Exhibit 15
                                 [Letterhead]

                       REPORT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS


To the Board of Directors of
   Ranger Industries, Inc.
   (formerly Coleco Industries, Inc.):

The accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Ranger Industries, Inc. and
Subsidiaries as of September 30, 1996, and the related consolidated statements
of operations and retained deficit and cash flows for the three and nine-month
periods ended September 30, 1996 and 1995 were not audited by us and,
accordingly, we do not express an opinion or any other form of assurance on
them. 

The consolidated financial statements, including the consolidated balance
sheet, for the year ended December 31, 1995 were audited by us, and we
expressed an unqualified opinion on them, which included explanatory paragraphs
with respect to the substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue
as a going concern, the dissolution of the Company by the Secretary of State of
the State of Connecticut on October 25, 1991 for failure to file its biennial
report in 1990, the reinstatement of the Company as a Connecticut corporation
on October 6, 1994, and the adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 109, "Accounting For Income Taxes", in 1993, in our report dated
March 14, 1996, but we have not performed any auditing procedures since that
date.





COOPERS & LYBRAND L.L.P.



Hartford, Connecticut
November 7, 1996