Marx #4672 'The Flintstones' Playset (1961) - Pt 19 Dinosaurs: Marx Mold Group PL-755 (Small Mold Group) x2

Marx included two sets of Mold Group PL-755 (aka the Small Mold Group) for a total of 14 figures. While all of them fall under the generic heading of 'dinosaur', in point of fact, two of them were not. The Dimetrodon and Sphenacodon are classified as Synapsids, a species of critter more closely related to mammals than they are dinosaurs. Living during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, they cam w-a-y before the dinosaurs, which didn't appear until the Triassic period.

Ed

Here are the five different types of critters:

Dimetrodon (Synapsid)

Sphenacodon  (Synapsid)

Cynognathus (Dinosaur)

Plateosaurus (Dinosaur)

Triceratops (Dinosaur)

Flintstones Playset

As stated before, the Marx #4672 playset included two groups of 'dino's' for a total of fourteen pieces. The two groups would have come in either grass green, light mint-green, or light gray and were color matched, flat finish, soft plastic. I'm not aware of groups coming in two different colors in the playset. Each of these animals were covered in separate posts back in the November 2020 time frame and by using the 'search' function on the blog you can see more in-depth write-ups.

Unless you get a complete original Flintstones playset, or are able to acquire two complete sets of color-matched figures from somewhere, it may a bit tricky to come up with fourteen color-matched figures. While my playset was mostly complete, a couple of the dino's were missing and I had to flesh out the group with individual pieces.

Toy Street, Inc. Dinosaur Playset

Jurassic World, the latest installment in the the Jurassic Park franchise, opened in theaters this past Friday and I thought it was high time to do a dinosaur post. I chose this playset for one good reason - it was easy to get to. The Cave has been a construction/destruction zone since January (and is likely to be that way for many more months because I don't have the time or energy or ambition to get out there and work every day) but this playset was still sitting in the kitchen after having bought it a few weeks ago. What attracted me to the set were the four mountain and volcano backdrops as nearly everything else in the set is common. The playmat is also unique to the set but I don't see me using it again for anything else like I plan to do with the backdrops. The set came without original packaging and includes:

-Playmat 24 1/2" x 19"  In general I really like playmat art and this one too is nice, although a tad cartoony. Playmat's almost all suffer from the same drawback, being just large enough to cram the playset contents onto but not large enough to really give someone a decent play area to work with

-4 heavy cardboard backdrops

-7 Palm trees

-32 dinosaurs:
       8 Pteranodon's (Late Cretaceous)

     8 Dimetrodon's (Early Permian Epoch)

      8 Plateosaurus (Late Triassic)

     8 Cynognathus' (Early and Middle Triassic)

-7 Palm trees

The dinosaurs and trees are essentially repos of old Marx offerings and most pieces in the set are well done, but the casting quality for the Pteranodon's and Dimetrodon's is pretty poor with lots of flash, cavities, and mold plugs sticking out. About 20 minutes with a hobby knife and box cutter cleaned them up well enough for play. Here's a couple of shots of the playset set up with all it's pieces:

Next, I took out the display board I made last year and started goofing around with the contents then taking the photos and having a little playtime in Photoshop. Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina

A Pteranodon's eye view of the landscape