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Sunday, May 31, 2026

Forces of Valor (FOV) / Unimax Deep Dive: Pt 29 Set #83005 (2003) - #93005 (2004) German 716th Infantry Division (Normandy 1944) Pt 4 Pose 3

The third of five poses contained in Set #83005 / #93005.

Pose 3

Saturday, May 30, 2026

Marx #4672 'The Flintstones' Playset (1961) - Pt 2 Fred's House(?) Per Marx

I grew up associating Fred's house with the larger of the two main houses included in the Marx playset. There's a good reason for this: the Marx instruction sheet said that's what it was! It seems Marx swapped Fred's house with Barney's house as the original cartoon showed Fred's house as having a detached garage. Ya know, it's nice to know little things like this, but I will forever think of the bigger house with Porte-cochère as the Flintstone family house! The Marx version measures 4.75" (12,06cm) W x 4.125" (10,47cm) D x 4.375" (11.11cm) H to top of chimney.

BTW, Fred's address is first listed as 201 Cobblestone Lane but changes throughout the franchise.

Cartoon Fred's House

The Flintstones Fandom website is a great place for trivia and tidbits.

Somewhere along the line, the people at Marx confused Fred's house and Barney's house.

Their instruction sheet clearly shows Fred's as having the Porte-cochère, however, in the original cartoon his house had the detached garage.

That said, the look of their house would change from episode to episode based on what the script

called for. Door colors would change, door and window placement would change, etc.

Original vs. ...

...Marx

Cartoon Barney's House

The Rubble home in the original cartoon had the Porte-cochère, but Marx gave him the detached garage house instead.

Original vs. ...

...Marx

The Marx Fred's House

The green antennas are a bear to find intact and many people use the blue ones from the later '90s era ReMarx (aka New Marx / Marx of Miami) Ruby Edition playset. My set has the originals.

Flintstone Green

Green accessories like the mailboxes, antenna's, signs, etc., in the playset were molded in two different shades of green. All of the accessories in a particular set would be in the same shade, meaning you buy one set and they would all be light green, and in another next set they would all be dark green. There were three houses in the playset but only two mailboxes.

Marx #4672 'The Flintstones' Playset (1961) - Pt 1 Box and Contents

This series, like most of them here on Toys and Stuff, has been years in the making. Having bought the set years ago as a remembrance of the one I had as a kid, it was missing a couple of minor pieces which I was able to replace, and then it languished out in The Cave until I got the 'oomph' needed to start taking photos and documenting the contents. As there's been enough Flintstones history and background already posted here, we'll keep that to a minimum, however there will be a couple of new tidbits of trivia scattered throughout the series.

Marx made several playsets based on America's favorite Stone Age family:

-a miniature set with 25mm figures

-the 'Hunter Party' set with much larger 3 1/2" figures

-a half-set offered by Montgomery Wards with only a few houses, figures, and accessories culled from the larger #4672 playset.

Of course, it's this larger #4672 set from 1961 that has become iconic and is the one I received for Christmas back in 1961. Oh, just so we're on the same sheet of music, the set being featured in this series is not my original childhood set, but rather one I bought off of fleaBay. The fleaBay set was mostly complete and even had some extra dinosaurs and terrain pieces included, but the box is a tad rough. One interesting tidbit I discovered in the box was the original shipping label, which was addressed to "Edwin H. Baker" (EHB). Coincidentally, those are my initials as well - Edward H. Berg!!

I would recommend purchasing Playset Magazine Issue No. 134 (Sep-Oct-Nov 2025) to get a really decent run-down on Marx Flintstones offerings.