(laughter) - It was tough!
The minute I heard about this,
I wanted to run straight to social media to be like, guys!
You're never gonna believe what happened!
We officially made a partnership with--
- No, no, no, no!
♪ Fire ♪
♪ A fire on the mountain ♪
(folk music)
- What's going on, coyote pack,
and welcome back to Base Camp!
Now, today's episode is going to be something special.
Because not only do we have
a world exclusive video premiere,
but we also have a massive announcement to make!
- A huge announcement!
- Dinosaur sized!
- And, it's something we've been working on
all year, as a matter of fact.
And, I must say guys, I'm really impressed
that none of us have spilled the beans on this yet.
- Especially this guy.
- Yeah.
- What? It was tough!
Like, the minute I heard about this,
I wanted to run straight to social media and be like, guys!
You're never gonna believe what happened!
We officially made a partnership with--
- No, no, no, no!
- Yeah, and we've had a couple videos
based off of this content,
And every time, I'd be watching him,
being like, don't say it yet, it's not time!
But, now it is time.
- Now it is time, so I think without further ado,
it's time to let the coyote pack in on the big secret.
You guys ready?
- I'm ready. - Ready.
- Alright guys, we have officially partnered
with Universal Studios to become
the Jurassic World Explorers!
(cheering)
T-Rex sized roar!
- It's official! (toy roaring)
And this is pretty awesome, like, this is real.
We are officially part now, of the Jurassic franchise.
- And I feel like it's a long time coming,
in fact, 25 years since I first saw
Jurassic Park in 1993.
I always knew, that at least myself,
and now you guys certainly as well,
were destined to be a part of this franchise.
- Absolutely, and thinking about it, as a whole,
the DNA of Jurassic is really heavy influential
to Brave Wilderness, I mean,
a lot of our film-making knowledge and ambition
is coming directly from Steven Spielberg and his team,
what they did 25 years ago.
- So, let me ask you, when was the first time
that you saw Jurassic Park?
What was your memory?
- I saw it opening day, I did not know about the film
prior to seeing it,
because I went with my next-door neighbors,
and they were like, you gotta see this dinosaur movie,
I saw it in a local theater outside of Delaware, Ohio.
It was pretty awesome. - Nice, how about you, Mario?
- I remember I was in the living room,
and I passed by the TV, and I saw the trailer,
and I saw the T-Rex foot just hit the mud,
and then Jurassic Park; In theaters near you,
And I was like, oh my gosh, mom, dad, you gotta take me,
and he took me opening week, and I saw it twice!
- Alright, how many times did you see it?
- I saw it twice.
- Oh, rookies!
Guys, I saw Jurassic Park in the theaters twelve times.
- Did they start giving you a discount after the tenth?
- If they had a punch card, I probably would have gotten
a free dinosaur stuffed animal or something like that.
No, the first time I heard about it,
I was playing at my neighbor Randy's house across the street
and he's like, I'm going to see a dinosaur movie,
Jurassic Park!
I had no idea what this was,
so I ran home and told my mom, like,
mom, I gotta go see Jurassic Park!
She's like, the Michael Crichton book?
I'm like, no! They made it into a movie!
She gave me my allowance money early,
and I got to go with Randy at a theater,
I'll never forget that moment
that the T-Rex burst through that electric fence,
and I was hooked.
- Absolutely hooked, I mean,
it changed the course of my life in terms of,
I wanted to be a paleontologist,
I wanted to work with animals, and so on.
I think it got us to the point we're at right now.
- Yeah. - Well, it was the first time
I ever really thought about a special effect in the movie.
It actually had nothing to do with the dinosaurs,
you guys remember the time
that the water ripples in the cup, in the SUV?
I remember watching that, being like, how did they do that?
Honestly, it was the first time
I ever thought about special effects,
and it kinda led me on a path to be a film-maker.
- Right. I would definitely say that 25 years ago,
when Jurassic Park came out,
everybody's life was influenced.
Not just us, but a lot of the people out there
watching as well, in the coyote pack.
Now, for us, this is an incredible honor
to have teamed up with Universal Studios
to become the Jurassic World Explorers.
So, what does that mean?
Well, we were producing--
- We get free dinosaur toys!
- Oh, we do get free dinosaur toys!
- That's what it means! - This is one of the most
important parts of the partnership!
No, I'm just kidding, that's actually with Mattel.
No, so what this means is that we are now producing
exclusive content for Universal Studios,
that we'll debut on our channel,
the series is launching on Brave Wilderness,
but it will primarily be seen
on Universal's youtube channel,
and we're producing a number of different episodes
to follow the whole course of paleontology,
and fossils, reptiles, birds,
and ultimately, the technology that
brought dinosaurs to the big screen.
