History Fridge / JurassicPark

* Hammond says several times as he is showcasing the park that he "spared no expense". However, in his first dispute with Nedry, Nedry indicates that he was hired with a low bid and that he's not getting paid what he's worth. It implies that Hammond's insistence is not actually true, that he in fact cut some corners.
** This also adds an element of irony to his asking that people pay for their mistakes. Dennis Nedry was a mistake that John Hammond literally refused to pay for.

* As pointed out in a YouTube comment, of all things, in the scene in ''The Lost World'' when the parent tyrannosaurs are first heard, the very first thing Malcolm does--before even asking if there's any way to contact the trailers--is turn off the kerosene lantern in the High Hide. This isn't just a smart move for if you don't want to be seen: he was remembering his very first encounter with a ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the previous movie, and what had attracted Rexy to the first car and nearly killing Tim and Lex--''they were shining a light around and it drew Rexy's attention''.

* The first film [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome pioneered new special effects technology]]. Soon afterwards, films started relying too much on special effects and not enough on their human aspects. This parallels how John Hammond relied too much on technology to run the park and not enough on human beings.

* Hammond's line about him not blaming people for their mistakes but do asking them to answer for them, makes a lot more sense after [[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom]] revealed that [[spoiler: his old friend, Benjamin Lockwood, who helped Hammond co-found Jurassic Park and develop the cloning technology, cloned a human (his deceased daughter in this case) , before Jurassic Park was even created, a flat-out illegal action in most of the planet, he couldn't blame Lockwood for it, after all, Lockwood [[KnightTemplarParent just wanted his daughter back]], but he did made the latter pay for it by cutting off his ties with him forever]].

** In fact, there are now ''two'' known species of dromaeosaurs matching the ''Jurassic Park'' raptors for size, and one each to the areas attributed to them: there's ''Achillobator'' in Mongolia and ''Dakotaraptor'' in North America. A retcon could very well have the skeleton dug up at the beginning of the first film as being a ''Dakotaraptor''. (Based on the rules of cladistics and taxonomy, though, they'd still be called ''Velociraptor'' in-universe since that name would have precedent--the only exception ''ever'' to this in real-life was ''Tyrannosaurus'' over ''Manospondylus''.) Not to mention that Grant would have been more or less influenced by paleontologist Gregory S. Paul's then current cladistics, which had nearly every dromaeosaur besides ''Dromaeosaurus'' itself placed in teh ''Velociraptor'' genus.

* The very last line Grant's ChekovsLecture in ''Film/JurassicPark'' about respecting raptors and their power as predators proves to be an aesop for the franchise's carnivorous dinosaurs in general, as every person who openly disrespects, exploits, or abuses them is literally EatenAlive, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath often very slowly]].

** Every biological inaccuracy shown by the movie and the book can be explained by the fact that the scientists who made the dinosaurs screwed with their genetics and may have even tailored them to fit the expectations of visitors. A nifty way of averting the pitfalls of such a work when ScienceMarchesOn. In fact, Dr. Wu [[LampshadeHanging points this out]] in ''Film/JurassicWorld''.
-->'''Dr. Wu:''' Nothing in Jurassic World is real! If I used pure DNA, a lot of these animals would look very different."

* It can be universally agreed on that Nedry is a massive Jerk who brought about his own doom, but take a moment to think of what might have happened if he had never shut the park down like he did. If the events of the first movie/film had not happened like they did (with a relatively small start-up staff and a handful of guests), then such events might have happened much further down the road, when Hammond had opened the park to ''the general public''. And ''Film/JurassicWorld'' showed this ''exact'' scenario.

** Every biological inaccuracy shown by the movie and the book can be explained by the fact that the scientists who made the dinosaurs screwed with their genetics and may have even tailored them to fit the expectations of visitors. A nifty way of averting the pitfalls of such a work when ScienceMarchesOn.

** In fact, there are now ''two'' known species of dromaeosaurs matching the ''Jurassic Park'' raptors for size, and one each to the areas attributed to them: there's ''Achillobator'' in Mongolia and ''Dakotaraptor'' in North America. A retcon could very well have the skeleton dug up at the beginning of the first film as being a ''Dakotaraptor''. (Based on the rules of cladistics and taxonomy, though, they'd still be called ''Velociraptor'' in-universe since that name would have precedent--the only exception ''ever'' to this in real-life was ''Tyrannosaurus'' over ''Manospondylus''.)

