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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

F is for Follow-up - M is for Monkey Business

Many thanks to Chris Smith for this particular follow-up, he quite quickly solved the question of the unknown helmeted 'cool runnings' character in a Wookie-suit, it was actually a board game, the original seeming to be from Spear's and my examples probably budget Hong Kong clones.

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The item in question; Spear's Monkey Race, a game for younger players, the dice only have 1's, 2's and 3's to drag the race out a little longer! Les Singes Grimpants, sounds painful, but is - I suspect - 'the griping monkeys'?

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Chris has one in a purple'ish plastic, who is clearly the same beast (in both senses of the word) unlike my deformed, helmeted Ewoks! You can see how the bar is used to lock them in at each stop-point on the climb, it still leaves my chrome-plated chap as a question mark I think, he's the wrong shape for this type of game?

Board Game; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Climbing Monkeys; Dancing Monkey; Game; Game Counters; Game Playing Pieces; Les Singes Grimpants; Monkey Acrobat; Monkey Folk; Monkey Novelties; Monkey Race; Plastic Toy Monkeys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spear's Games; Swinging Monkey; Swinging Toy; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures;
Chris also has this Monkey novelty, looking like similar all-plastic 'dimestore' toys from Thomas, Banner or Pyro or such-like but with more substantial steel cross-bars, as you turn the fancy handle-wheels (in both directions) the monkey jerks about and does cartwheels and stuff, I vaguely remember a similar toy from childhood, possible with a clown figure? Cheers Chris!

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