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There is no way the park would have been able to stay open for too long

posted 5 years ago by MovieChatUser497 (18943)
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Hammonds design was very much not sustainable, I mean how many tours was he going to be able to have going on at one time? Maybe 10 or 11? That means the number of people he could have in the park at one time is minimal at best. The wait list to get into the park would have been ridiculously long, the people going to the park would have to spend a whole lot of money getting there considering they'd probably have to get plane tickets to Costa Rica first and then take a boat to the Island and then once they get there they would have to wait an incredible amount of time for their tour to start considering once again with the cars only so many people can be viewing the dinosaurs at one time. Not to mention the staff would have to completely focus on each tour group to make sure they were safe (having them that close to the dinosaurs was a huge safety risk) and to tempt the dinosaurs with goats if needed.

Hammond should have designed the park so that people can walk around at will and go see whatever dinosaur they wanted and of course have the dinosaurs a much further distance from the tourists (perhaps have the walkways on top of a cliff and the dinosaurs are in a cleared out field at the bottom of the cliff?)

Either way with that design there was no way he was going to be able to generate the revenue to keep the park open for too long. I'm guessing they were also going to have to build hotels on the Island as well, no way anyone would be able to A) Fly to Costa Rica, B) Take a boat to the Island, C) Have a fun exciting day at Jurassic Park, D) Go home, all in one day.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Jurassic Park itself was not even open to the public yet, Hammond invited experts along to test the feasibility of the park, and as events transpired, it didn't work out too well, and that was before Nedry sabotaged everything for monetary gain. So they still had plenty of bugs to work out in the entire system.

I always thought the point of the Jurassic World movie was to finally show what a fully-functional dinosaur park would be like, and I think it worked well. But of course, things go wrong once again. What gets me about Jurassic World is, why did they just abandon the original Jurassic Park Visitor Center and just let it become totally overgrown and lost in the jungle like that? It made me all nostalgic when the boys found it.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 5 years ago

Right but he said he hoped to open the following year, I have a hard time believing they could have turned Jurassic Park into Jurassic World in such a small amount of time.

From a financial perspective having the tour was a bad idea, I mean that tour couldn't have lasted more than an hour or so and I can't imagine the wait time. It would have been a far better idea to design the park in a way so that people could just walk to whatever exhibit they wanted and if the exhibits had to be spaced really really far apart allow them to check out golf carts or have a moving sidewalk like at the airports, or have a monorail system.

[–] aavfreak (3396) 5 years ago

"why did they just abandon the original Jurassic Park Visitor Center and just let it become totally overgrown and lost in the jungle like that? It made me all nostalgic when the boys found it."

I think you answered your own question.

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[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 5 years ago

Exactly the Park was doable but it would take a lot of restraint, time and patience while they studied the animals and learned their behavior, just like how we’ve done with other dangerous animals at zoos

[–] Who (5146) 5 years ago

Jurassic World was set up like that, people walking around visiting exhibits and rides.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 5 years ago

Exactly that was a much better setup, but once again the Indominous Rex (sp?) considering how dangerous it was was way too close to the tourists, it again should have been in an open field and the walkway the tourists go on should have been elevated. The Indominous Rex is so big that despite the fact that the tourists are a good distance from it they would still be able to see. Same thing with the Mosasaurs, as vicious as it is having it in a Sea World like tank right in front of the tourists was too dangerous. And those little hamster balls were a huge mistake and I just love how when there was an emergency the park had no way of overriding the controls and getting the tourists back to safety, all they really could do was say "please come back, pretty please", LOL

[–] Luis (187) 5 years ago

Indominous? You may as well type Enormous Rex! Ha ha ha HA!

It is Tyrannosaurus Rex.

[–] chilone (18333) 5 years ago

http://www.jurassicworld.com/intel/dinosaur/indominus-rex

[–] megameme (370) 4 years ago

ha! i remember when it was originally called the D-Rex

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8859) 4 years ago

I think you have to consider two things:

1. We don't know how much of the park's design we DON'T see in the film. I wouldn't presume that we saw everything the park had to offer or was planning to offer. I'm also sure the wide-open spaces, such as where they initially see the brontosaurus, would be used for something, probably for a safari-style experience.

2. There are rich people in the world who would pay a shitload of money to see living dinosaurs. Convince people to pay enough and anything can be profitable.