I’ve a doozy for you right this moment, a outstanding determine of C. corallestris, a semi-aquatic species of Compsognathus with fin-like palms. At the least, that’s what palaeontologists thought after they described the kind specimen in 1972. The interpretation didn’t final lengthy although. The flippers had been formally dismissed and reinterpreted as ‘regular’ palms in 1978, and ‘C. corallestris’ was later subsumed into C. longipes in 2006. However the fin-handed Composgnathus had already established itself in palaeo pop-culture.
Palaeontologist Mike ‘Sauropod’ Taylor has posted some examples of palaeoart restorations of this unusual interpretation on his web site. I presume a number of of those artworks impressed this Monster in My Pocket determine. We are able to’t say for certain if the designers knew it was mistaken in 1993, however I think they didn’t – it might be simple for the toy designers to flip via the pages of an outdated dinosaur e book and pick an uncommon creature like ‘C. corallestris‘ at face worth.
That is monster #226, a part of a really late supplemental wave (in 1993) to the sooner MIMP Collection 6 dinosaurs line within the early Nineteen Nineties. The quantity sequence is non-consecutive from the opposite dinosaurs – the ‘Later Dinosaurs’ are separated sequentially by Collection 7 (aliens) and others. So, typically the ‘Later Dinosaurs’ are considered a ‘Collection 8’ quite than a part of Collection 6. It was tough to pin down any concrete details about this small sub-set, which had a really restricted distribution, and is uncommon, however the most effective useful resource I’ve discovered for MIMP information is ‘Behemoth’s Monster in my Pocket Collective’. Their web page for the MIMP Late Dinosaurs says they had been “launched as a 4 pack with a Dinosaur Hologram Watch” and “their bios are listed on the again of the holo watch field.” The packaging fashion is described as an identical to Collection 6.
Even when there have been no such supply to again it up, I feel we may very well be assured it truly is ‘C. corallestris‘ based mostly on the distinctive anatomy. The Monster in my Pocket Wiki tentatively listed this toy as a plesiosaur, and as a plesiosaur toy completist, that’s partly what prompted me to accumulate this determine within the first place. However that was only a guess.
The long-lasting however faulty flipper-like palms are very clear, however other than that you just’d be hard-pushed to determine this as a supposed species of Compsognathus. It has a rotund physique making it the fattest compy you’ll ever see. It has webbed ft, once more in step with the faulty interpretation of this species as semi-aquatic. It has an uncommon tail with ring-like bands, that are extra harking back to a glyptodont than a dinosaur. There are not any such bands in any palaeoart depiction I may discover which may justify this inexplicable flourish. General, it’s actually odd, however so are the entire MIMP dinosaurs.
The toy is painted with purple over a inexperienced base plastic, with the eyes marked in black. There’s additionally a second color variant. The underside is marked with the “MEG 1993, CHINA, NBM 226”. MEG appears to be a model related to Matchbox. This MIMP determine has a factors worth of 200, embossed on its left flank. This implies it may completely destroy the measly 25 level MIMP T. rex in a battle, and will even take out the 150 level MIMP Spinosaurus!
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