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March 2nd, I posted a Miner Industries Army Action Squadron playset. Over the past year and half I tried my luck and actually bought three of these MIB, still sealed sets. Two of the sets were sealed in clear plastic wrap while the third simply had been taped. That first set posted in March hit the jackpot with it's VHTF all white Mobile Missile Launcher and set contents that matched up well enough with the box cover photo. These next sets aren't nearly as exciting but are still cool in their own way. Nothing in the next two sets I'll be posting match up with the box cover photo. Well, lets just have the photos speak for themselves. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
After some discussion on the facebook groups, it was concluded that the figures and vehicles are original Payton - not repos. However they are later castings than the ones we normally associate as being from the 1960s.
This reply is from noted plastic and playset collector Kent Owen Sprecher which explains how Payton pieces ended up in a Miner Industries box (quote used with permission):
Miner Industry Playsets
Kent Owen Sprecher
Those are actual Payton. About 1972/3 Payton and Premier
were taken over by a group of investors who set up a shell corporation WINNECO
to run things. They failed and t all ended up in court. HG Toys ended up buying
both companies in the later 1970s. In the 1980s, HG, Miner (MPC), DFC and Helm
all made playsets to grab the market share after Marx went under. It seems some
stuff was shared and a bunch of figures and empty boxes were found in
warehouses. In the late 1980s a man whose name I forget got a lot of Miner
Industries boxes and filled them up with what he could find. Excalibur got a
bunch of these sets. I show the contents of three "Miner" photo box
prehistoric sets I got at my website. None of them contained any Miner (MPC) dinosaurs
but had Ajax & Nabisco animals and a mix of DFC, Marx reissue & MPC
reissue cavemen. https://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/MPCanc.html
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