Included with the Marx of Miami Captain Blood and the Buccaneer's playset was a set of Toy Street MPC repo Pirate ships. Toy Street was another company of the 1990s re-issuing playsets using recasts from older defunct companies. Based on what I've seen and the few sets in my collection, they produced mostly MPC-based toys. This set of ships is a cut above anything I've seen before or since. Even MPC didn't lavish this detail on its ships (as far as I know). Why? Three things:
they included a sheet of peel-&-stick appliques to use on both ships giving them extra detail
there was a printed cut-out deck for use on the large ship adding more detail to it
and there was a length of string with instructions on how to rig the ships. The instructions were printed as part of the ship's log and to be honest may not be a Toy Street feature, but rather a Marx Toys of Miami feature
This post is just to show the overall set and the photo essays for each ship will be separate posts.
Enjoy! Opa Fritz
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