!!Works with their own Trivia pages:

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[[folder: Novels ]]

* ''Trivia/{{Jurassic Park|1990}}''
* ''Trivia/{{The Lost World|1995}}''

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[[folder: Films: ]]

* ''Trivia/{{Jurassic Park|1993}}''
* ''Trivia/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''
* ''Trivia/JurassicParkIII''
* ''Trivia/JurassicWorld''
* ''Trivia/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom''
* ''Trivia/JurassicWorldDominion''

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[[folder: Others: ]]

* ''Trivia/JurassicParkTheGame''
* ''Trivia/JurassicWorldAlive''
* ''Trivia/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous''
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!![[Franchise/JurassicPark The Franchise in general]]:
* AscendedFanon: There's a bit of history behind Rexy the ''T-rex''[='s=] name. During film production, the handlers referred to the animatronics by the nickname Roberta, which was used in some circles to refer to the character herself. Later, when it became clear that the ''T. rex'' in ''Jurassic World'' was the same one in ''Jurassic Park'', fans started using Rexy, based on a common misspelling of the nickname Rexie (used by Muldoon to occasionally refer to the adult ''rex''). Rexy would become the most commonly used reference over the next few years, but was never included in the canon until the relatively obscure young adult novel ''Literature/TheEvolutionOfClaire'' came out. Here, it was the name used by the Jurassic World handlers for her. Since then, the name Rexy has shown up in multiple sources including [[WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous ''Camp Cretaceous'']] and ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldAlive'', with the fandom largely using it as her official name. That being said, she's never referred to by any name in the films.
* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JulianneMoore was considered for Ellie Satler. She would play Sarah Harding in ''The Lost World''.
* FranchiseZombie: After the success of the first movie, Steven Spielberg became interested in making a sequel and wanted Michael Crichton to write a novel that could be used as its base. Crichton had never written a follow-up to any of his own novels before, but published ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'' (the only sequel he ever wrote). He had to make some {{Retcon}}s in order for the new book to fit in with on-screen continuity -- most notably, bringing back Ian Malcolm, who died in the first book but survived in the movie. (As it turned out, [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated he was prematurely declared dead and made a recovery]].) Four more movies have since followed without any source material from the original author, aside from [[RefittedForSequel scenes from the books that had not yet been filmed]].
* MoneyMakingShot: The iconic ''Tyrannosaur'' escapes the fence and roars scene. And in a literal sense, the ''Gallimimus'' run, whose animatic convinced Spielberg that the computer-generated effects were good enough to replace any StopMotion.
* OutlivedItsCreator: Since the fourth movie, as Creator/MichaelCrichton died in 2008. Creator/RichardAttenborough's death can count as well, as Jurassic World outlives John Hammond.
* TheRedStapler:
** Responsible for amber's popularity in jewelry. Ironic, considering the book has one character express confusion over why Hammond is buying so much amber, since back then it had no cosmetic worth.
** While the novel and film of ''Jurassic Park'' were part of a renewed surge of public interest in dinosaurs in the late 1980s and early 1990s (see ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'', for instance), the blockbuster success of the film once and for all cemented their pop culture image as intelligent and agile instead of dimwitted and slow. This reflected the Dinosaur Renaissance in paleontology which had started in the late 1960s, gained traction in the 1970s and inspired said surge by the 1980s. And the film also pretty much singlehandedly elevated ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptors]]'' to [[SmallTaxonomyPools stock dinosaur]] status.
** The film inspired [[https://www.npr.org/2018/07/10/627782777/many-paleontologists-today-are-part-of-the-jurassic-park-generation a generation of kids]] to go into paleontology.
** [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bmpby3/how-jurassic-park-nearly-drove-the-chilean-sea-bass-to-extinction According to one article]] the Chilean sea bass, mentioned and shown exactly ONCE in the movie, was still nearly overfished into extinction based on the movie's popularity.
* RefittedForSequel: Sort of. When they made video games based off the movies, and needed to stretch them out, they mined each film's respective book; the first SNES game is in many ways ''more'' based on the book than the film.
** Then there's the fact that a couple of scenes from the second film (the vacationing family at the beginning and the ''T. rex'' sticking its tongue through the waterfall) were originally from the first book.
*** This is common throughout the film franchise, with unused concepts from both earlier drafts of the script and the original books going into each of the sequels: an early scene with the daughter of an American family on vacation being attacked by a compy in the first book is reworked as a the daughter of a ''British'' family on vacation being attacked by a whole BUNCH of compies; the ''Tyrannosaurus'' attacking Grant and the kids on a boat in the first book was reworked into the ''Spinosaurus'' attacking Grant and the ''Kirbys'' in ''Jurassic Park III''; and a dropped concept of ''Pteranodons'' attacking a helicopter that was considered for the endings of both ''The Lost World'' and ''Jurassic Park III'' finally made it to film in ''Jurassic World'', though near the end of the second act instead of the third.
*** In the first book, Lex and Timmy's parents are getting a divorce, and them going to Jurassic Park is meant to be a fun thing to keep them busy. This is used for Gray and Zach in ''Jurassic World''.
* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Dodgson's original actor Cameron Thor was in prison for lewd conduct with a minor when ''Dominion'' was made, causing the character's return to be recast with Campbell Scott.
* ScienceMarchesOn: A lot of the incorrectness is due to this. It was what was believed to be true in 1990 (when the book came out) or 1993 (film), but so much has changed since then that [[ScienceMarchesOn/JurassicPark the whole franchise has its own page]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/JurassicPark The whole franchise has a page]].
* WordOfGod: [[spoiler: Malcolm]] was supposed to be dead at the end of the first novel. Since he survived in the movie and became a popular character, Crichton decided to include him in the second novel. The [[NeverFoundTheBody Never Saw The Body]] aspect merely let him get away with it.
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