As Jurassic World continues to smash box office records, the hype surrounding the film shows no signs of slowing down. Kids the world over are discovering the ancient world of dinosaurs, teenagers are sneaking off behind cinemas to light up before the 3D extravaganza and fathers are making excuses to take their children to the movies for the first time since Anne Hathaway starred in The Princess Diaries.

Now, we know the idea of bringing dinosaurs back to life and creating a new species using genetics isn’t exactly on the horizon – but how much would an endeavour such as the theme park we see in the movies really cost?

There are a number of exorbitant costs to look at but here’s Mashable with a breakdown:

It’s really about two main categories. While you may think that it would be the actual creation of the dinosaurs that would make the building of Jurassic Park a difficult business to run, the “reality” is that would be one of the less expensive areas of the budget. Instead, it turns out that simply running the park day to day would end up costing $11.7 billion annually. Right behind that figure, though, is the rather insane price that the real estate would set the venture back. In order to have both Isla Nublar, where the park is, and Isla Sorna, where the dinosaurs are raised, InGen would have had to pay an incredible $10 billion dollars.

OK so your startup costs are probably going to put you off getting the ball rolling on that project but it’s nice to dream isn’t it?

Far cheaper to let spiders bite nerds and turtles live in underground sewerage systems me thinks, although if they could convince the mega-rich Bruce Wayne to get on board, you never know.

[source:mashable]