How Much Would It Cost to Actually Build Jurassic Park?

What’s it take to run the most fantastical theme park ever dreamt of on this planet?

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Hot on the release of Jurassic World, YouTube channel Movieclips takes a look at what the financial cost of bringing its ill-fated predecessor, Jurassic Park, to reality. Taking into account factors such as the cost of real estate, research and development, animal cloning, employee salaries and more, it is safe to say that running a theme park that reanimates giant creatures from millions of years back amounts to an astronomical cost, to say the least. Watch the video above for an educated guess that what it would take to sustain such a massive operation, barring the event that the dinosaurs break out and destroy everything, of course.

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