I think actually I decided upon a Diplacodon last time we looked at them . . . yes, Dinocerata, as a much reduced-scale copy from Lik Be (LB, because it's Be not Pee!), although I'm getting ahead of myself, as it's the last image which is the more interesting!
This post was shot in '22, and is meant to be part of a forthcoming season on the 'Gygax Monsters' (the son's interview was on the BBC's World Service again, the other night)*, but as it doesn't actually have one of the acknowledged monsters in the bag, I thought I'd post it separately as a Ja-Ru rack-toy, to thin-out that aforementioned series, which has too many posts!
Both sides of the bag, not the best pictures, I'm afraid. They are pretty much the bog-standard Holly style, but the smaller ones lack the casual bust of spray-paint which tends to ID them as Holly, still, as a subcontract for Ja-Ru, lack of paint may have been a stipulation, while the plastic colours compared to Holly are both hit-&-miss!
So, the real interest is the mega-fauna, which is a really nice sculpt, millions of years adrift, but then half the contents of the set were millions of years earlier or later than the others! The Brontotheriidae have been undergoing reclassification in recent decades, and it's not quite as simple as I think it was in my Ladybird book! But there's more here;
if you are genuinely interested, with the Megacerops being the more Rhino-looking ones, and the Dinocerata being the more chunky-monkey ones!
* As well as the Gygax history/interview, there was a very good hour-long (well, 58-minutes!) documentary on the history of ITC (the Incorporated Television [Programme] Company), the other night on Radio4, which covered all the staples, the detectives and the Anderson story, Lew Grade, the American connections and licensing, and dispelled a few myths along the way, well worth finding on Listen Again, or BBC Sounds or whatever it's nom-de-jour is at the moment!
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