didn't know about the fourth film in the dinosaur franchise.

Although movies now tend to use visual effects and CGI rather than animatronics, director

Colin Trevorrow was keen to use an animatronic dinosaur in Jurassic World as a way of paying

tribute to special effects legends like Stan Winston who brought to life Jurassic Park's

T-Rex, Velociraptors and Brachiosaurus. And, on top of that, Trevorrow thought an

animatronic dinosaur would help the actors achieve the right intensity in their interaction

with the giant creature.

An animatronic Apatosaurus was created over a period of about three months by John Rosengrant

and his team at Legacy Effects. The completed Apatosaurus was operated by

Rosengrant and a team of four puppeteers, thanks to whom the creature could lift and

turn its head, breathe through its nose and mouth, and blink and twitch its eyes.

In fact, Chris Pratt found the creature so life-like that it gave him goosebumps!

In tribute to Richard Attenborough and his character, John Hammond, who featured in the

first two movies as the creator of Jurassic Park, a memorial statue stands in front of

Jurassic World's Hammond Creation Lab. Like in the original movie, in his hand, Hammond

has a cane which features a piece of amber on top with a mosquito inside, a nod to the

fact that dinosaurs were brought back to life through DNA found in amber-trapped mosquitos.

Jurassic World's Main Street was built from scratch in the enormous parking lot of an

abandoned Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans.

The lot used was around the size of six football fields.

While filming was taking place in Hawaii, four hundred craftspeople constructed the

Main Street sets, which feature everything you'd find at a real theme park including

restaurants and stores complete with all kinds of theme park merchandise.

In the movie, Jurassic World visitors looking for something to eat have lots of restaurants

to choose from including Winston's Steakhouse, which is a nice nod to special effects legend

Stan Winston, who won an Oscar for his work on Jurassic Park.

The huge raptor arena, where Chris Pratt's character Owen works, was built for real using

steel and cement, rather than fake set walls. Chris Pratt was blown away by the design team's

work on the arena and said it felt strong enough to hold real-life dangerous animals!

Many of the movie's interior sets including the Visitors' Centre, Dr Wu's genetics lab,

and the Control Room were built and filmed on six stages at Big Easy Studios, which is

located at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

Other big movies that have filmed at the Louisiana-based studios include Dawn Of The Planet Of The

Apes and Terminator: Genisys.

The Control Room, from which Bryce Dallas Howard's character Claire watches over the

park, was made as immersive as possible for the actors.

For example, while they were filming scenes there, the control room's wall of monitors

displayed real footage, a lot of which had been shot during the production.

Often a movie would place that footage on the monitors during post-production rather

than playing it live during filming.

Like the first three movies in the franchise, Jurassic World filmed in Hawaii.

Filming took place for just over 30 days on the islands of Oahu and Kauai, and began at

Honolulu Zoo, which was turned into Jurassic World's petting zoo.

The design team built a full-scale paddock for the movie's new genetically modified dinosaur,

Indominus rex, at Kualoa Ranch, which was also used for exterior locations such as Gyrosphere

Valley.

According to producer Patrick Crowley, Jurassic World's filmmakers wanted to avoid a repeat

of the hurricane that destroyed all the sets during filming of the first movie, Jurassic

Park! So, on the first day of the shoot in Hawaii,

the movie's crew took part in a spiritual blessing ceremony, which they believed would

pay homage to the sacred lands where they were filming.

World-renowned palaeontologist Jack Horner has been a consultant on all four Jurassic

movies. In fact, Horner's book "Digging Dinosaurs"

was an important part of author Michael Crichton's research when he was writing Jurassic Park,

and the character of Alan Grant was partly based on Horner.

Horner's current research focuses on dinosaur evolution and includes reverse-evolving a

dinosaur from a chicken, as birds are dinosaurs' closest descendants.

On Jurassic World, Horner worked with the filmmakers as a technical consultant, particularly

on the movie's new genetically-modified hybrid dinosaur, Indominus rex, and on designing

the educational displays in the park's visitor centre.

According to Jack Horner, when the original movie hit the big screen back in 1993, palaeontologists

were starting to discover that dinosaurs actually had feathers.

Nowadays, it's known that many carnivorous dinosaurs likely did have feathers; however

this is not reflected in the Jurassic films because, as Horner says, the dinosaurs 'have

to be consistent through all of the different movies.'

Well, there you have it, 12 things you probably didn't know about Jurassic World!

Now, let me know in the comments below, which is your favourite dinosaur from the Jurassic

movies? And what would you like to see happen in a

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