I felt the second Jurassic Park was good, not great like the first one, or just OK like the third. But The Lost World: Jurassic Park was the first Jurassic Park that I was old enough to see in theaters. The first time was with my dad, the second time was with my step dad and younger step sister, but she wasn’t really interested in watching it. I was nine years old at the time, which was 1997, and obsessed with dinosaurs. I can remember when I had first seen the movie trailer on TV; my dad was sitting on the end of the couch watching his show at night. My Jaw dropped in awe from being so excited, once it ended; I immediately asked my dad if we could go see it. The second Jurassic Park seemed to be highly anticipated at the time. I would go grocery shopping with my mom and see the logo on different food boxes, usually cereal and fruit snacks. From a cereal box offer, I ordered an amber colored bouncy ball with a glow in the dark dinosaur embedded in it. It seemed to take forever before it finally came. I had even collected all the watches at Burger King that were being sold for $5 each. My favorite was the dino eye one, with the green hologram on the watch face. I also had gotten the videogame for the then unpopular Sony Playstation rival, the Sega Saturn. There seemed to be no shortage of merchandise to snatch up every chance I could get, hoping that my parents would buy it for me. Of course, when Christmas came around I received the movie with the cool 3D insert of the T-Rex head popping out, and also what was probably the coolest dinosaur toy I had ever gotten. The giant moveable T-Rex, even though I was still playing with dinosaur toys, I had surprisingly kept it in the box for a while before I finally gave in to opening it. In elementary school, I picked up the novel by Michael Crichton in our library to get reading points. I only read about a quarter of it from what I remember, but at the time I felt I should pick it up just because. The junior novelization I bought was more probably more appropriate for my reading level. Although not my favorite one, The Lost World: Jurassic Park probably has more sentimental value to me.