- So yeah, Jurassic World Explorers,
think of us as the real, live Jurassic World adventure team.
- Yeah, we're gonna be out in the field,
in the front lines, bringing to you
anything Jurassic, and anything dinosaurs.
- Yeah, it's gonna be pretty exciting,
and this is just coming off the tail of Fallen Kingdom,
so I'm excited to see where
all of this is ultimately going to go.
But, we certainly feel as if we have
an incredible opportunity out there before us,
we're so excited to be bringing this to the coyote pack,
and trust us when we say we are going to be putting
our a-game effort into this series,
because there's a good chance
Steven Spielberg might actually see some of this content.
- You think he really will?
- I'm sure he's watching this video right now.
(laughter) - Shout out to you, Steven,
thanks for all the influence.
Alright guys, so in celebration
of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's digital download,
today we're going to debut an exclusive video
on the Brave Wilderness channel,
called "Dinosaurs Rule Again."
So if you guys are ready, I know the coyote pack's ready,
let's dive into dinosaurs. - Ready! Here we go!
- Well, we're just relaxing here at camp T-Rex.
- Dinosaurs are cool!
- Who's a good boy? (purring)
(mock screaming)
(determined music)
- Standby, everybody, here we go.
- I think it's been great to have real sets,
and real dinosaurs.
- Stop that truck!
- It's just a thrill, because it's the way I started,
everything was real back in the 70's.
- [Man] Action!
- It's always, for the actor,
important to have something real,
so they can interact in a more organic way,
and for them, it's great, having a puppet of baby Blue,
or a T-Rex,
or Indoraptor.
(screaming)
- [Director] Right there, that was great, guys.
- Fortunately, we're making the movie in England,
Neal Scanlan, who does all of the Star Wars animatronics,
happened to be available,
and all of the things that you see in the Star Wars movies,
he's bringing to this Jurassic World.
(roaring)
- Sounds fantastic.
The fundamental requirements in an animatronic
is that ability to be able to touch it, to interact with it,
and that's brought out of Stan Winston's
incredible work on Jurassic Park.
(roaring)
- If I remember, they were true to size, and actually,
because of the puppeteering and the mechanism,
which could sometimes get out of control,
they warned us things go haywire.
Even if not for human error,
and that's the last thing you want to have happen,
is be killed by an animatronic T-Rex.
- Hey!
(roaring)
- The T-Rex in the Jurassic Park movies,
they all look different.
They just evolve.
(roaring)
This one is just so huge.
Been around for a while, so I'm treating it more like
a humongous dinosaur-crocodile, that
also had the little bit of a feel of an elephant.
(snoring)
- This character is like any actor, really.
It requires make-up, there were times when
it used to feel over-moist, so we would spray it with water,
we would add dry patches.
- Adding girth, adding roughness, and bring the realness in,
so we actually believe that's living, breathing creatures.
- One, two... (grunting)
(groaning)
It's working!
- That was really the one scene that
J.A. just wanted to see in this movie.
The blood transfusion with the dinosaur,
and Owen and Claire had to get up close with this animal,
in a way that no humans ever have in these films before.
- Okay, here we go.
- For Blue, we had print from IM, a digital 3D print.
We then remolded that, and cast out in a sculpting wax,
the sculptors then picked up all the detail,
then it was molded and then produced in foam latex.
She was always going to be lying down,
so we knew we could get puppeteers and lift.
And three, two, one, and lift.
That's it.
- When we knew what we're doing,
he's tried to play out the action that J.A. wants us to,
but also interpret the moment, so that we can react to that.
- Shhhh.
- This is Mike standing, and this is Daniella standing,
and they're out there right now just setting up a shot.
So, if I lift this up, watch.
We kinda choreograph a few beats when she's feeling pain,
when she's reacting to the motion of the boat,
these are all things we're trying here,
and it's been the result of
collaborating on the ideas in rehearsal.
- That's where the bullet is.
- It's kind of a little bit claustrophobic
with so many people in such a small space,
but at the same time, being confined really allows you
to make a connection with everybody around you,
and because everything comes, in the creature,
from its breath, you all start to move
and feed off each other almost subconsciously,
and you can all feel the emotion at the same time
and hopefully bring that out in the creature above you.
- Excellent. That's great!
- It's theater, you know,
it's like live theater, it's incredible.
You can see the hand, yeah.
(laughter)
- Okay, thank you.
- This thing's not real,
and yet I've grown a major attachment to it.
- You're my girl, Blue!
(threatening music)
- Indoraptor is the result of
a velociraptor and Indominous Rex.
