My name is Mark Stafford I'm a senior designer at the LEGO Group and I've been
recently working on Jurassic world sets the set consists of a large
Tyrannosaurus Rex and the iconic Jurassic Park gate with several
vignettes hidden away in the back of it which are all call-outs to famous scenes
from the movies and there are six unique minifigures. We decided to go back to the
Jurassic universe with the new movies there was a very large grey dinosaur
which was built by Mike Psiaki in the creator area and he was very keen on
this becoming a creator set and we stole it and we basically said let's see if we
can get a Jurassic World set out of this. So there was a lot of iterations
around the head I have dozens and dozens just to get the head right and then I
started working on the body and the hip joint so the legs could stay upright and
then the whole weight of the dinosaur comes down to the ankles. The tail was pretty
much as Mike had built it on the grey one I mean from the beginning the tail
just looked beautiful I didn't want to mess with it I just changed the colors
and introduced the striping. It's not minifigure scale they're both
considerably larger I think than minifigure scale would be and they go
quite well in the vignettes built into the back of the gate but they're not
they're not really to scale with what's at the front and definitely not with the
t-rex he can swallow them in one bite and as we saw in the movie takes
two bites normally. So they have the two carry off figures that are Ellie
Sattler and Alan Grant but the new figures will be John Hammond and then we
will also have Ray Arnold in this white lab coat and then you will get maybe a
lot of people's favorites that is Ian Malcolm from his iconic scene after he
got injured after he got a chased by the t-rex, where he will be laying with a like an open
shirt and then the last one is Dennis Nedry from his scene where he has his
fatal encounter with Dilophosaurus and he has two faces and if you turn the
other one around then they have would have the Dilophosaurus spit on his
face and that's a detail I very much like. We have several scenes from the
movie which are paid homage to, there's a there's a toilet in the back, there is a
computer switching room where Ellie has to turn switches back on. When you build
the dinosaur and you lift his head all the way up there's a bit of a crack in
his neck like a gap and watching the movie I noted they said the gaps in the
DNA were filled with a frog - frog DNA so I actually put a frog inside the
dinosaur you know I watched that movie so many times and I just knew there had
to be a frog somewhere in the dinosaur. It was it was fun to figure out how to
do the Jurassic Park sign because it had to interact with Mark built it and
also on the back where Mark has all these small builds built in the gate
there I had to do like the screens for Ray Arnold's computer. One of them is
the one called the blue screen of death it's like when the computer just crashes
and also of course there's the big information plate with information about
the t-rex. The t-rex actually has not typical lizard pupils it's more
just have like really round eyes so that was something that was very
important to get for this iconic creature. Designing this set I think the most
enjoyable thing was when it finally stood up and stayed stood up, its feet
didn't lean forwards or give way it is now a very stable model and just the
fact that it looks very organic and yet it's made out of LEGO blocks which are
square I'm really happy that came together. I think people will like this set
because it has a lot of the classic Jurassic Park feel to it
I hope it's obvious how much I love the original movie and that I've paid homage
to it where I can with the vignettes and everything else and
they will be surprised by some of the Easter eggs I haven't mentioned, some of
the little details which I've managed to slip in there and also I hope it'll be a
really nice building experience. It's what I try to do for the kids when I
design for them and I wanted to bring that to the adults it's that every piece
you pick up this should feel obvious where it goes on the model in the building flow I
really hope I've put a nice building flow to this every time I see one of my
models in the shops - it blows me away because just six months or a year
ago the only place this existed was on my desk at work and to see it in a shop
it's always like oh what's this doing here
how did this get here and I know it's because there's thousands of people at
LEGO who went away and started the molding machines up and the building
instructions being printed and the packing being done and the boxes being
loaded and it just astonishes me that what I did on my desk is produced
that the rest of LEGO does such a good job at making sure it sits there on the shelf.