Jurassic World "Welcome to Jurassic World" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Zack Stentz Directed by Michael Mullen Release date: September 18, 2020

Sammy becomes isolated from some members of the group after she reveals her secret.

Read the story summary at the Jurassic Park Wiki

Notes from the Jurassic Park chronology

This episode takes place concurrently with the events of Jurassic World.

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

Kenji Kon
Yasmina Fadoula
Sammy Gutierrez
Brooklynn
Darius Bowman
Bumpy
Ben Pincus

Sammy's parents (mentioned only)

Indominus rex

Jurassic World personnel

Roxie

Dave

Pteranodons

Mosasaurus

Fredrick Bowman (mentioned only, deceased)

Didja Notice? 

This episode is the first mention of Mantah Corp, a bioengineering company that is a rival of Masrani Global.

At 4:25 in the episode, a Masrani Global helicopter is seen chasing the Indominus rex and shooting at it. This is Simon Masrani's helicopter and the chase is seen more fully in Jurassic World.

The pterosaurs released from the aviary during the Indominus chase are Pteranodons.

The herbivorous dinosaurs seen on the river journey are Parasaurolophus.

A recording that plays over the park's P.A. system states that Wednesdays are kids-eat-free-days at Jurassic World, perhaps implying that this day that things fell apart in the park is a Wednesday.

Brooklyn tells Sammy, "IRL friendships aren't really my thing..." IRL stands for "In Real Life". She also admits she's does some questionable things just to try to impress a bunch of angry internet randos. "Rando" is a slang term for "random person".

The claxon heard at the end of the episode is revealed in the following episode ("Last Day of Camp") to be the evacuation alarm, the final call to get to the evacuation point to leave the island.

The Indominus rex is not seen again after this episode because it gets killed at the end of Jurassic World.

Notes from the junior novelization Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous - The Deluxe Junior Novelization Volume One by Steve Behling Cover illustration by Patrick Spaziante 2020 Chapters 8-11 cover the events of this episode.

In the novelization, Darius mentions both Mantah Corp and Biosyn being rivals of Masrani Global. In the televised episode, only Mantah Corp is mentioned. Biosyn was the rival corporation seen in Jurassic Park and will be heard from again in Dominion.

On page 101, the kids stop paddling the kayaks in the tunnel simply to take a break, before they notice the current still pulling them forward towards the fall. In the televised episode, they stop paddling because the Parasaurolophuses are impeding their progress in the dinosaurs' curiosity about the mewling Bumpy. 

Memorable Dialog

is there anything you can say that will make Sammy feel worse than she already does?.mp3

Wednesdays are kids eat free days.mp3

IRL friendships aren't really my thing.mp3