Marx Toys Ruby Edition "The Flintstones" Playset Flintmobile (1991)

This Flintmobile came in the New Marx / Marx Toys / Marx of Miami / Re-Marx (pick a name - your choice) Ruby Edition "The Flintstones" playset. Back in the late '80s to late' 90s Marx of Miami was putting out a lot of re-manufactured Marx playsets. Generally speaking, many of the pieces were made from the original Marx tooling, while many more pieces were new production type items. This Flintmobile was never a part of the original Marx playset so is a new production item. That said, it's still a really nice piece that measures 2.75" (6,98cm) L x 1.125" (2,85cm) W x 2.125" (5,39cm) H. I have two Ruby Edition "The Flintstones" playsets and although I've used pieces from them for a previous setup, I haven't yet gotten around to photographing the set and all its components. These photos were taken back in 2018 during my last Flintstones run of posts, but were never published.

Ed

An original Marx "The Flintstones' playset Flintmobile

Marx Toys Flintmobile

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 64 Sets: Pt 6 Payton No. 2000 Unbreakable Soldier Set

Payton wasn't big on 'deluxe' anything and they certainly didn't pump out variation after variation of large playsets like Marx did and this is as close as you'll get to a 'deluxe' set from them. Oddly, it contains their major vehicles except for the motor gun carriage. Also, this is the only set I know of that contained the 'K9' sculpt (unless it came in header bagged sets). Mine came incomplete and included pieces from other manufacturers and it took me a couple of years of on-again-off-again collecting to flesh out the set as shown in the photos.

Ed

Some of the 'unbreakable' figures that came with my set when I received it!

FLINTSTONES Brand Multi-Vitamin Flintstones Car Promo (Toy Development Co., Skokie, IL) 1975

Now here's a really cool Flintmobile from a company called Toy Development Co., out of Skokie, IL. This was made as a promotional item for FLINTSTONES vitamins (which are still being produced!).    The car, as you see it in the third photo, comes nearly all assembled. All one has to do is attach the steering wheel to the floor, the roof to the frame, and the frame to the body. There is a rubber band pre-installed in the rear wheel which provides the motive power for the car by turning the stem by the rear wheel, and the instructions detail how to open the wheel up to replace the band. The car measures 4" (10.16cm) L x 2.625" (6.66cm) W body x 3"W (7.62cm) (when measuring out to the winding stem) x 3.25" (8.25cm) H. I wound up my Flintmobile and it rolled quite nicely across the surface. It could use a new rubber band but the mechanism does work as advertised.

Ed

Shown here with Fred Flintstone from the Marx playset.

Smaller rubber bands provide traction on slick surfaces.

You can see the winding stem just forward of the rear wheel.

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 63 Sets: Pt 5 Payton - Winneco MIB Set with OD Tank (No set no.)

This is essentially the same set shown yesterday but the tank is in the more traditional olive drab colors.

Ed