Prehistoric Elephants

[Bokisaurus]

Prehistoric Elephants
Elephants, past and present, have a long evolution history. Like many giant beast, they started small. In their long evolutionary history, the elephant line have produces some truly spectacular, strange and bizarre species. The tusk, one of the most distinguished features of the family, has also undergone amazing transformation, from spiral, shovel, spikes, and the long curving more familiar with extant species. The trunk, too, have gone to major changes in length, although this is much harder to prove than the tusk.

Unfortunately, despite the rich diversity of species, only a handful of these species were made into toy figures. The most famous of them all is of course the woolly mammoth, a staple of all toy models producing company. All of the major toy companies have one in their respective collections of prehistoric animals, often added in their dinosaur line.
Deinotherium is quickly becoming popular and viable species to produce in toy form, with CollectA and Mojo releasing one respectively.  Rare are the earlier species, although there is a moeritherium figure produced by Starlux.
Ambelodon, Platybelodon, Gomphotherium are the other species that have some toy representation.
In addition to toy figures, there are of course resin model kits and some metal figures (popular with games) of these creatures available.

The very common and popular mammoths


The rising star Deinotherium

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The others
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Humble beginning


Past and present


So, there are more out there, these are just a small sample of what I have. Feel free to post your collection, I'm sure you have some
Cheers!

[Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus]

Wow. Impressive collection!

[Bokisaurus]

Favorite Prehistoric Life (soft model) series woolly mammoth, new for 2014
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[alexeratops]

So many mammoths...

[Nebuloid]

Awesome topic ! Always loved staring at these animals in my old encyclopedia as a kid ( Platybelodon, Amebelodon ! ) . Unfortunately I have nothing to contribute, as I have no elephants...

[Alexxitator]

Oow this is a nice thread! I'll add my 2 pennies shortly.

[Arul]

Wahh it gloss-look make them look like after taking a bath,good for diorama model in water theme

[BlueKrono]

Oddly-tusked prehistoric elephants collection
Included Ephant Mon from Star Wars just for funsies as he is clearly based on a Platybelodon. On the right you can see the Brumm pewter flat of Deinotherium from Germany. This rare piece is at least half a century old, and is one of my favorites due to the beast inexplicably having two trunks and two tails in addition to its two tusks.

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

Wow! Impressive catch with that vintage deinothere!

What are the two shovel-tuskers in the middle? Are they Amebelodon or Platybelodon? What's the company?

[Flaffy]

Far left: Safari Amebelodon
Middle upturned shovel tooth: Geoworld Amebelodon
Furry brown shovel tooth: Bullyland Gomphotherium
Small middle shovel tooth: Yujin Platybelodon

[Derek.McManus]

Nice models and an interesting topic...one of my daughters asked Santa for a mammoth one year as a child she still has it and is 19 now! 😀

[Dilopho]

Boki, could you or anyone else in-the-know update the first post with the names and companies of the models?

[AcroSauroTaurus]

My elephants

Figures:
Schleich female African Elephant (retired)
Schleich male Asian Elephant
Safari Woolly Mammoth
Invicta painted Woolly Mammoth
Small orange Woolly Mammoth (needs identification)
TEDCO Dig-Up-Dino Woolly Mammoth skeleton (retired)

[BlueKrono]

And what I consider my "incidentals":

[Halichoeres]

EoFauna Palaeoloxodon

Someone else will have to post the steppe mammoth

[Jose S.M.]

With how much I love elephants I can't believe I still don't have the Palaeoloxodon! It's a great figure.

[RobinGoodfellow]

Stegodon



Gomphotherium





Amebelodon



Platybelodon





Mastodon



Steppe Mammoth



Woolly Mammoth















..extants..



(for info about figures, please follow the link at the end, clicking on picture you're interested)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130140542@N03/albums/72157683552541994/with/47702949111/

[Halichoeres]

I mostly don't collect elephants (to me, they're basically modern animals), but these are some gorgeous pieces.

[Shonisaurus]

I love all the fauna, both extinct and fortunately existing. In my case I collect all kinds of extinct animals (even if they are recent like thylacine or quagga). In this case I really like the extinct elephants and although they are modern some do not stop being curious like the moeritherium.

[Melekh]

My small 1/35 collection.