Order with Secure PayPal below, or CONTACT US. The Fort Apache set was also featured in Thunder Pass (1954) with Dane Clark, Seminole Uprising (1955) with George Montgomery (as Fort Clark). Marx Fort Apache – King of Playsets book is now available profusely illustrated in two versions:Īn economical soft cover, and hard cover versions.Įach contains the very same dynamically presented information. This is the big Kahuna of Fort Apache with commentary throughout by the world’s greatest expert authorities and contributions by many collector specialists, from the very first set up through the Heritage sets released by the original Marx firm. There’s mint-in-box contents lists, factory documents, contents-by-set contents by set number figure groups, instruction sheets and vintage advertising, all in full Indian Wars color. Everything has been revisited, freshly vetted by expert authorities, rewritten, added-to and done anew.Įvery Marx Fort Apache playset known to collectors is here, in color, some on two page spreads. FREE delivery Sat, Jul 15 on 25 of items shipped by Amazon. There is an old chief of the Caramel tribe smoking a pipe. In photo two there is an Indian village inside the fort. There are probably enough pieces to this to get another post or two out of it but perhaps later. And updates, published in subsequent issues, now knitted into the storyline. Fort Apache playsets by MARX Toys, was favorite toy during the 1950s and was available for many years.There were many variations throuhout the years and I. BMC Classic Marx Mid-Century Modern Furniture - 32pc Plastic Playset Accessories. (3125 items) Wrapping up the Fort Apache Carry-All series. For instance a rare set sold at Western Auto stores, and color variations. Information on undocumented Fort Apache Stockade and Fort Apache sets came in and new photos piling up in anticipation of “someday” doing a book on the subject. 29 Fort Boonesborough with blockhouse over gate, 46 p. Inventory of Marx Playset Figures and Accessories Manufactured from 1951 to 1979. And then we watched as the number of available back copies of Fort Apache set coverage dwindled - and then sold out completely, to the point that soon, we figured there would be no resource for that set in total.Ī new book’s time had come. index of the magazine on vintage toys, Playset Magazine. It was an important resource, but the information was a bit spread out over numerous issues and "in-between" updates and a few corrections. But it came in so many versions and different cartons that they became the subject of a five part series in Playset Magazine covering many varieties available from 1951 through the end of the firm and beyond. Cavalry and Indians, tepees, cannon and horses in a finely made miniature scale that fit in one compact carton. It had a plastic stockade, steel headquarters, pioneers, U.S. You had your Childhood - Now Get It Back!įort Apache was deemed by its designer Frank Rice as “the King of Playsets,” and won the moniker during a poll open to all playset enthusiasts.
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