Listeners Collection: January - Corey Baker

Hey JPforever! My name is Cory Baker I live in Western Australia and instantly became a fan of Jurassic Cast when I stumbled across it a few months ago on iTunes, so I Thought I'd have a go at this months listeners collection. So here's the story of how my collection came to be!

I was born in 92 so I was sadly too young to remember when the first movie came out but by the time 'The Lost World' arrived in cinemas the shops were covered with jurassic park merchandise, I can clearly remember walking into the lost world section of toys and being absolutely amazed. So much green packaging and so many amazing dinosaur toys, I just had to have them. I remember getting the flapping Pteranodon for my birthday, but my favourite toy I got as a child was the reprint TLW velociraptor with the capture gear.

About a year later I clearly remember going to a garage sale and finding a first jurassic park screaming Dilophosaur. It was a great find. But made me realise that I have missed out on the first films toyline for being so young, which I was very upset about. I also got a lot of the jp3 toyline when I was 10. 

One thing in particular I want to talk about is this Lost World poster I had as a child. It's still on my wall and it's one of my most prized possessions. Even though it's a bit warn and torn.

Anyway I eventually got the internet and it wasn't long till I found Jurassic Park toys on eBay. So I set off to collect the toys I've always dreamt of having. I collected a whole bunch of jp toys but I eventually had every toy from the first movie series 1 toyline. But I didn't have much money when I was 13 and collecting these toys. so some of them are in terrible condition but I didn't care, At least I had them.

Well I do care now as a 21 year old and I have started buying JPtoys again now that I have a job and I have started replacing them with some still packaged or just really good condition ones. I also really like Papo dinosaur models as they are strongly inspired by the Jurassic park films so I collected them as well.

So there you have it. A little story about my collection. I would love to tell my whole Jurassic Park story but that's for another day. P.s it's a unique one. 

Thanks - Cory Baker

Episode 6 with special guest Phil Tippett OUT NOW!

So here at JP Forever we're very excited to release our sixth episode with a very special guest: the special effects titan Phil Tippett!

He talks about his experiences working on the original film and touches upon his involvement with Jurassic World! Here is a snippet of our interview with Tippett...

Episode 6 is available to listen live from the right hand sidebar, or you can download it (along with all the previous episodes) from iTunes & Stitcher. Click the "Jurassic Cast" tab above.

We hope you enjoy the new JC.

Life Finds A Way

Jack x

New look to website.

I figured our site needed a fresh look for the new year, so here it is. I went for a very cartoony look, so ya'll know we don't take ourselves too seriously. (Not that you thought that anyway.)

- Jack x

Phil Tippett joins us for the January episode!

Use this poster to spread the word!

Jurassic Park Games: The Lost World - PS1

As part of a new web series for my Video Game channel/website/podcast, I am playing through all the Jurassic Park games. In episode 1 I play The Lost World on Playstation.

Check out the video by following the link below!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwolojy8yr8

New Monthly Article: Listeners Collection

We all know that Jurassic Park fans like their collectables, and if you are like me then you will especially like the real odd and rare ones. For a new monthly article we will be asking to see your collection and tell us a little about it. For the first month we have David Gawne. 

P.S. Forgive the spelling and grammar, blame David ;)

-BamSam

I still remember when i was 9 years old going into my local Woolworths and seeing a box with the Jurassic Park logo on,it was the Triceratops figure and i did that thing i always did when i seen some cool toy i wanted i shouted my to Mum and hyperventilated. It was the only toy they had so we got it and it was put away for my 10th birthday,the next day we visited toymaster and told Fred who ran the place that i had got a Jurassic Park toy at Woolworths but he said the date to put them out on the shelves wasn't for another week but just for me he went out the back a brought out about 3 boxes with all the human figures and the Raptor and water spitting Dilophosaur the screaming (Kevin Mcalister) Raptor and screaming Dilophosaur this resulted in probably the greatest birthday ever i can still remember the night before Ferris Bueller was on BBC1 and i was so excited even though i knew exactly was i was getting. 

Throughout the year the collection grew and grew and all the toys were well played with but kept in top condition, i still have all them but as i grew up and discovered ebay and Jurassic Park fan sites i found out that the initial line of jurassic toys was just a small part, 1994 they brought out a new series of human figure with new paint jobs but with added Ian Malcolm maybe the coolest figure ever and some really amazing new dinos like the baryonox and gallimimus, obviously over the years  this lines value increased and so collecting wasnt cheap, some items like the baby hatchlings i found on ebay in the last hour of bidding and stayed up till about 2 in the morning to make sure i won them, i didnt think i would but i did and at a fair price although ive seen a few on ebay now not as cheap, the gallimimus wasnt so cheap that cost over £100 but well worth it, other items i just found by chance others are too hard to come by and too expensive if you do, i also bought the first wave of human and dino figures again just so i have them mint in packaging.

Others items i found that i think are the best include the spitter bath gel and raptor bubble bath both still sealed with bubble bath still in. so here i am 20 years on from that day in woolworths when i seen that box with that logo and even now i still get the same feeling as i did then i scream for my mum and hyperventilate lol

BamSam & Jack's Jurassic Park 3 Commentary...

So our Jurassic Park 3 Audio Commentary Christmas Surprise is now available to Download from the link below, Enjoy!

http://themoviedudes.jellycast.com/node/65