Jurassic World "Hidden Adventure" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Leore Berris, Julius Harper, Bethany Armstrong Johnson, Sheela Shrinivas, and Rick Williams Directed by Leah Artwick, Eric Elrod, Michael Mullen Release date: November 15, 2022

The campers work together to find a hidden stockpile of food, in the process exposing previously unknown secrets of Isla Nublar.

Read the story summary at the Jurassic Park Wiki

Notes from the Jurassic Park chronology

This episode was an interactive special which allowed viewers to choose between two options of what decision camp leader Darius should make at a number of different points as the story progresses, similar to a "choose your own adventure" book. Several of the possible choices lead to the death of Darius and/or other campers, while several other choices allow survival with various other possible benefits by the end. Because of these multiple choices and multiple endings, it is difficult to establish the definitive story for this episode in the Camp Cretaceous chronology. Of course, it's safe to assume one of the stories that ends with all of the kids surviving is the one "true" one. PopApostle will cover all the possibilities here and let the reader/viewer decide. If the viewer watches every decision branch and every conclusion, the episode runs 1 hour and 26 minutes.

Though this "lost episode" was released after the main Camp Cretaceous series had completed all five of its seasons, comments by the characters in the story seem to place it in between the end of the second season and the beginning of the third. Comments by the producers of the show also seem to support this, though they also fudge on whether the episode is actually canon at all.

This episode was removed from its home on Netflix on December 1, 2024, making it unavailable for viewing officially. An unofficial preservation (somewhat low-res) copy can be viewed at the Internet Archive.

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.

The voice of former Jurassic World employee Hal Brimford in this episode is provided by Bill Nye (better known by his science educator persona of "Bill Nye the Science Guy"). 

Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode

Darius Bowman

Monolophosaurus

Sammy Gutierrez
Yasmina Fadoula

Kenji Kon

Ben Pincus

Brooklynn

Gallimimus

Pteranodons

Chaos

Limbo

Blue

Delta (on video recording only, deceased)

Echo (on video recording only, deceased)

Charlie (on video recording only, deceased)

videographer (voice on video recording only)

Jurassic World employee (on video recording only)

Hal Brimford (on video recording only)

Owen Grady (mentioned only)

Bumpy

Rexy

Tarbosaurus

John Hammond (mentioned only, deceased)

Dilophosaurus (statues only)

Baryonyx (animatronic only)

Toro

compys

Centrosaurus 

Didja Notice? 

The first dinosaur Darius sees when he awakens at the beginning of the episode is a Monolophosaurus. This species goes on to make a few more appearances in Camp Cretaceous and  Chaos Theory.

The dinosaur herd Ben discovers is made up of Gallimimus.

The Gallimimus herd is attacked by a flock of Pteranodons.

After the Pteranodon attack, a pair of Baryonyx approach the slaughter of the Gallimimus herd. From their coloration, the pair appear to be Chaos and Limbo, siblings who appeared in a few second season episodes. The pair's third sibling, Grim, was killed in "Chaos Theory".

The video camera Darius has acquired contains footage of the Velociraptor pack of Blue, Delta, Echo, and Charlie.

When the campers decide to go look for Brimford's secret stash of food and leave Bumpy behind for reasons of speed, Bumpy is seen sleeping in the middle of the dirt clearing in front of the treehouse. But seconds later, she is suddenly depicted sleeping right next to the jungle foliage.

Brimford's note to Owen Grady tells him to go to the Hidden Adventure if he ever feels unsafe on the island. The kids wonder what the Hidden Adventure is and Sammy says they could probably find out from a copy of a book she reminds the rest about that contained all sorts of facts about Jurassic World. This book was An Insider's Guide to Jurassic World and was seen in "A Beacon of Hope".

This adventure is the first and only appearance of a living Tarbosaurus in the Jurassic Park/World universe to date (though two of them are depicted in a large, painted mural in a scene in Fallen Kingdom). Here, the species is depicted with spikes along the backbone, but this is not known in real world fossil specimens.

An Insider's Guide to Jurassic World reveals to the campers that Brimford was a close friend of John Hammond. Hammond, of course, was the founder of InGen and the original Jurassic Park.

The campers drive a few gyrospheres to the location of the Hidden Adventure amusement park, passing through a herd of Brachiosaurus on the way.

A set of water-vomiting Dilophosaurus statues is seen in the Hidden Adventure park.

When the other kids start to force off the restraint bars on the roller coaster carts, Sammy says, "You can't do that. Can they do that?" she is unknowingly mimicking the lawyer Gennaro in Jurassic Park when he says the same thing as Drs. Grant, Sattler, and Malcolm force up the restraint bars on the laboratory tour ride.

The code to open Brimford's bunker turns out to be "2005", the year Jurassic World is said to have opened.

Brimford's desk in his bunker has small statues of Tyrannosaurus rex and Stegosaurus, and a bust of a Brachiosaurus. There is also a plastic mold of the resonating chamber of a Velociraptor skull (like the one seen in Jurassic Park III). Another T. rex statue and resonating chamber mold is seen on a toy shelf, as a well a toy Mosasaurus (with another Mosasaurus toy on a book shelf).

A painting or print of a T. rex racing through a flock of what appear to be Dimorphodons is seen hanging on a wall in the bunker. A large model of a Pteranodon skeleton is hanging from the ceiling in a flying position.

When Kenji suggests they all just move into the bunker, Ben points out that it's a little tight for all of them, adding, "And trust me, Bumpy does not like sharing her sleeping spot." This refers back to the telling of Ben and Bumpy's ordeals in survival when they were separated from the rest of the campers, and Bumpy was constantly bulking Ben out of the sleeping spot in the jungle, as seen in "Brave".

The robotic carnivorous dinosaur that "attacks" the vehicle on the Hidden Adventure Jeep ride appears to be based on Ceratosaurus.

Ben refers to compys as "raptor rats".

The horned dinosaur the campers find sleeping in the security tunnels appears to be a Centrosaurus. 

After watching all the possible choice combinations of the story, there are three positive-outcome endings, i.e. none of the campers dies. 1) escape the Hidden Adventure without supplies, 2) escape the Hidden Adventure with a few supplies, 3) ending in the bunker with some supplies and the option to go back for more supplies. #3 is probably the most positive ending, but the bunker is never mentioned in any of the regular episodes, so it seems an unlikely scenario. #2 seems the most acceptable, with the campers bringing back enough supplies to get by for a short time, but leaving the story in the appropriate place for the beginning of Season Three, where they are seen scrounging.

Memorable Dialog

starved to death by a storm.mp3

your virtual camp counselor, Mr. DNA.mp3

the most respected raptor trainer in the world.mp3

go to the Hidden Adventure.mp3

binoculars.mp3

I do not want to be anywhere near that thing when it gets dark...or ever.mp3

our world is doomed to once again belong to the dinosaurs.mp3

get ready for the ride of roar life.mp3

why do I even ask?.mp3

I think I've had my fill of raptor rats.mp3

safety, that's a good one.mp3