Maple Friend Houses/Furniture/Accessories - LIST

[Philip]

This is a list of all the Maple Friend Houses, Furniture and Accessories that were produced to my knowledge. The only thing I know that is missing from the Japanese line is Accessory series #6 (which I have never seen). It's possible there are more stuff out there that I'm not aware of (such as more color variations of furniture), but this should be a very close to complete list. Japanese furniture and accessories (Made in Japan) were all numbered and sold separately, while in North America and Europe (Made in Thailand or sometimes Singapore) they were all sold in larger sets.

I use the same color system as with the figure list, so you can more easily see which sets were sold where.

Black = Available worldwide
Red = Exclusive to Japan
Blue = Exclusive to North America
Purple = Exclusive to Japan and North America
Green = Exclusive to Europe
Brown = Exclusive to Japan and Europe
Navy = Exclusive to North America and Europe



MAPLE FRIEND HOUSE SERIES

*Patty's House (Post Office)
*Maple Elementary School
*Bobby's House (General Store)


Palm Town Series

*Palm Mansion
*Deluxe Palm Mansion
*Ice Parlor (European version is called "Café" and the colors are very different)
*Pika Clinic


MAPLE FRIEND FURNITURE & ACCESSORIES


Furniture Series

1. Bed
2. Dining set
3. Lounge suite
3. Lounge suite (beige version)

4. Fireplace
5. Sideboard
6. Counter with flower vase
*Counter (White version, sold only with Ice Cream Shop)
7. Bookshelf with 6 books
8. Student's desk
9. Teacher's desk
10. Stove with poker
11. Lounge suite - Sofa
12. Kitchen Set with pot and frying pan
12. Kitchen Set with pot and frying pan (beige version)
13. Cupboard with tableware
13. Cupboard with tableware (beige version)
14. Warderobe with hangers
14. Warderobe with hangers (beige version)
15. Potted plants with mat
16. Seasaw
17. Slide
18. Swing
19. Lookout tower
20. Bench and stump
21. Bunk beds
22. Flower Garden Set
23. Hanger Rack Set
24. Rocking Horse Set
25. Duster set


Accessory Series

1. Patty's Papa's Mail Delivery Set
2. Patty's School Set
3. Bobby's General Store Set
4. Dining Table Cloth Set
5. Slipper Set
6. ??? (Might have been a curtain set, since curtains were included with the European Soft Furnishing set)
7. Good Night Set
8. Towel Set
9. Shopping Set


Palm Town Deluxe Furniture Series

1. Rolley Cocker's Room Set
2. System Furniture Set
3. System Kitchen Set

Palm Town Misc.

*Palm Car
*Palm Land Wonderful Ferris Wheel
*Ice Wagon (Includes Rolley figure)

Maple Town Playrooms (Tonka)

*Living Room
*Bedroom
*Dining Room
*Hospital (Includes accessories from the Pika Clinic)
*Ice Cream Shop (Includes accessories from the Ice Parlor, and a white counter)

Maple Town Vehicles (Tonka)

*Maple Town Train
*Maple Town School Bus
*Mail Truck w/Papa Rabbit
*Ambulance w/Nurse Dog
*Bakery Truck w/Mrs. Cat
*Policecar w/ Sheriff Bulldog

Misc. Playsets (Bandai Europe)

*General Store Carry Case
*Family Cottage (originally from the "Le Village dans les Nuages" toyline)
*Camping car (originally from the "Hello! Sandybell" toyline)
*Tractor (most likely intended for another toyline)

[florine]

OMG i didn t know the deluxe palm mansion!! so beautiful!! do you have a photo of the ice wagon? how did you discover all this stuff?

[Philip]

Yes! The Deluxe Palm Mansion is indeed a thing of beauty. The biggest building by far. While the normal Palm Mansion is extremely rare, the Deluxe one is even rarer (but it does exist). Definitely one of my biggest wants. I meant to add a picture of the Ice Cream wagon, but apparently I forgot, I will do it later. It looks just like the one you see Rolley and Patty push around in the show. It too is very rare, and I've never seen one for real.

These pictures where scanned from mini-brochures that were included with some Palm Town toys. I own the Ice Parlor and the Pika Clinic, so I'll take my own photos of those later (along with the rest of my collection). But sadly, some of these items are so rare we may never see them for real. I'll always keep on searching though.

