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Jurassic World
"Camp Cretaceous"
Camp Cretaceous TV episode
Written by Zack Stentz and Scott Kreamer
Directed by Lane Lueras
Release date: September 18, 2020
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A dinosaur-loving boy wins the chance to
attend Camp Cretaceous on Isla Nublar for the adventure of a
lifetime.
Read the story summary at
the Jurassic Park Wiki
Notes from the Jurassic Park chronology
This episode takes place shortly before the beginning of
Jurassic World.
Didja Know?
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is a CG-animated TV
series that aired on the
Netflix
streaming service from 2020-2022 for five seasons and one
special. While the first couple of episodes take place before
and during the events of
Jurassic World,
the rest of them take place shortly after that film, and about
three years before the events of
Fallen Kingdom. Netflix is currently producing episodes
of a sequel series, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, whose
first season began in May 2024.
Each episode of the
series opens with the words "A Netflix Original Series" over
what appears to be a T. rex footprint in the jungle mud.
The
Universal Pictures logo that appears after this is altered
from the usual to have the Earth globe with a continent that
looks very roughly like the supercontinent Pangaea may have
looked in the Triassic-Jurassic periods of the Mesozoic era,
200-150 million years ago.
As the Universal Earth globe spins, a second "continent"
seen is actually a stylized
DreamWorks Pictures logo (a boy sitting with a fishing pole
on the crescent Moon), followed by the
Amblin Entertainment logo.
The dinosaur that bursts out of the
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous gates at the beginning of
the opening titles of each episode is a Tyrannosaurus rex,
possibly the infamous Rexy herself, but we don't see its right
side close enough to see if it has Rexy's raptor scars incurred
in Jurassic Park. Rexy does appear
throughout the series, though.
This episode has the same title as
the series itself,
"Camp Cretaceous". Later episodes have unique titles.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Jurassic World virtual reality game announcer (NPC character)
VR
player character
Meriweather (VR NPC character)
VR raptors
VR T. rex
Darius Bowman
Brandon Bowman
Fredrick Bowman (mentioned only, deceased)
VR helicopter pilot
Mr. DNA
Dave
Roxie
Brooklynn
Sammy Gutierrez
Ben Pincus
Yasmina Fadoula
Kenji Kon
Brooklanders (mentioned only, Brooklyn's online followers)
Compsognathus (compys)
Daniel Kon (Kenji's dad, mentioned only)
Camp Cretaceous driver
dino wranglers
Blue
Delta
Echo
Charlie
Didja Notice?
The Jurassic World radar computer screen at the beginning of the
episode has nonsense symbols for text along the sides of the
radar image. A couple minutes into the episode, the viewer will
come to realize that they have been seeing a Jurassic World
virtual reality game being played, not events in the physical
world of the series.
At 2:48 on the DVD, the posters on the walls of Darius' bedroom
appear to be of Brachiosaurus, Velociraptor,
and an unidentifiable ceratopsian (it looks closest to
Styracosaurus, but has eight spikes on its neck shield,
where
Styracosaurus is accepted to have just 4-6).
Seconds later, Parasaurolophus, Centrosaurus,
and Pteranodon posters are seen, as well as
Pteranodon models hanging from the ceiling, and
a Mr. DNA (the cartoon mascot seen in
Jurassic Park and
Jurassic World) poster.
At 4:19 on the DVD, the clock next to the photo of Darius and
his dad has what appears to be the face of a Compsognathus
(compy). The stuffed animal dino on the other side is an
unidentified sauropod. The painting propped up behind the
father/son photograph looks as if it may be a children's
paint-by-numbers oil painting.
The necklace Darius likes to wear is made from a raptor tooth
(as later identified in "Things Fall Apart").
The dinosaur model seen at 4:31 is a
Parasaurolophus, followed by a Tyrannosaurus
rex, a Pteranodon, and a stegosaur.
At 4:52 on the DVD, a poster of Isla Nublar is seen.
The book Darius grabs off his bookshelf to help him defeat the
raptors in the virtual reality game is partially identified as "of
the Dinosaurs". The novelization of the episode
reveals that it is The Lost World of the Dinosaurs
by Dr. Alan Grant. This was the name of the book by Grant that
Tim Murphy carried around with him on Isla Nublar in Michael
Crichton's original novel of
Jurassic Park.
The helicopter that rescues the player in the VR game appears to
be a rather customized version of a
Bell
407. Kenji's helicopter also appears to be the same kind of
custom 407, with a black paint job.
When Darius beats the game, Mr. DNA appears onscreen, congratulating him
and telling him he's won a free trip to Camp Cretaceous. The
cartoon character is here voiced by voice actor Jeff Bergman. In
Jurassic Park, the
character was voiced by Greg Burson, and in
Jurassic World
by that film's director, Colin Trevorrow.
Head Councilor Roxie pulls up to the pier to meet the kid
campers in a Jeep-like vehicle with six wheels (the novelization
refers to it as a 6x4). It appears to be a
custom-designed CG vehicle for the series, meant to look similar
to the omnipresent Jeeps in the Jurassic Park/World
movies. The front grill of the vehicle has the Jurassic World
symbol on it.
Arriving at their treehouse quarters, the kids witness a large
number of dinosaurs being herded below them. The dinos seen
are Brachiosaurus,
Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus,
and Sinoceratops.
The raptor encountered by Kenji and Darius at the end of the
episode is Blue, who will feature prominently in
Jurassic World and several subsequent
stories. Presumably, the other three raptors seen here are her
pack seen and killed in
Jurassic World, Delta, Echo, and Charlie.