Tom, you were so preoccupied with whether or not you could build a T-Rex, you didn't stop to think of if you should.

Thanks for the review, Tom. I was in Orlando with my family and watched your video. Went right away to coolstuff in South Orlando and bought the last copy there :)

Thanks for the review Tom! Glad you enjoyed this one so much! It's one of our favorites around here.

I'm really happy to have backed this game. Now my fingers are crossed it arrives well in Brazil :D

"Triceopterfues" I'm dying.

I am now beyond excited to finally get my KS Deluxe copy. It looked good and I hoped it would be good, but it can be hard to tell on a KS. I just knew I loved the theme and I really enjoyed the art direction. Now to find out that the game play is actually solid. Over the moon!

"You lose 1 VP for each visitor eaten by a dinosaur" 🤣 Would love to run this park

Glad to see it's good. I didn't back it but I hope to get to play it. Congrats to the publishers.

I too have been looking forward to this all week. I'm excited for the deluxe copy in the mail!

Been playing this all week and it's great

Can't wait for this to arrive in the mail!

"So, you can see: a brachiosaurus...a.....a....and these other ones I can't pronounce...." Hehe :) Great review Tom 3:12

would love to see a live play of this one from you guys!

Read a little about this game awhile ago and it was on my radar, just picked it up today from my game store excited to give it a go.

Can't wait for my deluxe copy!

It 90’s themed BTW. The KS comes with slap bracelets and pogs. So glad I backed the deluxe of this! I’ve had a dud or two on KS recently.

I have been waiting for your review of this all week long!!!!! And you definitely did not disappoint . Getting The deluxe copy in the mail very soon! Metal coin's, different Dino meeples, so excited, and I'm very glad that you liked it Tom because that gives me hope that I'm going to love it. That's cool that you also consider one of your favorite games of the year, considering how many you play, that's really high praise. Time to break out the Jurassic park soundtrack when we play baby!!!!!

I wonder if broken token will be making the meeples for this, i want those meeples but missed both kickstarters

Salivating now awaiting my KS to ship..

I missed the kickstarter, but am now very interested. Would love to get with different meeples for the dinosaurs though. Great themes deserve great components, and i couldn't get over having triceratops for all the dinosaurs. Hopefully those can be made available sold seperately? Or meeplesource or something? That might be the catalyst for me to buy. Otherwise looks like a fun themed workerplacement game. Love that the board has slots to hold your cubes from moving around (terraforming mars I'm looking at you)

just got my deluxe copy 2 minutes ago!

this is Jurassic world Evolution the board game! great video keep up the good work!

On a scale of 1-10 how hard is it to learn?

Looks good and love the theme. This is one I would love to add to my collection yet my gaming group may think it's too heavy :(

14:53 LOL. 😂 Did not see that coming…

If you find some good Dino Meeples replacements, are you gonna share the info with us?

My favorite attractions are Clever Grill and Jurassic Pork. This game is so blatantly Jurassic Park it even has the Dino DNA cartoon dude on the box. Oh and IDK if every copy comes with them, but the Xtreme Edition came with a slap bracelet for the First Player Indicator and a sheet of Pogs...FREAKING POGS. This game hits all the right marks, especially with my 10 year old son.

Expansion idea: Specialist (or something of the sort) that mitigates death penalties... like you can actually have a few attendees get eaten by escaped dinos and not lose points. Lawyer or PR expert or something... be that park where the fact your security is jank and there's some risk is part of the attraction, you appeal to daredevils and stuff.

Glad I backed 2 deluxe editions.

LOL @ the end sound clip...

Who filmed this? The camera was blurry during zooms lol

I wonder if DinoGenics will out shine this once it release or forgotten due to Dinosaur Island.

Me too Jessee. Looks like a great game but hate the color scheme hated it in the 80's and 90's and still do. Resembles the clothes of United Colors of Benneton. Love the name clever grill.

Can you try and get a preview copy of Dinogenics?

Mostly multiplayer solitaire?

Definitely one of the best 'gavel moments'!

If Jurassic Park was set in 70's Miami!

Are the dice engraved or stickers?

