playset
Illustration — Child playing with toy (tin) figures Playsets, or play sets, are themed collections of similar toys designed to work together to enact some action or event. The most common toy playsets involve plastic figures, accessories, and possibly buildings or scenery, purchased together in a common box. Some sets during the 1960s and 1970s were offered within metal "suitcase" containers that also functioned as part of the playset.
playset
anonymous / Unidentified painter · Public domain
- Field
- toy
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — Child playing with toy (tin) figures Playsets, or play sets, are themed collections of similar toys designed to work together to enact some action or event. The most common toy playsets involve plastic figures, accessories, and possibly buildings or scenery, purchased together in a common box. Some sets during the 1960s and 1970s were offered within metal "suitcase" containers that also functioned as part of the playset.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for playset. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q7203534 · wikipedia · Playset
In this article
Popular playsets
First pioneered by metal figure manufacturers around the turn of the 20th century, usually as military "play" figures with simple accessories, the concept of the playset was further developed by companies like Marx Toys, Superior Toy, Remco, Deluxe Reading, Multiple Toymakers (MPC) and others throughout the Baby Boomer era. Several manufacturers continue to produce playsets today.
Several popular playsets by Marx were: • Battle of the Blue and Gray (1958) • Battleground • Ben-Hur • Desert Fox • Fort Apache (1951) • The Alamo • The Guns of Navarone • Johnny Tremain Popular playsets based on television series were: • The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin • The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series) • Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion • Daniel Boone • Davy Crockett • The Flintstones • The Gallant Men • Tom Corbett • Gunsmoke • Jungle Jim later recycled as Daktari • Johnny Ringo • The Rifleman • The Roy Rogers Show Mineral City (1952) (the first "branded" playset) • The Untouchables • Zorro
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Collectables
20,755 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Playing History 2 - Slave TradeWork
- PlayMaker FootballWork
- PlaymationWork
- PlaymobilTerminology
- PlayStation 2 modelsTerminology
- PlayStation 3Terminology
- PlayStation 3 60GBTerminology
- PlayStation 6Terminology
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own an object connected with playset?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.