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Remco Showboat


The Remco Showboat, less popularly known as the Arthur Showboat Theater Playset, was a toy theatre in the shape and style of the typical Hollywood idea of a showboat - a sternwheeler complete with twin smokestacks, much like the one seen in MGM's 1951 film Show Boat. (Real showboats of the nineteenth and early twentieth century were not self-propelled and did not have smokestacks. The design of the showboat in the 1929 and the 1936 film versions of "Show Boat" are much closer to the real thing.) The playset was manufactured and introduced by Remco in 1962. The toy contained playscript adaptations of famous stories such as Pinocchio, Heidi, Cinderella, and The Wizard of Oz and came complete with miniature cutout dolls and theatrical settings, so that children could use these dolls to present the stories contained in the playscript.



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