G is for Gygax Monsters - Part IV - Enzinger & Co., via Holly

So to a German (I think) rack toy which is otherwise all Holly Plastics, and a better look at some of the marking, which all comes from the same stable.

 

Original sales image, this was from an outfit called CardboxDE I think, I had bought quite a bit off them, over the previous year or two, but after the full Boris Brwreakshit deal of February 2020, they got very silly about postage and selling'shipping to the UK (as did some US sellers), cancelled an order for 40-odd quid, didn't reimburse me and tried (against eBay's rules) to get me to re-order on another platform, so they got my forty quid, I didn't get the stuff, and they've lost hundreds in repeat orders, and get slagged-off for being thieving shits (I've still got the emails), here! All a bit stupid, and that 40-odd quid means I get to use all their images!

 

 

A full scan of the card as I decided to de-bag the set for this series of posts. Some of the images are dated 2020, some 2021, so you can see how these posts build on Picasa and why there's over 900 in the long queue, yet sometimes I'm stuck to post something, the [admittedly mild] OCD that comes with Asperger's means I sometimes need things to be just right, or I'm waiting to take a specific shot, or something!

 

And it can sit there for years, a bit silly really, as I can happily post absolute shite, without conscience, on another occasion! The vagaries of the human mind!

The contents from both sides, the suspicion with this set is that the contents were constant, from bag-to-bag, and needing more of some sculpts than others (in the more random offerings), may be one reason for the variations in Holly's output, and markings, and the likelihood that subcontractors or duplicate lines were used for some jobs/contracts.

 

Certainly the seller's open set, closed set, and my set, all have identical contents, with the plastic colour as constant as the species count! Not that all the species, are all that clear!

 

 

Enzinger stamp and the HP of Holly Plastics both present on the card, I can't decipher the centre of the Enzinger stanp though. One assumes Enzinger were in the same vein as Woolbro or WHC, over here, having their moniker added to otherwise generic rack-toys, only in this case with the Holly logo also left on.

 

The common bird-footed Tyrannosaurus Chinasaur!

 

Six bog-standard, dense polyethylene, chinasuar sculpts, and among the commoner of Holly's output, with this set, four of them have the dinosaur's name stamped into them and nothing else (I'd previously only found one in a similar vein), the other two having a rough MADE IN HONG KONG similarly stamped, the chonky standee, and the duck-billed dino'.

 

To which are added two prehistoric mammals, neither of which has any mark at all! Both of which are the ones copied by Lik Be/LB, in the set we looked at here;

 

https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2020/08/m-is-for-monster-fantasies.html

 

Which were tentatively identified at that time as a Macrauchenia (on the left here) and a Dinocerata-like animal, whose odd horn arangement may be due to undercuts/the difficulties of producing in plastic, especially in the late 1960-early 1970's? LB also copied some of the Gygax Monsters, and some non-'Gygax' monsters, which we will see in the next post of this series.

 

 

But the definitely 'Gygax' Bullette, is the final member of this nine-count set, and again unmarked, which is unusual for this beast, who is usually marked with a neat MADEIN  HONG KONG, as three separate stamps, sometimes lined-up, sometimes a bit wobbly, but here, not marked; again pointing to multiple tools or cavities, or something! He is, though, in the 'standard' Holly paint-job. More on the markings in the last two posts of the series!