Though this isn’t a determine our expensive fellow reviewer EmperorDinobot (Luis Perez) had deliberate to evaluate whereas he was nonetheless with us, I’d nonetheless prefer to dedicate this one to him, as that is the primary evaluate I’ve began up since his premature passing on the twenty first of July. Over the previous few years, and shortly previous to his passing, we now have had plenty of correspondence concerning the struggles in our private lives, each psychological and bodily. He had fairly a bit he was coping with, however all through all of it he was nothing however supportive, even when I really feel my situations pale a lot compared to what he was going by means of. I actually nonetheless miss his presence with us to this present day, even when I didn’t recognized him personally past what we shared with one another. He was an avid reviewer of the Mattel Jurassic World line, like myself, Fembrogon, Gwangi, Suspsy, and others right here, along with his final evaluate posted in January of the pair of Mattel Jurassic World Masiakasaurus. And as this can be a evaluate for yet one more Mattel Jurassic World determine, I would like this to be in tribute to him. Could he now relaxation in peace.
After beginning out with initially simply Carnotaurus so far as the Abelisauridae goes, the Mattel Jurassic World toy line has since vastly expanded upon their choices for this fascinating household of theropod dinosaurs. Actually they’ve produced extra abelisaurids then another household of theropod dinosaurs with a complete of 11 genera at the moment. Solely the Ceratopsidae, an ornithischian dinosaur household, beats them out for general household of dinosaurs with a complete of 14 presently. In any case, 4 of these abelisaurids are from this 12 months alone, with Abelisaurus, Aucasaurus, Kryptops, and lastly Guemesia, which is the topic of this evaluate. Mattel has additionally been on a development currently with choosing just lately described animals to incorporate of their toyline, resembling this 12 months’s Ceratosuchops, Ceoptera, Iani, Jakapil, Minqaria, Thapunngaka, Yuxisaurus, and final 12 months’s Stegouros, all named throughout the previous 5 years (there was additionally the Farlowichnus launched this 12 months, primarily based on an ichnotaxon named in 2023, which is an animal solely recognized from its fossilized footprints). Guemesia is amongst these, because it was solely named in 2022, and is the primary toy of it to be launched. It is likely one of the smallest abelisaurids found to date.
As talked about prior, Guemesia was described in a 2022 article by Federico Agnolín et al, and is simply recognized from a braincase, a portion of the cranium. It was named after Martín Miguel de Güemes who handed away over 200 years previous to its description (1821). Güemes was from Salta, the capital metropolis of Salta Province, and had fought towards the royalist forces loyal to Spain there throughout the Argentine Battle of Independence. Guemesia, like its namesake, was present in the identical province, situated in northwestern Argentina, a area that dinosaur finds are uncommon in. Extra particularly it was present in what’s now the Los Blanquitos Formation. It lived throughout the late Campanian to the early Maastrichtian, 72 million years in the past, close to the top of the Late Cretaceous interval. The one different dinosaur materials from this formation consists of Unquillosaurus, a maniraptoran theropod recognized solely from a left pubis, which is part of the pelvis, and a few fragmentary titanosaur sauropod materials. As there may be solely a braincase current for Guemesia, there isn’t a lot to go off on so far as recreating an in-the-flesh reconstruction, with out closely inferring from its kinfolk, the opposite abelisaurids. Guemesia falls beneath the clade Brachyrostra, which is within the subfamily Carnotaurinae, and its closest kinfolk would have been Ekrixinatosaurus, Elemgasem, Ilokelesia, Llukalkan, Niebla, and Skorpiovenator, most of which include fragmentary materials, with solely Ekrixinatosaurus, and Skorpiovenator having a considerable quantity of fabric to go off of. Price noting that Mattel has additionally made figures of each the Ekrixinatosaurus in 2024, and Skorpiovenator in 2022 (which additionally obtained a repaint in 2023 in a set with Iguanodon).
Shifting on to the determine itself, it’s a extremely speculative, though knowledgeable, if stylized, reconstruction. The summary of the paper mentions the braincase lacks indications of horns and different protrusions being current like within the extra well-known Carnotaurus and Majungasaurus. The sculpt of the determine is no less than in step with this. The arms are appropriately small, lack an elbow, and have solely 4 tiny digits. That is in distinction to nearly all of the abelisaurid figures Mattel has produced to date, which frequently characteristic outsized arms with elbows (which can be partly as a result of Fallen Kingdom Carnotaurus movie design having elbows, however regardless it’s nonetheless incorrect), and at instances an incorrect variety of digits (the Rugops maybe being the worst offender with its tyrannosaurid type palms). The toes and thighs are a bit outsized, however the remainder of proportions appear sound primarily based on its kinfolk kind of. The pinnacle of the determine is sculpted in spike-like scales, giving it an nearly dragon-like look, and there are small spikes operating down the again of the pinnacle to the tail. The remainder of the determine is sculpted with a nice scaly pores and skin. Its extra well-known relative Carnotaurus has substantial pores and skin materials which could probably have been good reference materials to go off of as a substitute, however as Guemesia itself has barely any materials to go off, who is aware of what its pores and skin would have been like. Although no less than they didn’t give it a coat of feathers as they did with their Rugops, which in all probability would have been unlikely, once more contemplating the substantial quantity of fabric we now have from Carnotaurus.
The coloration is fairly easy, however a watch pleasing one. The first physique coloration is a darkish gray, with a little bit of purple from the highest of the pinnacle, operating down the again to the tail. The one different coloration excluding the eyes, enamel, and mouth, is the decrease jaw which has been forged in a lightweight tan coloured plastic. It provides it a devilish look to it, however that’s maybe no shock contemplating its bigger and extra well-known relative Carnotaurus is often depicted in a purple coloration of some such (or pink and orange, however sometimes within the purple or heat coloration vary). So far as articulation goes, it’s the gorgeous typical quantity for figures on this dimension and worth vary. There may be articulation on the jaw, a swivel on the neck permitting the neck to be moved up and down, joints on the shoulders, hips, and the pointless as ever rotating joint on the tail.
There isn’t a lot else to say with this one, however I discover this to be an lovable inclusion among the many many abelisaurid figures Mattel has made to date. Its wave mates have been the Farlowichnus, and the Hypsilophodon, and was one of many ultimate toys within the quick lived Chaos Principle assortment to launch earlier than the Rebirth wave hit shops in June (or late Could). As such it’s additionally one of many final figures to characteristic the disliked scan pull tab characteristic, because the Rebirth line of figures has performed away with these, again to how they have been previous to the 2022 Dominion line and on. I obtained mine from Big Bad Toy Store alongside the Hysilophodon, each of that are nonetheless out there there. There could also be different on-line retailers that carry them although. If you would like them, I’d counsel going for them whereas they’re nonetheless out there for MSRP.
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