65 million years later, Jurassic Park is getting the Lego treatment on Peacock
A new Jurassic Park Lego special is coming to Peacock
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We’ve had Lego Batmen and Lego Ninjagos, but what of the lowly dinosaur? Earlier today, Peacock announced that a Lego-based animated special based on the Steven Spielberg classic is coming to the streamer. Lego Jurassic Park: An Unofficial Retelling is a robust 22-minute special produced in celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary. So, despite the tweet’s header, the special is actually 65,000,030 years in the making. Sorry for the correction. We’re just mad that the poster has a solid layup like “That is one big pile of bricks.” God, that’s good. However, we’re unsure why the Lego Dr. Ian Malcolm has gray hair in the poster. Maybe Jurassic World: Dominion Malcolm narrates? Impossible to tell at this point.
We assume the special will be a speedrun of the original film, avoiding the obvious disappointments of its sequels. There’s still only one good Jurassic Park movie, so we don’t foresee a scene where a Lego uses gymnastic skills to kick a velociraptor. Even more concerning, how is a Lego Chris Pratt supposed to do his raptor pose with our palms or opposable elbows?
Lego has had a long, fruitful relationship with Jurassic Park, producing enough playsets to fill the Isla Nublar. There were also several Lego Jurassic World specials produced for the release of the sequels. Earlier this year, Lego made a 10-minute animated video of “legendary dinosaur moments” from the film, which beats the Peacock special to the punch. Whatever, life finds a way to keep making Jurassic Park stuff.
Jurassic Park: An Unofficial Retelling is only part of Universal’s plans to celebrate Jurassic Park turning 30. The studio recently re-released the film in 3-D in theaters, where it made $1.7 million in the U.S., which isn’t terrible for a movie made 30 years ago.
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I thought of this around a year ago, and I was reminded of it on Sunday when I watched the 30 year anniversary rerelease in theaters: if they ever made a Jurassic Park lego game (which they apparently have not, only for Jurassic World), after the T-Rex destroys the toilet the Lawyer is hiding in, they totally should have him reading a newspaper and relaxing in there. Just seems like an obvious joke, and I hope they do this here.
Sheesh, Jurassic Brick was right there
The very fact that they didn’t think to do this joke tells me they’re on the wrong path.
Jurass-brick Park?
Jurassic Park re-imagined as Legos used to be the type of thing YouTube was made for.
Peacock was so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
This sounds like the kind of movie idea particularly boring AI would come up with.
It’s not a movie idea, and they’ve been making lego spin offs of the Jurassic movies for years.
So…when is it coming to Peacock? Did I miss that somewhere in the story? That would be useful info.
Jurassic world was good come on give it some credit.
What’s with all the mmming and so on the video? These are Lego people, not Sims! They should be able to talk like they did in The Lego Movie.