Collect all the LEGO Jurassic Park 2023 sets for an Easter egg 65 million years in the making

02/06/202302/06/2023 Chris Wharfe 3850 Views 0 Comments

If you’re picking up all five of the new LEGO Jurassic Park 30th anniversary sets, you’ll find an Easter egg 65 million years in the making…

The LEGO Group has finally delivered on years of requests from dino-fans with an entire range of sets dedicated to the original Jurassic Park film, almost 30 years to the day since Spielberg’s epic first rampaged through cinemas. Five new sets debuted on LEGO Store shelves on June 1, between them covering almost every major event, character and dinosaur from the 1993 movie.

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But there’s one more thing these sets have to their name, and it’s not necessarily obvious from the box shots and official images alone. If you want to discover the full depth to which 76957 Velociraptor Escape, 76958 Dilophosaurus Ambush, 76959 Triceratops Research, 76960 Brachiosaurus Discovery and 76961 Visitor Centre: T. rex & Raptor Attack celebrate Jurassic Park, you’re going to need to pick up all five sets.

That’s because they each include one of five different LEGO frogs. 76960 Brachiosaurus Discovery plants a coral-coloured amphibian at the base of its towering tree; 76961 Visitor Centre: T. rex & Raptor Attack pops a pink frog atop a cake; 76958 Dilophosaurus Ambush borrows a white one to simulate shaving foam from the Barbasol can; and 76959 Triceratops Research hilariously assimilates a brown frog into its giant pile of dino dung.

In fact, only the 4+ set 76957 Velociraptor Escape seems to find a conventional use for a classic green frog, placing it between its hinged barriers. So that’s five different LEGO Jurassic Park sets, and five frogs in different colours. If you even vaguely remember the plot to the Jurassic franchise, you can probably connect the dots here.

If not, we’ll do the hard work for you: in the very first Jurassic Park movie, Dr. Alan Grant explains that the dinosaurs were recreated with the help of frog DNA. Essentially, these tiny amphibians are the building blocks of the entire storyline in Jurassic Park – and now they’re literal building blocks in bringing to life all five new LEGO Jurassic Park sets. That’s what they call synergy.

The full range of LEGO Jurassic Park 30th anniversary sets is available now at LEGO.com. Check out our reviews of all five models here.

Every LEGO Jurassic Park set new for 2023

LEGO set	Price	Pieces	Release date
76957 Velociraptor Escape	£31.99 / $39.99 / €37.99	137	June 1, 2023
76958 Dilophosaurus Ambush	£20.99 / $19.99 / €26.99	211	June 1, 2023
76959 Triceratops Research	£46.99 / $49.99 / €52.99	281	June 1, 2023
76960 Brachiosaurus Discovery	£74.99 / $79.99 / €84.99	512	June 1, 2023
76961 Visitor Center: T. rex & Raptor Attack	£114.99 / $129.99 / €129.99	693	June 1, 2023

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Chris Wharfe

I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.