Real-life Jurassic Park planned for Dubai
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Universal, Tech Stuff, Steven Spielberg
In Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, the genetically engineered dinosaurs managed to breed, break out of captivity, terrorize scientists and eat lawyers before Sam Neill, et al were air lifted to safety. I didn't see the film's two sequels, but I can't imagine future visitors to history's most ethically dubious theme park fared much better. But I'm sure nothing nearly that bad is going to happen at Restless Planet, the "real life Jurassic Park" currently in development in Dubai. The park is being planned by Jack Horner (a palentological consultant to Spielberg) and experts from the British Natural History Museum, whilst two Arab businessmen, brothers Ilyas and Mustafa Galadar, are picking up the whopping £100 million price tag. And no, there will be no amber mine spelunking for dino DNA -- all of the attractions will be strictly animatronic.
The great thing about this story is that the script from the movie provides all of the material we need to make fun of it. We can just go down the list repeating the sage words of Dr. Ian Malcolm, the black leather-clad chaos theorist played by Jeff Goldblum. Here's my favorite zinger: "They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." What's yours?
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8-15-2005 @ 10:29AM
Drew said...
"That is one big pile of sh*t."
I want real dinosaurs!
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8-15-2005 @ 2:36PM
RJ said...
"But, John. But if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists."
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8-15-2005 @ 2:57PM
B said...
Frink: You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us
that all robots will eventually turn against their masters
and run amok in an orgy of blood and kicking and the biting
with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.
Repairman: How much time do we have, professor?
Frink: [checks clipboard] Well, according to my calculations, the
robots won't go berserk for at least 24 hours.
[Scratchy robot grabs men by the throat]
[Itchy robot goes after another man]
Oh, I forgot to, er, carry the one.
-- A small miscalculation, "Itchy and Scratchy Land
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8-16-2005 @ 1:59PM
brian said...
um... maybe it's just me, but if it's all anamatronic, can it really be called a "real life Jurassic Park"? And I'm not sure what the pound-dollar conversion rate is, but Terminator 2 cost US$100M in 1990/1991, and Universal Studios spent US$100M on the Spider-Man ride at their Islands of Adventure park in Orlando a few years ago, so I don't think 100M pounds is really a "whopping" figure these days. BTW, Universal Studios already made a real life* Jurassic Park at IOA, so I don't think this Dubai thing really counts in the first place. :-)
* Note: dinosaurs are neither real nor alive
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8-18-2005 @ 6:08AM
marto said...
Dubai? you don't bring people half way around the world to visit a zoo, you bring the zoo to them. San Diego is the perfect set. People already associate her beautiful city with animal attractions. San Diego Zoo, Sea World, San Diego Chargers....
Mr. Hammond knew this. Before he ever dreamt of an island, he began construction on an amphitheater... very near to where you're sitting right now at the InGen Waterfront Complex. But, he abandoned it in favor of something far grander.... and ultimately.... impossible.
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