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Jurassic Park/World

Jurassic Gates

Relocated to Georgia in 2019, Jurassic Park was first up for our annual yard display. Here is a walk though with Dr. Grant an angry volcano, and a dino on the loose!

Jurassic Park Volcano

 Click here to see the walk though with the action going on Halloween night!

Jurassic Opening

We needed a grand entrance. Thanks to stagecraft at the U of A and high school, we were able to accomplish just that! 

Visitor Center

As guests entered the Visitor Center, they were greeted by a 10-foot DIY T-Rex skeleton!

T-Rex

10 foot T-Rex Skeleton

DIY T-Rex

It took about a day to build from PVC pipe from the Mayflower, felt and Cheerios boxes plus some tooth picks for the teeth! 

Then guests moved on into the

Mosasuarus Cafe

Mosasuarus Cafe Menu

Guests badges included all the food they could eat whenever they wanted except for candy and a special drink (they used their cafe cash).

 T-rex head watermelon

There was a Carnivorous assortment of sandwiches as well as an Herbavore arrangement of fruits and vegetables.

 Paleontology with Dr. Hampton and Dr. Grant

After an initial visit to the Mosasaurus Cafe it was time for a Paleontology lesson with Dr. Hampton & Dr. Grant out in the Park.

Dr Grant Dr. Hampton Paleontology

 She even has a Velociraptor resinating champer that really makes a sound!

Home made Velociraptor resinating chamber

and she gets a call on the satellite phone with the tell tale ring (Kirby Paint and Tile Plus in Westgate)

Velociraptor resonating chamber

Satellite phone

Hear that converstion here. This was the 2nd call confirming- something is loose in the park!

The Plot Thickens!

So Dr. Grant wheels out a wagon full of dino poo- yes someting IS loose in the park, but what? Let's dig through it and see what it ate to give us some clues.

 Steaming dinosaur poop

See a breif clip here

In case anyone came across a loose dinosaur, we passed out the stun-guns (nerf) and had a target training.

 It was discovered that someone had an an ice chest up in the tree, but what was in there?

We need to get as many raptor eggs across the suspension bridge back into the nest without dropping any!

 The Raptor was waiting and watching...Raptor

 and after about a minute on the bridge, he attacked!

There were stand-offs on the bridge,

 Raptor

No one was safe!

He was finally captured and all the eggs were placed safely back in the nest (after the candy in them was distributed among the children.

After all the excitement, it was time for

Cake and Presents

His Aunt made an awesome cake!

Some other random things:

Tankylsauros

We had a Tankylosaurus (a sulcata tortoise)

It's a Jurassic Halloween!

Jurassic Park Halloween

See video here

Make sure your sound is on!

Jurassic Park Halloween

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park

See the video in the day here

Again with the soundtrack playing!

Jurassic Park

Hope you enjoyed our adventures!

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How do you do a cool Jurassic Park/World themed Birthday party?

Even the internet was as scarce on ideas as the dinos themselves, so we put our thinking caps on, had a Jurassic movie marathon (all of them) and looked to the Lego X-box game for inspiration!

I think the results speak for themselves!

Jurassic Opening

 

Jurassic Park Birthday

Guests were greeted with a Welcome bag which had their personalized Visitor Badge and other pertinent things they would need at the park (ie: fake $ they would use in the cafe).

Jurassic Park Badges

We were park workers and below were our badges.

PVC Pipe T-rex

T-Rex

 

Mosasaurus Cafe Barista

Mosasauraus Cafe

Dino egg cantelope

Including dino-egg cantelope!

They first went through and searched for a mosquito trapped in amber to get some Dino DNA

Dino DNA Mosquito trapped in amber soap

 We made our own dino-sized mosquitos and then trapped them in amber (home-made soap) guests could take home.

Dino DNA soaps

 Then, looked though a microscope at specimens from 'dinos', real bones (from something very old and big found near the house- for real!), and then 'excavated' a dino skeleton (by eating the chocolate)!

dino skeleton in chocolate

 

The satellite phone- our 1st cell phone a Motorola, circa 1996. One of the Characters worked on the Motorola Iridium project which is the satellite phone used in the movies.

old Motorola phone 1996

and its time to dig- what's in there?

Digging through dino poop

Watch here to find out!

and in case it's a small dino that's loose, it is always good to have some T-Rex urine on hand just in case!

T-rex urine pee

(it's pineapple juice)

What's in the chest?

Raptor Eggs???

Oh no, you stole Raptor eggs?

We better get those back into the nest before it comes back!

 

stand-off's in the Park,

He even got by Dr. Grant!

He did a great job as the raptor!

Some other random things:

waterfall

triple waterfall

A great time was had by all!

Fol Halloween this year, we added a Jurassic twist! Dr. Grant sat out and handed out candy along with his dino bone display and baby mosasaurus tank.

Dr. Grant Jurassic Park

Waiting for trick or treaters, was a rapor. Just the unknown standing in the shadows was enough to scare adults and kids alike!

Raptor

tarantula

 T rex

Ghosts in the corn field for dinner


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