Mythology Gag / Jurassic World

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• The description for Isla Nublar's golf course describes it as "the only golf course that was sixty-five million years in the making," a callback to the tagline of the original film.
• Among the locations is a restaurant called Winston's Steakhouse, after the late Stan Winston who worked on the animatronic dinosaurs for the previous films.
• The blurb for the Creation Tour on the park website says, under the Nursery heading, "Life will always find a way".
• A Spinosaurus skeleton appears in the main street, referencing Jurassic Park III. May also be a Take That! considering how unpopular the movie (and the Spinosaurus in particular) was, especially when Rexy smashes it.
• A few references to the book make appearances, for example the Aviary containing an "enclosed viewing area", possibly a reference to the cancelled "Pteratops Lodge" from the novel.
• Kids can ride baby Triceratops at the petting zoo, a reference to a deleted scene from the original film in which Lex would've ridden one herself, which itself was a Mythology Gag to a scene in the original novel.
• Lowery's "edge of chaos" justification for his cluttered workstation is paraphrased from a speech Malcolm gives at the beginning of the second book.
• Charlie being taken out by a rocket launcher, which is precisely how Muldoon killed multiple raptors in the original Jurassic Park novel.
• The reason why I. rex is so viciously hostile to everything it meets (to the point that it killed and ate its sibling), due to being raised in isolation with no contact with any kind of parental figure or any positive relationships, is the exact same reason why the raptors on Isla Sorna were so feral and self-destructively vicious in The Lost World novel.
• Wu's speech to Masrani regarding how all the dinosaurs are engineered lifeforms and completely unauthentic thanks to blended DNA and engineering to make them look "cooler/scarier" is in essence the exact same speech that the Wu from the original novel gave Hammond about his own dinosaurs.
• Coupled with the mutant lizard with bird feathers in Wu's lab, this also works as an in-universe excuse for the film continuing to use dinosaur models with lizard-like skins.
• The hyper-stylized control room with the movement/migration patterns and progress of all dinosaurs, status updates for maintenance and systems, live video feeds of the ACU hunters and other personnel, and the overall map of Isla Nublar, is taken from the loading screens for the Lost World's tie-in video game.
• Owen, naturalist with a massive respect and love for nature (and hatred for those that don't share that respect), shares a name with a similar personality from The Lost World—and both fought against InGen forces who sought to control the dinosaurs for their own end.
• Late in the film, we can see miniaturized dinosaurs, pet-friendly hybrids, and other genetic oddities in the lab. In the first novel, Lewis Dodgson believes this is part of how InGen will make money with their dinosaurs, creating miniature dinosaurs to be sold as pets, further modified so they can only eat InGen pet food. Later in the book, Hammond dismisses the idea (apparently aware somehow Dodgson is thinking he'll do it) as unnecessary—the park will be ridiculously profitable on its own.
• During the climatic fight, the I. rex and the T. rex use a couple of moves on each other that are straight out of Warpath: Jurassic Park.
• The subplot of the raptors and other dinosaurs being used for military applications is an adaptation of several failed Jurassic Park sequels that involved raptors fighting with guns or dinosaur-human hybrids used by the military.
• The way Masrani's helicopter is taken down is exactly how Alan Grant wound up back on the island in the Game Boy adaptation for Jurassic Park III—angry pterodactyls crashing into it. It was also one of the original storyboards for The Lost World.
• Barry surviving a raptor attack by backing into a log references both Harding surviving a Stegosaurus attack by hiding in a log in The Lost World and Muldoon surviving a raptor attack by accidentally backing up into a storm drain in the original novel.
• Zach and Gray's parents are getting divorced and the boys are sent to the park to take their minds off it, much like Tim and Lex were in the original novel and, presumably, in the film version (it's mentioned near the start that Hammond's daughter is getting a divorce). The Kirbys were also on the rocks when their son went to go paragliding on Isla Sorna.
