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.

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!