While the Marx Naverone set is cool and you can never go wrong with some plastic dinosaurs (especially in combination with the army men!) I think the big star for me here is the Martian landing playset.
Astronauts, vehicles and that Big wheel space station? That's all i need. I'm pretty sure you can still find these same astronauts in dollar stores.
nostalgic curmudgeon that I am, I have to do the standard gripe/whine wonder what happened to playsets? No set story,just a bunch of figures, vehicles and cheapo landcape elements.
ReplyDeleteI totally had those dinosaurs... the yellow Tyrannosaurus was my fave!
ReplyDeleteI think I have some of those "same astronauts" , not from a cool play set but from one of those supermarket packs... or was it the NASA gift shop, huh?
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you, arkonbey. Playsets were where it was at for me. I rarely used the figures that came with them. I had a whole series of small plastic or ceramic animals and played with them until I was 12 with any number of playsets.
ReplyDeleteMan,oh,man do I miss me some Navarone playset. I remember getting one for Christmas about 1979 or so and just loving it. Also had a Martian landscape (with cool see-through dome) playset that I saved my allowance FOREVER to get.
ReplyDeleteWhen I think of my childhood, memories of my Navarone playset always come up. That was the coolest toy.
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