At the end of Jurassic Park, Ellie, Grant and the kids Tim and Lex are cornered by ferocious velociraptors who are about to eat them. Until, in a surprise twist, the T-Rex appears, becoming their unlikely saviour, allowing them to join Hammond and Malcolm and eventually escape the island in a helicopter. Hooray!

But it wasn't always going to end that way.

Storyboards from Phil Tippett's Jurassic Park Early Sequence Storyboard binder have been unearthed (and verified) by Gizmodo, which show how things might have gone down.

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The storyboards were pasted on a Facebook page called Jurassic Time, which says the boards were won in a Phil Tippett auction. In this version, the kids and Grant escape in the Jeep, which is obstructed by a falling tree.

They continue on foot pursued by the T-Rex, and just make it to the helicopter before the Rex grabs one of the 'copter's runners. Will they escape? Yes!

Looks cool but not as cool as the actual ending.

Phil Tippett was of course, the Dinosaur Supervisor on Jurassic Park, prompting the "you had one job" meme.

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On Jurassic World, Tippett was 'demoted' to Dinosaur Consultant which he joked in an interview that he wasn't super happy with.

Jurassic Park fans will know there was another alternate ending revealed on the DVD extras, too, where the gang aren't rescued by the T-Rex, and there's speculation that these two endings were intended to be combined.

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