  • And for that matter, Malcolm and Kelly's mother had split up in The Lost World. Parents with rocky marriages seem to be a recurring theme in Jurassic Park.
• There are several nods to the IDW Jurassic Park comic series. Including:
  • A human forming a bond with and becoming the Alpha to a pack of raptors;
  • Pteranodons attacking a large number of humans (with one being killed by a large marine predator);
  • A Mosasaurus attacking and killing a Big Bad that's been drive out to it by raptors.
• Speaking of the Mosasaur, the way the Indominus is defeated is the exact same way a raptor is taken out by the Deinosuchus in Jurassic Park (Arcade).
• The restraints the raptors are placed in are the same from the Lost World and the Chaos Effect toy lines.
• Speaking of the Chaos Effect toyline, the ultimate dinosaur is a theropod primarily based on the T. rex, but stuffed to the gills with DNA from other animals, including non-Theropods... as was Ultimasaurus, who was also a major threat to everything in the storyline.
• Hoskins' plan is to make a smaller, weaponized version of the I. rex. In the original novel, the possibility is raised of making smaller, domesticated versions of the dinosaurs to use as pets.
• The website mentions that the old version of the T. rex paddock was meant to accommodate both an adult and a juvenile rex, another reference to the book.
• Several of the Pteranodons sport a metallic blue-faced color scheme similar to that of the unused ones from The Lost World: Jurassic Park and the giant Pteranodon action figure from that movie's toyline.
• Jimmy Fallon appears in an instructional video for the gyrosphere. He also appears in a similar video for the real-life tram tour at Universal Studios, which contains a Jurassic Park ride.
• Delta's rather gratuitous crashing through a glass wall near the climax could be an homage to one of the raptors from the worker village in The Lost World doing the same thing not once but twice, crashing through two separate windows of the old gas station. It's also a possible nod to the Big One crashing through a window to get at Grant, Ellie and the kids after Lex locks her out of the Control Room in the first film.
• After Indominus wrecks the gyrosphere with Zach and Gray just barely managing to escape, they run into an open area and the dinosaur seemingly appears out of nowhere from behind the trees despite its striking white coloration against the greenery, and then they again just barely escape death by getting where Indominus can't/won't follow, in this case by jumping off a short cliff into water. This is so similar to the Spinosaurus attack on the plane in Jurassic Park III that it can't have been a coincidence. It helps that Indominus is white in color like the spino and even remains distracted by the vehicle it's destroying (both going for No Kill like Overkill) just long enough for the survivors to get the head-start they need to escape. Indominus' moving to pursue Zach and Gray even roughly mirrors the spino's to chase after Grant and company.
• Using one big predator in captivity to unleash it on the main antagonist with Claire and Lowrey using the Tyrannosaurus to battle it out with the Indominus recalls the IDW "Devils in the Desert" finale, in which a zoo polar bear is sicced on the last Pteranodon to kill it.
• A dinosaur that has camouflage abilities features in the second novel.
  • Also from the second novel, the young raptor handler's near-fatal encounter with the Raptor Squad is extremely similar to the death of Eddie Carr in the original novel. Whereas in the film he got on the business end of two tyrannosaurs at once, in the novel it was based on he dies in a Zerg Rush by a pack of raptors when, trying to knock them away, one of them grabs the metal bar he was using as a weapon and pulls him over down off his vantage point and he's torn apart by them. The young handler is similarly yanked from a high position when a raptor grabs the long metal rod he's using to try and snag the loose pig, but he's considerably more lucky than either version of Eddie, though.
• When Owen and Claire come to the wrecked gyrosphere, Claire is of course horrified that her nephews may have been killed considering how badly their vehicle was destroyed, but Owen points out some tracks that indicate they survived. The scene reads as an abbreviated version of one from the original novel (and the movie to an extent) where Muldoon and Gennaro(or Ellie in the film, since Gennaro was, you know, dead by this point) investigate the abandoned and wrecked tour cars and Muldoon similarly points out some tracks showing that the children and at least one of the adults had survived.

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