Jurassic park land cruiser movie#

The LC80 model, produced between 90-97, is even period-correct. Now you're thinking 'But Chris, you blithering idiot, that may be an SUV but it looks nothing like a Ford Explorer'ДЄnd you'd be right, I am a blithering idiot.Д«ut - The Landcruiser was actually the car described in the original novel by Michael Crichton.

It was then that I saw RCMart had a curious SUV 'crawler' body in the form of a Toyota Landcruiser LC80 - it was even listed as being for the CC01. Unfortunately these are few and far between (which now means it'll be re-releasesd cos I've said that). What SUV bodies do exist? Well, the Honda CRV would have looked great, still a CC01 and a hardbody too. It shares a lot of parts with the F150 of the same era, so one could butcher a King Blackfoot body - but that would be both massively expensive and WAY beyond my skillset. Unfortunately, nobody makes a Ford Explorer body - certainly not a 1993 version. You'll probably recall they looked like this (before getting turned over and squashed):

Jurassic park land cruiser movie#

In the movie these sported a rather loud colour scheme and were (I believe) based on a 1993 Ford Explorer SUV. Whilst I wait for some parts for that I thought I would make a start on another vehicle - the 'Tour Vehicle'. I'm in the throws of building a replacement to my Jurassic Park TJ using a Tamiya CC01 Jeep Wrangler YJ (square headlamp, movie-accurate) after a house move basically ruined the old one all that remains is the interior - which I have re-used. I make no apologies for being a major film geek when it comes to one film in particular.I'm of course talking about Jurassic Park and the subsequent movies.ДЄt this stage I was going to link to all of my other JP-inspired RC projects, but after looking them up I've realised they've been ruined by Photobucket. Jurassic Park Project #3 - The Tour Vehicle