Weirdness at the Dollar store

[coyote6]

I had the rust monster & bulette both. I probably still do have 'em, somewhere.

 

[Rashak Mani]

The toy Rust monster is still available here in brazil mixed in with all the other animal plastic miniatures ! Cost something like $0,15 !

 

[Ran]

Really?? Where???????????
Brasília, too here... some nice minis wold be nice!

 

[RangerWickett]

But actually, the 'rust monster' and 'bulette' are obscure varieties of prehistoric life. The 'bulette' was a variety of large land sloth, extant a few million years before wooly mammoths. The 'rust monster' is a slight adaptation of a Cambrian aquatic predator whose line died off after the Cambrian explosion. The actual creature had (I'm not making this up) five eyes, but it swam with flippers instead of legs. It was of a family of animals that was completely distinct from arthropods, vertebrates, and so on. Wierd critter.

And the 'roper' is a similar critter, aquatic anemone-like thing, but with no eye (it did have a mouth of sorts, though). I saw all this stuff on the Discovery Channel.

I'll see if I can find some links online to show you guys.

 

[Seaver]

Delurking....

This isn't what you are talking about is it? Doesn't sound exactly like what you were talking about, but it does have five eyes and is pre-historic.

Imagine a swimming slug with five eyes on the top of its head and a single arm with its jaw on the end - this is the very peculiar creature known as Opabinia. It lived about 550 million years ago and its fossils have been found in western Canada and China. It is almost as if nature was experimenting with various designs for complex life forms to determine which would work best. Opabinia was a slow swimming, 3-inch-long (8 cm) hunter. Its excellent vision would have allowed it to easily spot its prey, but it would have only been able to catch those creatures too slow to escape. As there are no longer any five-eyed creatures, Opabinia became an interesting evolutionary dead end.

 

[alsih2o]

But actually, the 'rust monster' and 'bulette' are obscure varieties of prehistoric life.

the rust monster always just struck me as a big, mean cricket/flea

 

[RangerWickett]

Apparently your B.S.-ometers are broken.

 

[KnowTheToe]

The wierdest toy I ever saw was at a gas station in Arazona. We were on our way to the grand Canyon and needed gas. Anyway, there was a black action figure with white hands, and no they were clearly not gloves.

 

[Mark]

Took me a little while to put the two and two together that was tapping on the back door of my mind so...

I seem to remember those little plastic guys and my memory has them looking similar to the following-

http://www.kokogiak.com/megafauna/strange.asp#doedicurus

http://www.childrensmuseum.org/kinetosaur/dinoanky.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/beasts/factfiles/factfiles/doedicurus.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/beasts/factfiles/largegraphic.shtml?doedicurus

http://www.jpinstitute.com/dinopedia/images/dc_card_doede_big.jpg

http://arnica.csustan.edu/Boty1050/Evolution/glyptodont.JPG

http://www.dallasdino.org/permanent/prehistoric_texas/glyptodon.cfm

Could any of those be the culprit...?

 

[scarymonkey]

No, I don't think the toy was meant to represent one of these. It looked just like the picture in the monster manual. It had the weird tail and attenna. As far as I know, no dinosaurs or early mammal had attenna. Its just wierd. I will try to find it again so I can get a picture of it.