Universal Built the Full Jurassic World Park Map Into Its CityWalk Escape Room, and Some of Its 19 Attractions Were Never in the Movie
Somewhere inside Universal CityWalk there is a fully mapped theme park that has never existed. Universal has detailed the Park Operations Center scene in Jurassic World: Escape, one of the two experiences at Universal's Great Movie Escape, and it contains what Universal calls "the full map of Jurassic World and its attractions." The list runs to 19, and not all of them come from the film.
Quick facts: Jurassic World: Escape is at Universal's Great Movie Escape at Universal CityWalk. It is set entirely in 2015, the year the first Jurassic World film was released. The full attraction list from the experience runs to 19. Universal published the details on its own Discover Universal blog on September 3, 2026.
The full 19. Universal listed them outright: Gyrosphere, Aviary, Bamboo Forest, Water Park, Gentle Giants Petting Zoo, Hotel Complex, The Scrambler, Innovation Center, Mosasaurus Feeding Show, Gallimimus Valley, Triceratops Territory, Creation Lab, Pachy Arena, Golf Course, Cretaceous Cruise, Botanical Gardens, Gondola Lift, T. rex Kingdom, and the Monorail.
Universal writes that "Many of these attractions were pulled from the film, and the creative team for Escape added a few of their own as well," which means a handful of these attractions exist only inside the escape room. It has not said which ones. In that scene, players "work to identify information about the park to make decisions."
It runs on a single day in 2015. Where the venue's Back to the Future: OUTATIME room hops around its own timeline, this one does not. Universal says Jurassic World: Escape is set entirely in 2015 and runs "fully congruent" to the single day the first Jurassic World film covers. Nate Stevenson, show director for the Creative Development Group, said the team "worked closely with the IP team to ensure every beat aligned with canon, and that authenticity is what makes the experience feel truly embedded in the world."
The original Jurassic Park keeps turning up. One room recreates the moment Ellie Sattler restores power to the park while avoiding freed raptors. Stevenson said it was "one of my favorite scenes as a kid because it was so iconic and genuinely terrifying, and I wanted to recreate that same escalating tension and sense of danger within the experience."
Elsewhere, your guide through the experience, a character named Riley Matthews, asks the team to save dinosaur embryos before everyone evacuates the park. The embryo freezer was modeled on the scene in the original Jurassic Park where Nedry steals the embryos, down to the freezer opening and closing by moving up and down the way it does in the film. A high voltage fence in the experience gets the same treatment, calling back to the moment Alan Grant pretends to be electrocuted to scare Lex and Tim.
The dinosaurs are not all headliners. Stevenson said the franchise let the team pull species from across all three films "and even include some that never ultimately appeared on screen." Two that Universal names, both of which did make the screen, are the Carnotaurus from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and the Iguanodon from Jurassic World: Dominion.
For anyone who has ever wanted to know what Jurassic World offered between dinosaur attacks, Universal points to the monorail, the Gyrosphere, the Gentle Giants Petting Zoo and the water park as attractions the film introduced. Which of the other 15, the golf course and the gondola lift among them, came from the film and which the escape room team invented, Universal does not say.
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