Post in the Harry Potter World in IOA it has a cage with a Monster Book of Monsters in it





a Chuck Jones styled Grinch dancing in a store in Seuss Landing in IOA

an Asian themed stand in the Port of Entry

[MaastrichtianGuy]

here are yet even more pics along the way

a poster of Jurassic Park on a construction site fence

in the queue of the Universal Orlando's Horror Make Up Show there is a display case of life and death of the special make-up effects creator Stan Winston and behind the scenes stills, concepts and props from the first two Jurassic Park movies including the prop replica of the Big One from the first movie





stills and model replicas of the Gill-Man from The Creature From The Black Lagoon movies

the head spider from the Thing

the poster of Jurassic Park, The Mummy movie from 1999 and The Thing

the Gill-Man from The Creature Of The Black Lagoon movies with his stills, his model replicas, his director's chair and his rewards







on top of a small deco-styled building is a large rotating figure of the Gill-Man with a broken paddle with weeds and a shrimp on it and with a bowl with shrimp and weeds on it

a frame of a still of the Gill-Man in the On Location shop

in the Cyber Image store that used to be the gift shop for the 3-D Terminator movie has some merchandise for Alien sequel Aliens which is a picture of Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, an autographed painted canvas of the Alien Queen or the Xenomorph Queen in the movie, a display case with some Aliens merchandise and the poster for the movie but with autographs on it




on the way out of the horror make up show is a poster of the 1933 King Kong movie and the poster for The Creature From The Black Lagoon


some Hello Kitty versions of posters of 1933 King Kong movie, Jaws and Jurassic Park



when i went back in to photo-shoot for big surprise that's gonna come soon is i took a pic of a bus with the Bull Tyrannosaurus Rex from The Lost World Jurassic Park

the poster of the first Jurassic Park movie in a Cinemark theater in Citywalk

a few things that i missed in the Discovering Dinosaurs simulator is Cephalopods and Lobsters and there's more pics of clips from other movies in the You Bet Jurassic game posted in the other post.