--- On Tue, 11/11/08, Paul Gruendler <p_gruendler@...> wrote:

From: Paul Gruendler <p_gruendler@...>
Subject: Playset Veterans' Day!
To: p_gruendler@...
Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 12:27 PM


I have been thinking about some of the brave plastic playset figures
who endured
so much bedroom/backyard hardship and suffering in the defense of
Childhood Freedoms and have decided to enshrine a few of
my "Favorite
Guys" in a new Photos Album: "Playset Veterans".
'
Please add a few of your own to the 'collection"!
'
The only qualification IMHO is that these men must have come from an
actual playset actually fought in
combat, on any battlefield INSIDE OR OUTSIDE, at some point in our
lives and thereby become among our very favorite troops!
'
My first choices are the MARX 45mm G.I."Camp Poses" from my
Christmas, 1957 U.S.
Armed Forces Training Center - in particular the crawling sniper and
the 'hopping guy' with e-tool on his web belt; You'll pick them out
easily! They fought often and valiantly until K.I.A. - M.I.A. in the
early Sixties... I have copies of them all back now, of course!
MARX made them in vinyl in the early fifties, but some wouldn't
stand
properly (allegedly a complaint of President Eisenhower himself!),
and so polyethylene was employed and bases added to the molds.
These small warriors fought hard in support of my hard plastic
REVELL M-
4 Sherman "Black Magic" Tank infantry, which will also be featured
in the
album.
'
Yours in the bonds of our playset wars,
pEEgEE
(Vietnam/Desert Storm Vet)





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