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Showing posts with label Multiple Toymakers Fort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Multiple Toymakers Fort. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

1970 Multiple Toymakers W.T. Grant Western Frontier Boxed Playset MPC No. 500 / Grant Item W.T.G. 87700

This is a great little set made by Multiple Toymakers (aka MPC or Miner Industries) and offered by the W.T. Grant Dimestore chain back in 1970. It has everything a little kid needed to play Cowboys and Indians: A Fort for the Cowboys, Teepees for the Indians, two wagons, and a whole bunch of figures. The compact stockade comes in two pieces and sports the Fort Frontier name. The walls are attached at the corners by a sliver-thin piece of plastic allowing them to be folded. The two pieces attach to each other via small tabs. While the wagons included four yellow 60mm ringhand generic driver type figures, the remaining figs were all 45mm. The wagons are oversized when compared with the small figures but hey, this was MPC/Multiple/Miner - scale was not a consideration. Play value was. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Set contents (as found in my set)

2-piece stockade

Stagecoach

Buckboard

2 plastic-&-vinyl teepees

Canoe with two oars

3 60mm ringhand figures for the wagons

Partial set of Western accessories for the ringhand figures

33 45mm figures


all four sides






The stockade is small measuring  11 1/4" (28.57cm) W x 5 1/2" (13.97cm) D x 5 1/2"H













Tabs on the parapets allow the figures to stand without falling


the canoe appears to be from the jungle playset






Thursday, December 2, 2021

Multiple Toymakers No. 1212 Fort Toter With Giant Knock-off 187 scale Figures

Over the past year or so I've gotten several of these soft-case, carry-all playsets from Multiple Toymakers. They measure: closed 8"x9" (20.32cm x 22.86cm) open 8"x18" (20.32cm x 45.72cm) x 1 3/4" (4.44cm) H. Several of my sets had mint-on-card 1/87 scale HO figures and accessories that appear to be Giant of Hong Kong knock-offs. I'm not a big fan of soft-case carry-alls because, generally speaking, no matter what size they are figures tend to have a hard time standing up on those wavy plastic bases. However I got them because - hey I collect MPC/Multiple Toymakers/Miner Industries! What can I say? LOL Enjoy! Opa Fritz