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Why would anyone build a theme park on a volcanic island?

duckroll

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Technology to clone dinosaurs - check
Funding to buy private islands - check
Ambition to open a dinosaur theme park and make money for years to come - check
Picks an island with a volcano on it - ??????????????????????

Let's assume Jurassic World didn't end with a total disaster that closes the park. Let's assume they didn't create some monster T-rex hybrid shit that wrecked everything. Let's assume the park continued to be relatively successful and made lots of money. And then, years later......... erm......... there's a pending volcanic eruption that's going to destroy the entire investment? Seems like a bad business plan, no?
 
UnpopularBlargh

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duckroll said:
Technology to clone dinosaurs - check
Funding to buy private islands - check
Ambition to open a dinosaur theme park and make money for years to come - check
Picks an island with a volcano on it - ??????????????????????

Let's assume Jurassic World didn't end with a total disaster that closes the park. Let's assume they didn't create some monster T-rex hybrid shit that wrecked everything. Let's assume the park continued to be relatively successful and made lots of money. And then, years later......... erm......... there's a pending volcanic eruption that's going to destroy the entire investment? Seems like a bad business plan, no?
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Insurance scam?
 

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you know that part of Oracle of Seasons where those Subrosians make lava soup? as a kid, lava soup sounded really good. i imagined it having a thick consistency, savory flavor, and an extrenely spicy finish. you get some of that shit there and i'm in
 
Rhomega

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I asked the same question and people pointed out the existence of Naples, Los Angeles, and hurricane zone cities.
 
RiOrius

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Pretty sure most small islands are volcanic. Hawaii, for instance.

The volcano on the Jurassic Park island was dormant, but unexpectedly went active. IANAG, but my gut says that's the unrealistic part of the plot, not that the park was built on a volcanic island in the first place.
 
Ororo

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Well they would've been able to relocate to a new island , the problem was that the company was basically bankrupt but if the JW incident hasn't happened it would've played out differently .

Also this is kind of explained in the lost world ans pour supplémental material. They use the power of the volcano for their energy/electricity so that's a reason why, taking advantage of the thermal energy .
 
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duckroll

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I think it's one thing to build stuff in a volcanic area if there's already an economy and people living there, because that's why you would do it - since there's already something there. But when you have the money to buy any private island, and you're building a park somewhere uninhabited, why..... pick one with a volcano dormant or otherwise? That's the disconnect.
 
SolVanderlyn

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Yellowstone is way more dangerous than the island in JW (geographically) and there's a big nature park there

Granted there's no way to avoid the eruption of Yellowstone no matter what you put there
 
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duckroll said:
I think it's one thing to build stuff in a volcanic area if there's already an economy and people living there, because that's why you would do it - since there's already something there. But when you have the money to buy any private island, and you're building a park somewhere uninhabited, why..... pick one with a volcano dormant or otherwise? That's the disconnect.
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Akira86

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I think we should tempt fate and build Krakatoa-Land. I mean, that one hasn't erupted since the 19th century right? The odds of it hurting our business enterprise are slim.
 
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Rhomega said:
I asked the same question and people pointed out the existence of Naples, Los Angeles, and hurricane zone cities.
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And that's a fairly good response, in my opinion. Almost every region of the world carries the risk of a major natural disaster. Hawaii is a volcanic island. Japan and California are prone to major earthquakes. There's also the Yellowstone Supervolcano that may destroy North America.

I haven't seen the new film but from what I've read this volcano is not the most irritating thing about it.
 
Walter White Walker

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Well I mean why do people continue to build stuff in Hawaii which was built by volcanoes? Or here in Washington where there are a number of volcanoes, or Oregon, California, Alaska, or all along the Pacific Rim?
Why continue building stuff along the Gulf of Mexico or along the Eastern Seaboard where hurricanes hit? Or anywhere that tornadoes are are not that uncommon?
Shit happens everywhere so you do what you do within reason and hope for the best.
 
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ibyea

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Cuz it's plot convenient for the island to explode when the writers feel like it. :p
 

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Hawaii is dealing with this precise thing -- a bunch of houses built on one of the first areas to get screwed up if eruptions happen. Presumably people don't think disaster will happen until it does. See also, people living in Key West or whatever.
 
Gamer @ Heart

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Park powered by thermal energy saves costs?

But yeah, it was a dormant island for hundreds of years. At a certain point, you think you'll be safe.
 

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You'd think an inland zoo would be a decent first start for a park featuring dinosaurs. Start with docile yet impressive herbivores and at least let people DRIVE to it and rake in the profits with hardly any risk.

But no they gotta make you take a fucking ship to get there and put a mosasaurus in open water behind a measly underwater gate. Dopes.
 

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As has been established from the Jurassic Films, clearly something has gone terribly awry at the risk analysis division of the park's parent companies.
 
Dennis8K

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Volcanos are cool. Combine dinosaurs and volcanos at the same place and you get super cool.

That is just good business.
 
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Dormant volcanoes. Also, islands aren't cheap and you kind of want one close to a mainland where less connecting flights are needed.
 
Wafflinson

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Isn't pretty much every Island in the Caribbean Volcanic?

Hell, aren't the majority of islands in the world Volcanic?
 
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For your trillion dollar dino park tho...? has to be in the back of your mind.
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Why? It's a dormant volcano. Dormant changes. You may as well never build your dino park anywhere that has zero chance of natural disaster. Build it near LA? Fault would conveniently cause a massive earthquake. Florida? Hurricane. Some island? Tsunami? The volanco erupting is just a story tool. The park was gonna get rekt anyway.
 
Oreoleo

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Islands are formed from volcanic activity. You rarely get one without the other in a close enough vicinity to be occasionally problematic.
 
UltraMagnus

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About a bazillion people vacation in Hawaii every year and the freaking volcanos are tourist attractions in and of themselves, lol.
 
sooperkool

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How many times are people going to ask this question like it's some sort of big mystery or "gotcha"? It's been spelled out about 5 or 6 times, they need the geothermal energy to run the damn park.
 
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