Marx Monsters

[Dr.Terror]

So anyway.....the Milton bags are taped closed and the cream repops are in heat sealed bags.   

[horrorhunter]

I dug out my Uncle Milton repop glow-in-the-dark figures still sealed on the blister cards and checked the base bottoms. They just have the Uni info, no dates and no Marx. I bought the carded glows new at TRU but I never saw the Uncle Milton Monster Studio until years later when I bought mine from an eBay seller. Evidently the seller had put a bag of the other cream repops in the Monster Studio box and all this time I thought the repops with the dates were by Uncle Milton. That explains my confusion about these. I was wrong in my assumption, but I was just going on what I had experienced. I had never thought to check the base bottoms of the sealed carded figures closely mainly because that plastic is hard to make out details on especially inside the plastic bubbles.

I find it strange that all of these other cream-colored Marx repops with the dates and Marx info came out around the time of the Uncle Miltons (early '90s). Weird coincidence that could have caused a lot of confusion as to who made them.

[Monsters For Sale]

Didn't the paint set Marxies have the option of ordering more figures through the mail?

Maybe the replacement set you ordered carried different information on the bases?

((Or I am "remembering" something that never was.)

[horrorhunter]

Didn't the paint set Marxies have the option of ordering more figures through the mail?

Maybe the replacement set you ordered carried different information on the bases?

((Or I am "remembering" something that never was.)

I never ordered a replacement set.

The Monster Studio I bought from the eBay seller had the cream repops with the dates and Marx info. I guess the seller must have included the wrong Marx repops instead of the ones made by Uncle Milton. It's just weird that those repops came out around when the Uncle Milton ones did ('90s). I wonder who even made the cream Marx repops with the Marx info and dates.

Evidently Uncle Milton blocked off the little mold circle with the Marx info and dates when they recast the figures. Whoever repopped the other cream ones didn't do that which lead to confusion in general about when the cream ones came out. It's also lead to those figures being misrepresented as being from the '60s and some collectors overpaying for recasts from much later.

[Mike Scott]

The Monster Studio I bought from the eBay seller had the cream repops with the dates and Marx info.

So, you bought it used/opened?

[horrorhunter]

So, you bought it used/opened?

I bought it from an eBay seller. I don't remember the details since it was several years ago, but it arrived complete in a nice box with instructions, paints and brush in the plastic container that snaps shut, and all six monster figures in a sealed bag. The seller must have included a bag of the cream repops with the Marx info and dates instead of the bag with the Milton repops. All this time I thought they were the Miltons. It never came up that there were two different sets of '90s cream Marx repops so I just thought there were only Miltons until this discussion came up.

The fact that there are two different sets of '90s cream Marx Monster repops is kind of crazy when you think about it. I knew about the Plastimarx green and tan ones, and the plethora of Mexican repops in every color imaginable with the blank mold circles, but I always thought the cream ones were made by Uncle Milton. Always learning, I guess.

[Jim Bertges]

So, where does this guy fit into this conversation? He was given to me by a friend in the UK many years ago, he has the Marx and Universal marks on the base. Is he cream or tan? I'm confused.

[horrorhunter]

So, where does this guy fit into this conversation? He was given to me by a friend in the UK many years ago, he has the Marx and Universal marks on the base. Is he cream or tan? I'm confused.

Looks like a Plastimarx tan one from the '70s or '80s. I have the Plastimarx green ones but not the tan ones, but I do have a 3rd series tan Nutty Mad which I think is by Plastimarx. Plastimarx was a Mexican Marx affiliate which became their own company in the '70s. The Plastimarx base bottoms are marked just like Marx originals in orange which came out in 1964 with the date barred out. This is just based on what I've been able to learn so I could be mistaken.

[horrorhunter]

Here's the dope on Plastimarx: https://dfarq.homeip.net/plastimarx-marxs-mexican-subsidiary/

[horrorhunter]

Someone bought this full set of 6 Mexican Bootleg Marx Monsters MIP for around $122 total.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/187754822434



Not sure when these came out. They may be Plastimarx but they're probably more recent. The shade of green is darker than the lime-green ones which I think were made by Plastimarx in the '70s/'80s. Cool set for collectors of Mexican Bootlegs and Marx Monsters. I like the kid graphics on the header card.