√Hold onto your butts! Jeep releases limited-edition ‘Jurassic Park’ package

30 years since Jurassic Park was released, Jeep is selling a limited-edition sticker pack in the US for modern Wrangler and Gladiator owners to make their four-wheel-drives look like the film’s star cars.

US car-maker Jeep is helping to celebrate 30 years since the Jurassic Park film franchise first arrived in cinemas, unveiling a limited-edition appearance package for US customers who want their off-roaders to look like the movie cars.

While 30 years have passed since the first Jurassic Park film was released, the Wrangler’s basic design hasn’t changed much – allowing Jeep owners to dress their four-wheel-drives to commemorate the anniversary.

Designed by Jeep’s Graphic Studio division, the ‘Jurassic Park Package’ consists of a sticker pack which reflects the design of the YJ-generation Wranglers from Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film.

Available to US owners of 2018 to 2023 Model Year Wranglers – as well as 2020-2023 Model Year Gladiators – the sticker packs add graphics which throwback to the off-roaders used in the film, as well as a uniquely numbered gear shifter insert with the design of a T-rex in the centre.

Buyers can opt to have the sticker’s bonnet lettering reflect their model grade – such as Wrangler, Rubicon, Sahara and others – while the sticker package also reference Jeep #18 from the film.

In the first installation of Jurassic Park, Jeep Wrangler #18 is the car which the film’s protagonists – portrayed by Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern – are in when they see the dinosaurs for the first time, shortly before Richard Attenborough utters the iconic line, “Welcome to Jurassic Park”.

Jeep #18 was also later used in the 2015 series reboot Jurassic World – the fourth instalment in the franchise – where it is destroyed by a dinosaur hunting down Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard’s characters.

According to Jeep, just 100 individually-numbered units of the Jurassic Park package are available, priced from $US550 ($AU835) or $US650 ($AU990) for buyers who opt for the optional ‘Grassy Island’ transfer case knob insert.

Ford is yet to announce whether it will offer a similar graphics package for its modern SUVs to reflect the design of the brightly-coloured Explorers which were destroyed in the 1993 film.

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