#Jurassic Florida

[frogshunnedshadows]

Jurassic Park themed photo op site at Universal Studios Florida, 1994.

[emaadsidiki]

Pteranodon Flyers 🚀🦖🌠 Universal Orlando

[hyper-coasters]

💙🦖 Hi Blue!

[garfieldlver67]

pics and a video i took on my trip to universal 😋

part 2 is coming in a sec

[ionlycareabouthhn]

Reminiscing about last Saturday at Universal. I said hi to my beloved monsters, I treated myself to a little Dracula, we hid in the Jurassic park playground caves, and I mean mugged on a rickshaw

[the1beardedgent]

Exquisitely preserved fossil of Jurassic sea turtle includes near-complete skull and limbs

[antvnger]

Florida boy! Did you grow up in Jurassic Park?!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-I7SWfOO37/?igsh=NmZpYW1nNnp0aWVy

Do you just follow a Florida tag on instagram or something, Anon? *laughs*

And no, I wouldn’t say it’s Jurassic Park. Although…in some parts of Florida, those lizards run rampant.

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[rxin3akamallory]

Double Life

Damn all these self insert OCs I have got me living a double life or something-

Full piece

(IM SO PROUD OF THIS OMG!!!)

Inserts in order (top right - bottom left)

Maggie - Finding Nemo

Maddison - The Office

Makoto - Big Hero 6

Marigold - Encanto

Marcie - Green Eggs & Ham (Netflix)

Machelle - Sing 2

Marley - Regular Show

Marnie - Fish Hooks

Maria - Onward

Mackenzie - The Florida Project

Madeline - Wreck-It Ralph

Mary-Ann - The Muppets (Modern)

Maeve - Madagascar

Mabelle - Cars

Marline - Jurassic World (Chaos Theory specifically)

Maia - Ice Age

Maci - Detroit: Become Human

Madeira - The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Marjorie - Mr. Peabody and Sherman (2014)

Marcella - Alice’s Wonderland Bakery

Magril - Guardians of the Galaxy

Martha - My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)

Maleficent - Rise of the Guardians

Mae - Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Mara - Frozen

[jurassicparkpodcast]

The Jurassic Franchise is growing at the Universal Orlando Resort! New Parade + Nighttime Show!

Jurassic fans - we have TWO new experiences coming to Universal Studios Florida. Universal Mega Movie Parade and Cinesational: A Symphonic Spectacular are joining the ranks of Jurassic offerings at the Universal Orlando Resort this summer!

First up, we have a new daytime parade hitting the streets with some great properties, including our beloved T.rex! Universal Mega Movie Parade begins July 3rd, 2024.

"Your favorite characters leap off screen onto the streets for a daytime parade. Feel the roar of the T. rex, enjoy the adventure of E.T., embrace your true colors with Trolls and more. On select days."

Back in 2018, Universal Studios Japan introduced a Jurassic World section of their Universal Spectacle Night Parade. If the parade offerings coming to Orlando are anything like the one in Japan, we are in for a treat!

Next up, we have a new nighttime show coming to the lagoon at Universal Studios Florida. Cinesational: A Symphonic Spectacular will grace our ears with plenty of John Williams’ greatness on June 14th, 2024!

"Thrill to a cinematic journey with stirring soundtracks evoking the mystery and magic of Harry Potter™, the pulse-pounding thrills of Jurassic World and the gripping suspense of Jaws. On select nights."

Recently, the park had the nighttime show Universal Orlando’s Cinematic Celebration, which featured a Jurassic World segment. The nighttime show facilities closed down after Hurricane Ian, but will be brought back this summer with a brand new show. Hopefully the show will span the Jurassic World trilogy and we get to see more than just the 2015 film.

For more information check out the Universal Orlando Resort.

Written by:

Brad Jost

[foolsdiamond]

on the one hand it sucks that jk trolling is transphobic bc of how she hurts the trans community and what it did to disillusion me from a fandom I grew up with

on the other hand it saves me so much fucking money at universal studios

[ponderlyapp]

🦕🦖 Should we bring dinosaurs back to life? Great question to spark your Monday blues

What do you think? Share your #hottake below!

