I think it's really just the action of this so like if this thing going as he comes by just
putting the cartridge in Conan had very specific ideas so we exchange ideas and then we started
working on designing all the various things that make this movie believable the biggest challenge
for us other than the obvious things of creating fantasy props that don't really exist which
to sell the notion that we're in a real thing part so we had to manufacture dinosaur themed
strollers dinosaur themed cups they existed at one point when the first film came out
but they will said Jurassic Park so we had to restock them manufacture them in-house and we
had a lot of corporate partners who helped us add authenticity to the whole thing coca-cola
being one of them and so we made these cups as well another one of our partners Hasbro provided
us with Jurassic world branded prototype of toys with the proper packaging we see these items in
the hands of actors and extras throughout the film along with the park map that's the brochure and it
tells you where you're going and what attractions you have where your hotel is located and you have
a lot of information who try to be as detailed as possible and then of course the park is staffed
by employees who have to look the part and we manufactured this custom security shield
that our security guards are wearing and when we visited Universal Studios in Hollywood we noticed
that every employee at the studio the theme park has on their nametag their favorite film
so we did our own with your favorite dinosaur so every staff member of the park has a little name
tag with their favorite dinosaur and so things like these which you find at all the big theme
parks to me is what sells the fact that you're in this amazing place what is that that's her
tracking implant she caught it out another aspect of the film is the fantasy part all the animals
are carrying a beacon so they can be tracked throughout the park what we call our assets or
animals this particular piece of flesh belonged to the indominus rex and this is what our asset
containment unit team finds on a riverbed this is what we're serving a cater steaks chops and
there's a say in props if you have one you have none so we always make two of everything at least
two sometimes three sometimes 36 it depends on what the prop will be involved in in terms of
action for example we find this tooth embedded into one of our gyro spheres and so we made two
and then of course legacy made three different eggs for our lab this I believe is the Apatosaurus
eggs we keep track of our eggs with a QR code that is scanning and in a database so each
animal that's about to hatch has its own ID number this is a Velociraptor egg which is reminiscent of
the one you saw hatch in the first film and I don't know what that is it's dinosaur egg this
is actually from the very first film there's last surviving pair of night-vision goggles that were
standard issue and the Jeep Cherokees that were part of the park tour so we refurbished them we
had to age them not permanently because they're alone from Universal Pictures archives I have
to return them and it's good or better condition and they loaned them to me and so we did a quick
non-permanent age to them to show that they're 20 years old and miraculously this still works
early in the film I said wouldn't it be nice if we kind of saw some kind of tie-in to the
original characters on the film since they're not in this movie at all and so we ended up
coming up with God creates dinosaurs which was a nod to what Ian Malcolm said in the
first movie creates dinosaurs God destroys dinosaurs God creates man man destroys God
man creates dinosaurs so we created a fake book jacket so it's not necessarily featured
something that we hope that the audience would kind of see on the big screen and
just pop out and be like a little nod to the little Maj to the earlier films
another aspect of the prop Department duties is anything having to do with weapons of any
kind including real firearms my favorite prop in this film is probably Owens rifle it just
really encompasses his character it's very manly and you know he's kind of of course
he's the hero of the show so you want to give him a really great way to protect everyone on
the part for all when we use the Marlin 4570 lever-action rifle which we had one of armors
modified slightly and had a nice little scope to it the interesting thing with any of these
action props is we always make rubber doubles this is quite heavy to carry all day so for
the comfort of the actors or in the event of a stunt we don't want the actor falling
with a heavy chunk of steel on their back so we make these rubber copies another good
example of this is the character of Barry carries a Smith & Wesson 500 and this is
the real one and so for a lot of the scenes we gave him a rubber double which was easier
and safer to carry and in most cases they're indistinguishable unless you put your hand on it
one of the most fun challenges on this movie was to create the fantasy weapons that the
asset containment team is using in the park the first one we created was the taser spear
that's you know then you have to worry about these handles getting anywhere of your hands
for more dangerous dinosaurs we made a taser rifle this works much like a regular police
taser with cartridges and then when you power it up it has a little laser beam so that you
can aim at the animal and then to give a little reference to the effects friends we
always add a little strobe there is no such thing as a multiple shot tranquilizer dart
gun so we designed this from scratch entirely and and with any action prop in order to sell
that it's the real thing we have to have some movement so every time you squeeze the trigger
this mechanism is powered by a nitrogen cartridge which gives us about 200 shots and so it gave us
a very dynamic very heroic looking weapon and yet completely fake it doesn't exist we invented this
that's you headed snake right there two-headed snake freaky once pissed off in that direction and
once pissed off in this direction the prop master is also in charge of hiring some animal Wranglers
depending on the size of the project take a shot of that Jason when we're talking about small
animals in cages like snakes and lizards it's often our responsibility to deal with that so we
brought in jewel Silvester and herpetologists and a snake Wrangler and so he's an expert at all this
so we brought him in to liven up the lab a little bit we have the quarians for the nasty creatures
some really good stuff frogs snakes lizards what else we have axolotls I bet you don't know what
that is what is that it's like a salamander with the gills on the outside is very very primitive
beasts and they're white there are cave dwellers and they look weird so there's great for the stuff
so that level of humidity is it good actually this would level
there - lovely lovely environment if I was a snake on the field
freaky labels don't have labels or videos okay so pick the last one and what's good
like this it was very neat when I got the call to come to this it was really a great
opportunity and whenever you do something like this that there's known the world over
there's also a little bit of fear involved in it and so the whole challenge was really great