Continuity Nod / Jurassic World

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• The film opens on two dinosaur eggs hatching like in the first Jurassic Park film, then is immediately subverted by the fearsome claws that emerge, followed by the menacing eye that peers out, turning the scene into a moment of absolute dread.
• Both Zara and Lowery have a copy of Ian Malcolm's book, which was first mentioned in Jurassic Park III. The former is reading it during the monorail ride in the opening, the latter has it on his desk.
• Lowery is a big fan of the original park and wears a shirt with the original red-and-yellow logo on it, which Claire treats as the equivalent of having a shirt about Auschwitz due to the number of crew who died in the disaster of he first film.
• Lowery's cluttered workstation, his haircut and his glasses are all reminiscent of Dennis Nedry.
• The top item on the menu for Winston's Steakhouse is Chilean sea bass, the fancy meal that the characters didn't eat in the first film.
• One of the indoor attractions allows kids to "dig up" fossils. The camera focuses on one child brushing a curved Raptor claw like the one found at the start of the original film.
• Mr. DNA shows up again as part of the educational hologram displays.
• Though it was only briefly touched on, Lex and Tim Murphy also got sent to visit a family member at Jurassic Park because their parents were going through a divorce.
• The park's T. rex is the same one from the original Jurassic Park, complete with scars from the injuries she sustained from the raptors at the end. And she's still being fed goats in front of a live (albeit larger) audience.
• Owen pointing out to Hoskins that drones don't get hungry and eat people echoes Ian's comment to Hammond that malfunctioning park attractions aren't supposed to eat the tourists.
  • In the same scene, Hoskins notes that they own the dinosaurs and “extinct animals don’t have rights”, paraphrasing Ludlow in The Lost World.
• Owen gulps a soda while having a talk with an annoyed Claire, just as Nedry gulped a soda during his rant at an annoyed Hammond.
• Nick is glimpsed munching snacks at his post shortly before the catastrophe starts, just like Dennis Nedry did shortly before he unleashed his sabotage.
• The way I. rex breaches containment — charging through doors meant to contain it after being opened by someone — mimics the way the T. rex breached the cargo ship and went on a rampage in San Diego in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Smashing through a wall is also reminiscent of how the Spinosaurus crashes through the wall in Jurassic Park III.
• Suchomimus and Baryonyx both showed up in Jurassic Park tie-in video games — a little-known fighting game called Warpath and the video game for The Lost World, respectively. (They also happen to be the dinosaur species Billy initially mistook the Spinosaurus for in III.) Dimorphodon also appeared in the latter game.
• The Main Street on the island features as its centerpiece a skeleton of a Spinosaurus, the main antagonist from Jurassic Park III. And Rexy smashes through the skeleton, as a jab toward the one-sided nature of the fight between the two dinosaurs in that movie.
• Another nod to the third movie is the "birdcage" that contains the Dimorphodons and Pteranodons — a major setpiece in that film, which plays a similarly important role in this one.
• This wasn't the first time that a dinosaur capable of camouflage has appeared in the franchise. The arcade version of The Lost World had a Carnotaurus able to do the same thing, obviously inheriting genes from a chameleon, as one of the level-ending bosses. These Carnotauruses are themselves taken from the ones in the original novel, who combine this with the darkness of night to ambush prey.
• When they are starting up the evacuation, Claire runs up to Owen and asks him to find her nephews, much like Hammond asking Muldoon to find Timmy and Lex in the first film.
• The Indominus rex attacking the kids' gyrosphere much like the Tyrannosaurus attacked Lex and Tim's touring car.
• Claire shouting for her missing nephews is similar to Mrs. Kirby shouting for her missing son and boyfriend (and treated the same way, with Alan/Owen yelling at her) in Jurassic Park III.
• Claire Dearing, after her Action Dress Rip, rolls up her sleeves and ties the lower ends of her shirt in a manner identical to Dr. Ellie Sattler from the original movie (a comparison can be seen here). Also similarly to Ellie Sattler in the first film, Claire spends the third act of the film in a purple tanktop.
• Vic Hoskins and his militarized InGen mercenaries are reminiscent of the force gathered in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The InGen crew called in by Hoskins making a flashy amphibious landing is similar to the Marines moving in during the ending of the third movie, as well.
• When Zach and Gray are stranded in the restricted zone, they stumble across the ruins of the old Jurassic Park. In there, they build a torch out of one of the bones from the skeleton exhibit and a fallen banner (both resulting from the climatic fight), find the night vision goggles Tim wore in a scene, and fix one of the old Jeeps.
• After roaring, the I. rex looks up as if expecting a Jurassic Park banner to drop down, like the end of the original movie. The banner had already been dropped onto the floor, as it happens.
• When Claire and Owen hide from the I. Rex behind one of the old Jeeps in the old Visitor Center, the number "18" can be seen on its side. This is the same vehicle used to transport Grant, Sattler and the rest of the group to the Visitor Center near the beginning of the original film.
• There are two different shots of a pursuing dinosaur reflected in a mirrored surface from the vehicle being pursued, presumably in reference to the famous "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" joke in the original film.
• When Owen walks up to Hoskins (just prior to socking him in the face), he walks the exact same way Ian Malcolm walked in the first film... toward something unpleasant.
• "Don't go into the long grass!" Not the quote in specific, but events following the I. rex converting the raptors to its side plays out quite similarly to that famous scene from The Lost World.
• The East Dock sign that Dennis Nedry crashed his Jeep into also makes an appearance during Claire and Owen's escape from the raptor pack.
• While escaping from Delta in the Visitor Center, Gray activates a hologram of a Dilophosaurus from the first film, complete with her iconic frill, to distract the raptor. It works.
• Claire "summons" Rexy by attracting her with a flare, just like Grant and Malcolm.
• The entire first round between Rexy and Indominus is very similar (almost scene-for-scene) to the T. rex/Spinosaurus battle from Jurassic Park III, with Rexy biting into Indominus's neck and throwing her around before the latter breaks free and gets the upper hand. It probably would have ended the same way, if not for Blue.
• The ending hearkens back to the first film, with Rexy and Velociraptor fighting and a bigger fish appearing, only this time the former two are on the same side and the fish in question is actually a Mosasaurus.

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