Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 72 Sets: Miner Ind. Playset No. 1753 Army Action Squadron Task Force Set (my set #2)

Regarding today's set from Miner Industries, here's a reply by Kent Owen Sprecher (Toy Soldier HQ) to, I believe, a facebook posting:

"Those are actual Payton. About 1972/3 Payton and Premier were taken over by a group of investors who set up a shell corporation WINNECO to run things. They failed and it all ended up in court. HG Toys ended up buying both companies in the later 1970s. In the 1980s, HG, Miner (MPC), DFC and Helm all made playsets to grab the market share after Marx went under. It seems some stuff was shared and a bunch of figures and empty boxes were found in warehouses. In the late 1980s a man whose name I forget got a lot of Miner Industries boxes and filled them up with what he could find. Excalibur got a bunch of these sets. I show the contents of three "Miner" photo box prehistoric sets I got at my website. None of them contained any Miner (MPC) dinosaurs but had Ajax & Nabisco animals and a mix of DFC, Marx reissue & MPC reissue cavemen."

-Kent Owen Sprecher

I had bought several of these Miner Industries boxed sets - all still sealed in cellophane wrap. The first set included MPC vehicles as shown below, the other two sets contained all Payton figures and figures. 

This set appears to be from the unknown person who bought all those empty boxes and filled them with whatever he could find! That's okay by me because it gave me the opportunity to acquire Payton variations I otherwise wouldn't have gotten. The contents of the today's Miner-Payton set were molded in a nice kind of mint green coloring.

Ed

I have yet to assemble the vehicles, however, the next set I post will have my usual thorough photo essays.