Who's excited for Jurassic World? I'm excited for Jurassic World! Here's the first trailer for the movie that will see the original vision for Jurassic Park finally brought to life, with a few dinosaur complications of course:
Alongside the trailer several still have been released on the Jurassic World website:
But there aren't nearly enough dinosaurs in the above image selection, so continue after the jump for oodles of screencaps from the trailer, to drink in every moment. Plus some other teases from the film:
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Beautiful Jurassic Park print
Quite possibly my favourite scene in all of cinema, the reveal of the brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park is so beautiful, so moving, and so awe inspiring. Seeing it again at cinema scale when Jurassic Park was re-released last year was just amazing, and I can't wait to try it out in 3D this year.
Now artist Mark Englert has made an equally magnificent print of this wonderful scene. It will be available for one day only, starting later today, so don't miss out:
Now artist Mark Englert has made an equally magnificent print of this wonderful scene. It will be available for one day only, starting later today, so don't miss out:
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Jurassic Park IV out next summer!
The news I've been waiting for since, ...well Jurassic Park III I suppose; Variety has just announced that Jurassic Park IV is going into production, and is set for release in less than a year and a half! On June 13th, 2014.
Steven Spielberg is set to produce a script by Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It will be shot in 3D, and that, is all we know. Given Spielberg just paused production on what would of been his next film, an adaptation of Robopocalypse, hopefully he will return to direct!
Whatever form it takes, a new Jurassic Park film fills me excitement! Although hopefully nothing has remained from the previously aborted dino-super-soldiers idea...
Steven Spielberg is set to produce a script by Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It will be shot in 3D, and that, is all we know. Given Spielberg just paused production on what would of been his next film, an adaptation of Robopocalypse, hopefully he will return to direct!
Whatever form it takes, a new Jurassic Park film fills me excitement! Although hopefully nothing has remained from the previously aborted dino-super-soldiers idea...
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Friday, January 6, 2012
A remarkably articulate Tyrannosaur
Check out this incredible Jurassic Park Tyrannosaurs Rex action figure from Revoltech. It’s a bit diddly, at just 20cm, and a bit pricey, but it’s wonderfully detailed and highly articulated; with particularly impressive posing possibilities around the head and legs, plus a bendy tail:
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Mongolia's Dinosaur Fairyland
Jurassic Park might not quite be a reality yet (though mammoths might be on the way); but if you fancy encountering some wild dinosaurs, it looks like Erlian, near the Chinese border with Mongolia, is the place to go. Something of a dinosaur hotspot, the little town has tried to encourage tourism by building a dinosaur museum, and doting the place the dinosaur statues, the most impressive being a pair of sauropods which reach out to each other over a road:
The same pair are pictured in a huge sign carved into a nearby valley wall, which identifies the attraction as Dinosaur Fairyland:
On the other side of the valley are similar massive drawings of dinosaur skeletons, which can be seen from space, if you zoom in enough on Google maps:
Dotted about the town and along the roads are many smaller dinosaur sculptures, here are a few of my favourites from the photos I've found:
According to Atlas Obscura, you pretty much have the place to yourself if you visit too:
The same pair are pictured in a huge sign carved into a nearby valley wall, which identifies the attraction as Dinosaur Fairyland:
On the other side of the valley are similar massive drawings of dinosaur skeletons, which can be seen from space, if you zoom in enough on Google maps:
Dotted about the town and along the roads are many smaller dinosaur sculptures, here are a few of my favourites from the photos I've found:
According to Atlas Obscura, you pretty much have the place to yourself if you visit too:
The park features dozens of full scale dinosaur models as well as bones, both real and fake. There are also lots of photo opportunities with dinosaurs smashing down walls and hatching from eggs. However, Dinosaur Fairyland is never crowded, probably due to its remote location, about 20km outside the town of Erlian in Outer Mongolia. However, this means you will have the park all to yourself, except for the occasional men in military uniform that use the park as a thoroughfare to the bus station.More pictures after the jump:
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Mondo's second Jurassic Park poster
On the subject of Jurassic Park, did you see Mondo's second Jurassic Park poster, released a couple of months ago? It was a thing of beauty:
Congratulations to those lucky 375 who got the standard version, and the other 125 who nabbed the edition without text. I was seconds away from being one of them frustratingly!
