Jurassic World "Taking Control" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Leore Berris Directed by Michael Mullen Release date: December 3, 2021

The campers decide it's time to take down Kash.

Read the story summary at the Jurassic Park Wiki

Didja Know?

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is a CG-animated TV series that aired on the Netflix streaming service from 2020-2022 for five seasons and one special. While the first couple of episodes take place before and during the events of Jurassic World, the rest of them take place shortly after that film, and about three years before the events of Fallen Kingdom. Netflix is currently producing episodes of a sequel series, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, whose first season began in May 2024.

   Each episode of the series opens with the words "A Netflix Original Series" over what appears to be a T. rex footprint in the jungle mud. 

    The Universal Pictures logo that appears after this is altered from the usual to have the Earth globe with a continent that looks very roughly like the supercontinent Pangaea may have looked in the Triassic-Jurassic periods of the Mesozoic era, 200-150 million years ago.

    As the Universal Earth globe spins, a second "continent" seen is actually a stylized DreamWorks Pictures logo (a boy sitting with a fishing pole on the crescent Moon), followed by the Amblin Entertainment logo.

The dinosaur that bursts out of the Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous gates at the beginning of the opening titles of each episode is a Tyrannosaurus rex, possibly the infamous Rexy herself, but we don't see its right side close enough to see if it has Rexy's raptor scars incurred in Jurassic Park.

Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode

Angel

Sammy Gutierrez

Yasmina Fadoula

Firecracker (baby Brachiosaurus)

Ben Pincus

Darius Bowman

Kash D. Langford

BRAD-Xs

Ceratosaurus

Rebel

Kenji Kon

Brooklynn

Dr. Mae Turner

Pteranodons

Bumpy 

Didja Notice? 

When the Pteranodon flock attacks, Ben proclaims, "Pteranodons. Why'd it have to be Pteranodons?" This is a nod to Indiana Jones' famous line about snakes in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ben had a bad encounter with Pteranodons in "End of the Line".

Notes from the junior novelization Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous - The Deluxe Junior Novelization Volume Four by Steve Behling Cover illustration by Patrick Spaziante 2022 Chapter Nine covers the events of this episode.

In the novelization, when Ben is finally dropped by the Pteranodon, he lands in a stream, lessening the impact of his fall. But in the televised episode, he just falls onto the ground and shakes off the impact's effects.

Memorable Dialog

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