G is for Gygax Monsters - Part V - Lik Be (LB) Piracies

I am assuming, from size, style and numbering within the wider LB oeuvre, that these appeared around the same time, and in similar sets to that which we looked at here, and indeed, with that set called Monster Fantasies, may have been another/the other assortment with the same header-card and cavemen?

 

Knowing what I do about Google and it's SEO (which isn't much!), and what with that being the third time I've linked to the same article, in a few days, in posts also multiple-mentioning Gygax Monsters, it will give the bots something to mulch on, and if it annoys the 'LP' dilettantes at the same time, well . . . so much the better, and my work here would be done, before we've seen the images!

These came in as a 'clean lot', suggesting that either the previous owner had two sets and lost an orange 'Friendly Monster', or that the original set had two of each, with a similar AWOL orange monster scenario, and, even without empirical evidence, we can be pretty sure they are Lik Be's, as their numbering is midstream* with the farm 'funimals', and includes the two previously seen prehistoric mammals, from the linked-above set.

 

Listing

No. A111 - Macrauchenia (? Prehistoric camel/giraffe ancestor/ant-eater) [seen before]

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No. A122 - Crustacean 'Gygax Monster' (Smaller copy of prone Rust Monster Chinasaur) 
No A123 - Wavey Fan Whiskers 'Gygax Monster' (Smaller copy of waving Chinasaur)

No.A124 - ?
A 125 - Ardvaark 'Gygax Monster' (Smaller copy of standing Chinasaur, also 'Armadillo Man') 
No. A126 - Dinocerata-like (? Large, tusked mega-mammal) [seen before]
127A - Friendly 'Gygax Monster' (Smaller copy of horn-nosed, cartoony dinosaur) 
A.128 - Wavey Winged Whiskers 'Gygax Monster' (smaller copy of waving Chinasaur) 
A.129 - Spiney 'Gygax Monster' (Smaller copy of double-row, spine-backed Chinasaur)

 

If LB copied the Gator/Lizard Man sculpt, he/she/it could be the A.124? Likewise, any of the missing ones, but that's probably the most obvious? Pure conjecture though!

 

* To be honest, once you plot all the known Lik Be / LB (previously ID-IDL-ID Ltd-LP) stuff, the conclusion is that the numbering is either pattern codes or cavity numbers, as the Funimals are all over the place, these and the prehistoric minis are split, with the cavemen between, a jump to the 200's of the Wild West sets with divers, fishermen and Spacemen/alien-robots never numbered, but surely filling some of the block gaps, while a few 500, 600 and four figure numbers exist for sets, or what appear to be earlier hard polystyrene production only? There are also a few B-codes, with the Explorer Cars (space tanks) having their own system!

Standard Holly Plastics on the left, you can see how much smaller the Lik Be copies are, it's literally a magnitude smaller; about half the size, and a quarter the mass? As OO is to O-gauge, or 1:64th is to 1:32?

 

That's it, short and sweet, the Lik Be chapter is more of a side-bar to the Gygax Monster's tale, and while unusual for LB to be pirating like that (obviously now we recognise the mini dinosaurs (A.70's) as being reduced-size Holly clones too), they did, also, seem to have knocked-off some of the Western Christmas cake decorations as well, so they had prior 'form' for copying.