Jurassic World "Escape from Isla Nublar" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Lindsay Kerns Directed by Michael Mullen Release date: May 21, 2021

The campers race for the yacht to escape the island before the Scorpios rexes can catch up to them.

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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 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

Scorpios rex

Darius Bowman

Ben Pincus

Kenji Kon

Sammy Gutierrez

Brooklynn

Yasmina Fadoula

Stegosaurus

Brachiosaurus

Dr. Wu (mentioned only)

Blue

compies

Parasaurolophus

Sinoceratops

mercenary helicopter pilot

Didja Notice? 

During the battle of the two Scorpios rexes, Darius and Ben seek shelter in the Lincoln stretch limousine the campers took from the penthouse tower's garage in "Casa de Kenji". The limo gets tossed and rolled by the two Scorpios as they fight and it winds up in a grill down position against a tree, similar to a Jeep that Tim was hiding in in Jurassic Park during a T. rex encounter.

    Darius has a theory that the second Scorpios may have originated from asexual reproduction of the first, if it had something like tree frog DNA as part of its genetically-engineered matrix, some species of which are able to reproduce asexually. It is true that some species of tree frog are able to reproduce through parthenogenesis, where an unfertilized egg develops into an embryo without the need for a male.

    Darius' theory is similar to Dr. Grant's theory in Jurassic Park that the raptors have been able to breed because of the frog DNA mixed into their genetics and some frogs are able to spontaneously change sex in a same-sex environment.

Brooklynn, Kenji, Sammy, and Yaz find Darius and Ben's footprints outside the wrecked limo, leading away, just as Dr. Sattler and Muldoon found Grant and Tim's footprints leading away from the wrecked Jeep in Jurassic Park.

The scene in the JP kitchen with the kids and a Scorpios from about 12:29-13:20 is an obvious homage to the kitchen scene with Tim and Lex and the raptors in Jurassic Park. A few minutes later, the raptor/Scorpios battle in the visitor's center is an homage to the raptor/rex battle in that same film.

The Jurassic Park visitor center collapses at the end of the Scorpios battle, apparently killing both creatures. The campers and Blue escape the destruction.

At the end of the episode, Darius' grabbing Ben's hand and pulling him up from the ocean water into the yacht is a callback to the incident on the monorail in "End of the Line", when Darius was not able to hold onto him and Ben fell to the jungle below. 

Notes from the junior novelization Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous - The Deluxe Junior Novelizaton Volume Three by Steve Behling Cover illustration by Patrick Spaziante 2021 Chapter 14 covers the events of this episode.

Didja Notice? 

Oddly, this is the final episode covered in the novelization. The next two episodes of Season Three, "Whatever It Takes" and "Stay on Mission" are not covered here. And they are also not covered in Volume Four of the series novelizations, except for a one page summary of the events of those two episodes to set the stage for Chapter One of that volume!

Didja Notice? 

When Darius and Ben attempt to hide inside the limousine from the Scorpios rexes, they find the doors locked and have to hide underneath the vehicle. Soon, the Scorpios battle shatters one of the car's windows and the boys are able to climb inside. In the televised scene, the boys simply find the door unlocked and jump inside.

On page 137, Darius' dialog has a mistake in it: "Come on, guys. Ben's made up his made."

Memorable Dialog

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