Marx Monsters

[fmofmpls]

Interesting to see them marketed this way in the sixties, sold with paints - almost as a craft item - weren't they were reissued the same way as a Universal Monster Paint Studio or something in the 90s?

You have a very good eye Kharis; even if it's only one eye. Wow. That pic is super cool. Never seen that one before. And I think your right in your speculation too.

Here's a pic of the 90s Marx monsters paint set which was sold by Uncle Milton Industries in 1991.







 

[Eye of Kharis]

You have a very good eye Kharis; even if it's only one eye.

Thanx Herr General, it's not so bad really... except whenever I look to my right, my range of vision is stopped by my nose

Here's a pic of the 90s Marx monsters paint set which was sold by Uncle Milton Industries in 1991.

Yeah, that's the one! Thanx for posting the pix, mine is buried somewhere here in the Hill of the Seven Jackasses... I always liked that particular reissue, intended to reintroduce our old Marx monsters to another generation of monster kids...

[zombiehorror]

Max bid $150....Oh, sorry I thought I was on Ebay!

That is way cool.  I see a lot of listings for Uncle Milton white/cream colored monster reissues from the 90's, which I assume came from these sets.  Though the originals being intended for painting came in rather unpaintable base colors, so were these sets issued in any other colors?  I assume not.  Also I wonder how the 60's sets were shipped?  From the picture it looks like you'd get 3 orange, 3 blue but obviously not exactly the same combination as in the picture since there were orange and blue of each monster.  Then again it could just be a picture showing the two different colors and the sets were sold either all orange or all blue.

Man, I sure missed a lot of monster stuff in the early 90's....Damned Army, once you sign up your ass is there's.  I got sent to Korea in 91, where I didn't see a damned monster one!

[raycastile]

Does paint even stick to original Marx plastic?

[poseablemonster]

Does paint even stick to original Marx plastic?

It helps if you spray a little primer on them before you paint, and seal them after.

[EDITOR MFTV]

Does paint even stick to original Marx plastic?

Yes, and one of the favorite items in my collection is a set of Marx figures that were beautifully painted by a friend of mine. They look better than most of the Aurora models that I've had professionally painted.

[Wich2]

I painted mine Back In The Day, mixing from the little primary colored bottles that I THINK came with the military Thingmaker?

They've chipped a bit over the years, but much of the paint is still there! And yeah, the only base color that made sense was the Creature's aqua. I left most of that.

Best,
-Craig W.

[fmofmpls]

Damned Army, once you sign up your ass is there's.  I got sent to Korea in 91, where I didn't see a damned monster one!

That's because you joined the wrong army back in '91! We won't send anyone to Korea .. that is unless there's a cool Korean monster toy involved. Your right where you belong now ZombieHorror. The Universal Monster Army - accept no imitations!

[Dr.Terror]

The Marx monsters are fantastic. I always felt they needed to be painted to fully enjoy the sculpts. As good as any resin kit IMO.  Here are a few from the Monster Studio kit I painted up, still gotta do the Creature and Mr. Modo.  One of these days I want to get a set of the glow versions and paint them up similar to how Ray did his glow kits, with a wash on the exposed glow parts.

[poseablemonster]

Those are great paint jobs, you have some serious skills!

[raycastile]

Those are beautiful.  I especially like all the blood on the Mummy.  I see even his base is bloody.  How does a dried-up corpse have so much blood?

[ramsey37]

Those are beautiful.  I especially like all the blood on the Mummy.  I see even his base is bloody.  How does a dried-up corpse have so much blood?

It's probably the blood of some poor infidel who dared disturb the eternal slumber of his beloved Princess.
George

[Eye of Kharis]

It's probably the blood of some poor infidel who dared disturb the eternal slumber of his beloved Princess.
George

Or maybe he had a little too much Tana and decided to break some not-so-fake glass over at the Scripps Museum.

Seriously, Dr. Terror, your painted Marx monsters are some of the best I've seen - great work!

[fmofmpls]

Here's one for the Eye of Kharis. It's a mock-up Monsters Of The Movies Mummy. This was a custom model I did back in the early 90s using a Marx Mummy and assorted Aurora accessories. I made the nameplate text by using other nameplates from the MOTM series. It's been a great conversation piece for visitors here at Castle Famous. I always start out by telling them that it's a rare Aurora prototype! 

[Eye of Kharis]

Here's one for the Eye of Kharis.

Thanx for thinking of me, Herr General - and pretty clever to use wrappings from the bonafide Aurora kit to aid in your "ruse"!

Just amazing little works of art, those Marx monsters... who was that masked sculptor anyway? I emailed the Louis Marx Museum with an inquiry - they responded, but unfortunately had no info...

Whoever it was, I think these two publicity stills were used as reference for the Mummy  & the Creature, who have always been my favorites out of the six :



That's the only still I've ever seen of Kharis with his burned right arm/fingerless hand raised like that, and the pose of the Marx figure is just so atypical for it to be a coincidence. 99.9% of the time that hand is on his chest...

And anyone can see the Marx figure in that still from Revenge of the Creature.

While we're on the subject of references, I've read countless times about the likeness of the Marx Hunchback being Charles Laughton - to me that figure has always been Anthony Quinn.

Zombiehorror, thanks for starting yet another enjoyable thread... so glad I enlisted!