Congratulations to those lucky 375 who got the standard version, and the other 125 who nabbed the edition without text. I was seconds away from being one of them frustratingly!
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Jurassic Park Dangerous Games #5 preview
This week see's the release of the fifth and final issue of IDW's latest Jurassic Park comic series, Dangerous Games. Here's how IDW describe the finale:
Agent Espinoza has done the unthinkable and survived 24 hours on an island full of predators who want to kill him- both human and dinosaur. Now the end is near, and drug kingpin Cazares is the only thing standing in the way of Espinoza's freedom. Cazares, and an entire island of angry, rampaging dinosaurs thst is! It's a crazy, chaotic, climactic finish to Dangerous Games!Continue after the jump for a seven-page preview:
Thursday, October 27, 2011
New Jurassic Park reprints
Check out this beautiful omnibus of Jurassic Park and The Lost World. I'm very tempted to replace my mismatched copies with this pretty version:
Amazon's description:
Amazon's description:
Amazon's description:
From master thriller writer Michael Crichton: Two imaginative masterpieces of speculative science, full of adventure and larger-than-life characters. In Jurassic Park, scientists of today clone dinosaurs of the prehistoric past to serve as attractions in a modern theme park. When a rival biogenetic firm attempts to steal the scientists secret, the stage is set for a nightmare of science and dinosaurs run amok. The Lost World picks up the story six years later, with scientists scrambling to find the jungle island that served as the dinosaur production factory for Jurassic Park. Once again, rivalry and subterfuge combine to create life-threatening dangers for the scientists, who must contend with the rampaging dinosaurs as well as their cutthroat competitors. This volume contains the full text of both of Michael Crichton s bestselling novels. Featuring a beautifully stamped bonded leather cover, gilt edging, colorful endpapers, and a satin-ribbon bookmark, this collectible edition is a fine addition to any home library.The novel omnibus is out already, while coming in January from IDW is their fourth omnibus of classic Jurassic Park comics: Return to Jurassic Park, Part One. With another nice cover:
Amazon's description:
The fourth volume of Classic Jurassic Park stories continues with Return to Jurassic Park #1-9, which contains the lead-in story to the four-issue adaptation of The Lost World. It also contains the two part stories "Heirs to the Thunder" and "Photo Finish" ending with the final issue, "Jurassic Jam," which featured multiple artists such as John Byrne and Walter Simonson.And IDW's solicitation blurb:
The fourth volume of Classic Jurassic Park stories continues with Return to Jurassic Park #1-4. When a U.S. soldier is found floating, dead, off the coast of Costa Rica word makes its way to InGen headquarters in Palo Alto. Before long, Grant, Ellie, and Muldoon are headed back to Isla Nublar! And they're not going to like what they find on the island... Fills in the story between the first JP and The Lost World.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Jurassic Park Dangerous Games #4 solicitation
IDW's solicitations for December are out, which include the penultimate issue of the Jurassic Park series, Dangerous Games. Here's how they describe it:
Out this week was the second issue of the series; if you haven't got it yet Comic Book Resources have a seven-page preview. Here's one page:
Agent Espinoza has evaded near death on Jurassic Park countless times over the past 24 hours. Now he's looking to payback the man behind it all- drug kingpin Cazares! That means breaking into Cazares' headquaters in the Jurassic Park hotel... which is fortified with countless gun-toting goons! How can Espinoza storm the compound? A herd of triceratops might not hurt, for starters!The issue will be available in a standard cover or black white retail incentive:
Out this week was the second issue of the series; if you haven't got it yet Comic Book Resources have a seven-page preview. Here's one page:
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games #1 preview
The first issue of IDW's next Jurassic Park comic series, Dangerous Games, is out this week, and Comics Continuum have a five-page-preview. Here's the dramatic start:
You can see the rest, here.
You can see the rest, here.
