First off, sorry for the image quality, I’ll replace them as soon as better ones become available, but wowsa! Mattel sure has some rare and unusual genera in store for us next year!
Hypsilophodon. Been a very long time since this little herbivore got a toy. And check out those funky crests.
Huayangosaurus. Mattel does seem to love stegosaurs.
Guemesia. A small abelisaur known only from a braincase.
Thapunngaka. A recently discovered pterosaur, the largest found in Australia to date.
And to quote Samuel Clemens, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Farlowichnus isn’t currently known from any fossil bone material whatsoever, just footprints!
Happy Halloween!🎃
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I realized the feathered Hypsi is basically the Isle design
These reveals are…something. First, the choice of Hypsilophodon is nice, as there aren’t that many figures of obligate bipedal ornithischians/ornithopods, but I feel like the feathers were unnecessary and weirdly shaped. Still, I appreciate the genus choice. Then there’s a strange-looking Huayangosaurus with unnecessarily large spikes and a weird leg position, which could be worse. Then there’s the recently-described abelisaur Guemesia, which is a strange species to make a figure of, Thapunngaka, one of the most random pterosaur genera to be made in toy form, with a strangely-shaped tail but thankfully, teeth, and the ichnotaxon Farlowichnus, which should have had different-shaped feet and could possibly be used as a stand-in for Santanaraptor or, more accurately location-wise, Vespersaurus. Goodness are these reveals becoming more and more random but hey, at least Mattel know how to come up with figures of obscure genera, even if they’ve flunked a few times or have made genera that are poorly-known/fragmentary.
I love that mattel is giving us more unique, rare and obscure species. Just because it isn’t “standard” or “common” doesn’t mean that it doesn’t deserve a chance in the spotlight.