All eyes are on Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), which stars Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: Endgame) and is set for release on July 2. But while the film series continues to expand the World side of the long-running franchise, another upcoming Jurassic sequel will reunite fans with the Park era, while clearing up a big mistake created in the original 1993 film.
Like any other Hollywood blockbuster, Jurassic Park (1993) is no stranger to bloopers. Whether it’s a simple continuity error like the disappearing goat leg or the boom guy’s mic appearing on screen during the kitchen scene, mistakes are as inescapable as Velociraptors.
But there’s one goof that’s been at the heart of a debate that has raged on since the film came out in theaters 32 years ago: the Tyrannosaur Paddock’s sudden transition from being a ground-level enclosure to a dramatic vertical drop.
Fortunately, the upcoming video game “Jurassic Park: Survival” (TBA) will finally solve this mystery.
While the first-person, action-adventure title doesn’t have the words “open-world game” attached to it, the official website states that “a fully realized Isla Nublar” will allow players to visit all the familiar locations from the film, as well as several new ones.
The game also takes place just 24 hours after Jurassic Park, so, when it’s eventually released (unfortunately, there’s no release date as yet), fans will finally be able to find the answer to the particularly mystifying inconsistency created in the 1993 film.
Now, let’s deep-dive into why this sequence continues to cause confusion among fans, while also taking a look at what other mysteries the game might solve.
“Quiet, all of you! They’re approaching the Tyrannosaur Paddock”_ Robert Muldoon
The Mystery of Jurassic Park’s T-Rex Paddock
In the beloved 1993 film, when the Tyrannosaurus Rex escapes its jungle enclosure after being able to tear down the fence following the power outage caused by Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight), the dinosaur walks seamlessly onto the main road between the two jeeps.
However, after flipping the jeep with Lex Murphy (Ariana Richards) and Tim Murphy (Joe Mazzello) inside, this part of the road is now somehow adjacent to a vertical drop — a concrete moat — and not the ground-level greenery where the goat was a few scenes before.
But, despite how confusing it is on screen, apparently, the answer as to why this happens is actually quite straightforward.
We know that there are concrete moats around some of the dinosaur enclosures — InGen lawyer Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero) mentions them when talking to John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) earlier in the film, which is consistent with the best-selling novel by Michael Crichton.
An official storyboard from the film’s Dinosaur Supervisor Phil Tippet that has since been released, which details the paddock’s geography, reveals that the T-Rex has to walk up a steep incline to eat the goat, and that the only reason this feeding zone is ground-level with the road is so that guests can see the dinosaur, while also minimizing its time near the fence.
So, the vertical drop is part of the paddock — it’s just further up the road, which means that the animal pushes the jeep, bringing it adjacent with the drop. The problem is that the film fails to make this clear, because we never see the dinosaur move the vehicle up the road.
But, in “Jurassic Park: Survival,” we’ll finally be able to see the Tyrannosaur Paddock for ourselves, as it’s revealed in the trailer in the aftermath of the dinosaur breakout, with a herd of Gallimimus thundering over Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm’s abandoned jungle explorer.
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Barbasol Shaving Can
Another Jurassic Park mystery in need of solving is the Barbasol shaving can that disgruntled InGen computer engineer Dennis Nedry loses in the jungle before he’s brutally killed by a Dilophosaur while trying to reach the East Dock.
While the latest film, Jurassic World Dominion (2022), reveals that Biosyn CEO Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott) has since recovered the can for his own private collection, fans are eager to find out whether any other attempts were made to find it in the years that followed the events of the original 1993 film.
With “Jurassic Park: Survival” set just one day later, this will likely play a role in the game.
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Raptor in the Freezer
The official trailer for “Jurassic Park: Survival” confirms that a dinosaur presumed dead in the film has returned: the Velociraptor that Lex and Tim Murphy lock in the walk-in freezer in the Visitor Center kitchen. At the end of the cinematic part of the trailer, we see the door slightly ajar, before the surviving raptor is revealed in some brief gameplay footage.
However, no explanation is given as to how it manages to escape the freezer. While we know that raptors can open doors with their claws, we see Lex fix the latch on the other side. Whether the game’s lead character Dr. Maya Joshi inadvertently frees the animal while looking for some dessert, or that it somehow escapes by itself, remains to be seen.
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Other Jurassic Park Attractions
Between the original novel and a number of teases in the 1993 film, we know there are other Jurassic Park attractions on Isla Nublar that exist off-screen, such as the Aviary, the Safari Lodge, and the rest of the Jungle Explorer tour. But as “Jurassic Park: Survival” has “a fully realized Isla Nublar,” the game will allow us to see them up, close, and personal.
Of course, “Survival” is free to take liberties and introduce attractions that weren’t mentioned in the book, whether rollercoasters or even its own version of the popular Universal Studios ride Jurassic Park: The Ride (AKA, Jurassic Park River Adventure).
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Fate of the Sick Triceratops
After the first Jurassic Park, the series wasted no time in introducing Site B/Isla Sorna, the factory floor of John Hammond’s vision. The second island serves as the location in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and Jurassic Park III (2001). But while Jurassic World (2015) finally brought the franchise home to Isla Nublar, it was a little too late for some fans.
Which fans are those, you might wonder? Why, the ones who’ve been worrying about that sick Triceratops in the 1993 film for decades, of course. We never did find out what happened to the poor Trike, but now that we’re getting a sequel that takes place the next day, the odds are that this majestic Cretaceous animal will factor into the game somehow.
While the dinosaur doesn’t appear in the trailer for “Jurassic Park: Survival”, we find it hard to believe that it won’t show up. We may even find out why it was sick in the first place.
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Ray Arnold May Still Be Alive in Jurassic Park
Though it’s hardly as widely debated as the Tyrannosaur Paddock mystery, there are some fans who believe that the chain-smoking chief security engineer Ray Arnold (Samuel L Jackson) may have survived his encounter with the raptor in the maintenance shed. While we see his severed arm land on Ellie Sattler’s shoulder, we don’t actually see the rest of him.
That fact obviously speaks volumes about his fate, but there’s a remote possibility he survived and lived to become dinosaur food another day. But even if Mr. Arnold is dead in the films, “Survival” is free to do as it pleases. As such, maybe Dr. Maya Joshi will find him moments before his actual death in some sort of race-against-the-clock mission.
“Jurassic Park: Survival” Release Date
There’s no release date for “Jurassic Park: Survival”. For more about the game, check out our full guide. Or, for our full breakdown of the trailer, click here.
Check out the trailer below, courtesy of Jurassic World YouTube:
When Is Jurassic World Rebirth Out?
Jurassic World Rebirth releases in theaters on July 2.
The film stars Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: Endgame), Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer), Rupert Friend (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Mahershala Ali (The Green Book), Luna Blaise (Manifest), David Iacono (Dead Boy Detectives), Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs Lopez), Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (BMF), and Ed Skrein (Deadpool).
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