It Would Cost Over $23 Billion To Build A Real Jurassic Park

Not even Jurassic World‘s insane box office return could support a fraction of the cost it would require to build a real-life dinosaur park. If the events of the Jurassic movies didn’t make it clear enough a dinosaur park is an awful idea, the required investment will probably slam the gates of Jurassic Park.

Just how much would it take to build a real Jurassic Park?Well, the two islands alone would cost about $10 billion dollars according to estimates based on two islands amounting to 66 square miles off the coast of Costa Rica. The research and legal team (better spend a little extra on legal and insurance!) would amount to almost $8 million dollars!

Then, of course, the park would have to create dinosaur clones which racks up the tab another $8.5 million dollars. Getting that DNA in the first place – $9 million. The park itself, based on the cost of the world’s largest theme parks, clocks in at $1.5 billion. That seems to be modest, too, for a park containing dinosaurs. We’re not done. The park isn’t going to run itself. Employees and operating expenses would cost over $11 billion a year. $32 million a day and we’re still. Not. Done. The dinosaurs need to be fed and cared for which is going to cost over $200 million a year.

Fandango estimates the total of all of these expenses comes to $23,432,400,000. If you happen to have that chunk of change laying around, do us all a favor and make Jurassic Park a thing. That is, if you can manage to swing to $11,907,000,000 it would cost yearly to keep the park operating – not including lawsuits for guests who get eaten.