Wellll, what will be the next chapter in the on-going adventures of Toys and Stuff? I had wanted to continue the dinosaur theme with MPC but quite frankly, at the moment, my MPC dinosaur collection is a tad anemic. I don't expect it would take a whole lot to beef it up but until then I'll have to search around for another series to work on.
In the meantime, I have been adding to the overall MPC / Multiple Toymakers / Miner Industries playset world and taking photos of a few sets that haven't been featured here before, like the two Multiple Toymakers Fire and Emergency playsets shown here in the past couple of weeks. Today we have a low-end '70s era military set from Miner Industries - another iteration of the MPC/Multiple Toymakers world. Personally, I think these sets were an excuse to toss any left-over stock into a box and call it a day. The two cheap vacu-form mountains shown on the box photo are rarely what's actually in the box from photos I've seen. My set has one of them in gray but has two smaller hills instead of that second large mountain. The cannon is an oddball: instead of the cannon with beefed up pneumatic tires you get the Civil War style piece with spoked wheels. The Jeep with utility trailer is nice as is the personnel carrier but the real treat is the all-white missile launcher - a very difficult piece to acquire. Instead of including MPC's plastic barbed wire fences you got these two printed cards with graphics of fences, battlefield terrain, and of all things Batman style explosions with "Zap" and "Bam" printed on them. Holy Crap Batman! really? Good grief. The soldier set includes a handful of MPC's 54mm figures instead of the ringhands normally associated with the included vehicles - with the excption of the two ubiquitous blue ringhand drivers. Overall, it's really a nice set that gives you the basic ingredients for a wonderful Saturday morning playing with Little Green Army Men. Well, until our next set review - Enjoy! Opa Fritz
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