An absolutely 'classic' rack toy; an
assortment of figures and animals with no attention to either physical scale or
geological time-scale, in some whacky coloured plastic with gloss paint fired
at them by a blind man! Really; I should have opened Rack Toy Month with this
post, but I forgot they were in the queue!
We have pretty-much done these to death now
(first with a clean sample from Adrian Little and then with a look at my larger
'in storage' sample - when they came out of storage!), but to confirm the
assumption they were Lik Be here is a
clean sample, and to add to previous musings on the legs, all four have been
given the same legs, so it must have been done by batch, not pose! Also, the
'blood', spread rather liberally on some of mine, seems to have been meant to represent
the wood of the bow and spear!
We get two contemporaneous prehistoric mammals
which I have identified as vague renditions of a Dinocerata type (on the
left), although all the real ones have paired horns/tusks, while this one has
them as in-line singles, probably for ease of moulding, but it makes him a
unique HK-species! The other is a more accurate Macrauchenia, except when
I say accurate; I'm ignoring the blue plastic!
Going back a 100-million years or more we
get two larger dinosaurs, conforming to the bog-standard rack-toy plant-eater
and a duck-billed chap (or chapess), they are what they are, and might have
been pink-on-yellow, we don't really know! In point of fact, some of the stuff
being found now (in sedimentary beds in places like the Gobi desert) gives very
good colour clues (and feathers) and can be tied into surviving lizards and
reptiles.
These are tiny and I mean 'Micro' sized
(and are mostly another 50-million-odd years earlier?), with a baby meat-eater
and various other infants including my smallest Dimetrodon to date! From the poses I think some of them are copied
down from larger rack toys around in the late 1960's-1970's, some of which are
still with us in Hing Fat's tool-set!
For those who - like me - are trying to
build a complete listing of LB's
known/marked/numbered stuff, here are what I can make out on these;
1046-20 - Monster
Fantasies
73 - Brontosaurus [or] Diplodocus (no 'A',
larger)
A74 - 'Duck-billed
Dinosaur' (larger)
A75 - Ankylosaurus
(smaller)
A76 - Dimetrodon
(smaller)
A77 - Triceratops
(smaller)
A78 - 'Carnivore'
(smaller)
79 - Stegosaurus (no 'A', smaller)
Cavemen (each
with a choice of three different un-numbered legs and three loin-cloth designs)
No. A80 - Waving Axe
No. A81 - Archer with
Bow
No. A82 -
Raising/Throwing Rock
No. A83 - Long
Spear/Sharpened Stake
No. A111 -
Macrauchenia (Prehistoric Camel/Giraffe Ancestor/Ant-eater)
No. A126 -
Dinocerata-like (Large, Tusked Mega-mammal)
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