Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 89 Sets: Miner Ind. Playset No. 1753 Army Action Squadron Task Force Set (my set #3) - Pt 16 Figures Pose 10

This is the last figure from the Miner Industries No. 1753 playset. Tomorrow we'll look at the terrain pieces.

Ed

Pose 10

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 75 Sets: Miner Ind. Playset No. 1753 Army Action Squadron Task Force Set (my set #3) - Pt 3 Troop Carrier Truck

Another mint green Miner Industries Payton remake.

Ed

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 74 Sets: Miner Ind. Playset No. 1753 Army Action Squadron Task Force Set (my set #3) - Pt 2 Tank

We've already seen throughout this series that Payton made their vehicles and figures in olive green, olive drab, a really dark brown, and gray. This Miner Industries iteration came in a nice minty green color which gives one even more options for opposing forces.

Ed

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 73 Sets: Miner Ind. Playset No. 1753 Army Action Squadron Task Force Set (my set #3) - Pt 1

This is the third of three Miner Industries Set # 1753 that I bought and all three were MIB and wrapped in cellophane. The contents were basically the same as the set posted yesterday, but for this one I chose to do photo essays on all the pieces. As with the other Miner set, this one does not include the Motor Gun Carriage (aka M42 Duster).

Ed

Cellophane wrapped

Opened

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.