Hey Gary, did you break your figures into platoons? I had three platoons by color. 1st Platoon was tan (my favorite), 2nd Platoon was a forest green and 3rd Platoon was a dark olive green that were from my first playset. Each numbered around 35 men, so I fought WW2 with an understrength company (King Co. to be specific), both ETO and PTO depending on what enemy my friends and I decided to defeat. We never lost. I miss those days down in the dirt. Somewhere in storage reside all my Marx armies with the dirt from 50 years ago still on them. Men and their toys, eh? -- AlThat brings back memories! I got this for a Christmas gift and it really made my whole year. I first saw Marx figures in about 1959 when the kid down the block had a Battleground Playset (the one with tan and green Marines) and I would trade two for one to get some of his soldiers. I remember finding a bunch of Marx stuff when a new Kresge "dime store" opened up. Although I was "too old" to be buying toys I bought my own Battleground Playset, right after Marx had added Germans to the mix. I also bought an extra bag of figures for $0.98. Oh for those days again! I still think that Marx figures are hard to beat for molding quality and general detail.
Now a playset costs $275+++.
Gary B.
Hey Gary, did you break your figures into platoons? I had three platoons by color. 1st Platoon was tan (my favorite), 2nd Platoon was a forest green and 3rd Platoon was a dark olive green that were from my first playset. Each numbered around 35 men, so I fought WW2 with an understrength company (King Co. to be specific), both ETO and PTO depending on what enemy my friends and I decided to defeat. We never lost. I miss those days down in the dirt. Somewhere in storage reside all my Marx armies with the dirt from 50 years ago still on them. Men and their toys, eh? -- Al
Hi Stryker. Spent many a day with my Marx Marines defeating the Sons of Nippon. I had a couple of bags of Japanese troops (no idea who made them) that were same size and very well done. Officers with samurai swords and infantry with Nambus and rifle, yet they always lost, wiped out in a final Banzai charge that resulted in hand-to-hand combat. These same Japanese also doubled as Chinese in Korea when my platoons ended up at Chosin. The Chinese always lost, too. -- AlLancer: my friends and I did the same thing as you describe. I remember I had 57 tan guys for years!!!! We would always invade islands, kill japs, and conquer the objective--whatever that was. Germans were "incorporated" into japanese troops, and the Marx GI's were ALWAYS marines. We never lost a beach-head-----JUST LIKE REAL....................Stryker
i remember my dad told he had some of these sets.
he has only told me about his old fort apache(which he nno longer has)
but i'm sure he had some of the other ones too.
but that was like 40 years ago.i doubt he remembers all the detailss.
but anyway, i wished i grew up during the 50's-60's time period.
bags of soldiers for 98 cents, huge playsets for under $10.
oh how i envy you guys.
I grew up in the 50,s had the bags of .98 cent toy soldiers, the Fort Apaches, but when you are 63 years old, I,m afraid I envy YOU, gi546!
Gary