@ponderlyapp is the place where everything’s debatable, even the dinosaurs 🦖 so come join in the convo

[elbiotipo]

Also, the point I always make: Jurassic Park is all about "PLAYING GOD!!!1!!1!!" because of cloning dinosaurs, and then sequels are all about "we must save the poor dinosaurs!" while canonically taking place in large islands off the coast of Costa Rica. Those islands, or at least the inspiration for them, actually exist, though much smaller.

And you know what they are? They are strictly protected reserves, because of their unique ecology and endemic species. In fact, one of the main worries is precisely the introduction of invasive species.

Could you imagine if instead of Isla Nublar, Jurassic Park was set in say, the Galápagos Islands? Could you imagine someone in real life trying to build Disneyland in the Galápagos or the Great Barrier Reef?

I know that joke that Jurassic Park is about "capitalism gone wrong" but it's even more fucked up if you think about the imperialist part too. A first world billionarie tycoon comes to a third world country, somehow achieves control of islands (it's implied that the Costa Rican military is at Jurassic Park's call; fun fact, Costa Rica has no military) which by all means should be protected as fragile ecosystems, to build a gigantic theme park with all the ecological disruption it implies, for first world tourists too. The theme park just so happens to be cloned dinosaurs, but Hammond might as well have razed the whole island and planted soybean fields and it would be the same horror story we in South America are very well acquainted with.

And then the sequels are about "saving the dinosaurs!" like they're a natural part of the ecosystem! No man, fuck the dinosaurs, they're giant walking GMOs in the most literal way possible. Hammond SHOULD have built it in Orlando, at least Florida (which has its own deep ecological troubles) is large enough so you can actually set preserved areas, wildlife corridors, better ecological practices... building a park in Isla Nublar is the same as destroying the Galápagos.

And no, the movies don't adress this fact, that Isla Nublar and etc. HAD A PREVIOUS ECOSYSTEM BEFORE JURASSIC PARK that is most likely wiped out. The book does worry a bit about dinosaurs introduced to the mainland before returning to its main message: "GENETICS IS PLAYING GOD!11!!1!!!!", yeah man, I'm a bit more concerned about the islands you're destroying for your stupid theme park. I don't mind you cloning the dinosaurs so much as much as the fact that you're destroying whole natural ecosystems to host them and then there are a bunch of freaking kids who want to preserve them even if they're THE case of an invasive species, you might as well try to preserve Pedro Escobar's hippos in Colombia.

(I did learn about island ecology and I'm reminded that during the Cold War, the paradigm of island ecology was used to use actual islands as test laboratories, including for nuclear weapons. Islands are never truly 'isolated' or 'blank slates', and at the same time they're incredibly fragile ecosystems, but if I keep writing I'm going to search actual papers and I have to do my actual work)

[shiftythrifting]

1). Jurassic park mug, that opens with a weird lever in the back

2). absolute Creature of a strainer, that I almost bought

3). one Pokey Boi

4). presented without comment

5). possibly the gaudiest vest i've ever seen

6). little duckie umbrella that I SO wanted to get... I might go back for him

Bonus: shirts that came home with me

- cactus shirt!

- yes, some of the flamingos are wearing sunglasses. Yes, this is why I bought it

- blue thing that came with matching pants that I will never wear. I just really wanted the shirt tbh

All found in goodwill & value village/savers in washington state

Not pictured: Florida tourist merch, and a pair of assless leather chaps

[hyper-coasters]

VelociCoaster and Hogwarts... who thinks Harry Potter would be more fun with dinosaurs?! Who needs a Hedwig when you have a pterodactyl?

[ionlycareabouthhn]

Saying goodbye to Poseidon's Fury. I was not expecting to go back to Orlando yet, but I couldn't imagine a world where I didn't get to say goodbye to one of my favorite attractions since childhood. The trident has come back home.

[twentysomethinginorlando]

My mom has a friend who has a kid who’s super into dinosaurs. Planned a whole trip to Florida to go to Universal Orlando and Dinosaur World for his sixth birthday. I hooked them up with someone who could make a Dino cake.

I recommended Camp Cretaceous because hey, we love dinosaurs!!!

Dino Kid’s Mom checked it out and said she didn’t think it was appropriate because the kids sneak out in the first episode.

And I’m just. That was your concern??? The people getting eaten in the Jurassic Park movies was okay!?!