In the trailer there is something very, but not totally, unexpecting. At least for me.
First thing’s first, the show’s producers in an interview with
The Jurassic Park Podcast explicitly confirmed that the dinosaur roster selection, at least for the first season in which that said interview was made shortly after it aired, was a
“pick and choose” kind of scenario. They said that, ideally, you would want to add “everything” or what not, but they wanted to just pick and choose. The same thing can also be seen in the second season, while also introducing dinos the first one didn’t have
(T.Rex, Ceratosaurus, and Baryonyx) and excluding the ones seen exclusively in Season 1
(Mosasaurus and Indominus Rex).
In this next Season, the next new on-screen dinos for the series seem to be the
“E750 Project”, the
Dimorphodon, the
Gallimimus (only in the exclusive trailer on Netflix's website), and... a shadow that resembled this:
(Source: Collect Jurassic’s Twitter account. This figure set was teased sometime before this post, which I've known since then.)
This image from Twitter, by
Collect Jurassic who have a good relationship with
Mattel, is a
Kenji figure with a
Monolophosaurus.
Figures of a dinosaur species made for a Jurassic show does not necessarily mean they do appear in what they’re marketing, even if it’s a popular seller or giant sized item in and of themselves. Even producer
Scott Kreaner confirms and clarified this subject in a 50+ interview video I posted months ago. This, however, is one exception.
This means that the
Monolophosaurus is not only appearing physically and alive in
Camp Cretaceous, it’s also a brand new on-screen dinosaur species in the JP film series! Something I didn’t really expect. But admittedly, I kinda did theorize it may appear in there because it was made for a
Kenji figure with a differently shaped model to further make my suspicions of such more probable, but not definite.
The thing’s shadow in the trailer also resembles the figure made for it, which confirms my theory as to how on-screen dinosaur species sold as action figures must resemble a model by great extends
(regarding the whole body shape). Mattel has made many
Monolophosaurus toy models, but none that resemble greatly to the actual dinosaur to be seen in the show as indicated by the shadow.
So, if a dinosaur that’s been previously been made to become figures, but has not been made to be on-screen, but eventually does in due time, expect the dinosaur figure for it then to have a differently shaped model to further resemble it.