Ever Wondered How Much A Real Jurassic Park Would Cost?

The cost of building fictional theme parks based on technology we don’t have will always be tricky thing to quantify.

But that hasn’t some arguably fanatical ‘Jurassic Park’ fans doing some sums in order to find out roughly how much a real-life dino park might cost.

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And it’s not cheap.

The price tag would be in the region of $23,432,400,000 (about £15 billion, massive pinch of salt included), with another rather hefty $11,907,000,000 (£7.6 billion) every year to maintain.

Posted on the website Stupeflix, a video attempts to tot up some of the monstrous overheads involved, perhaps the biggest being the real estate involved.

Two islands off the coast of Costa Rica – the size of the fictional Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna, about 66 square miles in total – would cost an initial outlay of $10,000,000,000 (£6.4 billion).

Then there’s the R&D staff, comprising geneticists, caretakers, paleontologists, computer engineers and lawyers, which would be in the region of $7.9 million (£5 million).

The cloning of dinosaurs wouldn’t be chicken feed either. Scaling up the cost of one California company that charges $150,000 to clone people’s dogs, they arrive at $28.5 million (£18.3 million)

There’s then amber mining for the dino DNA ($9 million), theme park infrastructure and building ($1.5b) and dinosaur upkeep ($207m).

So, $23.4 billion should cover it – and if 'Jurassic World’ keeps on coining it in as it has so far, maybe Universal Studios could afford it.

Though it is worth noting that the figure for compensation once the dinosaurs start eating the guests has not been factored in.

Image credits: Universal/Stupeflix