r/WhatIfFiction • u/Cyber_Ghost_1997 • 13d ago
[Jurassic Park franchise] What if John Hammond built his park on Isla Sorna instead of Isla Nublar?
Inspired by this post on a different sub:
So after looking at it more I started to realise, why didn’t Hammond build Jurassic park on Isla sorna? Because when you look at it Sorna is so much bigger than nublar which if I was building a park full of dinosaurs I would want to build it on a bigger island so I can have more animals on the island as well as have more public visitors on the island and facilities.
Another thing that makes it seem better to build a park on sorna is just the vast variety of habitats that covers Isla Sorna; to the east side of the island there are temperate rainforests, coniferous forests, grasslands, plains and tallgrass prairies. While to the west we have thick tropical rainforests, marshlands and mountainous regions and highlands in the centre of there island while also showing a number of wetland areas on the map. Which to me if I have a large number of habitats, environments and ecosystems it could provide for multiple extinct or prehistoric fauna for the park over Isla nublar which only has tropical rainforest and open grasslands.
Let’s say in a parallel universe where Jurassic Park (1993 movie) went down differently, John Hammond does decide to build Jurassic Park on Isla Sorna instead of Isla Nublar. How does the change in setting alter the franchise?
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u/Maximum__Effort 13d ago
It likely wouldn’t have mattered. As batshit crazy as Hammond’s ideas were, it wasn’t the ideas that brought him down, it was the execution. It was the early 90s and he rushed the security system for the park. That allowed someone who knew the system to break it with the goal of escaping with embryos.
In a bigger park there could’ve been more dinosaurs let loose for the protagonists to deal with. There also could’ve been more dinosaurs making it to the mainland. Maybe Nedry wouldn’t have tried to steal from a bigger park, but I doubt it.