Pup tent front (Army olive drab) and back (Air Force metallic blue) According to Kent Sprecher's web site, later playsets included garbage cans with no platform legs.ġ. These were generally made in oliveĭrab hard plastic (sometimes soft), but were also made in metallic blueįor the Air Force. Credit always given for photos!Īll Marx military accessories are its field accessory group thatĮxisted for the entire life of Marx military playsets: pup tents,īazookas, garbage cans, etc. Is not available at this time" means that I do not own the item and I welcome one and all to provide me feedback The number of military accessories made is large, and I am sure thereĪre some omissions and (gasp!) even errors in the material below. The company made a few 6-inch military figures, but no Information I have included on these sets is on the Military Figures Made in the 1960s with soldiers about an inch tall, and what little Moved to much better sculpted 60mm, and in the late-1950s changed Other playset themes, the company began with rather crude 45mm figures, To share with me their vast knowledge of Marx playsets.Īfter Fort Apache, Marx' military playsets were probably the mostĬonsistent sellers throughout the company's lifetime. In addition, of course, I thank the many collectors who continue Sprecher's web site page on Marx military figures and accessories. Issues of Playset Magazine that feature Marx military playsets and Kent All references to PFPC below relate to that issue of Wealth of information, but dozens of photos and several playset content Incredible 58-page article on Marx military sets that includes not only Of Plastic Figure and Playset Collector (PFPC) magazine. On this accessory page has come from the 1994 Special Collector Edition Shown are not scaled in this manner either, smaller items being increased in size and larger items decreased.Īs stated on the Military Figures page, a great deal of the information In addition, due to size, some accessories The primary exceptions to this are 1) 6-inch figures, which are decreasedīy about half and 2) some photos which I have obtained from other people. To some of the greatest toys ever created … “army men” made by a lot of different companies but the greatest "army men" of all time were those made by the Marx Toy Company.Are shown in approximately proper proportion when comparedįigures. When my friends couldn’t come out to play or it was raining, I turned Woods, vacant lots and half-built houses of my still unfinished neighborhood. Gun, jumping ditches, hiding in culverts, playing in the We built forts in the woods and turned tree houses into fortresses. Using my imagination to gun them down in vacant lots, half-built houses and the I grew up pretending to kill my friends in games of "guns", Guns, dart guns, tracer disc guns, BB guns and fireworks and burning stuff with gasoline or any other flammable incendiary liquid that I could get my hands on. Out library books on World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, and anything that had weapons or Of bombers, fighter planes, naval warships and armored vehicles (Monogram rocked hardĭuring this time and Sheppard Paine was my modeling hero). War toys and toys which represented not only violence but organized violenceĪnd mass destruction on a scale which had boundaries only limited by my young It was a time of military toys and myĬhristmas wish lists would have been the stuff of any bleeding heart liberal Growing up in the early 1970’s was a really fun time.
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