Tyrannosaur Buck

The Tyrannosaur 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 acompanying the InGen Harvest team. This 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 is mentioned is by Roland Tembo when he tells Peter Ludlow that the only reason for his inclusion on Ludlow's trip is his being allowed to hunt the male Tyranosaur. Later Roland and his best friend, Ajay, find the rex's 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 devises a plant to lure the Buck by kidnapping the infant Tyrannosaur. However, Roland's plan is never fulfilled. In a drunken stupor, Ludlow stumbles into Roland's trap and trips and falls onto the infant rex, breaking his leg. When Nick Van Owen and Sarah Harding sneak into the InGen Encampment to sabotage the equipment, Nick finds the injured baby T. rex and brings him to the trailers with Sarah 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 do. The parent rexes come up on the trailer end, where they find their infant. There, Sarah returns the still

partially tranquillized infant to the Buck. The Buck and his mate find a place to hide their infant then return to the trailers. Turning the back half of the accordianed vehicle upside down, the two rexes then manage 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 wirth their work. However, they once again return when Eddie Carr, who had come to the rescue of his friends, is caught by the rex pair attempting to pull the the trailers back over the cliff in his own vehicle.

The rex pair, hearing the loud noise that Eddie's Mercedes SUV was making, returns to the site. Finding the vehicle, the male bites off the roof to the SUV and then attempts to get to Eddie. While grabbing for his rifle, Eddie is grabbed by the male rex, who is joined by his mate in ripping the man in two at the waist. Finally satisifed with their work, the two rexes leave and the trailer inhabitants are rescued by the InGen team.

The Tyrannosaurs are not seen again until they find 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 Sarah Harding, pokes his head into Sarah's tent. Sniffing around and cueing in on the shirt hanging from a line stretched across the tent interior, the rex is startled when Carter wakes up and screams at his presence. Lifting the tent from the ground, and momentarily blinded, the Buck is able to remove the tent from his face. His mate arriving on the scene, scares the hunters into a tight ravine where the female prusues them, leaving the Buck behind to scavenge through any remains. While doing so, Roland takes the chance to shoot the rex with an overdosage of tranquilizer in the hopes of killing him. Unfortunately for Roland, Ludlow comes across the still live rex and orders him to be secured for transport to San Diego where he hopes 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 rex stops breathing and enters a comatose state. In an effort to save the animal, it is administered an amphetamine to counter the large dosage of tranquilizer given to it when Roland shot it. The rex now in a berserker state, breaks out of it's containment unit and attacks those serving on board the ship. Somehow the rex is lured into the cargo hold, where it stays until Ludlow foolishly orders the area checked once the ship docks at the InGen Docks at San Diego. The rex, now free

breaks through the Dock Check Point and wanders into San Diego. Sarah Harding and Ian Malcolm then devise a plan to lure the raging animal back to the ship by using the infant to bring him. While they go to the San Diego Jurassic Park to retrieve the infant, the male T. rex wanders into a neighborhood. Finding a house with a backyard pool, the Buck breaks through the brick wall lining the yard and into the pool area where he begins drinking. The family dog, unphased by the intrusion, begins to bark at the much larger predator only to be quickly silenced by a growl from the beast. The noise awakens Ben, a child, who then drags his parents into his bedroom to show them the dinosaur. When they arrive, they find that their dog had been eaten by the rex, who growls at the family before returning to the city. Ramgaging through downtown, the Tyrannosaurus scares everyone he encounters. The rex tests his surroundings in various ways including biting traffic lights and smashing a bus. Ian and Sarah, who have recovered the infant by this time, come upon the scene and then lead the rex back to the docks.

Returning the animal to the ship, Ian and Sarah find that Ludlow, who has given the police orders to kill the adult male and leave the infant, has followed them in an effort to recover the infant rex. Hearing the infant's call from the cargo hold of the ship, Ludlow enters only to, unbrknownst to Ludlow, be followed in by the adult male. Attempting to capture the growling infant bare handed, Ludlow realizes only too late that he has been trapped.

Attempting to scurry up the stairs back up to the main deck, Ludlow is grabbed in the male's jaws, who brings Ludlow back to the cargo hold floor where he drops him. Attempting to stand back up, the male rex pushes Ludlow back to the floor where he proudly watches his son pounce the executive. However, this victory is short lived as police helicopters surround the gaping cargo hold doors. Their guns aimed to fire, it is only in the nick of time that Ian Malcolm is able to get the doors closed and the male tranquillized by Sarah Harding. The Buck and his infant are then shipped baco to Isla Sorna where they are spotted with the Buck's mate, the three apex predators reunited as family.

Trivia

 * The face of the Buck is adorned with many facial scars and many of the teeth in his mouth are broken. This is indicative towards the animal participating in fights for mating rights or dominance.
 * It's curious that Roland wishes to hunt the Tyrannosaur Buck when the female Tyrannosaur is actually larger. This could possibly stem from that fact that Roland is a proffesional 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 animatronic T. rex 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 sb-adult individual, however they can both still be recognized as the same robot by the facial scaring on the right side of the muzzle.

Merchandising
Even though the female Tyrannosaur in The Lost World: Jurassic Park feature her face on packaging and promotional material, it was the Tyrannosaur Buck that stormed the merchandise scene. Featured in video game, memorabelia such as Koosh Balls, hand puppets, puzzles, the headboard of the pinball game, and even recieving his own plush doll. The Tyrannosaur buck is also one of four of the only Jurassic Park dinosaurs to be featured in Lego form along with the Spinosaurus, Raptors, an Pteranodons in the few Lego sets that were released for Jurassic Park ///. This Lego set was part of 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 drive around wrecked city with a baby Tyrannosaur as a larger Tyrannosaur chases them in their red convertable car. The main star of the many incarnations of the Tyrannosaur Buck, however, was the Bull T. rex toy. At a nearly whopping two feet long, the Bull T. rex was one of the largest Jurassic Park dinosaur toys ever produced.

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