Jurassic World "A Beacon of Hope" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Rick Williams Directed by Michael Mullen Release date: January 22, 2021

The kids learn there is a beacon hidden in the Jurassic World village that can send out a message for rescue.

Read the story summary at the Jurassic Park Wiki

Notes from the Jurassic Park chronology

This episode takes place almost immediately after the events of "End of the Line".

Didja Know?

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is a CG-animated TV series that aired on the Netflix streaming service from 2020-2022 for five seasons and one special. While the first couple of episodes take place before and during the events of Jurassic World, the rest of them take place shortly after that film, and about three years before the events of Fallen Kingdom. Netflix is currently producing episodes of a sequel series, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, whose first season began in May 2024.

   Each episode of the series opens with the words "A Netflix Original Series" over what appears to be a T. rex footprint in the jungle mud. 

    The Universal Pictures logo that appears after this is altered from the usual to have the Earth globe with a continent that looks very roughly like the supercontinent Pangaea may have looked in the Triassic-Jurassic periods of the Mesozoic era, 200-150 million years ago.

    As the Universal Earth globe spins, a second "continent" seen is actually a stylized DreamWorks Pictures logo (a boy sitting with a fishing pole on the crescent Moon), followed by the Amblin Entertainment logo.

The dinosaur that bursts out of the bursts out of the Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous gates at the beginning of the opening titles of each episode is a Tyrannosaurus rex, possibly the infamous Rexy herself, but we don't see its right side close enough to see if it has Rexy's raptor scars incurred in Jurassic Park. 

Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode

Ankylosaurus

compys

Brachiosaurus

Pteranodon

Blue

Sinoceratops

Stegosaurus

Darius Bowman

Brooklynn

Yasmina Fadoula

Sammy Gutierrez

Kenji Kon

Parasaurolophus

Rexy

Ben Pincus (in dream only)

Brooklyn's parents (mentioned only)

Fredrick Bowman (in dream only, deceased)

Indominus rex (mentioned only, deceased)

Mosasaurus (mentioned only)

Simon Masrani (mentioned only, deceased)

Dr. Wu (mentioned only) 

Didja Notice? 

When the kids return to Main Street of the park, dozens of table umbrellas are seen strewn around near the displaced sidewalk restaurant tables. There were not nearly so many in the scenes of Main Street in Jurassic World. Also, the umbrellas seen here are blue, while they were beige in the movie.

The hat and sunglasses that Darius finds at the souvenir shop may be a nod to those worn by Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, as they look quite similar.

On a Main Street souvenir shop, Sammy finds a copy of An Insider's Guide to Jurassic World. The book reveals that there are hidden dinos carved into the buildings and that aircraft are not allowed to fly over the park. These are similar to the Disneyland and Disney World theme parks, which have "hidden Mickeys" (a silouhette of Mickey Mouse's head) around the park and aircraft and drones and typically not permitted to fly over the park to protect the atmosphere of having entered another world. The lack of overflights over Jurassic World is also not good for the kids' prospects of getting rescued.

Most likely, many of the backgrounds seen in this series are A.I. generated. Notice at 7:42 that two stores on Main Street almost abut one another with only a few inches separating them, yet there is signage on one that is almost completely blocked out by the abutment.

On the dinosaur walk with Yasmina, Darius reads from a plaque along the walk that say sauropods could eat up to 12,000 pounds of food a day. Sauropods are the long-necked dinosaurs such as Brachiosaurus, Brontosaurus, etc. According to paleontologists, the actual amount sauropods could eat was about 400-1200 pounds in a day. In the novelization, Darius reads the 1200 pounds amount instead. 

Notes from the junior novelization Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous - The Deluxe Junior Novelizaton Volume Two by Steve Behling Cover illustration by Patrick Spaziante 2020 Chapters 1-3 cover the events of this episode.

Page 11 reveals that the first hollow tree found by the kids on Main Street contained a fire hose. This is not seen in the televised episode.

Page 12 reveals that Rexy's paddock in the park is Paddock 9.

Memorable Dialog

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