The TOYNK Battle of the Alamo!

Today is the day (back in 1836) that Crockett, Bowie, Travis and many other heroes gave their lives for the country-to-be of Texas at the Alamo. I got these five figures (sold separately) ten or so years ago, and they're still fighting. A little googling tells me that four of the five are still available, but Crockett appears to be hard to come by. "Give 'em what fer, Davy!"

MARX Enemies of ZORRO

Thanks to the infamous Cap'n Bob Napier for pics of his Comandante and Garcia!

MARX ZORRO and Friends

Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX 54mm Indians (Part 2)

Part 1 of this tribal pictorial is HERE. 

More Toy Soldiers HERE.

Toy Soldier Saturday: Tim-Mee U.S. Air Force (Part 1)

On this Memorial Day weekend we pay tribute (with the help of these Tim-Mee Toys) to the U.S. Air Force. These guys were made in the U.S,A, in the late '50s and early '60s. Their soft plastic comrades will appear in Part 2, soon. May their real-life counterparts continue to kick butt.

More Toy Warriors HERE.

Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX 54mm Indians (Part 1)

These hardy warriors spent decades attacking Marx Fort Apaches, and usually being rebuffed. In the early  years they were red (like most of these), brown or yellow. In later sets they were flesh-toned, like the guy second-to-bottom, and in they end they were done in florescent orange, which was not only butt-ugly, but damn hard to photograph. We'll meet the rest of the war party in Part 2. 

The Toy Soldier armies are HERE.

Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX Squatty-body GIs

I ain't certain sure what to call these guys. They're small (the tallest is two inches), some (particularly the standing rifleman and the grenade thrower, are skinny when sideways, most of them have the same face, and the guy in the last pic looks like he needs to use the latrine. 

I've seen them listed as Army Training Center GIs, and that could be right. I'm guessing they were made in the early '50s, before the far better sculpted and more familiar 54mm figures of the Alamo, the Civil War and the Zorro set.

The whole Toy Soldier Line-up (to date) is HERE.