Toys and Stuff

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Play Along Toys AOME LOTR - Heroes & Villains of Middle-earth - Attack Craft Orc with Sword & Shield

You'll notice the base of this orc are the wooden planks of the attack craft he was meant to be a part of, but which was never released.

Marx Military Flatcar Loads - A Comparison Look At The Originals and Repos

Let's take a quick peek at the colors found in original Marx military flatcar loads and a couple of packs of repos.

Originals

These vehicles would have been sold paired with a flatcar. I have yet to see separate sale packaging, only train set packaging. That doesn't mean they weren't sold separately, I just don't know of any.

Here we see the vehicles

These three were separate purchases and aren't the same ones shown in the set above and are shown packaged in a protective sleeve - not a box

Here are the various original Marx colors I have in the collection. It is safe to assume that all six vehicles could have been made in all the colors. The most common colors were the gray-silver, and olive green or drab.

Repos

The repos were mostly sold as a set of six vehicles but they were also paired with flatcars sold by Marx Trains.

Marx Trains #7331-3 USAX Flatcar with Load

In this case the repo loads are a tan color.

Marx Trains #7331-3 USAX Flatcar withTruck Load

Blue Set

Unfortunately, I never took photos of the original packaging when I bought these. I bought them in the '90s for my trains but didn't do photo work-ups on them until much later after I started the blog.

Olive Green Set

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Let's Chat: Play Along Toys Attack Craft Orc with Club

Yesterday's Attack Craft Orc with Club is today's Chat. Whenever I have a figure that is specifically tied a a book or movie or real world incident, I reference that in the Chat. If I fail to specifically reference context I'm afraid the Chat program will give me something totally off the wall from what I was expecting. So in instances like this my Chat prompt would be something like: "Remove base from figure but otherwise do not change or alter details of figure. Place this Lord of The Rings Orc in the ruined streets of Osgiliath". I'm guessing that the Chat is able to reference back to just about any seminal work of science fiction or fantasy - both in written form, or what has appeared on-screen - and build from there.

Marx Repo Military Flatcar Load - Tank - Silver HP

I had said in an earlier post that the repos from the '80 / '90s era Marx Toys company were molded in different colors than the originals. This silver tank does look an awful lot like the original Marx but there is a noticeable difference that is sometimes hard to notice unless you have the two pieces up close and personal: the original Marx tank is a more muted gray-silver color than the brighter silver repo.