Let's be honest, we all have dreamt it. Whether our dreams have been filled with pure joy or pure terror, we have all thought about Jurassic Park. The sheer possibility of seeing life 65 million years ago used to make us drool with excitement, hoping one day that this park would become a reality.
Earlier this year, the park reopened in theaters, but with a new name. Jurassic World was so much more than anything John Hammond inspired over 20 years ago. Why is this just a fascinating idea that is only in theaters? Many people have always wondered one simple thing; how much would it cost to make this dream a reality?
While the 1993 Jurassic Park was memorizing, Jurassic World is much more advanced and much more high tech then Jurassic Park.
So, thanks to a few friends in the University of Alabama Math Department and yours truly (who is terrible at math), we have actually found the estimated price it would take to make this happen. So double fist those margaritas as we take a look at how much it would cost to make Jurassic World a reality.
1. REAL ESTATE
Jurassic Park is owned and operated by John Hammond and the Ingen Corporation. Hammond needed to buy land far enough away so the dinosaurs couldn't escape, but also warm enough so they could live. The two Islands of Ilsa Sorna and Ilsa Nublar are off the coast of Costa Rica. According to current Real Estate prices, to own any island over the size of 60 square miles is close to 10 billion dollars. If we combine Sorna and Nublar we get 66 square miles.
REAL ESTATE - $10 Billion.
2. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World would require a major staff to help create, clone and take care of the dinosaurs. From paleontologist to genetic scientist, Jurassic World would have to pay them for traveling purposes and for keeping the park running smoothly. Not only that, but Jurassic World would need the top employees in each field. Here are the average prices of top workers in their fields:
Genetic Scientist- $200,000
Paleontologist- $80,000
Care Takers- $65,000
Computer Engineers- $120,000
Lawyer- $300,000
When you add three to five people to each staff, you get a price estimated around 7.9 million dollars. Since Jurassic World is almost four times as large, multiply that number by four and it equals 31.6 million dollars.
Actually cloning the dinosaurs is a whole different story. At a California cloning company that clones dogs, the average price is close to 150,000 collars. We would have to multiply that by 50 due to the 50 species of dinosaurs that have been cloned since the park officially opened in 1993, this equals 6.25 million dollars.
To harvest the mosquito blood, Ingen would have to pay miners to dig out the amber from several mines. Averaging the price of a low-priced mining squad, and the cost for scientists to harvest the blood, would equal close to 9 million straight.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT - $46,625,000.
3. PARK CONSTRUCTION
For the monorail, the enclosures, the state of the art visitor center and the electric fences, we would need to look into how much it costs the biggest parks in the world to be constructed. After researching average prices for Disney World, Universal Studios and several parks in Europe, Japan and Asia, the average price to build a major theme park is 1.5 billion dollars.
PARK CONSTRUCTION - $1.5 Billion.
4. PARK OPERATIONS
According to reports from Disney parks, it costs close to $33 million per day to keep their parks open. Yes you heard that right, A DAY! So if we multiply that by 365, we have the answer.
PARK OPERATIONS - $1.7 Billion.
5. CARING FOR DINO BABIES.
If you think caring for a puppy is expensive, caring for baby dinosaurs is a completely different ball game. When you think about it, Jurassic Park is just a prehistoric zoo. Currently one of the biggest zoos in the world is the San Diego Zoo. To keep over 3000 species of animals alive everyday costs the San Diego Zoo 500,600 dollars. If you multiply that by 365, you get a whopping 207 million dollars per year.
CARING FOR DINOS - $207 Million
6. EXTREMITIES
The difference between Jurassic Park and Jurassic World is the extremities. This includes restaurants, hotels, shops etc. Disney World spends nearly 43 million dollars per year on food and snacks. It cost 343 million dollars to build the Swan and Dolphin hotels in Disney World, so lets use that price to compare to the massive hotel in the movie.
To build a restaurant on the park property, it would cost investors a few million dollars. According to prices found around Universal Studios, which has the Hard Rock Cafe, Bubba Gump and many more, companies paid around 5.7 million dollars to build locations there.
EXTREMITES $390,500,000.
GRAND TOTAL- $23,822,900,000
No wonder the Indomidus Rex was going to have to be sponsored by Verizon at the end of the movie.




























