Almost exclusively cake-decorations,
although they did appear in the larger 1970's boxed sets, I used to use a
big'ole question-mark with them when ascribing them to the company formally
known as LP; Lik Be, now LB!
Indeed it was the work of the guys at
Moonbase in finding the larger sets which confirmed my suspicions vis-à-vis
their being 'LP', when they turned-up in sets with silver-chrome or gunmetal
spacemen and chromium robots - along with lots of little vehicles, some of
which were previously known as Tri-Ang
Spacex over here and MPC Golden
Astronauts over the pond.
You get a flag, nicely square (no/low
gravity . . . and a hidden wire!), a chap with a camera "Watch the shadows dude; or some fuckwitt's'll
convince themselves we never got here" and a guy with a sample- . . .
spade? Shovel? Scoop . . . a sample-scoop! "It's Orange!"
Often issued with a Luna Landing Module (we've seen them here before with it), and
bagged either as generics, or various jobber/phantom brands. Over here it was Culpitt.
They seem to have been sculpted by the same
person who was responsible for the Robots/Aliens, but a little later - I
suspect (?) - with the same base-underside styling and a similar mark, but
without the LB cipher.
Which brings me to another question-mark,
which remains a question-mark despite my being 90% sure (hedging a tad!), due
to a lack of empirical evidence, but I think the AWI red-coat Airfix 'Washinton's Army' piracy, cake decorations (who DO have a
blue-jacketed issue in the US - see 'AWI' passim), are also by the same guy,
and - being in the same plastic - must be LB
too, probably along with at least one set of the 'Spirit of '76' trio, the
smallest set in hard polystyrene.
For the missing small scale posts, you
can't do better than go here for the spacemen . . .
. . . and here for the Robots
While the vehicles - which I'll have a box-ticking on at some point (I don't have
a perticualrly full sample) - are all to be found here.
As these are 'plastic smalls' they should
prove to be of no interest to those so recently of changed minds as to whether
they are IDL or LP, but I'm now calling them LB!
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