(roaring)
I came up with an idea that he had to be very different
from the other dinosaurs, so I thought,
let's create a very black suede
where you can see, very clearly, the teeth,
where you can see clearly the eyes.
- We want it to look a bit serpent-like, it's like a snake,
and the teeth come out of the gums,
there's no lips, as such.
Slime!
- Our job is to make it
as realistic and natural as possible.
We look at an existing animal
that has the closest resemblance to this.
So, for the eye, what a crocodile has
is this nictitating membrane
to protect his eye when he's in the water.
- What I'm looking to do, is actually find the character
within the facial features.
There's always a reason behind their actions.
You hit that moment, and it lives.
- Bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger.
- I personally think we've got it, it scared me.
Won't sleep tonight.
One, two, three.
(scraping)
- That's the elbow, basically like that,
and the wrist is controlled by this arm beneath,
and there's a lever for each finger and thumb,
and there's two levers for the index finger,
which is so he's got two movements,
so it's got up and down,
and then the end is on a separate cable.
(screaming)
- In one of the tests,
we actually managed to rip Robin's jeans. (laughing)
So it's good that we did this here in the rehearsal,
and not on the actual day.
(foreboding music)
(thunder)
- Three, two, one. Action!
(screaming)
- This particular dinosaur is a theropod,
which means it's bird-like,
so personally I like to go and do a lot of observations,
and mirror certain, different birds,
like a starling has a very muscular way of moving,
other lighter birds have a hoppy way of moving.
- I think when you get into puppetry,
and to practical effects,
you have to invest in that as an audience member.
You have to invest in believing in that.
So you can't not connect with that element,
because you're putting yourself into it.
(toe tapping)
- And you end up making some very funny faces,
and very funny sounds,
(snarling)
as you're really trying to project that character
all the way through the operation and into that puppet.
- That's it, that's it!
(dramatic music)
(clapping)
- This is the crew that really brought this to life,
I wanna say thank you to everybody, and well done everyone,
it's been absolutely fantastic. Can't wait to see it.
- [Coyote] Thank you, Neal, you're the man!
- [Mark] Yes, he killed it!
- That was awesome!
- Wow, that video was incredible!
Well, it officially feels like
we're part of the Jurassic franchise now,
getting to watch exclusive footage of Dinosaurs Rule Again,
hope you guys all enjoyed this world premiere.
Man, that was so cool!
What was your favorite part?
- Oh man, I loved the whole thing, but I have to say
I was so impressed by the behind-the-scenes footage.
You could see the lights,
you could see all the crew that helped make the scenes,
and how seamless it was in the film.
You couldn't tell any of that was there.
- Yeah, absolutely.
I would definitely say, for me, it was cool just seeing
how they worked all the animatronics,
because as you guys all know,
reintroducing animatronics to Fallen Kingdom
differentiated it from just Jurassic World,
and I definitely think that for the actors and the crew,
it certainly made a huge effect and impact
having those real-life dinosaurs on set.
- You could definitely tell the actors, even in this,
were saying how emotionally connected
they were feeling to the animatronics.
How about you, Mario?
- I loved the insight into how they created the dinosaurs.
In particular, like the Indoraptor, right?
They were mentioning how it's got the nictitating membrane,
just like a crocodilian.
- I knew you'd like that part.
- I thought that was pretty cool.
- That was super cool.
- Well, it's certainly cool to see
how the Jurassic science is so unique,
the way that they blend different animals
to create some of the hybrid dinosaurs, like the Indoraptor,
but of course keep it more classic
with the T-Rex and stuff like that.
Man, what an awesome video!
So cool that we got to premiere this
on the Brave Wilderness channel,
for everybody out there in the coyote pack watching.
- So, you guys ready to go explore?
- I'm ready to explore, now remember guys,
Jurassic World Explorers premieres this holiday season,
and stay tuned, it is going to be an adventure
sixty-five million years in the making.
You guys ready for an outro?
- Let's do it!
- Alright! I'm Coyote Peterson.
- I'm Mark Vins.
- I'm Mario Aldecoa.
- Be brave,
- Stay wild!
- We'll see you on the next Base Camp adventure.
Let's watch it again!
- Yeah.
- [Coyote] On behalf of the entire Brave Wilderness team,
we want to give an extra special thanks
to Universal Home Entertainment
for allowing us to make Dinosaurs Rule Again,
a youtube world-premiere.
And don't forget that Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
is now available on digital download,
and will be on blu-ray and DVD on September 18th.
If you love dinosaurs as much as we do,
make sure to go back and watch the episode of Base Camp
where we unbox a whole shipment of Jurassic World toys.
And don't forget, subscribe,
so you can join me and the crew on our next big adventure!
(coyote howling)