Forces of Valor (FOV) / Unimax Deep Dive: Pt 65 Set #83404 (2005)-#93404 (2004) US 82nd Airborne Division (Normandy 1944) Pt 2 Pose 1

All gripes about FOV's packaging aside, they really did a good job with the figures and accessories they offered. Like Marx and MPC, they offered a basic assortment of pieces, then mixed and matched them in a variety of sets.  This set included U.S. Pose 1, 2, 4, and 9 and the figures shown were all individually photographed and are not repeats of photos shown in earlier posts. This was possible because back in the day I bought a lot of these sets - I just never kept or photographed the boxes (save for one) - and was able to pull them all from the tote bins they were stored in.

Ed

FOV U.S. Pose 1

Marx #4672 'The Flintstones' Playset (1961) - Odds n' Ends - Extra Flintmobile's

The vehicles from the Flintstones have turned out to be my favorite collectible and I've about sixty different ones in the collection. Over the past year I've been been buying job lots of Marx Flintstones playset parts in an attempt to make whole cars out of bits-&-pieces and this is what we'll be looking at in the next few days.

I've also included a sampling of screen grabs to show - in a small way - the variety of vehicles and Flintmobile's which showed up on screen. 

Ed

Over the next few days we'll be looking at these. 

Since this photo was taken, another car has been added to the roster.

Season 1 Opening Credits

That small car in the background is not shown in its entirety so needed two screen shots

Screen shots 

 

Wilma and Betty find this sporty number from somewhere to go and check up on Fred and Barney.

Another Paddy Wagon

Fred's Car (Internet Culls)

It would be interesting to know just how many iterations of the Flintmobile were shown in the original series!

Forces of Valor (FOV) / Unimax Deep Dive: Pt 64 Set #83404 (2005)-#93404 (2004) US 82nd Airborne Division (Normandy 1944) Pt 1 Packaging and Contents

Soooo, here I am again asking questions I know can't be answered. I had identified basically two different boxes for FOV figure sets. Series 1 boxes were dark and Series 2 boxes were light (olive green). The boxes themselves utilized the same stampings, only the artwork was different. While researching this series it was evident that the Series 1 box copyright dates were either earlier or were the same year as the Series 2 boxes...

... except this one! In this instance the 'early' box is dated later than the 'later' box.

Why? 

We'll never know.

Again, as my original boxes did not survive through the years, I pulled the figures and accessories from the tote bins. I was careful to try and color match the figures and the major accessories were easy to locate, however, I was unable to determine what 'smalls' were included.

Ed

Series 1 'Dark' Box

(Photos culled from fleaBay)

Labeled 2005

Series 2 'Light' Box

(Photos culled from fleaBay)

Labeled 2004

Contents

-4 figures

-Roll-away crossing barrier

-Large cart

-Barrel

-Dragons tooth tank obstacle

Those 'I'-beams are simply glued on the pole and break off easily

Dobby The House Elf by Melody

My 11-yr old granddaughter was on her tablet the other week and came up with this rendering of Dobby the House Elf. For an 11-yr old she does a really good job a drawing. At that age I was still working on my my stick men! 😄

Ed