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Friday, September 2, 2011
BBC's dinosaur season
The BBC have released a trailer for their latest dinosaur documentary series, Planet Dinosaur, which starts in a couple of weeks:
The six part series is one part of a whole season of dinosaur programing on the BBC, here's how they describe what's coming:
Planet Dinosaur
How To Build A Dinosaur
Survivors
Dinosaurs, Myths And Monsters
The six part series is one part of a whole season of dinosaur programing on the BBC, here's how they describe what's coming:
Planet Dinosaur
The last decade has been a golden age of discoveries for palaeontologists around the world: more dinosaurs have been discovered in the past 10 years than the previous 200 years. But the next generation of children won't be talking about Tyrannosaurus Rex or Diplodocus because bigger, badder and altogether more bizarre dinosaurs have been uncovered across the globe.
In an astonishing six-part series, BBC One brings to life the most incredible creatures that viewers never knew existed. From Spinosaurus, the biggest killer to ever walk the Earth, to the immense sea-monster Predator X, and the deadly cannibalistic Majunasaurus – dinosaurs were more monstrous, more horrific and bizarre than ever before imagined. Combining a 3D graphic world, incredible CGI and stunning photo-real fight scenes, this is a whole new perspective on dinosaurs.
How To Build A Dinosaur
Dinosaur skeletons are some of the most popular exhibitions in the world – each year, hundreds of thousands of children flock to the Natural History Museum to see the world famous diplodocus, Dippy. But how do these skeletons get from the ground to the museum hall, traversing millions of years in history to educate and entertain? For every museum, reconstructing a dinosaur skeleton is a fine balance between science and art.
Science presenter and anatomist Dr Alice Roberts guides viewers through the entire reconstruction of a museum's new dinosaur exhibition from the raw bones to the final skeleton.
Survivors
It is estimated that 99 per cent of Earth's species have become extinct. Professor Richard Fortey of the Natural History Museum discovers what allows the very few that survive to carry on going – perhaps not for ever, but certainly far beyond normal species life-expectancy. What makes a survivor when other species drop like flies?
From the jellyfish to the crocodile this series focuses on the survivors whose biographies stretch back millions of years and who can teach humans how it is possible to survive a mass extinction event.
Dinosaurs, Myths And Monsters
Prehistoric bones posed an enormous conundrum in the past. What were they? What did they signify? And what were the implications of those findings? How could they be reconciled to beliefs and myths about the origins of humans and indeed, the planet? For centuries, dinosaur and other fossilised bone remains have perplexed, challenged and amazed humans.
This film tells the story of the impact of the gradual discovery of dinosaurs. It's a story which explains how ideas, explanations and philosophies altered and evolved through time and how humans developed theories to explain the mysteries of the bones.
Mondo: Jurassic Park
Mondo (who I regularly follow to update my Star Trek blog on their latest releases) have launched a new poster license. The first in the series was released exclusively with a screening of Jurassic Park at the Alamo Drafthouse, and a second poster will be available when the trilogythe trilogy is released on bluray next month (if they're anything like the Trek posters you'll have a couple of minutes to try and get one of the small editions of prints before they sell out). Here is the first poster:
And its blue variant:
Sources: Movies.com, /Film.
And its blue variant:
Sources: Movies.com, /Film.
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Jurassic Park returning to cinemas!
Jurassic Park is possibly my favourite film, so I am very excited to hear (from Empire) that it will be shown once more in cinemas at the end of this month (in the UK at least), ahead of the trilogy's bluray release.
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Futurama monopoly on the way, and there's a dinosaur one too!
While browsing USAoply's website I see they have a Futurama edition of Monopoly on the way, currently on pre-order for November release. I love the replacements for "chance" and "community chest": "Attention Puny Humans!" and "Good News Everyone!"
Pre-orders come with a Leela's boot and golden Bender token, with the boot not to be included in later releases and Bender de-goldened!
I also spotted a Dinosaur edition of Monopoly, with one of the taxes being a meteorite impact!
