Was Jurassic Park Inspired By An Episode Of Astro Boy?

Big thanks to Remy C. for telling me about this on Hugg. All the clips in this video are from a single episode of the cartoon Astro Boy episode Dinosaur Dilemma, available on the Astro Boy - Ultra Collector's Edition DVD Set 2, Disc 2, episode 2 on that disc.

The story goes, a scientist creates a frog then dinosaurs from living cells. Close by, is Stone Age Park, a dinosaur themed park with rides. Astro Boy is the teacher's assistant to a class visiting the park. The kids are a hand full and the teacher asks Astro Boy to be patient. Meanwhile, back at the lab, the scientist has implanted electronic brains that should make his dinosaurs smart enough to talk and polite.

However, they break out of glass containers, are very angry and escape to Stone Age Park. A boy runs off by himself, is kidnapped by the dinosaurs and they take him to the mountains. The dinosaur want to exchange him for food. The boy's father, the teacher and Astro Boy hatch a plan to put TNT in the food. They drive the food in trucks to the mountains. The plan almost falls apart when a cable bridge breaks while the teacher is crossing. The dinosaurs figure out the TNT plan but Astro Boy beats up the dinosaurs and saves the day.

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[narutoisnumber123]

no its the other way around jurassic park is actually a book, which inspired the episode maybe but the episode did not inspire the movie the book did

[HuggLinton]

Astro Boy aired 1963-1966. Jurassic Park was published in 1990.

[WingedMushroomOfDoom]

Well, I don't know about all of it, but the frog thing really did match up! lol!

[somethinglacking1]

Whats the point of Ellie's ASS right at the end? hahaha.

[BigDogLtd]

@BigDogLtd

slightly similar stories inspired by olden films and novels the precede both authors. And about that girl attacked by small dinos in the first book , it was put in the second oddly and made no real sense in the context of the story.

[BigDogLtd]

@BigDogLtd

I don't recall a girl being attacked in Astro Boy do you? The first book has many elements which were spread amongst the three films it is not funny but for the matter, the first JP film takes from a few elements of the book but has no dinosaurs kidnapping children, no robotic ones , just an island where the park isn't even OPENED and given a est run which goes wrong and results in its closing.

If anything , JP and this episode are done by great minds who just happened to discover

[BigDogLtd]

There is something off about it being derived from Astro Boy . Sure Kimba was directly ripped , but in this case I am skeptical of JP being a rip. Why? Because Tezuka himself was influenced by the same stories ala "The Lost World" which he later made one himself . Also, the stories are radically different in execution since the book itself goes into huge detail of the corporate level and the process for like 100 pages after a girl gets attacked by some creatures off some Costa Rican island.

[Ayla8711]

Lol nice end shot!

[RustyPete12]

You know, I think the maker of this video is on to something!

[herederodeluca]

muy rebuscado, todos sabemos que el %95 de los argumentos de las películas de hollywood son ideas trilladas

[luyvnkuu]

If your looking for a place to watch this online then i suggest theonlinecinema. net/astro_boy all the others sites here dont work, spent near 2 hours looking for astro boy, and this is the only site that gives me exactly what im looking for. theonlinecinema. net/astro_boy

[jungleman68]

most of this didn't happen in the book. the movie definitely took stuff though