Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 66 Sets: Pt 8 Payton No. 442 US Troops

I said in a previous post that I had no luck in acquiring a large bag of Payton Army men. Several had come up for auction on fleaBay over the past several months and even though I bid over $100, my bid got blown out of the water, until...

...last week. This MIB set came up for a 'Buy It Now' price I couldn't refuse (way less than $100) and here it is. The figures in this set are quite dark and would make great companion pieces to the set I'll start posting tomorrow. I estimate there to be at least 50 pieces - maybe more.

Ed

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 65 Sets: Pt 7 Payton No. 2000 Unbreakable Soldier Set Revisited: Did It Come With This?

When I received my set No. 2000, it was a mixed blessing. The box was the single most important part of the purchase as was the 'K9' (clearly a German Shepherd) which is a bear to find in its own right. My box also contained some Eldon vehicles which I sorely needed for that collection, but was missing the two troop transport trucks. In addition, one of the tanks had a broken barrel, and all the 'unbreakable' figures in my box were...

...you guessed it - BROKEN!

The missing / broken pieces were easily replaced and I was able to make a complete set out of it. However, there was one piece included which stumps me to this day. My set included a blow mold sandbag emplacement which looks very similar to a piece on the box top artwork (which I circled in the picture below). I did not include this piece in yesterday's post because I'm not totally sure it belongs to the set. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.

The set as purchased (the sandbag emplacement is buried under the Jeeps in the lower right of the box)

Among the hardest Payton figures to find is the K9

The 'unbreakable' figures included in my purchase

Upon first glance this appears to be a boulder, but upon closer inspection, it does resemble a very crude sandbag emplacement.

Here's what a complete (and unbroken) set would look like with the sandbag emplacement as part of the contents.

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.