Pre-orders come with a Leela's boot and golden Bender token, with the boot not to be included in later releases and Bender de-goldened!
I also spotted a Dinosaur edition of Monopoly, with one of the taxes being a meteorite impact!
Friday, August 26, 2011
Dinosaur film coming from Pixar!
At the recent D23 expo Pixar annouced a couple of future projects, one of which features dinosaurs! Here are the descriptions, care of io9, plus the desritpion fo the next Toy Story short:
The Untitled Pixar Film About Dinosaurs
The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind
Small Fry
More information and coverage on io9, First Showing and /Film.
The Untitled Pixar Film About Dinosaurs
What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? This hilarious, heartfelt and original tale is directed by Bob Peterson (co-director/writer, "Up;" writer, "Finding Nemo") and produced by John Walker ("The Incredibles," "The Iron Giant").
The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind
Pixar takes audiences on incredible journeys into extraordinary worlds: from the darkest depths of the ocean to the top of the tepui mountains in South America; from the fictional metropolis of Monstropolis to a futuristic fantasy of outer space. From director Pete Docter ("Up," "Monsters, Inc.") and producer Jonas Rivera ("Up"), the inventive new film will take you to a place that everyone knows, but no one has ever seen: the world inside the human mind.
Small Fry
In the latest Toy Story Toon, Buzz Lightyear is left behind at a fast food restaurant when a kids' meal toy version of Buzz takes his place. While Bonnie's toys are stuck with the annoying 3-inch-tall Buzz impersonator, the real Buzz is trapped in the restaurant at a support group for discarded toys. As Woody and the gang devise a way to rescue their friend, Buzz tries to escape the toy psychotherapy meeting.
More information and coverage on io9, First Showing and /Film.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games
IDW have just released their solicitations for November, which include the third issue of their latest Jurassic Park series: Dangerous Games, written by Greg Bear and Erik Bear, with art by Jorge Jimenez. Here are blurbs and covers for that series to date:
Dangerous Games #1
Dangerous Games #2
Dangerous Games #3
If you make your way to Chris Ryall's blog you can also see some interior artwork, and some of the cover artwork without titles. Like this beauty:
Dangerous Games #1
The time has come... to return to Isla Nublar! The famed original Jurassic Park island has become overgrown and wild after years of being stuck in United Nations limbo. A major criminal overlord has moved in and started using the island as a base of operations. Undercover agent Espinoza tries to bring down the drug cartel- but when he's found out, there's only one place to run... the dino-infested island interior! It's survival of the fittest at Jurassic Park!
Dangerous Games #2
The hunt begins! Detective Espinoza is on the run in the deadliest of locations... Jurassic Park! With well-armed goons on his trail, this is a seemingly impossible game to win. Luckily Espinoza meets Dr. Frances White, an animal behaviorial expert also trapped on the island. But how much help will Dr. White be when she leads him directly to a hungry T-Rex? This is the dino action you've been craving!
Dangerous Games #3
Agent Espinoza is being hunted on Jurassic Park, both by dinosaurs and a blood-thirsty drug cartel. Tired, hungry and sick of being the prey, a desperate Espinoza decides to flip the tables and start getting crafty! The end result is a battle to the death at the top of a waterfall with deadly dinos on all sides. It's maximum Jurassic action in this issue of Dangerous Games!
If you make your way to Chris Ryall's blog you can also see some interior artwork, and some of the cover artwork without titles. Like this beauty:
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Interesting behind-the-scenes look at Jurassic Park CGI
Jurassic Park is one of my favourite films, and what I continue to be amazed by every time I watch it is just how well the nearly two-decade old effects hold up; they look better than many modern effects! Here's an interesting look at how those amazing effects were made:
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Monday, August 8, 2011
Terra Nova clips
Comics Continuum have posted six clips from the first episode of the forthcoming dinosaur/time travel show, Terra Nova. Here are my favourite two:
There are four more clips on Comics Continuum, plus the offical Terra Nova website has a whole load of prequel videos, here.
There are four more clips on Comics Continuum, plus the offical Terra Nova website has a whole load of prequel videos, here.
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