Tyrannosaur Buck

The Tyrannosaurus Buck is the male Tyrannosaurus seen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park and is the individual that hunter Roland Tembo seeks to hunt during his trip to Isla Sorna while accompanying the InGen Harvest team. This T. rex later is tranquilized by Roland and is taken to San Diego where the animal escapes and rampages before it is able to be rounded back and brought back to Isla Sorna.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The first instance the Buck was mentioned was by Roland Tembo when he told Peter Ludlow that the only reason for his inclusion on Ludlow's trip was his being allowed to hunt the male Tyrannosaurus. Later Roland and his best friend, Ajay, found the T. rex nest in hopes of finding the Buck. Only finding the infant that the Buck and his mate had left behind to feed on a carcass while away for a short while, Roland then devised a plan to lure the Buck by kidnapping the infant Tyrannosaurus. However, Roland's plan was never fulfilled. In a drunken stupor, Ludlow stumbled into Roland's trap, tripped, and fell onto the infant T. rex, breaking his leg. When Nick Van Owen and Dr. Sarah Harding snuck into the InGen Encampment to sabotage the equipment, Nick found the injured baby T. rex and brought him to the trailers with Dr. Harding where they set a cast around the broken leg.

However, in their plan, they had failed to realize that the parents would follow the scent of their infant, which they did. The parent T. rex came up on the trailer end, where they found their infant. There, Dr. Harding returned the still

partially tranquilized infant to the Buck. The Buck and his mate found a place to hide their infant then returned to the trailers. Turning the back half of the accordianed vehicle upside down, the two T. rex then managed in shattering the front windshield and pushing the back half over the cliff the trailers are parked at the edge of before leaving, apparently satisfied with their work. However, they once again returned when Eddie Carr, who had came to the rescue of his friends, was caught by the T. rex pair attempting to pull the trailers back over the cliff in his own vehicle.

The T. rex pair, hearing the loud noise that Eddie's Mercedes SUV was making, returned to the site. Finding the vehicle, the Buck bit off the roof to the SUV and then attempted to get to Eddie. While grabbing for his rifle, Eddie was grabbed by the Buck T. rex, who was joined by his mate in ripping the man in two at the waist. Finally satisfied with their work, the two T. rex left and the trailer inhabitants were rescued by the InGen team.

The Tyrannosaurus were not seen again until they found their way to the survivor's final encampment. The Buck,



following the scent of the his infant's blood now stained to the shirt of Dr. Sarah Harding, poked his head into Dr. Harding's tent. Sniffing around and cuing in on the shirt hanging from a line stretched across the tent interior, the T. rex was startled when Carter woke up and screamed at his presence. Lifting the tent from the ground, and momentarily blinded, the Buck was able to remove the tent from his face by shaking it. His mate arriving on the scene, scared the hunters into a tight ravine where the female pursued them, leaving the Buck behind to scavenge through any remains. While doing so, Roland took the chance to shoot the T. rex with his double barreled rifle, only to find that Nick Van Owen had sabotaged his weapon. He then proceeded to shoot the Buck with an over dosage of concentrated carfentanil in the hopes of killing it. Unfortunately for Roland, Ludlow came across the still alive T. rex and ordered him to be secured for transport to San Diego where he hoped to display him, along with his infant, in the new Park being built there to replace the one at the now destroyed Isla Nublar.

Unfortunately, sometime during the trip, the ''T. rex'' stopped breathing and entered a comatose state. In an effort to save the animal, he was administered an amphetamine to counter the large dosage of tranquilizer given to him when Roland shot him. The ''T. rex'', now in a berserker state, broke out of his containment unit and attacked those serving on board the ship. Somehow the T. rex was lured into the cargo hold, where he stayed until Ludlow foolishly ordered the area checked once the ship docked at the InGen Docks at San Diego. The T. rex, now free,

broke through the dock check point and wandered into San Diego. Doctors Sarah Harding and Ian Malcolm then devised a plan to lure the raging animal back to the ship by using the infant to bring him. While they went to the San Diego Jurassic Park to retrieve the infant, the male T. rex wandered into a neighborhood. Finding a house with a backyard pool, the Buck broke through the brick wall lining the yard and into the pool area where he began drinking. The family dog, unphased by the intrusion, began to bark at the much larger predator only to be quickly silenced by a growl from the beast. The noise awoke Ben, a child, who then dragged his parents into his bedroom to show them the dinosaur. When they arrived, they found that their dog had been eaten by the T. rex, who growled at the family before returning to the city. Ramgaging through downtown, the Tyrannosaurus scared everyone he encountered. The ''T. rex'' tested his surroundings in various ways including biting traffic lights and smashing a bus. Doctors Malcolm and Harding, who had recovered the infant by this time, came upon the scene and then led the ''T. rex'' back to the docks.

