Speaking of Dimetrodons as I have
been today, these two came in the other day, and I am very pleased to have
found them, they are probably early/mid-1960's, or even late 1950's, certainly
predating the 'Gary Gygax' monsters of the 1970's (Lik Be, Holly et al), but
almost presaging them with the slightly 'monster aspect' of their not-quite
dinosaurness?
Relatively the 'more dinosaur' of the two, but
clearly a clinically depressed Dimetrodon, both he and his mate
below are near mint on the paint-front, which is not exceptional with
mass-produced plastics, even really old ones, as there's always some old shop-stock or unloved/unplayed-with stuff out there somewhere, but nice when you find them.Actually . . . he could just be stoned out of his bracket-tree - something must
have found the edible 'shrooms first!
While this is clearly the Rhinophantine
Tricerafinbacksplitops Dame-Ednaii, a really, really rare beast,
they've only found part of a jaw-bone so you can appreciate how much effort the
reconstruction-artists had to go to, in the production of this complete and wholly
accurate picture of such an unusual animal. Luckily for posterity, an eyelash
found in amber gave-up the entire DNA-chain necessary to form this ghosting
likeness!
Too cool for paleontological school! Is
there such a word as Gygaxian yet? I think there should be!
2 comments:
These are actually from the late 60s early 70s. The artwork that accompanied these guys has a very early 70s late 60s feel to it. Definitely not the 50s nor early 60s.
Well, without the artwork Anon', one is only ever guessing, and I didn't make anything 'definite'! Thanks for the input though.
H
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