History Main / Slurpasaur

*** An episode has a lovable alien creature played by... a pomeranian with a horn stuck between its eyes. Granted, it fulfilled its main requirement: it was cute, and could alternately be lovable/evil.

* Not even people are exempt! During the 1800s especially, actors would be pretend to be "wild men" from jungles, islands, and so on. One from the San Francisco Barbary Coast era was known only as Oofty Goofty, the only words he spoke while in costume; his handlers first covered him in tar, then stuck horse hair into it. In the end, he had to go to the hospital because it wouldn't come off, and he wound up having to soak in chemical thinners on the hospital roof for a few days. This ended up killing off most of his pain receptors on his body, allowing him to think up his next great act: have people pay to hit him with a baseball bat since he "felt no pain". This act lasted until a heavyweight boxer gave him a whack and cracked several ribs.

* ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''. Reporter Buster Kincaid says the Slurpasaur that Captain Proton allegedly encountered on an alien world has been identified by experts as "an optically-enlarged iguana with a fin stuck to its back."

* The original ''Film/FlashGordonSerial'' features "dragons of death", which are actually iguanas on a miniature set of BronsonCanyonAndCaves.

* In 1963, the Japanese studio Daiei, inspired by the Kiaju film craze which had started by rival studio Toho’s ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' attempted to make one of these, titles Nezura, about a horde of giant rats attacking Tokyo. The problems began when the store-bought rats they brought in failed to either rampage around the miniature set, or do much of anything at all. The wild rats they brought in were slightly better, but also brought heaps of parasites, fleas, and other germs which led to the production being shut down. Undeterred, Daiei would go on to make a monster movie about a [[Film/{{Gamera}} giant flying turtle]] instead.

Given growing mainstream awareness that many dinosaurs had feathers (possibly even ''T. rex''), and that dinosaurs in general would be better described as big proto-birdesque monsters than as big lizards (to the point where modern biologists actually differentiate between "avian dinosaurs" and "non-avian dinosaurs" rather than between birds and dinosaurs), it would be interesting to see a reconstruction/parody of this trope in the form of a {{Retraux}} or GenreThrowback work using a chicken in a toy-sized toothy mask in place of a ''T. rex''.

* Also in a Heineken ad which showed a tortoise with stegosaurus plates glued to its shell.

* ''{{Series/Goosebumps}}'''s adaptation of "Deep Trouble" dealt with animals being enlarged thanks to AppliedPhlebotinum. They use normal-sized iguanas, ants, spiders zoomed in and enlarged with CGI.

Still, [[SoBadItsGood that's what makes these movies]] such [[NarmCharm cheesy fun]]. A good source of NightmareRetardant, many fans suspect that these films' animal stars are the film-makers' pets. This has been a DiscreditedTrope since TheSixties, with crude CGI having taken over as the go-to monster effect for low-budget filmmaking.. A normal-sized but similarly nonthreatening movie animal is the TerrifyingPetStoreRat. A similar trope in which human actors are dressed as humanoid aliens is the RubberForeheadAlien, although it tends to be more convincing. Slurpasaues are very much a DeadHorseTrope, having died out in the 1960s, and is today only employed as deliberate {{Retraux}} kitsch.

While rare, mammallian examples have been used, such as dressing a horse up as a {{Unicorn}} or dressing dogs up as wolves or canine monsters, or putting fake pelts on elephsnts to make [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]. Oddly enough, depending on the example these uses actually fare a bit better in the believablity department.

* ''Film/KungFury'' has a wolf who's clearly portrayed by a regular dog digitally made larger, part of the film's [[StylisticSuck general tone]].

* ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'' features a giant octopus as a secondary monster on top of the two in the title, who menaces the natives and explorers on Farou Island before Kong comes to the rescue. An unusually-polished example, the giant octopus was for the most part portrayed by real octopi, who were encouraged to clamber over the miniature set by having air blown on them. A sophisticated puppet was also built, and stop motion animation was additionally used to portray the giant cephalopod.