PIRATES: MPC Small Pirate Ship - CTS Repo

Playing with Pirate's is a fool's mission if you don't have a boat to go with them. I mean, the two go hand-in-hand, you simply cannot be a Pirate without a boat - it defines what they are. There are a number of really good options out there for equipping your fleet, but this whole thing began for me when wanting to flesh out my MPC collection, so trying to latch on to an MPC Pirate boat was essential. My pals in the facebook groups helped to acquaint me with the kind of stuff MPC made back in the day.

It seems MPC made two different Pirate boats: a large one, and a small one, and if you count the small skiff or dinghy that came with these, you got yourself three! Original MPC boats are bit hard to find - but not impossible as I'll show in future posts. In the meantime I went to a couple of on-line hobby shops and found the two sets of small boats featured here today at Classic Toy Soldiers (CTS). I have been dealing with CTS for many years now and am more than satisfied with their product line and their toys and playset items have been featured on the blog quite a few times. CTS offers the boats in two sets:

-Boat with sails only.

-Boat with sails, small skiff, set of repo ringhand figures with accessories.

This was a great way to see what would've been offered by MPC back in the day. The only difference was in the colors. I really like the brown color of the repos. The originals were done in bright cartoon colors popular for that era of toymaking, but the brown is more realistic. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

These small boats measure: 10" (25.4cm) L x 3 1/2" (8.89cm) W and is 2 1/4" (5.71cm) H to top of stern railing or 7 1/2" (19.05cm) H to top of mast

Repo figures are made in blue, silver, red, white, and green. Other colors may be available but those are the ones I'm aware of

The nice thing about these repo sprues is that you can see all the accessories that were once available. MPC's line of Pirate was nice but not all that extensive.

"Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main..."