Board Thread:Manual of Style/@comment-1187034-20160501003405

Now that the Size Table discussion has reached a conclusion, I would like to talk about an ever more important issue: Is Jurassic Park: The Game still canon and should we still consider it as such?

Ever since the game's release fans have debated endlessly on whether or not it was canon, so much so that BastionMonk created a whole forum post about it. Up until this year, I always considered semi-canon because I never did feel that most of its contradictions were enough to make it non-canon and I never felt the arguments against the canonically of the game made a strong case. But when I purchased and played the game for myself in February of this year, I noticed something that convinced me that the game wasn't canon (or at least the majority of the events of the game after Episode 1) and it wasn't something that I haven't seen brought up by anyone.

In the scenario "T. rex Showdown!" after the small group manages to get outside of the center and when Rexy breaks down the center door, Harding, who has failed to sedate the T. rex, tells Sorkin to start the car, which diverts Rexy and later in the scenario "Bygones" that same car helps Nima and Gerry reunite with Jess, Sorkin, and Billy at the Marine Facility. But if we were to assume that the sequence where Rexy broke through the doors and was distracted was non-canon, not only would the tour vehicle that got Nima and Gerry to the facility have never been damaged or abandonded by the group, but the small group would have never reentered the Visitor Center where Nima decided to take the Hardings hostage nor would she take them to the woods where they traveled to the roller coaster with Alpha Team trailing them along the way. Plus, other events in the game would reasonably cease to exist.

I think this would be too much of an extreme speculation if we continue to count the game as canon with the reason I have given above and to try to find some way of trying to make these events fit in with the film canon.

If we decide to render JP:TG as being a separate canon as the films, many of its information on an article would simply be moved to another section of that article even though it would be pretty major change to the wiki. However, there are two articles I know off hand that will be made separate from one another, one of them being the Les Gigantes cafe since there is no proof that the film cafe was ever named this and apparently the book The Making of Jurassic Park calls it the "Cretaceous Cafe", which is something I need to verify if I can acquire this book. The other article will be a well known Tyrannosaurus rex that has appeared in the first and latest film in the franchise: Rexy.

Since the only evidence that the T. rex from JP1 and JW is nicknamed "Rexie" is Jurassic Park: The Game, the T. rex from the films would be separate the one from the novel and the game. Regardless if the JP Rex did the same or similar actions like the adult in the novel, I don't think that warrants her article to be called "Rexy". That's like saying that because the Doe licked Sarah Harding inside a waterfall like Rexy did to Tim in the novel chapter "Tyrannosaur", that the Doe needs to be called Rexy. The best name I could come up so far for the JP1/JW rex if we vote the game to be non-canon would be something along the lines of "T. rex of Jurassic Park/World" until this individual gets an official name and if anyone has any better suggestions.

I think this is the best route we can take at the moment until any official word possibly gives the final verdict. Judging by how JP:TG's design of Troodon appeared in LEGO Jurassic World, TelTale and.or Universal seems to have acknowledged that the game was of significance to the films regardless if it was canon or not, but we just can't know for sure if Universal still regards the game as canon.

So what does anyone have to say regarding Jurassic Park: The Game's canonically to the films? 