What Prehistoric Mammals Deserve Toys?

[suspsy]

Just watching a documentary on entelodonts before going to bed and it got me thinking about all the wonderful post-Cretaceous fauna that haven't yet been immortalized in plastic. Off the top of my head, some of the ones I'd love to see CollectA, Papo, or some other company tackle are:

Ambulocetus

Basilosaurus

Arctodus aka short-faced bear

Thylacoleo

Thylacosmilus

Steppe mammoth

What about the rest of you?

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[Gwangi]

We really need a Mastodon. Living in NY we mostly have fossils from either the Devonian or the Ice Age, like Mastodons. Every so often someone will be digging a new pool or plowing a field and find Mastodon material and that's just awesome but sadly there are no good Mastodon toys on the market! Plus my museum has a semi-local Mastodon skeleton on display so it would be really nice if it was something they could carry too. I know there is someone else here that feels similarly? Amargasaurus I think?

[sauroid]

i dont know if these have been made into plastic figures already:
Elasmotherium, Mastodon, Columbian Mammoth

[Paleogene Pals]

I know there are resin models of most of the animals mentioned here. Not plastic figures though

[triceratops83]

Diprotodon, Zaglossus (a giant echidna), Procoptodon, Thylacoleo, and whatever that carnivorous kangaroo is called.

[stargatedalek]

Mastodon are also a pretty prominent fossil for Nova Scotia
pretty much all the local fossils are Carboniferous or late ice age

[triceratops83]

If you were to broaden the subject to Cenozoic animals in general, I'd say there are a few flightless birds of renown that have yet to get widely available figures - Aepyornis, Dinornis and Dromornis. Odd that Elephant Birds and Moas haven't attracted any attention from toy companies.

[Manatee]

Mastodon, Procoptodon, Thylacoleo, Ambulocetus, Livyatan, Embolotherium, Elasmotherium, a half-decent Paraceratherium, Dorudon... the list goes on and on. I'd especially like to see more prehistoric whales, as I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong) that a single plastic prehistoric whale figure has ever been made. They're really quite interesting and have no good reason to be overlooked. I wish Mojo would come through on their Basilosaurus, but it doesn't look like they will...

[SBell]

Mastodon, Procoptodon, Thylacoleo, Ambulocetus, Livyatan, Embolotherium, Elasmotherium, a half-decent Paraceratherium, Dorudon... the list goes on and on. I'd especially like to see more prehistoric whales, as I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong) that a single plastic prehistoric whale figure has ever been made. They're really quite interesting and have no good reason to be overlooked. I wish Mojo would come through on their Basilosaurus, but it doesn't look like they will...

There's a Basilosaurus in the Safari Prehistoric Marine toob. And the Yowies line has a Mammalodon.

I'd want to see some of the more stand-out Mesozoic mammals (they're not not just Cenozoic after all) like Castorcauda, Repenomanus (I know someone here is making one, but it won't be a wide-distribution one) and Volaticotherium.

[goodlife18]

Teleoceras, Metamynodon, Gnathabelodon,  Cuvieronius, Stegodon.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

I wouldn't mind seeing the North American species from the old NMNH exhibits, particularly the brontotheres and rhino-like ones.

[Paleogene Pals]

Yes, more whales and prehistoric marine mammals, for both figures and resin.

[paleoferroequine]

   Stegotetrabelodon syrticus, four tusked gomphothere, 4 m tall. Synthetoceras or Syndyoceras. Chilotherium pugnator. Cervalces scotti,the stag-moose. Megistotherium osteothlastes. Moeritherium. Uintatherium/Eobasileus. Thylacoleo. And whales.

   Please, no Andrewsarchus! There is only a skull, no mandible and hardly any (if not no)post cranial. Plus we have no idea what this animal is ( maybe related to entelodonts) and what kind of body it has. This is, of course, only my opinion, fwiw.

[Gwangi]

We already have a few Andrewsarchus anyway. The Safari model is quite nice.

[Daspletodave]

An American Mastodon and a Steppe Bison would be cool. And maybe an Elasmotherium.

[paleoferroequine]

We already have a few Andrewsarchus anyway. The Safari model is quite nice.

   True, but I pretend it's Pachyaena instead!

[paleoferroequine]

An American Mastodon and a Steppe Bison would be cool. And maybe an Elasmotherium.

   Also Bison latifrons the giant bison with 84in horns, tip to tip!

[suspsy]

Have there been many Megatherium figures?

[paleoferroequine]

Have there been many Megatherium figures?

   Schleich, Bullyland and Safari and Safari mini are the ones I have. There are also Marx, Marolin, and Starlux, probably some more.
Ah, Wild Republic and K&M (same?), MPC, Kaiyodo, Playvision, Timpo.

   SBell would know.

[Roselaar]

Have there been many Megatherium figures?

A fair amount, yes.

I would like more prehistoric whales. There's so few Basilosaurus figures while it's a fantastic animal.