Over the past week in the Ideas & Feature Requests sub-forum, there has been a noticeable rise in requests for more attractions to be available in the Jurassic Park era. Whether it’s by mixing both JP & JW eras, bringing in attractions from Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis or even giving the JW attractions a JP style makeover, overall they’re all the same idea; a desire to have a stationary viewing attraction in the Jurassic Park era.
Now I will be honest, I have been against this particular notion ever since it came up because Jurassic World was a zoo/theme park and thus had multiple ways of seeing the dinosaurs via the viewing gallery, viewing tower, monorail, hotel, Jurassic Tour and Gyrosphere. Whereas Jurassic Park was a safari park/wildlife preserve and as a result, only had the Park Tour for visitors to see the dinosaurs. Frontier themselves confirmed this park building style difference in one of their Return to Jurassic Park live-streams. By allowing both park eras to mix or introducing stationary attractions to the Jurassic Park era, it would essentially take away what makes playing in the JP & JW eras special and unique, both thematically and in terms of gameplay.
But, after thinking it through and doing a small investigation, I believe there is a stationary viewing attraction that would be a perfect fit in the JP era. The attraction in question is based on the small piece of dialogue that John Hammond said to Dr. Sattler at the Raptor Pen:
The viewing area below us will have eight-inch tempered glass set in steel frames...
There’s even an illustration in the original colouring book that shows what this attraction would have looked like had it been completed.
If this attraction were to be implemented for the JP era of the game, it would essentially be a variation of the Viewing Gallery that’s currently in the JW era of the game. However, just because there’s another way for visitors to see dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, it should not mean that the Park Tour is now an optional extra; it’s still a vital attraction that you need to have in order to satisfy guests. This iteration of the viewing gallery would have the smallest viewing area out of all the attractions in both eras, it would be slightly smaller than the original JW version.
So why would players want to build this attraction in Jurassic Park?
1. It would provide some much needed building variety that some players wish to have for the Jurassic Park era, e.g. They’re now able to build a more authentic version of Jurassic Park: San Diego.
2. The attraction would also be rather useful at improving dinosaur visibility from the start of each game in the JP era, one of the problems that I found with just using the Park Tour (especially if you have a large park) is that it takes a very long time for the tour vehicles to get back. As a result, guest satisfaction is low which significantly reduces the park rating which in turn reduces how much money your park is rating. This a disaster if you’re playing on Hard/Jurassic difficulty challenge mode, due to how high the Hammond Foundation fees can get.
3. It would allow players to recreate a more authentic version of Jurassic Park. This one sounds rather strange but it’s not without reason. In the park brochure, both the original version and the Telltale version, the Velociraptor and Herrerasaurus paddocks were adjacent to the Visitor Center, completely separated from the main safari tour. Based on what’s in the brochures and the film itself, these two carnivores have an alternative stationary attraction for visitors to see them, and the proposed new Viewing Gallery allows them to do just that.
Now I will be honest, I have been against this particular notion ever since it came up because Jurassic World was a zoo/theme park and thus had multiple ways of seeing the dinosaurs via the viewing gallery, viewing tower, monorail, hotel, Jurassic Tour and Gyrosphere. Whereas Jurassic Park was a safari park/wildlife preserve and as a result, only had the Park Tour for visitors to see the dinosaurs. Frontier themselves confirmed this park building style difference in one of their Return to Jurassic Park live-streams. By allowing both park eras to mix or introducing stationary attractions to the Jurassic Park era, it would essentially take away what makes playing in the JP & JW eras special and unique, both thematically and in terms of gameplay.
But, after thinking it through and doing a small investigation, I believe there is a stationary viewing attraction that would be a perfect fit in the JP era. The attraction in question is based on the small piece of dialogue that John Hammond said to Dr. Sattler at the Raptor Pen:
The viewing area below us will have eight-inch tempered glass set in steel frames...
There’s even an illustration in the original colouring book that shows what this attraction would have looked like had it been completed.
If this attraction were to be implemented for the JP era of the game, it would essentially be a variation of the Viewing Gallery that’s currently in the JW era of the game. However, just because there’s another way for visitors to see dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, it should not mean that the Park Tour is now an optional extra; it’s still a vital attraction that you need to have in order to satisfy guests. This iteration of the viewing gallery would have the smallest viewing area out of all the attractions in both eras, it would be slightly smaller than the original JW version.
So why would players want to build this attraction in Jurassic Park?
1. It would provide some much needed building variety that some players wish to have for the Jurassic Park era, e.g. They’re now able to build a more authentic version of Jurassic Park: San Diego.
2. The attraction would also be rather useful at improving dinosaur visibility from the start of each game in the JP era, one of the problems that I found with just using the Park Tour (especially if you have a large park) is that it takes a very long time for the tour vehicles to get back. As a result, guest satisfaction is low which significantly reduces the park rating which in turn reduces how much money your park is rating. This a disaster if you’re playing on Hard/Jurassic difficulty challenge mode, due to how high the Hammond Foundation fees can get.
3. It would allow players to recreate a more authentic version of Jurassic Park. This one sounds rather strange but it’s not without reason. In the park brochure, both the original version and the Telltale version, the Velociraptor and Herrerasaurus paddocks were adjacent to the Visitor Center, completely separated from the main safari tour. Based on what’s in the brochures and the film itself, these two carnivores have an alternative stationary attraction for visitors to see them, and the proposed new Viewing Gallery allows them to do just that.
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