When he was younger, Alan Grant already wanted to become a palaeontologist, and he already knew a lot about dinosaurs. Alan Grant loved making life-size models of dinosaurs, and as he didn't have much money at his disposal, he made his models out of paper. Alan Grant had made a life-size tyrannosaurus several meters long out of paper, which ran the length of his very large bedroom, and a life-size brachiosaurus out of paper which could be rolled up and which, once unrolled, ran the length of his garden. Alan Grant also liked to make re-enactments of the sinking of the Titanic in his bathtub, using an aluminum freezer tray on which he drilled a small hole in the front before placing it on the water so that it slowly sank, filling up with water from the front. In the playground, Alan Grant also liked to frighten his girlfriends by imitating a tyrannosaurus and running after them, growling. So Alan Grant had created his own Jurassic Park long before he met John Hammond, except that Alan Grant's dinosaurs didn't eat anyone.