Love these olde Marx sets!🇨🇦I assembled one for a Battle of Dieppe 1942 set. We Canucks got massacred thanks to British bungling. Mountbatten still got promoted.
Good video. Had the American/German version. Kit had a Sherman tank, half-track, Tiger I, Panzer IVE, Panther, 88mm, 105mm howitzer, bard wire rolls Imperial Germany flag, American flag and bunch of other stuff. Recie ed that set for Christmas early 1970s and had endless battles with it.
Might be that because Marx' previous release of that set through Sears (which I got for Christmas 1970 or '71) was called Iwo Jima, there was a licensing issue. Great set, fond memories! =^[.]^=
I got the same set back in 1963 or it might have been 1964. I'm not sure what the title on the box was; whether it was an Iwo Jima set or just a War In The Pacific set. Either way it was a great set! Thanks for showing this one.
Thank you for sharing your collection, I'm really enjoying these videos. Have you ever heard of a photographer named David Levinthal? He's into these type of figures and creates interesting images with them.
Yes, I have heard of David Levinthal, I have his playset photography book called “Small Wonders”, nice book with great photos. I’m glad you are enjoying the videos! Thanks for watching!
Yes, the box photo shows two landing craft. This particular set wasn’t a mint stapled set so I’m not 100% certain if two were actually issued. Marx and other toy manufacturers usually had disclaimers that contents could vary from photographs in colors or quantities so not sure. It would have been awkward from a manufacturing standpoint because it would require taking an extra landing craft from a second group of vehicles or somehow plugging the mold cavities of the tank, Jeep, personnel carrier and small field cannon. Anyone who has opened a mint set out there watching could help answer that question definitively.
