#slurpasaur

[retrosaurs]

Retrosaur - vintage outdated dinosaur designs

Slurpasaur - live reptile posing as a dinosaur in media

Chinasaur - plastic toy depictions of "dinosaurs"

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Disclaimer:

None of these images are mine.

• Sources will be posted when I'm able to find them.

• None of these dinosaurs are accurate, should be obvious!!!

• I didn't coin these terms, its just what the public picked.

• Not all the creatures are representative of the clade Dinosauria.

[majingojira]

SLURPASAURS!

I've watched a LOT of dinosaur movies. I'd say "All" of them but I avoid creationist dreck and some dinosaur movies are just plain lost. But otherwise, I've seen the vast majority of them. And I've seen a lot of photographically enlarged reptiles, some in makeup, masquerading as Dinosaurs.

I've seen photographically enlarged Argentine Tegus, Nile Monitors, Caimans, Alligators, Leopard Geckos, Tokay Geckos, Anoles, Rhinoceros Iguanas, Green Iguanas, several snakes, and a Box Turtle.

I've also seen Armadillos with Rubber Horns, Elephants in Fur Coats, Cows with added fuzz, and a photographically enlarged Coati. I've been trying to catalog prehistoric species for about four years now off and on. Sometimes, these movies identify what the animal is supposed to be. The 1960's The Lost World calls its dinosaurs as Iguanodon, Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Allosaurus. In The Land Unknown, the trailer calls its Nile Monitors "Stegosaurs". But most of the time, they aren't named at all. But my question is, for catalog purposes, how should they be identified? If it has a given name, I'm going with that (even though I'm tempted to call The Lost World's "Iguanadon" Shringasaurus because, well, it is), but should I just call the rest "Slurpasaurs" or should each "Slurpasaur" have its own name, or should I go with the nearest analog in prehistory?

[kaijuthespacemaniraptorian]

Slurpasaur moment

[theflamingomancer]

Slurptile (Poison)

Category: Fake Dino Pokémon

Abilities: Shed Skin/Simple

Hidden Ability: Unnerve

This was a Fakemon idea I’ve had stored in my mind for years and I am pretty glad to finally draw it.

Based off of Slurpasaurs, a type of miniature effect used in old prehistoric films where someone would take a lizard or crocodile, glue horns and spikes on it, then utilize a miniature effect on it to make it look gigantic, and call it a “dinosaur”. 

Pictured are Normal, Shiny, and Ultra Shiny forms

[fuzzy-oooze]

hit new game idea

Ive made the decision to make a google doc about a hypothetical steampunk open world survival game similar to rust or ARK based on Victorian age paleontology and vintage paleoart named “antediluvian isles”. nothing will probably come of it but it would still be cool to just look at.

[gojifan97]

Even better idea: the "Kaiju" is very obviously a cat walking around a model city, with all humans being (badly) greenscreened in.

A slurpasaur cat kaiju! That would be fun!

And the humans are badly blue screened in in the way people would be in the old Godzilla movies, with an obvious blue hue around them all as they run for their lives!

Whenever the cat kaiju sneezes it sneezes obviously 2d animated fire that explodes, and any people in the houses are obvious still dummies!

And whenever the models crumble they do it in a very unconvincing way!

[kaijutegu]

Oh come on, that monitor’s breath isn’t that bad. (The Lost World, 1960)

[theriodont]

           A thought occurred to me the other day.

           In ye olden days of filmmaking, when accuracy was of secondary interest when making dinosaur movies and special effects were poor at best or nonexistent at worst, when a movie required a dinosaur, the filmmakers would take the pet iguana of a cast member or borrow a reptile from a convenient zoo, tape a few horns or frills to it, and let it loose on a miniature set, superimposing the footage over that of actors and normal sets later. These creatures are known as slurpasaurs.

           The slurpasaur was commonly found in one of two habitats—either an improbably active volcanic wasteland, or a festering swamp, since common wisdom at the time still claimed that dinosaurs must have been, by necessity, aquatic animals, since there was no possible way they could have held up their own weights on dry land.

           Now, obviously, we know that dinosaurs walked around in the dry just fine—most would actually have been horrible swimmers—and we are familiar enough with what dinosaurs look like that slurpasaurs have long vanished from movies, something helped along by the advent of better animatronics and CGI.

           But, if you’ll remember an older post of mine, or just the news from the later half of last year, you’ll recall that recent discoveries have revealed that Spinosaurus would actually have been a primarily aquatic quadruped, one that would have looked suspiciously like a great big crocodile with a fan stuck to its back—a textbook slurpasaur. One, as a sidenote, that spent most of its time paddling about in swampland and that was likely far more at home in the water than on dry land.

           And of course, just this week, it turned out that Brontosaurus was an actual creature that actually existed, after having spent a century or so as the go-to example of scientific mistakes, invalid taxa, and scientifically synonymous classifications.

           I swear, it’s like retro is in fashion in scientific discoveries or something.

[fuzzy-oooze]

have yall seen retro paleoart?

how shit thats cool

[kaijutegu]

This video highlights a classic American film technique. Folks who have been following me for a while might know that I’m a huge fan of monster movies. Kaiju’s name is testament to this- Juju is named after the strange creatures of Japanese tokutatsu cinema. However, rubber suits weren’t the only reptilian monsters stomping around the silver screen. Before the heyday of CGI, the rubber suit, or even stop motion, it was very common to use normal animals and cinematographic tricks to produce the illusion of dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasties. Sometimes called "slurpasaurs" by their fans and detractors alike, these animals were sometimes given cosmetic additions... but not always. Many of these animals were unfamiliar to American audiences, and dinosaurs were considered to be just big lizards, anyways. This particular film clip is a staged fight between an alligator with a sail taped to its back and an Argentine black and white tegu with no costume at all. Who will win? Watch to find out! And this should go without saying, but don't try to recreate this with your reptiles at home. This kind of staged fight wouldn’t fly today; this film was made in 1940 and is a product of its time and America’s view of animals. While the fight is bloodless, there’s a lot of biting, shaking, and rolling (as well as tonic immobility at the end).