20 Things You Somehow Missed In Jurassic Park
12. All Of The Gift Shop Merch Was Real
As well as being an enormous success at the box office, Jurassic Park was one of the biggest commercial successes in cinema history. The marketing and merchandise budgets dwarfed the $63m cost of production, but also recouped considerably more than the $83m the film made at the box office in its opening week.
Part of was down to the 100 separate licensing agreements Universal had reached prior to production, and the genius decision to include only official merchandise in the movie's own gift shop.
Everything seen on-screen, from toys, figures, clothes, lunchboxes, even a book titled "The Making of Jurassic Park", could be purchased in real-life.