Headscratchers / Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

So, exactly why, and moreover how did Indominus manage to destroy the camp?

• Okay, it's reasonable to assume that she's intelligent enough to figure out that buildings contain humans, and if she smashes them, she's likely to get a prize. But how on Earth did she manage to reach the treehouse that is around ten stories off the ground? Especially since we just saw her struggling to climb a structure with far more hand and footholds? Did she pick up a vehicle and throw it? Can she do that?
  • She's part cuttlefish and has the intelligence of a raptor. It's possible.
    • That doesn't answer the question at all.
  • She most likely would have attacked the supports or rammed the tree until the treehouse fell to the ground.

You tell me nobody kept their eyes open for stragglers?

• There was a major evacuation going on and as the staff themselves claimed; there was no time to count. So why are there not patrols in boats at the shoreline? Just dismissing people because they have not shown up is not something you do in that situation; you try to get a count and then you keep an eye out for more. By all rights, Navy and Coast Guard ships should already be on their way to patrol the perimeter of the island, keep their eyes open for survivors and pick up any they find.
  • Well, "Grievous negligence in pursuit of the bottom line" is practically Jurassic Park/World's official motto at this point. Those in charge probably wanted to wrap things up and get this whole situation back under control as soon as possible. So what if the casualty numbers get bumped up an extra half-dozen. No biggie.
    • Might actually be Fridge Brilliance in this case. The closest nation, Costa Rica has basically no Navy or Coast Guard, literally just Patrol Boats and no aircraft. They might not have the range to reach Isla Nublar, particularly given that all hell broke loose without warning.
  • They are still in crisis mode, the whole series takes place over the course of a week or so at most. It takes time to mobilise a rescue attempt, first they've got to take a headcount of the survivors to see who they have and how many are missing, then put together a rescue plan that does not involve the rescuers also ending up in need of rescue and thus dragging more people in, there is stuff they need to get in place. The kids don't exactly help themselves either, they keep moving around making it harder for them to be located. First rule of any survival situation, stay put and let rescue come to you.
    • The first rule applies to lost or trapped people in a relatively stable environment. That goes out the window once staying put becomes a hazard. Also as we learn throughout the series nobody is honestly looking for the kids save two counselors.
  • They also seem to have done a pretty good job getting all the survivors the first time - the kids don't run into any other people who have been left behind.

So...about that game...

• Jurassic World's managers/executives are so ridiculously image-conscious that, in the movie, Claire berates a tech about wearing a vintage Jurassic Park T-shirt because it's "in bad taste". Yet this same company, at some point, created a VR game revolving around escaping the island in the midst of what appears to be a mass-breakout of predatory dinosaurs, with the player shown to be running from velociraptors and a T-Rex (and that's just the final minutes of the game). And this is an official game...for adolescents, given that being the first one to win it also wins the player a place at Camp Cretaceous. Given how much eager the executives would be to avoid anything that might even imply such a disastrous occurrence could happen, lest it tarnish the park's image, why on earth would the release a game with such subject matter as part of an official marketing campaign?
  • It could have just been Claire who was so concerned about the parks image that she would comment on a T-shirt, as we see in the film she was very uptight and even Masrani himself was not as concerned as Claire, also the game may have been released to promote an idea of action, thrills and spectacle to the public when they come to the park.

How did no one notice the Carnotaurus had gotten out?

• The events of the Jurassic World movie are supposed to coincide with the last five episodes of the show, with events from the film being seen from different perspectives throughout the episodes. With that being said, how is it that no one in the movie acknowledges that a second large, predatory dinosaur has gotten out of it's enclosure? Obviously the Indominus Rex would be a priority for them but to utterly ignore the Carnotaurus makes no sense considering not only is it a dangerous predator but is considered too aggressive to even be put on display to the public. There's no way they don't have a tracker implanted in it incase it ever got out, and theirs no way it would go unmentioned since up to the point later that night where it meets the Raptors, the Carnotaurus is the only animal that the Indominus didn't kill. That would be a useful bit of information and would have raised many questions as to why the supposedly insane and blood hungry genetic monster just let the other animal out without killing or even, seemingly, attacking it?
  • It could be that with the attention focused on the Indominus, an escapee that is killing all things left and right without discrepancy, and most if not all of the ACU wiped out in trying to recapture it, there is really no one left in Jurassic World to concentrate on another escapee, who so far as the management knows, has barely done a single thing since its liberation.
  • They might have been aware that Toro had escaped but were prioritising on stopping the more dangerous Indominus rex and then dealing with Toro afterwards, Hoskins may have even intended for Owens raptors to bring down the Carnotaurus as part of the “field test”.

Phones?

• An out of country camp for minors hundreds of miles away from the mainland... takes away the campers phones? Even without the dinosaurs that's a safety concern and a half.
  • Something about living in the moment, presumably. I remember when I was ~10 years old, whether we were allowed to take phones etc on school trips was debated for a similar reason, and at least one year the summer camp I usually went to iirc had a rule about phones only being allowed to be used at a designated spot (Not sure how many broke it, nobody cared about the "Stay in your tents at night" rule either). Admittedly both of those cases usually stayed within the country, but still.
  • Considering how lax they otherwise are with security, it was probably the only way they could think to protect their secrets. Two untrained teen girls were able to get access to a highly classified area, and they probably at least suspect Manta Corp is after their secrets. Even if we ignore the corporate sabotage aspect, they wouldn't be too happy if Kenji or Darius Tweeted "Holy crap, I just fell in the raptor pen because there's literally no security here! Who's running this place?" It would make the official Camp opening that much more difficult (either there would be a deserved outcry over the lax safety protocols, or they'd have to deal with half their new campers daring the others into the raptor pen). Brooklynn, as a media "professional," most likely would have had some form of contract regarding what she could or could not post, since the PR department seems to be the only one doing its job.

