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[Unknown Primate]

RedKing - that's cool of your missus to buy those for you.  They mean well - you know how many copies of THE TERROR I have?!  Gotta love the better halves!

[missdead13]

I know the Alamo and Fort Apache  playsets were reproduced as late as the early to mid 90's.  I bought them at TRU back then.

( not to sound like a ding-a-ling. lol.. but.... )
how can i be sure the Fort Apache set I bought is authentic/vintage?  I just assumed it was because its still in its original box with the Marx toys logo on it, etc..  its complete and in perfect condition
I got it at a lil antique store in the middle of nowhere/smalltown midwest, so i was like " cha chinggg.. " lol.. I find when I go to antique stores in the midwest, I find the best stuff, as opposed to the ones here in so.cal.. I love it..
I keep thinkin I wanna set it all up, and build a plexiglass case around it, to make it like a functioning table top or something??
( I have taken it out and played with it like twice    )

[jimm]

Holy Cow, that takes me back to my neighbors living room when we were kids!!

[bigbud]

It's authentic Marx. Not sure of the date of that set. I believe the Ft. Apache set is one of Marx's oldest running sets. Put out many times over the years with varying parts and different box graphics. Yours is a photo box...... I'd have to guess late 60's to early 70's.   Buddy

[voyttbots]

Yeah, it isn`t a 50s or early to mid-60s because of the photo box. Mine had artwork on the box, 1960.

[Anton Phibes]

The image is from plaid stallions, and is just for reference (feeling to lazy to take pics right now). I got a set of these three. All complete, with puzzle pieces intact (a little moisture damage...but only slightly. A litle patina doesnt bother me.

They claim to have over 200 pieces in each. Dracula only has 167. Weird. I built them all...all complete. Wolfman has 217, Frankie has 213. Ebay auction for $19.99 for the set of 3. Not bad.

[RedKing]

RedKing - that's cool of your missus to buy those for you.  They mean well - you know how many copies of THE TERROR I have?!  Gotta love the better halves!

I know right-bless their lil hearts!

The Toy Soldier Company still sells those monster sets, I bought another one this past Christmas for a gift.  I wish they sold a glow set, but all they sell is the neon green you see in the picture.  The ship came from Uncle Fun's shop in Chicago, purchased about a year ago.  It was old store stock.  I bought two but I wish I had bought all of them now!  You can still pick them up on Ebay inexpensively. 

Oh man I HAVE to get a set of those!! I had a ton of them back in the early 80s. They sold bags of glow in the dark versions like the bags of soldiers, cowboys,etc. I still have a Franky, but all the others are long gone.

[darkmonkeygod]

They claim to have over 200 pieces in each. Dracula only has 167. Weird. I built them all...all complete. Wolfman has 217, Frankie has 213. Ebay auction for $19.99 for the set of 3. Not bad.

Twenty for all three is a great price, congrats!

[marsattacks666]

The image is from plaid stallions, and is just for reference (feeling to lazy to take pics right now). I got a set of these three. All complete, with puzzle pieces intact (a little moisture damage...but only slightly. A litle patina doesnt bother me.

They claim to have over 200 pieces in each. Dracula only has 167. Weird. I built them all...all complete. Wolfman has 217, Frankie has 213. Ebay auction for $19.99 for the set of 3. Not bad.

Awesome!

[Hepcat]

( not to sound like a ding-a-ling. lol.. but.... )
how can i be sure the Fort Apache set I bought is authentic/vintage?  I just assumed it was because its still in its original box with the Marx toys logo on it, etc..  its complete and in perfect condition

One of these magazines with Fort Apache articles might help you to answer the question:

Plastic Figure & Playset Collector

Playset Magazine

Send them an email first asking which issue(s) would help answer that question.

[bigbud]

For exercise, and cause the wife said she'd come along, I took in the Brass Armadillo just East of Kansas City today. Really was  big. Hundreds of booths and glassed displays. Here's the stuff I drug home..........Ideal game called My Dog Has Fleas. I couldn't pass this up cause it definitely resembles Ideal's Gaylord the Dog and Lady Gaylord. Also a tall and very nicely sculpted Frankenstein with glowing heart that was associated with the Van Helsing movie. A sky blue Parker squirt gun Luger. A Knickerbocker plastic mold bank of Ba Ba Loo. A spook record, a Tull record and a Byrds record.  2 really cool sets of the Shadow on cassette. Each set has 4- 60 minute cassettes. What I think is neat is both sets still have their paperwrappers, which are graphically beautiful, and the holder for each set is cast in the form of an old time radio! Also found an early Revell model kit of a 1956 Ford. Not a great haul, but not bad either, plus I got plenty of exercise walking the aisles......Buddy

[jimm]

Funny, that "My Dog has Fleas" commercial jingle still stuck in my head after all these years LOL Nice scores!

[Scatter]

Goodwill store finds.......this is pretty nice sized ceramic vase (those pens inside it are over a foot long). LOVED the Halloween motif and colors. $2.50.

A fabric and straw scarecrow.......$1.25.

An eBay pickup that I'm in LOVE with, which I found a while back. My grandmother had one exactly like this in the 60s and 70s when everybody had TV lights. This one is ceramic,and flawless, but the electrical innards had long since vanished. I installed a new socket and re-wired it, and I have several different color bulbs to choose from. It emits a beautiful glow from the back that silhouettes the panther, and the eyes light up. Gives a nice aura to the room when viewing classic horror!

[missdead13]

Goodwill store finds.......this is pretty nice sized ceramic vase (those pens inside it are over a foot long). LOVED the Halloween motif and colors. $2.50.

A fabric and straw scarecrow.......$1.25.

An eBay pickup that I'm in LOVE with, which I found a while back. My grandmother had one exactly like this in the 60s and 70s when everybody had TV lights. This one is ceramic,and flawless, but the electrical innards had long since vanished. I installed a new socket and re-wired it, and I have several different color bulbs to choose from. It emits a beautiful glow from the back that silhouettes the panther, and the eyes light up. Gives a nice aura to the room when viewing classic horror!

you know,,, Ive been wanting a panther like that , like uh,,, foreverrrr...
ever since i noticed Archie Bunker had one and I didnt... LOL .. no fair.. now YOU AND archie got one, and i dont.... *** sulks.

[Monsters For Sale]

They were once quite common.  You can always find them on eBay.  If you stay after it long enough, you will eventually get one at a good price.

Here's one at a reasonable starting price:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ceramic-BLACK-Panther-PUMA-Cat-TV-Television-Tabletop-Lamp-Night-Light-2-/320840594935?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ab396f5f7