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Does anyone else own or remember these playsets from 1983? These showed up for a while at KayBee toys and other retail outlets. I am pretty sure a total of three sets were made, one with knights and monsters, one space themed (shown below) and one with regular army men.
This appears to have been made by a small toy company named Toyco that was both in Canada as well as the US, hence the dual language listings for each side of the box.
Just like the old playsets from the 50’s, this comes in a cardboard carrying case with 60’s type of art drawn on the cover. The box designs looked quite nice. Inside you get a playmat, some cardboard scenery and some toy figures. One side of this box (cover and true side panels) was in English. The other sides had the same graphics but in French. The box laying down on one side (cover side) is only 3.5” high
Many of you will find this one interesting because it comes with total scaled down versions of Colorforms Outerspace men as the aliens. I am assuming Colorforms never made them this small in scale and if so then whomever did design this paid attention to quite a bit of detail with them The astronauts that come with this are the type you can buy in bag down the same aisle as toy army men.
The sets sold for $8.00 which was kind of pricy considering how little you do get. The Knights set they had was also cool because it came with slightly larger smog monster like red lava men the Knights were supposed to fight
I loved not so official playsets like this. I am still on the search for a similar set with Knights and Dragons that came with a red version of Tricephalon from the Godzilla vs Tricephalon playset from H.G. Toys
--enjoy
Does anyone else own or remember these playsets from 1983? These showed up for a while at KayBee toys and other retail outlets. I am pretty sure a total of three sets were made, one with knights and monsters, one space themed (shown below) and one with regular army men.
This appears to have been made by a small toy company named Toyco that was both in Canada as well as the US, hence the dual language listings for each side of the box.
Just like the old playsets from the 50’s, this comes in a cardboard carrying case with 60’s type of art drawn on the cover. The box designs looked quite nice. Inside you get a playmat, some cardboard scenery and some toy figures. One side of this box (cover and true side panels) was in English. The other sides had the same graphics but in French. The box laying down on one side (cover side) is only 3.5” high
Many of you will find this one interesting because it comes with total scaled down versions of Colorforms Outerspace men as the aliens. I am assuming Colorforms never made them this small in scale and if so then whomever did design this paid attention to quite a bit of detail with them The astronauts that come with this are the type you can buy in bag down the same aisle as toy army men.
The sets sold for $8.00 which was kind of pricy considering how little you do get. The Knights set they had was also cool because it came with slightly larger smog monster like red lava men the Knights were supposed to fight
I loved not so official playsets like this. I am still on the search for a similar set with Knights and Dragons that came with a red version of Tricephalon from the Godzilla vs Tricephalon playset from H.G. Toys
--enjoy
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