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Modern animals to Scale Search

Started by Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur, April 10, 2025, 12:25:07 AM

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Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur

Hello! I want to contextualize my Dinosaurs by adding modern animals to their display case. For this purpose, I am searching for the following modern animals in the following scales. I am also seeking correction if I got one of the scales wrong; I am going by the sizes a seller provided for the length of the figures, and not thorough measurements. Minus the ones from the animal toy blog, of course. Also, feel free to share any other 1:35 modern animals you happen to know about!

Seeking:
Any paleognath (1:20)
Any Elephant (1:100)
Asian Elephant (1:35)

White/Black Rhino (1:20) (1:35)
Common Hippopotamus (1:20) or (1:35)
Indian Rhino (1:35)
Giraffe (1:35)
Human (1:20) (1:35) (1:100)
Any Cetacean except the Blue Whale (1:100)

Any European or western Asian Animal (low priority) (1:35)
Any Southern North American Animal (low priority) (1:35)
Any African Animal (low priority) (1:35)


Needs to be verified:
CollectA Blue Whale (1:100, Average-ish size)
Safari Hippopotamus 229029 (1:35)
CollectA Asian Elephant 88486 (1:35)
Papo African Elephant 50192 (1:35)
Papo African Elephant 50198 (1:20)
CollectA Ostrich 88459 (1:20)
Mojo Fun Emu 387163 (1:20)
CollectA Cassowary 88651 (1:20)


Found:
Mojo Fun 381005/ CollectA 88966/ Kaiyodo Artpla African elephant (1:35)
Mojo Fun Asian Elephant 387266 (has an oversized head) (1:35)
Papo Raised Head Giraffe 50236 (1:35 Range)
(Retired) Schleich Asian elephant (1:35)
(Retired) Schleich Male Hippopotamus (1:35)
Safari Ostrich 226129 (1:20)
Southlands Replica Emu (1:20)

Bonus:
Mojo Fun/Schleich/Safari Grey Whale (1:35 range; nice smaller whale at the dinosaur scale)

I will probably return to this topic sooner or later and update more stuff from the "Seeking" into the "Needs to be verified" column. If people want I can also share the other animals at vaguely matching scales I have found so far, didn't want to make this initial post too long, though.

Oh, and since this is my first new topic, obligatory "Apologies if I did anything wrong".

Edit 2: Finally got around to double checking the scales on some figures I already have (and some I don't) and... It seems I was silly and 1:100 is barely a designated scale, and exists basically only for the CollectA Blue Whale and the CollectA Daxiatitan. Which, I already have Daxiatitan and I like whales, so I guess they can chill together if I get that one. I am thus no longer looking to make a 1:100 scale side-display for now.
On the plus side, according to the Blog, the CollectA Mamenchisaurus, due to being based on a smaller species, fits into the 1:35 scale; and since I learned literally nothing from blindly trusting scale measurements from second hand sources, that's good enough for me!
...I also decided that I'll just display the few-ish 1:40 scale models I want with the 1:35 scale ones under the "Small individual" excuse, so uh, no longer looking for that scale anymore either. 

Edit 3: Added stuff from the Proboscidean thread (in "Needs to be verified" if the method of measurement wasn't disclosed). Consider also this pretty great thread from another forum for elephant scaling/scale reference. https://sts-forum.forumieren.de/t19036p625-1-32-scale-animals
Here's the Proboscidean scale thread https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=9497.0; shoutout to everybody there.
Also added the specific model number to toys where I remembered the specific version, to futureproof the thread a bit. Didn't bother for Southlands Replica because uh, RIP.


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Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur

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Sweet, sweet, sweet! They made a Kiwi too, those are about the same size as chickens, right?
Will probably buy a couple smaller animals (since they're p cheap) and measure out if they fit into either 1:35 or 1:100 (and if not, guess I am doomed to at least one size-agnostic display at this rate anyway, unless I want to get rid of my larger safari stuff)

Edit: I went on another research - "Look at the animal toy blog" - research binge, and found some of the critters I was looking for, and some I wasn't - PNSO's "Naeem the Nile Crocodile" is apparently in the 1:35 range, for example.
Similarly, PNSO has an absolutely ludicrous 'record breaking individual' 1:35 Blue whale to join the Mojo fun more average size one. Sucks I don't have the budget or room to get all three and the HLG Argentinosaurus displayed together. Oh well, maybe in the distant future someday!

I'm gonna add my new findings to the initial post with an edit. Might take a while to get done, though, I wanna be more thorough about double checking the animal toy blog than I was last time.

Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur

Naeem PNSO arrived!

...I kinda overestimated how large Nile crocs are, lol. By my own measurements (thread down the midline = ~12.8cm) that puts him at:
~1:23 for small adults (3m)
~1:31 for large adults (4m)
1:51 for the largest individuals we have on recordTM (6.5m)

...So yeah, I guess 1:35 is technically in there, I guess, haha. I guess crocodilians with their crazy size variation and in-person-presence making them feel bigger than they actually are might just be a bad scale indicator animal. Whoops.
He is a pretty adorable figure, though!

Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur

Found the two Proboscidean-in-scale threads on this very forum! So yeah, that's the elephants settled!  ^-^
Gonna edit the first post to reflect the info.

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