I'll get on setting it up and making photographs. The Dodge City is a nice set. The recent posting about Gabriel's Lassie line showed the farmhouse for it, which would make a good display piece for either Gabriel or Marx western figures; I've thought about getting the Waltons general store for Megos. Megos also fit fairly well on the Hal Neednam Stuntman set that Gabriel produced (the Needham Stuntman was 6").
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Hugh H. Davis
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Kenner Death Star Space Station, closely followed by the Mego Comic Action Heroes Fortress of Solitude.
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We didn’t get many playsets in our family. I don’t know if it was price point or the fact that I had three siblings but my Dad made us a “dollhouse” for our Hall of Justice. Lots of carpet and wallpaper samples for the heroes to chill in, and of course a garage for the Batmobile. So yeah, pretty much my favorite was homemade.
Later, for Kenner Star Wars, we made a rebel base with lots of wooden computer consoles. We’d cut pictures out of the Kenner catalogues to make the displays on the rebel computer screens.
If I had to choose a favorite store bought, I guess I’d choose the Droid Factory (incredible play value when there was no Lego Star Wars.
I also liked my Well of the Souls for Indiana Jones. All those little plastic snakes and the golden ark itself were superb!Comment
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Major Matt Mason space station. I had everything except Captain Lazer because he wasn't scale and even then I was big on scale. I also had all of the Outer Space Men as aliens for my Matt Mason crew to encounter. There was a local grocery store and we were real close friends with the owners. One day they had a tower display for shampoo or something they were taking down and my mom ask what they were doing with it. They were going to throw it out so she ask if she could have it and they loaded it in the car and it came home with us and my space station went on top of it and that was my moon base.
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i would have to say the Mego enterprise. just had hours of endless play. I went through a good number of them too, LOL
the Death star from kenner was also awsomeComment
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I would agree on both, the Mego Enterprise and the Star Wars Death Star. I saved up Christmas money and bought the Death Star, and still have it.Comment
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#1 Kenner Death Star Space Station Star Wars Playset
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#2 Marx Navarone Mountain Playset
#3 Castle Grayskull
#4 Defiant Space Shuttle Complex (even if it was much later than the others)
#5 Terror Drome with Firebat
#6 Mego Star Trek: The Motion Picture U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Playset
#7 Back Yard, ha!, ha!
#8 Front Porch in Winter, ho, ho, ho!
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Werewolf, did you also have Point Dread, with the Talon Fighter, to attach to Castle Grayskull? I thought it was a nice addition.
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Oh I didn't even think of these as separate when I was reading the names. Once I got Point Dread, it remained permanently on top of Grayskull (after all, it's just the "loss" of one turret to have that cool addition). The base, with its "computers" in the stone, became many things as needed in play, including a variation TARDIS at one point.Hugh H. Davis
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Castle Grayskull...and as awesome as the original one was, the MOTU Classics version has to be the greatest playset ever made. It's huge. Everything is sculpted, tons of features, incredible paint apps and weathering.
To see it in person is really something.
I think MOTU in general had all the best playsets. Castle Grayskull, Snake Mountain, the Fright Zone, Eternia...all were amazing.Comment
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I'd have to say the GI Joe AT HQ and the Mego Star Trek Enterprise. But as a child I didn't have any playsets. I had cardboard boxes, and 2 plant tables stacked on top of each other. But someday, the Mission to Gamma VI playset will be MINE!"Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."Comment
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USS Defiant. Best play set from an American toy line.
Takara's Microman Build Base is awesome, too.
Also:
Robotech SDF-1
Madelman 2050 Basertron
Robo Force Fortress of SteeleLast edited by acrovader; Jan 15, '18, 1:19 PM.I am more than machine. More than man. More than a fusion of the two.Comment
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