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PCD Since: May, 2021
2023-07-27 13:50:10

That is likely a Blooper more than anything. The shirt is probably for the originsl real-life movie, not a meta-comment on the current movie world.

eroock Since: Sep, 2012
2023-07-27 14:23:28

Inexplicable Knowledge but it's not in a good shape for some reason.

Connacht89 Since: Dec, 2018
2023-07-27 17:54:42

IIRC that character get criticized by a female protagonist because it was untasty to wear such a t-shirt, since in that occasion people died. So actually a meta-comment on the current movie world.

BeerBaron Since: Mar, 2012
2023-07-28 06:28:55

^ And I believe he made a comment along the lines of paying a fortune for it. They did show merch in the visitor's center in the original movie, so it's likely someone got ahold of some of it (maybe before it was shipped to the island) and sold it off.

Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
2023-07-28 09:24:37

Yeah, I'd call this Cowboy BeBop at His Computer for the video calling this a continuity error. It's made clear that this was an incredibly rare item because the original park was never opened and this shirt was unsold merch that somebody found in a warehouse or something and put on ebay.

They're also ignoring that while a coverup was attempted, it was of the Surprisingly Realistic Outcome sort: InGen obscured the details like the body count and how extensive the project was, but in-universe a ton of people still knew there was a first park that went bad. Ian Malcolm apparently ignored his NDA and went out of his way to denounce InGen at every opportunity, we see Dr. Grant frustrated at people showing up to his paleontology lectures to ask about the park instead of his research, etc.

Edited by Scorpion451
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