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'?
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?
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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