LEGO has announced a new set: the LEGO Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler (see it at the LEGO Store). The set has 1,924 pieces, costs $199.99, and is scheduled for a May 7 release date. It's aimed at the 18+ age group and is based on the iconic vehicles from the original 1993 Spielberg movie. It’s set number 77984 and it looks like a real treat for fans of the film.
LEGO Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler
In Jurassic Park, these Jeep Wranglers are the vehicles park employees use to move around the island. This LEGO set actually lets you build all four main Wranglers that appear in the first film, each of which have minor variations, including their numbers on the side panel. One memorable Wrangler is number 10, which the team uses to outrun the t-rex after saving Ian Malcolm (the set comes with a swappable side mirror showing the t-rex in purusit).
But the primary Wrangler this set is designed around is number 12, the vehicle the duplicitous Dennis Nedry uses to make his getaway after stealing dino DNA. It’s the Wrangler he’s driving through a torrential downpour when he knocks over a sign pointing to the East Dock, where a boat he’s hoping to board is about to leave. Thanks to the crash and a nearby dilophosaurus, it’s the last vehicle he will ever drive.
The LEGO re-creation includes a buildable number 12 Jeep Wrangler and that very same East Dock sign. The vehicle has rubber tires and a Jurassic Park logo emblazoned on a door that opens and closes. It has a cut fabric piece for a roof and the same tow cable spool on its front that Nedry uses in the movie.
To announce the set, LEGO and Jeep put out a promotional Instagram video that’s pretty delightful. It’s a decidedly less violent re-creation of the rainy Jurassic Park scene in which Dennis Nedry meets his fate. This version of the rain coat-wearing man wipes fog off his glasses and then builds the LEGO set.
For more, check out the LEGO Jurassic World Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus Rex set, which we built last year at release.
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