M is for Monster Fantasies

I knew this set (or something like it) had to exist, as those dinosaurs which appeared to be LB (LP) were much smaller (and less silly) than the 'funimals' they seem to be numbered in sequence with, while I had tentatively ID'd the four cave-men as LP (now LB) some time ago, so when I saw this going for a song on feeBay, I grabbed it!

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;

Prehistoric Sets

1046-20 - Monster Fantasies

'Micro-mini' Dinosaurs

   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

Prehistoric Animals

No. A111 - Macrauchenia (Prehistoric Camel/Giraffe Ancestor/Ant-eater)

No. A126 - Dinocerata-like (Large, Tusked Mega-mammal)