Marx #4672 'The Flintstones' Playset (1961) - Pt 17 Fred's Car (The Flintmobile) - CORRECTED

It kinda stuck in my craw that I photographed Fred's car with upside downside frames so I went back out in The Cave and took a new set of photos. That said, if you have extra cars, who's to say the upside down frames weren't a variation offered by the Town of Bedrock auto dealers? Looking through screen grabs from the Internet, it is apparent that these cars came in a variety of configurations

Ed

Upside Down Side Frame

From the Internet

This screen grab (culled from the Internet) shows side frames that are most definitely 'upside down' when compared to the Marx toy. In a future post I'll show some of the cars of Bedrock and you'll be able to see all some of the variety that the animators put into this show

What The Marx Instructions Show

What It's S'posed To Look Like

Forces of Valor (FOV) / Unimax Deep Dive: Pt 47 Set #83010 (2010) German 352nd Infantry Division (Normandy 1944) Pt 5 Pose 12

I've noticed that whenever one of these sets featured a special piece - like this machine gunner with large MG on tripod - or, if they offer several large terrain/detail pieces, that only four figures are included in the set vs. five. Also, you'll notice that this set is heavy on machine gunners featuring three in one set.

This guy is definitely firing a MG42 with what has to be one of the most over-engineered tripods of WWII. It must have been incredibly unwieldy toting this arrangement around the battlefield, and with the tripod sitting so high, the gunner had to be concealed behind a wall or sandbag pile or otherwise he'd be a sitting duck. BTW, this is another piece that will not fit on one of FOV's one-size-fits-all figure bases.

Ed

Pose 12

MG42 on Tripod

Photo culled from the Internet

FOV MG42 on Tripod

Marx #4672 'The Flintstones' Playset (1961) - Pt 17 Fred's Car (The Flintmobile)

Fred's car, the Flintmobile, the Flintstones Flivver: this now iconic car design from the '60s has been called by several names through the years and is one of the most recognizable of 'cars' around the world. Depending on what the script called for, the car shown in the cartoon could be a one-seater, two-seater, or have a back row of seats to fit the whole family and all versions are instantly recognizable as the Flintmobile. Marx may have taken its inspiration directly from the opening credits of the show as Fred drives home from work. 

I noticed when posting the photographs here that, when building my set car, I put the side frames on upside down!! OOPs - LOL 

Anywho, if you didn't look at the instructions one would never know the side frames were on wrong. The car consists of eight pieces and measures 3.5" (8,89cm) L x 1.75" (4,44cm) W x 2" (5,08cm) H. Marx molded this in blue and red (shown in this post) and flip-flop colors of red and blue. Fred and Barney's cars, included in the Montgomery Wards half-set of 'The Flintstones', were molded in red and yellow and are said to be rare (I have both and will cover those in a future installment). This is a terrific copy of the cartoon car but it does have an Achille's heel: the two very small tabs which hold the top section to the deck, are often times broken off. 

Ed

Season 1 Opening Credits

Fred's Car by Marx