Returning the animal to the ship, Doctors Malcolm and Harding found that Ludlow, who had given the police orders to kill the Buck and leave the infant alive, had followed them in an effort to recover the infant T. rex. Hearing the infant's call from the cargo hold of the ship, Ludlow entered only to, unbeknownst to Ludlow, be followed in by the adult male. Attempting to capture the growling infant bare handed, Ludlow realized only too late that he had been trapped.

Attempting to scurry up the stairs back up to the main deck, Ludlow was grabbed in the Buck's jaws, who brought Ludlow back to the cargo hold floor where he dropped him. Attempting to stand back up, the male T. rex pushed Ludlow back to the floor where he proudly watched his son pounce the hapless executive. However, this victory was short lived as police helicopters surrounded the gaping cargo hold doors. Their guns aimed to fire, it was only in the nick of time that Dr. Ian Malcolm was able to get the doors closed and the Buck tranquilized by Dr. Sarah Harding. The Buck and his infant were then shipped back to Isla Sorna where they were spotted with the Buck's mate, the three apex predators reunited as family.

Novel

 * George Baselton

Film

 * Eddie Carr
 * S.S. Venture Crewman (Minus one member)
 * Unlucky Bastard
 * 1 dog

Trivia

 * The face of the Buck is adorned with many facial scars and many of the teeth in his mouth are broken or missing. This is indicative towards the animal participating in fights for mating rights or dominance.
 * It's curious that Roland wishes to hunt the Tyrannosaurus Buck when the female Tyrannosaurus is actually larger. This could possibly stem from that fact that Roland is a professional hunter and in sport hunting it is the male that is prized for it's size and adornment and Roland did not know that it is the female that is holds the size.
 * The T. rex animatronic in Jurassic Park /// was actually the same animatronic for the Buck in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Stan Winston Studios repainted the animatronic lighter colors in order to represent a sub-adult individual, however they can both still be recognized as the same robot by the facial scaring on the right side of the muzzle.

Family

 * Female T. rex (mate)
 * Infant T. rex (child)

Merchandising
Even though the female Tyrannosaurus in The Lost World: Jurassic Park featured her face on packaging and promotional material, it was the Tyrannosaurus Buck that stormed the merchandise scene. Featured in video games, memorabilia such as Koosh Balls, hand puppets, puzzles, the headboard of the pinball game, even receiving his own plush doll, and much more. The Tyrannosaurus Buck is also one of four of the only Jurassic Park dinosaurs to be featured in Lego form along with the Spinosaurus, Raptors, and Pteranodons in the few Lego sets that were released for Jurassic Park ///. This Lego set was part of Steven Spielberg's Studio line, which was created in the hopes of engaging children into the world of film making by allowing them to make their own movies. The set featured a man and his red-headed girl friend who drove around a wrecked city with a baby Tyrannosaurus as a larger Tyrannosaurus chased them in their red convertible car—a clear reference to the San Diego Incident scenes. The main star of the many incarnations of the Tyrannosaurus Buck, however, was the Bull T. rex toy. At a nearly whopping two feet long, the Bull T. rex was the largest Jurassic Park dinosaur toy ever produced.

It is interesting to note that, although it was not marketed as a Bull T-rex, the figure shown above was retooled and repainted for the Jurassic Park 2009 toy line.

In July 2011, the Tyrannosaurus Buck once again surfaced in toy form. Revoltech, a Japanese toy company, produced a miniature action figure of the Tyrannosaurus Buck. Measuring around 8 inches in length and 3 inches tall, the figurine also hosts an impressive level of detail, accuracy, and articulation for a figure of its size.