He started out as a cute little puppy with snippets of inner dialogue to a full-grown dog with a smart-aleck attitude and a knack for getting in some outrageous situations.
I’ve always been a big fan of Peanuts and for a long time I never missed its daily or Sunday comic strips.
I had to stop when daily papers hit the $2 mark.
Playing Mantis/ Memory Lane turned out some classic Peanuts toys back in the early 2000s and they are what I consider some of the best Peanuts toys ever created.
The Snoopy As The World War One Flying Ace Deluxe Playset, part of It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown series is one of my favorites.
The large box container features a clear plastic panel on its top and front.
Inside Snoopy comes dressed in his WWI Flying ace outfit complete with red scarf, green pilot’s cap and brown goggles.
Snoopy stands next to a large pumpkin patch with several of pumpkin’s decorated with faces.
Included is Snoopy’s red doghouse that sits amongst the pumpkins.
The entire playset is held in place by form-fitting clear plastic extrusions, wire and by the display box itself.
It’s like seeing snoopy in 3D!
The craftsmanship n the top is perfect.
Snoopy’s doghouse has his name, in black, above its open doorway. The doghouse is so detailed you can see the seams between the boards.
The pumpkin patch has vines and leaves intertwining between the nine pumpkins. The vines, leaves and pumpkins are painted in several tones of color giving the whole pumpkin patch a natural organic look.
Snoopy is perfect both in scale and look. His squint eyes and slight smile match his comic strip namesake.
Included with the playset Halloween stickers to decorate the doghouse and by pressing a certain pumpkin the playset lets out airplane sounds and lights up the pumpkins.
A number of Peanuts playsets, figures and figure collections were put out and all of them are great fun and do the Peanuts legacy proud.
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