PIRATES: Marx (of Miami) Captain Blood and The Buccaneers Set #4794 (1992) - Pt 1

My series on Pirate toys is kind of winding down and this Marx playset coverage may be it for a while until I either a) get more stuff in or b) feel like messing with it! 😀

Now, I'm not sure the original Marx company ever made a Pirate playset. They made the figures but I do not recall ships or anything else in that theme. That however was rectified by Marx Toys of Miami, FL. This company was re-issuing playsets under the Marx name in the late 1980's and through much of the 1990's and filling the boxes with anything they could get their hands on. That being said, this set is a delightful assortment of recasts from the original Marx tooling as well as old MPC tooling and odds-&-ends from other non-descript manufacturers. When put all together though it is one heckuva nice set! 

I actually got this set from the UK and even with the postage (which wasn't nearly as high as I would have expected) it came in for about the same price a set would have cost here Stateside. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Set Contents:

-Playmat 24"x30"

-Captain Blood 'Ship's Log' (aka - story book, instruction manual, and mini catalog)

-Large Brown repo MPC Pirate ship (in Toy Street Packaging)

-Small Brown repo MPC Pirate ship (in Toy Street Packaging)

-Appliques and printed cutouts for the ships (in Toy Street Packaging)

-Two small repo MPC rowboats with oars, lanterns, gangplanks

-Four palm trees (reMarx)

-Four ferns (reMarx)

-Rev War style cannon, repo MPC

-Hill with cave repo MPC

-Large Alligator (reMarx)

-Wilderness Stockade (reMarx)

-One bag of ten reMarx 60mm Pirates

-24 repo MPC Red Coats

-Two sprues repo MPC accessories for Red Coats

-4 sprues repo MPC Pirates w/accessories (blue, red, white, silver - total 16 figures)

-Large treasure chest (unk mfr)

-Five sprues of hard plastic baubles (aka 'treasure')

-Bronze colored sprue of Pirate money (doubloons, pieces of eight, etc), 43 coins total

-Silver gray colored sprue of Pirate money (doubloons, pieces of eight, etc), 34 coins total

24" (60.96cm) x 30" (76.20cm)

The contents minus the playmat

Interesting: This set is even dated to 20 May 1992 and is the 751st one produced! I don't know how many were ultimately made but it's kind neat to know.

Baubles for treasure chest