* The way the T-Rex attacks the tour vehicle makes sense given it's status as a predator; it doesn't know what a car is, and likely assumes it's some sort of armored dinosaur/animal. So it does the most logical thing: pushes it onto its back and attacks its (hopefully) softer belly. When this doesn't work (since the vehicle is metal), the T-Rex then goes for the vehicle's tires (which it probably assumes are the feet).

** Even better, in the case of inconsistencies with modern dino knowledge (like the absence of feathers), it is mentioned that Dr. Wu had been mixing and matching DNA, then just waiting to see what grew out of it. If it didn't "seem" right based on current knowledge about dinosaurs, he'd go back to the drawing board, and try a few revisions. If Wu had seen some feathered dinos well before anyone knew about them, then why wouldn't he consider it a "glitch"? There's even a line somewhere in the novel about the JP dinos only being as close to actual dinos as they can guess from modern scholarship by folks like Dr. Grant. It seems Crichton wrote in his own defenses against ScienceMarchesOn!

** A neat idea if not for the fact it's practically worthy of being a doctoral thesis in ArtMajorBiology.
** ArtMajorBiology is a fundamental building block of the series' existence.
* It can be universally agreed on that Nedry is a massive Jerk who brought about his own doom, but take a moment to think of what might have happened if he had never shut the park down like he did. If the events of the first movie/film had not happened like they did (with a relatively small start-up staff and a handful of guests), then such events might have happened much further down the road, when Hammond had opened the park to ''the general public''.
** I think that would fit better in a FridgeHorror section.
** And now we have ''Film/JurassicWorld'' showing this ''exact'' scenario. FridgeHorror, indeed.

** Hammond has been funding Grant's dig. Given that DNA used to create the parks dinos is acquired from mosquitoes not dino bones and you can potentially learn more by observing living dinosaurs than by examining fossilized ones there isn't much motivation for this except Tim idolises Dr. Grant and Hammond adores his grandson. It's possible the idea for Jurassic Park came when Hammond saw how dinosaur obsessed his grandson was.
*** Unlikely. Tim is nine in the movie and eleven in the book. The technology for JP would have taken much longer to develop and refine for this to be the case.

** And now we have ''Utahraptor'', a giant dromaeosaur (well, giant by dromie standards) about the same size as ''Jurassic Park'''s creatures. Six-foot turkey, indeed.
*** Well, not quite. They may have been the same height, but ''Utahraptor'' was a good bit longer than the JP raptors and weighed about twice as much (about the same as a polar bear). the JP velociraptors were based entirely off of Deinonychus, with the name changed for RuleOfDrama.
*** In fact, there are now ''two'' known species of dromaeosaurs matching the ''Jurassic Park'' raptors for size, and one each to the areas attributed to them: there's ''Achillobator'' in Mongolia and ''Dakotaraptor'' in North America. A retcon could very well have the skeleton dug up at the beginning of the first film as being a ''Dakotaraptor''. (Based on the rules of cladistics and taxonomy, though, they'd still be called ''Velociraptor'' in-universe since that name would have precedent--the only exception ''ever'' to this in real-life was ''Tyrannosaurus'' over ''Manospondylus''.)

** Well, that or she was [[ItCanThink one of the smarter dinos]], not as smart as the raptors, but smart enough to know that [[BerserkButton Nedry called her stupid.]]

* There were three ''Velociraptors'' in Jurassic Park, but only two attack the protagonists in the climax. Where's the third one? The kids locked her in the freezer!
** You just figured that out?

* Owen's raptors are named '''B'''lue, '''C'''harlie, '''D'''elta and '''E'''cho. They follow him because he is their '''A'''lpha.
** Nothing Fridge about that, really. Owen says EXACTLY that in the movie.

