"ANDERSONVILLE PRISON" playset

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THE CIVIL WAR's INFAMOUS
"ANDERSONVILLE PRISON"

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http://www.sdsoldiers.com/very_new_p...hobby_news.htm


View of the camp..

http://www.sdsoldiers.com/DSC817.JPG


Wertz figure

http://www.sdsoldiers.com/DSC818.JPG

[Mikevpd]

Please tell me this is someone's idea of a sick joke...

[MStuart]

There is a "market" for everything, and this set is just an indicator........

The "Berlin Tenament" is kinda off the wall, too.

Wow!!!!!! Dismounted Cavalry!!!!!!!!

Mark

[flattop32355]

There is a "market" for everything, and this set is just an indicator........

The "Berlin Tenament" is kinda off the wall, too.
Wow!!!!!! Dismounted Cavalry!!!!!!!!
Mark

Personally, I'm waiting for the combined Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz set. Should be hours and hours of fun....

Just for curiousity's sake, how would you play a session of "Andersonville Prison"?

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Replying to my own post...I changed the HUGH avitar of myself to Lil'Lincoln.

[Provost]

Scott,

I'm not sure where or how you come up with these things, but they're sure amazing! Thanks for keeping the place lively.

[WoundedZouave]

Please tell me this is someone's idea of a sick joke...

Ah, yes... those who live in glass houses....

There are some people in this world who consider reenacting battles someone's idea of a sick joke too so I fail to see what's wrong with an Andersonville playset. When I was a kid I would have loved it for the simple fact that it is a Civil War playset.

As far as "playing Andersonville" goes I recall spending a fair amount of time playing "The Great Escape" when I was a kid. Doing so did not make me grow up with a feeling of disrespect toward the plight of POWs... indeed, quite the opposite. Nor did playing with battle playsets make me a warmonger any more than being a reenactor does.

Hmmm.... Perhaps your only real objection to this particular product is that it is rather cheaply made and not an ultra-authentic adult collectible?

[Radar]

AND, the supplier is out there on the left coast. You can't have guns today (they might hurt you) but you can be sick enough to do Andersonville. How about Elmyra, Camp Chase, Rock Island or Johnsons Island while we're at it?

[Sgt_Pepper]

I think the tenor of the thread is going in a negative direction. Let's please keep things a bit lighter.

[MStuart]

A little on topic, maybe a little off, but..... There looks to be a whole bunch of these figures in many different era's. I haven't had a set like this since I was a kid when they could be bought at Neisner's 5 & 10 and they were mostly army and cowboys and indians.

Seeing that they're mostly one color plastic, are there hobbyists for these sets who paint them up and attempt panorama's akin to some of the expensive figures you see in Gettysburg? The ads for all of these seem to point toward the adult more than the child sets some of us may remember.

Mark

Thinking out loud, again. And I might just get me a whole skirmish line of dismounted cavalrymen and "go to town"