Wu's computer had no password

• How come Wu's top-secret research that he didn't want anyone to find had no password? The kids were able to just open it and immediately go to the files. Seems like a major oversight.
  • This is the same Wu who created the Indominus, Indoraptor, and, as we find out, the Scorpius. Who works at a park that has a spotty safety record at best (details in the No OSHA Compliance section on the main page as well as Jurassic World). And since it was left in a secret lab, Wu probably didn't think he need to use a password. The fact the laptop still has power at all is the bigger headscratcher.

Nobody noticed the restored power?

• In the season two episode “Step One” the kids manage to restore power to the park just in time to distract Rexy who is trying to eat Darius and Sammy, how exactly did neither the Costa Rican/United States governments notice via satellites the lights suddenly coming from Isla Nublar?, especially since there should still be a lot of attention on the island due to the recent evacuation of Jurassic World, shouldn’t this have been a huge indication that there are people on the island? Or how about the gigantic explosion that happens when Ben blows up Lookout Point in the season three episode “The Long Run”?
  • They may have looked and seen the boat of the poachers parked offshore, and decided it was them. Followed by deciding that either the poachers get themselves killed and all is good, or they survive and sail back to civilisation with a boatload of prime evidence. Either way, no need to risk sending rescue parties or cops into a dinosaur infested island to deal with it.

B 1 and B 2 battledroids?

• Why are there suddenly what amount to Separatist battledroids in the Jurassic World continuity? And if they have entities like these, capable of utilising electroshocks with enough amperage to wound medium-sized *dinosaurs*, why is the idea still to use dinosaurs for military purposes and not these bloody robots?
  • Given this series' use of Surprisingly Realistic Outcome, maybe it's not too unreasonable to assume someone dropped the Idiot Ball long enough to realize robots that can be defeated by a bunch of teenagers (including a very smart blogger) aren't any more combat-ready than Indominus or Owen's raptors. They're serving the function of sheepdogs for very large wild animals. They don't do so hot once they're up against thinking human beings, let alone troops with body armor and real weapons. They look super cool and break down fast under strain, like most of the tech in the franchise. Given how irresponsible people in Jurassic Park/World can be, maybe the BRA Ds already had a combat deployment, failed miserably, and they're stuck herding dinosaurs because Mantah wants to see SOME bang for their buck.
    • The thing is, the campers consistently treat the B.R.A.D.s as credible threats, even after Brooklynn figures out how to hack them. The B.R.A.D.-Xs in particular are shockingly resilient - one of them is stomped on by a rampaging Spinosaurus and just gets back up with no signs that it took any damage at all. Also, with how expendably Kash seems to treat them, Mantah Corp either has a LOT of them, or they're really easy to manufacture. There's no given in-universe reason why Kon is continuing down the mind controlled dinosaurs route when he already has an army of robots.
  • Hoskins did mention in the film that some see robots as the future of combat. This recontextualizes his statements to mean that robots already exist, but they've yet to prove themselves in combat, at least compared to the 65 million year-old natural killing machines that were Owen's raptors that lack the glaring weaknesses of being unable to search caves (which one assumes means that they're not adaptable, not that they can't have flashlights) and are hackable.

Why would Mr. Kon keep their island a secret?

• By the end of Season 5, it hardly matters whether or not he keeps lid about Mantah Corp Island since he's in jail.

What happen later with the kidnapped Dimorphodon and Limbo?

• No one has thought about what would have happened later with the kidnapped Dimorphodon and Limbo? After the Campers destroyed all of Mr. Kon's chips.
  • Given that the last we saw of her, she was chomped and tossed aside by Big Eatie, I think it's pretty safe to assume that Limbo died. No idea about the Dimorphodon, though.

There are two counselors

• In Things Fall Apart, both counselors were aware of how much trouble the kids got into whenever they were left alone; that's pretty much why they're going to Claire in the first place. So then why doesn't one of them take the truck to go talk to Claire while the other stays to watch the kids? Claire may be a stern boss, but did they really expect her to need to hear the voices of both of the camp's two counselors to explain the glaring problems with the Camp Cretaceous pilot program? Of course, if they'd been at the camp with the truck gone at the time, the Indomidus would have killed them, but they didn't know that.

Why wasn’t Mantah Corp island considered as a relocation option?

• Since by the end of the series Daniel Kon was arrested and Kenji had turned Mantah Corp Island into a sanctuary for the dinosaurs and other creatures living there, wouldn’t it have been the perfect relocation option for Claire and the DPG? Was the island and its location still a secret to the public or is there another reason it was not considered?
  • It's established that no one knows about the island. Mr. Kon states that he didn't tell the board about it and they're going to be upset when they realize how much money he's funneling into a project they don't know exists. After he's arrested, Kenji is sure he won't tell the authorities about it because it would tarnish his reputation (and he likely thinks it was destroyed anyway, since the kids tricked him into thinking the core was going to detonate, so he wouldn't even be able to use it as leverage to "save" the dinos for his own benefit). On the video call at the end, they refer to Ben being on "our secret island" (though Ben's mother at least does know he's there). How Kenji is able to continue funding it is its own question.

Brooklynn's hair

• Small thing, but in season 5, when Mr. Kon lets them into Mantah Island's executive suites, Brooklyn is able to touch up her dye job. Stocking up on hair dye doesn't seem like it would be a priority, especially bubblegum pink. Natural shades like black and brown, maybe, since Mr. Kon seems like the type who would want to cover up grays to maintain appearance. But pink?