[Philip]

There we go. At last! 83

[Suvenkorento]

I like the logo on Maple Town furniture - the gold looks so dignified So it seems common for Maple Town furniture to have different shades of brown. How many different beds were made? This auction has two, is the darker for adult figure and smaller for children? Bunk beds are always light brown like the smaller bed here, but are they the same size?


Why there are different cupboards?

[Philip]

How many different beds were made?

Primarily two types, the normal one and the bunk bed. The bunk bed can be taken apart into two separate beds, so what you have there is a top bunk (and yeah, it really only fits for the smaller figures). There was a variation in red for the normal bed in Japan, I don't know if the bunk bed has a color variation. The normal bed was also remolded to have a bookcase and cast in light yellow for the Palm Town toyline in Japan.

This picture is a good overview of all the furniture available (not including color variations and Palm Town)

Why there are different cupboards?

The left one is a cupboard, it came with a set of plates, cups and a teapot to place inside it. The right one is a bookshelf, and it came with six books.

As an interesting tidbit, the majority of the Maple Town furniture was not actually made for Maple Town, but for an earlier Bandai toyline named "Minna no ouchi", which had all its furniture cast in either red or pink. You can see some examples here.

[Suvenkorento]

I found auction with the books. They look very nice, I adore the outline picture of dancing Patty. Are the other items Maple Town?



I found picture of china that came with the cabinet. They look white and unmarked, they might be hard to recognize. Did MT have porcelain or metal items, or are all plastic? 




Was this tea set in Europian cataloque released? It looks so much like my Forest Families tea sets:

[Philip]

Are the other items Maple Town?

The stamp is, it belongs to Papa Rabbit. The grey cups are not Maple Town.

Did MT have porcelain or metal items, or are all plastic? 

Yup, they are unmarked. As far as I can recall, all Maple Town items are either made of plastic or fabric.

Was this tea set in Europian cataloque released? It looks so much like my Forest Families tea sets

Yes, here is an image I saved a long time ago (if anyone knows whose it is, feel free to let me know).


For whatever reason, the European Maple Town line and Forest Families share a few molds. Apart from the tea set, the ski accessories in one of the European two packs seem to be exactly the same as ones sold with Forest Families. I don't know how this happened, but I know the European Maple Town line contained a lot of accessories that where not originally made for it, but lifted from other toylines (some owned by Bandai). It could be that both Bandai and the company that made Forest Families bought these molds from another company, but I'm not sure how it would have worked.

[Suvenkorento]

Thanks Philip! Looks like Maple Town tea set doesn't have a sticker on the tray like FF series did. The ski set accessories would have been my next question  Both series had red and blue poles and skis. Does Bobby have blue goggles, but Patty has none? FF seems to have had only pink goggles. I think the series might share some cleaning accessories too, but those might be common for other series too. Hard to tell indeed, how sharing the moulds would have worked.

[theratpack360]

it looks like there are clip-on figures under the ferris wheel?

[Philip]

Oct 9, 2014 15:16:11 GMT -5 Suvenkorento said:

Thanks Philip! Looks like Maple Town tea set doesn't have a sticker on the tray like FF series did. The ski set accessories would have been my next question  Both series had red and blue poles and skis. Does Bobby have blue goggles, but Patty has none? FF seems to have had only pink goggles. I think the series might share some cleaning accessories too, but those might be common for other series too. Hard to tell indeed, how sharing the moulds would have worked.

Yup, no goggles for Patty, but at least she got a nice hat. I don't think any cleaning accessories were shared, as far as I remember the only cleaning accessory (broom and trash can) was exclusive to Japan. I don't think I would ever expect two legit toylines from different toy companies sharing molds with each other in the US. Maybe the laws were different in Europe at the time, or maybe they just thought no one would ever notice.

Oct 17, 2014 17:36:11 GMT -5 theratpack360 said:

it looks like there are clip-on figures under the ferris wheel?

Yes, the "clip-on" feature was standard for all child characters in the Palm Town toyline in Japan. Only Patty and Rolley also got regular versions. I guess they wanted to add a new gimmick, but to me it only makes the figures less versatile (it's not like anyone uses two hands to hold an ice cream cone or most other everyday objects for that matter).

[Suvenkorento]

I checked pictures of brooms, and they don't match, so they are just very similar sets.



A picture from a auction from USA in the summer. Did Maple Town have pink sewing machine? The scooter is MT too I think, the ducks are Forest Families.