Snoopy vs. the Red Baron Board Game

I’ll finish out the week with one last reference to Snoopy and the Peanuts gang. One of the board games I had as a child was the Snoopy vs. the Red Baron. In it you launched marbles down a ramp through a replica of the Red Baron’s airplane. These marbles would fly off the end of the ramp towards Snoopy’s doghouse. The object of the game was to open up the doghouse by lifting it on its hinge, and catching as many marbles as you could. Your opposition would then take their turn at it. The one with the most marbles was the winner. Not very much to it at all, but it was one of the few instances where you could have a toy of Snoopy as the great World War I flying ace. I haven’t seen this actual game for years until 2004. I was working in Washington DC for a week, and had some time off to head over the the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. While touring the museum I came across an exhibit based on the Red Baron. In the display case was none other than a complete, original copy of the board game I grew up with in the 70′s.