His love for Jurassic Park and dinosaurs has driven one man to overhaul his 1994 Ford Explorer, creating a near-prefect replica of the touring vehicles used in the film.
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The whole thing — including the truck — cost less than $10,00, making it a pretty good deal relative to some of the heavy investments we’ve seen by people wanting to make things like statues, barbecues and scale Millennium Falcons, none of which can take you to and from work once you’re finished.
(Unless the Millennium Falcon is a really accurate model, I mean.)
Reports put the cost at around £5,000—close to $7,100.
“I saw the [Jurassic Park] premiere when I was about 12,” UK Redditor voicey wrote in the comments thread of his DIY community post (via Upvoted). “The T. rex scene blew my mind when I first saw it. I’d been way into Star Wars and stuff, but nothing compared to seeing that scene for the first time.”
The truck isn’t completely finished — voicey says he needs to work on the interior — although he has filled it with movie-accurate props, including the tag that hangs from the rear-view mirror, custom license plate tags and some track that he can lay down around the vehicle if he really wants to get into the illusion of it.
And, yes, just in case you want to sit in your dark car and imagine you’re actually at the park, voicey found a video of the Jurassic Park tour from the film, and has a monitor built into the dash capable of playing the video on a loop.
