Oh dear, finally an update since December 2006! I hope everyone is having a great summer. I’ve got some exciting news concerning coming attractions to Mexico. The Taza Roja Company has formed a joint venture with TV Azteca and with licenses from Universal Studios to build over three Jurassic Park Exhibitions called “Jurassic Park La Experiencia“ in Mexico! They will move around for three years much like the Jurassic Park Exhibitions that have been seen in the United States back when The Lost World was nearing its release (closed back in 2000). The release of this new exhibition is set for 2009, where you will see over 100 Animatronic Dinosaurs scattered about in 8 scenes. They are currently looking for any Jurassic Park related documents, garment or replicas. If you would be interested in helping out this attraction please feel free to contact Daniel Arbitman. He’ll be more than happy to hear from you. Here are some demo flyers Arbitman was kind enough to send us:

Here is an English translation for those of you who do not read Spanish:

• It is an Educational Exhibit about the Dinosaurs and when they governed the Earth.
• A Guide of the expedition through the Jurassic Park Island lead the kids and adults through each one of the impressive scenes telling how was life millions of years ago, analyzing the different extinction theories and watching fossils found in different continents.
• Each dinosaur was built based on strict Paleontologic studies actualized year after year.
• It is a roll playing and game experience with more than 20 different robot dinosaur species created to real size and as described by many paleontologists.
• The exhibit shows all what is known about the prehistoric giants and educate about them.
• The exhibitions has Movies, Fossils, Animatronix Dinosaurs and interactive activities.

We’ve completed the transition to the latest Invision Board (version 1.3 all the way to 2.1.7) software. If you haven’t checked out the forum lately please do so immediately. You’ll notice a lot of changes since then, including a new layout! We’ve also put in previsions to combat the recent flood of spam. So to everyone visiting the Jurassic Park db register or login today! You wont be disappointed.

Just as in the past, Jurassic Park props have wound up for sale all over the place. Today forum member Dinosaur_Neill and Yvonne point us to a very unique auction. Up for auction on eBay Live! is what’s believed to be Dr. Alan Grant’s hat worn by Sam Neill in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. The hat worn by Sam Neill was appraised to be worth between $800.00 and $1,200.00. Keep in mind the auction ends on December 15, 2006 at 12:00 PM PST.

Lately visitors may have noticed a large amount of spam hitting both .net and .com. Today I took a little time out of my studies and did a lot of site maintenance. Fixed some minor security holes that may have attracted the spam-bots. I also updated the XHTML to the main layout of the site due to the release of Internet Explorer 7. Now it views perfectly fine wherever you browse on the site! The updates do not affect Firefox 1.5 – 2.0 or Internet Explorer 6.0 or lower because their parsing of XHTML is different (and possibly more effective than 7.0 in my honest opinion).

As soon as I find the time I will continue to update the forum to the newest version, but with this semester being a lot more difficult than anticipated it’ll take me a while to finalize the design to the forum. I could just install the newest version of the site, and leave it without a custom theme, but I don’t think members would like that much. This is one of the coolest Jurassic Park sites around. The forum must mesh with the site in some way, shape or form. Anyway, if anyone is skilled in modifying Invision Boards drop me an email (don’t forget to change the “[at]” to “@”). I’d like to get it done before the year 2010.

Here is a late Halloween treat for all of you… A while back I must have found the original Jurassic Park teaser trailer. I’m not sure when I found it or who originally posted it, but I’ve posted it here for now. From what I gather the teaser trailer reveals nothing, but an idea that started in 1990 involving a single mosquito trapped in 65 million-year-old amber. It’s pretty amazing to think that teaser trailers have not changed much over the decades–The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III had similar teaser trailers, which left us to ask “was that a dinosaur?” I’ll see what else I can dig up. Thanks goes out to the original poster of this teaser trailer!

 

Download the Jurassic Park Teaser Trailer Now! (8.5 mb)

With Halloween right around the corner, tomorrow in fact… Id like to wish everyone a happy and safe Halloween! For those that are interested, well be hosting a Halloween Costume Showoff. For those that wish to participate it will be hosted in the general forum at www.jpdatabase.com. All you need to do is post a picture of yourself (with or without friends, it doesn’t matter, but the more the better!) in your costume(s) with a little description of what you’re supposed to be (even if its obvious). Members who participate might find they are in for a trick or a treat. No one will ever know. Muhaha (that is supposed to be an evil laugh. Corny. I know. I bet I sound like Doctor Evil when I do that). I hope you all join the discussion even if you do not celebrate Halloween.

On the more serious side of things, the host responsible for hosting the Jurassic Park db gave us a treat this past weekend. Since our server is one of the oldest hosted by them we received a brand-new server with various upgrades! Complete with more storage and bandwidth. This means the Jurassic Park db can host more Jurassic-type stuff, all for your internet browsing pleasure. In the end we shall spare no expense.