* The entire film is Malcolm's statement of Chaos theory in effect. Nedry turned off all the systems, which turned off the electric fences allowing the dinosaurs to escape at the very instant the tour cars were driving past the ''T. rex''. Grant, when trying to save Tim from the tree, accidentally turned the wheel making it so that the car could fall through the branches. Sattler rebooted all the systems just as Tim was climbing down the electric fence, thus shocking him. Nedry, meanwhile, hit a sign causing him to not know where the docks are, causing him to drive towards the ''Dilophosaurus'', and do to the rain storm, be unable to steer correctly, causing his car to get stuck. He then trips do to a small waterful caused by the rainstorm and lose his glasses. AND due to the dinosaur's DNA having gaps, they had to fill those gaps with that of another animal's. Using frogs allowed them ample opportunity to reproduce.
** In describing chaos theory, most use weather as a perfect example. That's true in this case. If not for the storm, Nedry likely would have given the embryos over to his contact at the docks and been back in his seat entering the reset command before anyone knew anything was wrong. If anyone did notice the phones were out or the internal security blanked out for a few minutes, he can just brush it off as glitch #152.
*** This was explicitly stated in the novel: Nedry planned for everything, except for that storm!

** Licensed literature for the film states that the hatched eggs were those of the Gallimimus young, which have similar feet to the Velociraptors.

*** Well, another explanation for their stabilized behavior could be because they were raised by other raptors. With a lot of social creatures in real life, especially ones that are raised without a peer group or parents to teach them social behaviors, they will often grow up displaying erattic and unpredictable behavior. Wild animals raised in captivity can have this mitigated by handlers who know what they're doing, and know what wild behaviors they should be learning and how to handle them (with mixed success), but the raptors in the first movie didn't have that. No one in the first movie knew for sure what any of the dinosaurs' natural behaviors should be and probably just assumed that all behaviors would be instinctive, which backfired as horribly as everything else.

*** Well, another explanation for their stabilized behavior could be because they were raised by other raptors. With a lot of social creatures in real life, especially ones that are raised without a peer group or parents to teach them social behaviors, they will often grow up displaying eradicate and unpredictable behavior. Wild animals raised in captivity can have this mitigated by handlers who know what they're doing, and know what wild behaviors they should be learning and how to handle them (with mixed success), but the raptors in the first movie didn't have that. No one in the first movie knew for sure what any of the dinosaurs' natural behaviors should be and probably just assumed that all behaviors would be instinctive, which backfired as horribly as everything else.

** Hammond has been funding Grants dig. Given that DNA used to create the parks dinos is acquired from mosquitoes not dino bones and you can potentially learn more by observing living dinosaurs than by examining fossilized ones there isn't much motivation for this except Tim idolises Dr. Grant and Hammond adores his grandson. It's possible the idea for Jurassic Park came when Hammond saw how dinosaur obsessed his grandson was.

* The way the T-Rex attacks the tour vehicle makes sense given it's status as a predator; it doesn't know what a car is, and likely assumes it's some sort of armored dinosaur/animal. So it does the most logical thing: pushes it onto its back and attacks its (hopefully) softer belly. When this doesn't work (since the vehicle is metal), the T-Rex then goes for the vehicle's tires (which it thinks are it's feet).

* If one looks closely at the footprints leading away from the hatched eggs Grant and the kids find in the first movie it can be noticed the tracks only have two toes. The only species in the park with that number of digits on the feet are the ''Velociraptors''. This is actually plausible given it was stated not only did the park originally have more raptors, but also that they had their own paddock before being moved to the container they were in. It could be that very same old raptor paddock which Grant and the kids were moving through. One of the pack members killed by "The Big One" could have turned male and had a clutch with one of the females, this clutch going unnoticed when the remaining three raptors were moved to the smaller enclosure. Not only does this mean the dinosaurs were breeding months before the inspection guests were invited, but that there actually ''are'' more raptors on Nublar than the film's three.

** Actually in what can only be described as a hilarious ironic fate the truth is in Muldoon's statements of always being present for anything related to the Raptors and the fact he is in view of them... They KNOW him, he is there for feeding, moving, medical things, etc,.. He is their one constant in life. They likely viewed him as part of life and while they were fine mauling him didn't want to kill him, just teach him who is dominant now.