Alternate Species for Figures

[Zhuchengotyrant]

In this topic, you just write down which dinosaur you use as another dinosaur. For example, my Papo Allosaurus is used as a Saurophaganax, and my CollectA feathered Tyrannosaurus is used as a Zhuchengtyrannus. Now tell me what you guys use as a non-intended species! 

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

To start, we have most "ankylosaurus" figures being either euoplocephalus or scolosaurus.

[Roselaar]

How about mammals? I think few collectors pretend the Bullyland Mastodon isn't actually a Gomphotherium...

[Flaffy]

I use the Safari brachiosaurus figures as giffafatitans.

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

I'm a stickler for 1:40 scale critters, so that means a lot of my Safari Toob creatures are standing in for larger relatives.

For example, I use Iguanodon as Zalmoxes, and all the maniraptorans from the Feathered Dinosaur Toob are "generic mid-sized dromaeosaur/oviraptorsaur/therizinosaur". I also use the Schleich Mini Quetzalcoatlus as Azhdarcho/Eurazhdarcho. I'm about to get the Collecta Hypsilophodon family, which I will of course use to represent any creature once classified as a "hysilophodont" depending on what I'm displaying it with.

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

Oh! I also have several species that have been discovered in Texas, but none of the sauropods, so when displayed alongside those critters my Carnegie Brachiosaurus and Camarasaurus stand in for Sauroposeidon/Paluxysaurus and Astrodon/Pleurocoelus, respectively.

In this topic, you just write down which dinosaur you use as another dinosaur. For example, my Papo Allosaurus is used as a Saurophaganax, and my CollectA feathered Tyrannosaurus is used as a Zhuchengtyrannus. Now tell me what you guys use as a non-intended species! 

I've been meaning to get the Papo Allosaurus for the same purpose.

[CarnegieCollector]

I use my carnegie diplodocus as an amphicoelias 

[terrorchicken]

until somebody makes dire wolves Ill have to use extant wolf figures. Same with cave bears and brown bears.

[MLMjp]

I use the 2008 Schleich replicasaurus Brachiosaurus as Brachiosaurus, because technically it is a Giraffatitan . The green Allosaurus from the same year and brand is the Saurophaganax in my collection.

Despite not doing it anymore, when I was a kid I used some of my smaller Tyrannosaurus figures as it´s relatives, like Tarbosaurus or Albertosaurus.

[crankydinosaur]

How about mammals? I think few collectors pretend the Bullyland Mastodon isn't actually a Gomphotherium...

What do they pretend it is?

[crankydinosaur]

until somebody makes dire wolves Ill have to use extant wolf figures. Same with cave bears and brown bears.

There are dire wolf and cave bear figures by the way:

Dire Wolf: http://toyanimal.info//index.php?title=Dire_wolf

Cave Bear: http://toyanimal.info//index.php?title=Cave_bear

[terrorchicken]

Yeah I was aware of those, but I only like the Bullyland wolf and the Schleich bear and they are retired and HTF.

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

I'm thinking of getting an extant sawfish figure to act as an Onchopristis for my Carnegie Spinosaurus to munch on. I was going to buy the Safari/Monterey Bay model, but it looks like Collecta's sawfish might be more in scale. Can anyone confirm this?

[Halichoeres]

I'm thinking of getting an extant sawfish figure to act as an Onchopristis for my Carnegie Spinosaurus to munch on. I was going to buy the Safari/Monterey Bay model, but it looks like Collecta's sawfish might be more in scale. Can anyone confirm this?

I don't have either of these, but Amazon lists the lengths of the Monterey Bay and CollectA figures as 10.5" and 6.5", respectively. That would make the Monterey Bay figure unrealistically large for a 1:40 figure, so yeah, I'd go with the CollectA. It won't be max size, but it will definitely be reasonable size.

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

Would Archelon and other protostegids have looked very similar to the Leatherback? I know they had leatherback style shells. Skeletally, their fins generally look a lot shorter and rounded to me, but life reconstructions always seem to make them longer and more leatherback-like. What do you guys think? Would a leatherback make a good stand-in for a protostegid?

[CityRaptor]

When I was kid, I glued a small feather on the head of one of my JP Coelophysis and pretended it was Syntarsus.

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

After reading the review on the main blog about PNSO's Indosuchus, it occurred to me that it could make a very nice substitute for the recently described Spectrovenator. They seem to share similarly basal characteristics, such as longish arms and rather un-abelisaur-like heads.

[Cretaceous Crab]

I use my...

Carnegie Albertosaurus as an Appalachiosaurus
Terra/Battat Tyrannosaurus as a Daspletosaurus
BOTM Dromaeosaurus as either a Utahraptor or Deinonychus (depending on what scale I'm playing with at the time)
Papo feathered Velociraptor as a Utahraptor or Deinonychus
CollectA Metriacanthosaurus as a Yangchuanosaurus
Safari LTD mini Dilong as a Torvosaurus/Megalosaurus
Safari LTD mini feathered Velociraptor as a Dakotaraptor
CollectA Nothronychus as a Falcarius
CollectA Utahraptor as a Deinonychus

[Jose S.M.]

Can the CollectA Alamosaurus be used as another species? It doesn't really look like most modern reconstructions of Alamosaurus.

[BlueKrono]

I use the Kanna Citipati as a stand-in for Chirostenotes. I'm not super familiar with oviraptorids; does anyone know of a figure that might be closer to Chirostenotes?