Who Collects Plasticville And What Pieces Do You Have?

I don't collect Plasticville, but I do have the Diner and Train Station. Both buildings are on the layout and in use.

Not a real fan of Plasticville but I do like their church.

-Pete

  Nice paint job on that church !

Pete, nice job of detailing the church. Plasticville actually had 6 different churches, with yours being introduced in 1955.

Collecting Plasticville is fun.  There is an organization, The Plasticville Collectors Association which is perfect for anyone interested in Plasticville.  Annual dues are cheap if you opt for the electronic version of "The Villager", their quarterly newsletter.  And best of all you get access to all of the back issues of "The Villager" as well as access to a data base listing, and in many cases, showing, the different variations of the Plasticville models.

I highly recommend it!

Don

I have some of the usual pieces, Diner,FD,PD Cape Cods,Stations and Waiting Platforms,Radio Station,Log Cabin,Hardware,5&10.

I got lucky on a road trip to Chicago in 1982. Visiting all the surviving hobby shops, I bought box upon box of Plasticville for the original sticker prices. Since I was removing a medical machine, the movers brought my treasure stash home in their truck for free. That was a great excursion.

Was it really 34 years ago? Yikes!

I few of the items I have. Working on getting all of the Story Town series.

I am not a collector, but recently got a set of buildings made before 1958, as that was the year on the newsprint they were wrapped in. Got a few houses (child broke the roof of one with a tennis ball over Christmas ), one of the earliest red door churches I have seen in a while (patent pending moulded on inside), post office, gas station, 5&10, frosty bar, and fire house. No boxes though. They a re all pretty neat, all the same

I'm not a collector but I do have many Plasticville items, mostly buildings. For a time I was trying to "collect" as many of the variations of a particular building as possible. So I have multiple color combinations of the Ranch-style house, the cottage, the factory and the switch tower.  Many unglued still in the box. Then I realized I was going down a very deep dark hole especially while doing something similar with post war Lionel.

Mike

PS: I forgot that I also have several of the telephone booths in both blue and white with and without the detailed interior. Tough to find, I just got lucky. And, the outhouse and water well.

I like to 'collect' the Plasticville buildings with chrome accents I see at train shows like the barn and diner, they look nice on a layout reflecting the lights.  Are there any other ones that you guys have seen with chrome accents?  I also like the color variations of the frosty bar, and I have a bridge and pond unit that looks nice in the park on my layout.  

Andy

I have several pieces of Plasticville. About 5 railroad signal bridges, 2 farm buildings & some farm related things like chicken coupes and hog shelter, outhouses, and well. Have 4 colonial houses, 3 are complete and one needs a roof, also have the house under construction, the railroad station and loading platform, even have a Plasticville mobile home.

Lee Fritz

I went up to my train building and looked at some of my shelves. Low and behold I found about 40 boxed sets I forgot about. After seeing the pictures, I think I'll open them up and see if they will work on the layout  

When I started my layout 4 years ago the plan was using Dept. 56 type buildings. But I bought a few Plasticville buildings that I had as a kid in the 1950's.  I now have 27 Plasticville buildings and they are the main structures on the layout.  Some have boxes and some were as cheap as $1.00.

I have customized a couple and don't feel bad about it cause they are not rare. Picture is of a fire station turned into my grandson's body shop,a farm with animals and barn find Ford, and my old nieghbor hood.     I just enjoy them.  Azgary

I like Plasticville But am not a collector. I buy the glued ones cheap and repaint them making them look new again even if not in production colors.

glued is fine with me...means cheaper and they don't come apart.

Like so many other posters I'm not a collector but what self respecting toy train enthusiast wouldn't have at least a few Plasticville structures on their layout.  As for me I, of course, have the Frosty Bar along with a couple of churches, firehouse, factory and the super market.  Stashed away I have a whole bunch of the old blue and white phone booths.  In my opinion it ain't a toy train layout unless its got some plasticville on it.

Train_Geek posted:

I like to 'collect' the Plasticville buildings with chrome accents I see at train shows like the barn and diner, they look nice on a layout reflecting the lights.  Are there any other ones that you guys have seen with chrome accents?  I also like the color variations of the frosty bar, and I have a bridge and pond unit that looks nice in the park on my layout.  

Andy

 

The frosty bar was available with a chrome counter. I know mine has a salmon roof, I don't know if they made it in yellow with the chrome counter or not.

J White

Yes they had yellow with chrome. I made sure I found the correct one to duplicate my original from 1957.  Azgary

I have a police station and a Quonset hut.

These are recent Bachmann Plasticville barns.  These have been customized and repainted. Great for structures placed at a distance on O scale layouts since they are close to 1:64 scale.

some nice items

Bob C.

I do, all O gauge Vintage. I have an almost complete collection of every variation of every item made. (Close to 400 pieces in my collection). Have most of the rare variations as well. Gray Roof Mansion, Fire Station With Gray Siren, Blue Bus and Ambulance, etc etc.

My collection is currently stored in several large tubs, but I will post some photos of my rare items when i get them uploaded.

If your into Plasticville, I suggest picking up Bill Noles Plasticville guide book, and checking out the Plasticville for newbies website to check out many of the variations: http://www.plasticvillefornewbies.com/

Here are 2 of my many rare items. The house was from the late 80's early 90's and is extremely hard to find in this color combination. The Ambulance and Bus in this dark blue only came with Lionel Plasticville Vehicle Sets and the Rare Bachmann Make n Play Series of the early 60's which only available for 2 years.

I know there are more collectors on this forum :-) Here is some artwork on one of the Master Sets Box Covers

Forgot to mention that I have the newer Plasticville Turnpike building. It's rather nice, but after looking at Florida's turnpike it is missing the break room/counting room building, so you could put a small building nearby and a couple of parked cars.

Lee Fritz

I am not a "collector", but I have always liked the look of a "1950's nostalgia" layout, so I have managed to accumulate over 70 Plasticville buildings, some with boxes, some not; some glued, some not. I have at least one piece of every model made, and I have multiples of many. I prefer the original Philadelphia-made stuff to the post-1997 manufacture, but have picked up a few of those here and there. I also have a large number of accessories (people, telephone booths, vehicles, street signs and lights, etc.).  Its all great fun!

I have about 50 sets, half old, half new.  By old, I mean each Christmas time in the early 50s dad would bring home a new building or 2 to add to the Christmas layout.  We could never keep the greenhouse together but loved the school and colonial church.

Hey ZWPOWER13.

have you ever seen this green ambulance? I never have until this past week in an antiques mall in town. What do you think? A repaint? Forgery ? Or rarity?  Nobody on forum has answered this question. Thanks. 

I had Plasticville station on my childhood layout, and some Marx plastic.  I collect  neither, but went on a binge to bash versions of that Plasticville station into two stories, L-shaped, etc.  I am not using them on layout, though.  There were, a year ago or maybe several, a series of postings of highly creative bashes of Plasticville that showed a lot of imagination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gks9DOVvc68

POSTMSTERMC, Great footage in Plasticville, really like the spread out look of it. Kind of twighlight zone like!  Awesome!  Thanks much.

leroof.

Thanks, leroof.

I'm not a "collector" of Plasticville, but I do have a number of building on the layout, as well as some that aren't on the current layout.  Here are some: