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What's up with Dimetrodon's fame?


What has made Dimetrodon to be the only well-known synapsid? They make figurines of it and it is often mentioned by people talking about dinosaurs (when they don't know much about them, as Dimetrodon was nothing near a dinosaur). How it get so popular?

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I don't really know but I too am curious why it is so popular, until JP3 it was more popular than Spinosaurus.

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Just read it was described by Edward Drinker Cope during the Bone Wars; this may have something to do with it.

EDIT: Just read it appeared in the 1959 movie adaptation of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. I guess that also played a part.

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It's so stupendously cool, with that weird sail and creepy head. I like it more than Spinosaurus.

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Lots of talentless actors get to be famous. I don't know how it goes but I guess the same principle applies to Dimetrodon too. And that Dimetrodon are cooler than any human I have met so far. B)

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Wait, are you saying Dimetrodon is talentless?

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Oh, dear Cybertron, no! I have not seen any talentless non-human actors in my life. I'm a Dim fan. :P

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At least he's more interesting that T-Rex. That dinosaur really gets too much attention.

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T. rex = overused. Some of the bigger non-dinosaur predators can make much better movie-monsters. Just imagine Jaws with a Liopleurodon... only this time, the whole beach gets devoured in the end.

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