I’d also like to announce that once all the software for the new server has been loaded we will be upgrading the forum to one of the latest versions of Invision Board.

We’re currently finalizing the new layout. Due to technical reasons the old layout cannot be used without serious rewriting of the source code. There is no set date for the release of the new forum because were all currently preoccupied with our undergraduate and graduate studies in various Universities. That pretty much is the reason for the lack of updates around here. Not to mention Jurassic Park IV news has been really slow over the last few months.

Jurassic Park? Not really I was surfing the internet for something new in reguards to Jursassic Park four and couldn’t come up with anything good to report on cept for this image of what appears to be a fan created idea for a concept poster. What’s interesting about the poster is that it makes reference to dinosaurs being within the mainland.

Now, we know from interviews that the next episode of Jurassic Park should there still be one, is supposedly going to be a darker sequal. Now by darker are we speaking of more of a hidden underlay of plot, more contextual on locations, or a greater impact for the viewers. I’ve been keeping an eye out for anything near worth posting, however, except for this image I have yet to come up with anything conclusive that Jurassic Park is still alive.

Can you believe that Jurassic Park has actually inspired a musical? Well no, but it is a comedy. What started as a seven-minute comedy sketch at last years Toronto Fringe Festival has extended to over a fifty-minute “crowd pleaser” called The Marking of Jurassic Park: The Musical. Finally joining the ranks of mainstream theatre. Cast of three—Darryl Hinds (playing a megalomaniac director), Scott Andrews (as a sycophantic composer), and Scott Sykes (playing clueless actor as a lead dinosaur) fill the stage with comedy. Read more about this interesting musical at TheStar.com and at Diesel Playhouse. Who knows, we might see it off Broadway sometime soon.

Currently playing at the Diesel Playhouse (directions), 55 Blue Jays Way, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, until August 19.

Dates
August 8 — 19
Tuesday — Friday at 8:00 pm
Saturday at 8:00 pm/10:30 pm
Sunday at 4:00 pm

Ticket prices
$18 — opening/Sunday matinee
$20 — Tuesday to Thursday
$25 — Friday and Saturday

Over the years here at JPDB you, the members of this wonderful forum have seen many changes throughout the forum, the site, and the staff here… We have all grown together like a big family that has yet to meet and yet knows eatchother as if we had. Each with his or her own personality, funny saying, argumentative comment, or dorky gesture. We will continue to grow together as news becomes available about the upcoming Jp series, more than that we will continue to grow as a community weather or not Jurassic Park continues its existence amongst us. The forum may not live forever, the site may not live forever, but the friendships that are made through this virtual world will last our lifetimes.

Something important is coming up in my life, something that is about to change my life forever. I wanted to share it with you as I am excited and filled with emotions that some of you have felt and many of you, still youngsters, will feel eventually. Coming next Saturday two days before I begin my new set of college classes and roughly a week before my birthday I will be proposing to my best friend, someone I want to spend the rest of my life with without hesitation or doubt. Today I recieved her fathers blessing to do so and also was welcomed into the family on a much greater level. I am excited and although I have yet to do so already know the outcome of the answer as her and I have been discussing this for quite a while now.

So to the staff here at JPDB and all of you, I wanted to share this with you and thank you all for your support and the friendships that I have made during my term here at JPDB. But don’t think that this is my ending here with the staff, no you cannot get rid of me that easy, I will continue working with the wonderful crew here and continue enjoying the current friendships I have as well as the building of new ones.

God bless and may the geese chase all of you.
-Joshua aka Alienprojects

Sometime last week I finished making video clips for Jurassic Park. It’s not a hard task given today’s technology. What is problem is my ISP. It’s been a royal pain for me to get online and place them on the site. There are so many people on during the summer the internet slows to a crawl throughout the day. I guess it doesn’t matter if you have dial-up or broadband, the same result occurs. I’m sure you all know someone that it happens to constantly or maybe it happens to you as well.

Anyway, I’m pleased to announce that we’ve released 14 high quality Jurassic Park video clips, 15 to 50 seconds long, at a resolution of 416 x 224. As we were making these clips it was decided upon to use the XviD codec over the normal MPEG Layer-1/2 compression that we’ve used in the past. The end result from using the XviD codec showed excellent compression while maintaining superb quality in an MPEG Layer-4 format. Even more entertaining are the file sizes– they’re extremely small. Of the clips created the largest file size is 4.88 mb! This is a dream for dial-up users, and a 2 second wait for those using broadband.

More is due to follow in the next couple of weeks before we all head off to school again. If there is anything you wish was on the site (but isn’t) or you have something for the site, please contact us! We’re always here working to enhance the Jurassic Park community.