So the different kind of dinosaur meeples I played with are some kind of kickstarter bonus? Definitely wouldn't want to buy the retail version without those. I usually think that for me the game mechanics are everything. But when a game is this thematic, it really hits the immersion when you are trying to fill out the park with different kinds of dinosaurs that all look like "triceptrfures"...

My gosh, I was actually nervous watching this one, hoping it was good! Dinosaurs is by far my favourite theme, so great to have another awesome dinosaur themed game.

Tricoputus lol love you Tom

Tom if you find dino minis that work, please let us know.

Colors remind me of Thor Ragnarok poster.

NICE! I literally just thought in my head "MAN I thought Tom was gonna review this this week!", refresh the page, and there it is! lol #First

I am glad there is only one type of dinosaur meeple. Different meeples would have made it much more fiddly for me personally.

14:15 Granite?

I loved the theme on this one, but all my plays have unfortunately been the “short” game since we haven’t managed to get our own copy. In the short game I felt like there was a bit more luck than I’d like and punishment for turn order. Is this something you think is alleviated in the medium/long game?

Into the collection tho?

I wonder if I'll wind up preferring this or dinogenics?

well there's another game I have to buy.

"You can go for the safe dinosaurs... ya wimp..."

ooooooffff this really makes me regret not backing this game :/

For anyone watching this and reading this comment. They have released a new kickstarter for Dinosaur Island. It ends in 30 days.

Might be in the comments already, but Tom called the people that come to the park "workers." These are customers, plus the bad customers: hooligans.

Strange. Based on art style and theme, I'd guess family game, but seems overly complex for that. Still seems pretty fun, but probably needed to target an audience better.

Looks neat. Heavy, but neat. Just can't get past the garish colors, though. For a better immersion into the theme, I wish it were a little more realistic looking. I know they were going for a 90s neon thing, but I don't remember ANY actual board games from the 90s looking anything like this... Not even the actual Jurassic Park games from the time period they are attempting to emulate.

We have this game and it's exciting but it's one game that I don't think it's clear how to win....as in I get beat by my kids 😂 I normally win about 90 percent of the games played in our house. So I am a bit put off by that. You want the dinos in your park but it's hard to keep up with security level to actually get VPs and people don't die

I just played it and it wasn't much fun because of how overwhelming it is.

No retail release for the Deluxe version with the dinosaur meeples means I will never own this game. Bad move by the publisher.

"The punks" ...LOL

15:23 it's dat boi

Spoilers! 14:49 So THAT'S what killed all the dinosaurs...

Trycyclaplots.

I'm confused on the game purpose of the punks. They seem to serve no purpose but to irritate and add a reason to include more specialists and things to deal with them. Like they finished designing and thought, oh it's not complex enough...Lets add these. Otherwise they are just an irritant generated randomly which can be massively unfair.

The game seemed very unbalanced. When we played whoever got the 2x vp for an attraction always won. Might have to house rule and just take that lab upgrade out.

Seems very confusing

People have been disliking the game because of the art design and it’s gameplay. Sorry for all those who wanted a different type of game. Please stop giving it a bad review just because it isn’t the game you wanted.

DID YOU JUST SAY GRANITE INSTEAD OF GRANTED?!?!?!

Everyone else feels uncomfortable by the way he throws everything out of the box >

The game looks fun but, the color scheme hurts my eyes.

What self respecting gamer wraps their decks with a rubber band?

Played this the other day....... boooooooring 😴😴😴😴

This game is typical Kickstarter. In a bad sense. Confusing board, ugly graphics - looks like made by 5 different artists, 3 of them colorblind - overcomplicated rules, too much resembling Manhattan project (also typical KS=bad game IMO). I played 3rd version of it, and it was awful. Though I must admit - the biggest turnoff was that weird horrible graphics. Just looking at it hurt my eyes. Game producers - next time do rather black&white version instead of this monstrosity. Yuck!

If I'm playing a Jurassic park game, I don't want to be the logistics guy. The colors are also to much for me.

Surprise, tom likes a hyped game that everyone on bgg says is a huge disappointment. I remember the days when he was honest and you could depend on his reviews.