I visited The Jurassic World - Waterloo Takeover Velociraptor Installation in 2015

Tuesday, May 31, 2022 Craig Grobler 0 Comments

I visited The Jurassic World - Waterloo Takeover Velociraptor Installation

This is one from the archive. Last week to celebrate the release of Jurassic World Dominion I had the opportunity to visit the Dinosaur Tracking Base installation, part of the Jurassic World Dominion Experience in Trafalgar Square. I got to see some Jurassic World paraphernalia, some of the props used in the film as well as via ground breaking VFX & film technology come face to face with one of the largest predators to ever walk the earth and the star of the upcoming Jurassic World Dominion - a Giganotosaurus.

Too be honest I only discovered that Giganotosaurus were real at the event, up until then I had thought they were a fictional creature invented for the film. Nope turns out they roamed the earth 97 million years ago. What next? We have secretly been mining Unobtainium for years!!?

Anyway, as Jurassic World Dominion will bring to an end the Jurassic era I got thinking about the other Jurassic World films and where it all started - back in 2015 I went along to a Jurassic World - Waterloo Takeover installation celebrating the release of Jurassic World.

The Establishing Shot: VISITS THE JURASSIC WORLD - WATERLOO TAKEOVER VELOCIRAPTOR INSTALLATION, 2015

Jurassic World is taking over Waterloo Station! A two week, fully immersive, takeover of one of London’s busiest stations with 350k footfall per day. All branding, posters sites and digital screens will be themed to the film while the station will also be split into zones for ‘in-world’ and film advertising. The underground tunnel has been completely wrapped featuring Mosasaurus aquarium and Jungle raptor scenes while the mezzanine level will take you through a 10 minute audio tour.

Our life-size velociraptor installation is an amazing photo opportunity for all! The 4 raptors from the film, created from 3D renders from ILM are positioned on top of a crate playing raptor sounds from the movie.

Jack Horner participated in activity today at the station and is one of the world’s leading palaeontologists and has consulted on all 4 films as well as being the inspiration behind Alan Grant in Jurassic Park.