Marx Monsters

[Richard]

SWEET collection Richard. I'm a graphics guy myself and if I had the $$ I'd have even more stuff in my already crowded rooms.

WOW, Richard! That display of yours is nothing short of hypnotic!! My eyes glazed over and i felt a drool string about to escape from the corner of my mouth within seconds...can only imagine how cool it must be to oggle in person!

Oh, I see............all you have are the FREAKING GOLDEN AGE monster toys. I beg you......post pics. Soon. PLEASE!!!   

Thank you, all!  But nothing really special in my collection.

The things I have~ everyone has seen all of this stuff already, and more (in the Media /gallery section of UMA).
However, I have my ideas of display which could be different than the next person. So perhaps I can show pics of my monster room in the interest of how I like to arrange things. That could be useful. It might help out someone else with their display. Some items are mint. Some are so-so. But I attempt to work everything into an interesting display with an emphasis on maximum viewing (understanding that the space to contain this is severely limited).

Hepcat has a link to the "show your  monster room" section in a previous post. I see it is in the modern toy section. I'd really like to start a thread right here~  in this vintage section. Not to confuse or duplicate but most of my displayed stuff is just that~vintage era. Let me think about it. 

[Allhallowsday]

Orange and Blue are the only two original colors.  They were the only colors anyone had seen until the first repros started coming out in the mid-1980's.  The date and markings are not consistent on the bottoms of them.   The first reissued were cream colored, and then the glow ones came out.  After that they started coming in many other colors too.

I agree.  However, I don't know if collectors of the originals are aware that all six original figures, in sets of three orange and three blue, were sold in plastic ILLUSTRATED BAGS...!  I have only seen an original illustrated bag once, but I am certain it exists (though I could be wrong about the color combinations - they might have been sold six blue in a bag and six orange in a bag).  I also believe retailers opened these bags and dumped the loose figures into bins for merchandising.  Sometimes these figures are found with ink stamped prices on the base (like 25 cents).  I do remember seeing MARX plastic figures (which I call "waxy plastic") in the five and dime stores of the mid 1960s when I was a babe in the Woo...lworths...!  Collectors of certain types of Halloween plastic (particularly sucker holders) call those pieces "hard plastic" (but I think they should be called "brittle plastic").  I have long collected Halloween and monsters, so my five and 10 cent store memories are invaluable to me!   

[horror1o1]

I agree.  However, I don't know if collectors of the originals are aware that all six original figures, in sets of three orange and three blue, were sold in plastic ILLUSTRATED BAGS...!  I have only seen an original illustrated bag once, but I am certain it exists (though I could be wrong about the color combinations - they might have been sold six blue in a bag and six orange in a bag).  I also believe retailers opened these bags and dumped the loose figures into bins for merchandising.  Sometimes these figures are found with ink stamped prices on the base (like 25 cents).  I do remember seeing MARX plastic figures (which I call "waxy plastic") in the five and dime stores of the mid 1960s when I was a babe in the Woo...lworths...!  Collectors of certain types of Halloween plastic (particularly sucker holders) call those pieces "hard plastic" (but I think they should be called "brittle plastic").  I have long collected Halloween and monsters, so my five and 10 cent store memories are invaluable to me!   

I know nutty mads came in a similar type of bag as well.

[Hepcat]

Collectors of certain types of Halloween plastic (particularly sucker holders) call those pieces "hard plastic" (but I think they should be called "brittle plastic").

I take it you're referring to the sucker holders as brittle plastic as opposed to the Marx figures.

[Allhallowsday]

I take it you're referring to the sucker holders as brittle plastic as opposed to the Marx figures.

Yes, Halloween sucker holders are very easily cracked, chipped, and you wouldn't want to drop one!  Also, they are subject to melt marks.  I refer to them as "brittle plastic" but it's not a term that has caught on.  I refer to Nutty Mads, Marx 1964 Monsters, MPC Pop Tops and Weird Monsters as "waxy plastic".  As far as I know, nobody else does.  I do hear the term "hard plastic", particularly for the Marx Monsters because they are heavy, durable, and you wouldn't want one thrown at your head! 

[Hepcat]

Waxy plastic is probably the best term for them though.

The problem is that I don't even know what Halloween sucker holders are so I can't make the comparison.

[Allhallowsday]

Here is a pic I took 3 or 4 years ago - it shows one "sucker holder" (we called them "lolipops" not "suckers" when I was a kid).  The sucker holder is the masked "party goer" on the left side of the image holding the flat pumpkin.  When new this toy, which is on wheels, would have had a few "suckers," probably wrapped together in cellophane and secured with a rubber band, in the pouch on his back. 

[horror1o1]

Here is a pic I took 3 or 4 years ago - it shows one "sucker holder" (we called them "lolipops" not "suckers" when I was a kid).  The sucker holder is the masked "party goer" on the left side of the image holding the flat pumpkin.  When new this toy, which is on wheels, would have had a few "suckers," probably wrapped together in cellophane and secured with a rubber band, in the pouch on his back.

still drooling over the STrange bucket. Man that thing is beautiful.

[Scatter]

still drooling over the STrange bucket. Man that thing is beautiful.

You ain't kiddin' brother.

[Allhallowsday]

Finally got the MARX monsters pic to load: 

[Haunted hearse]

I'm wondering how many kids ever used the Phantom figure as a stand-in for Dracula?  Too bad Marx never made one.

[Allhallowsday]

[CreepyJeff]

I have the blue set but need/want the orange set of Marx monsters.  PM sent.

[Allhallowsday]

Here's some closed auctions of the orange MARX monsters:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item337aceae83&item=221103697539&nma=true&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&rt=nc&si=x29VQ1u1FfTP7gVeJxy5V87DAOg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item2572ae057a&item=160837797242&nma=true&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&rt=nc&si=x29VQ1u1FfTP7gVeJxy5V87DAOg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item4845f1d712&item=310411122450&nma=true&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&rt=nc&si=x29VQ1u1FfTP7gVeJxy5V87DAOg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc 

[Hepcat]

Hepcat has a link to the "show your  monster room" section in a previous post. I see it is in the modern toy section. I'd really like to start a thread right here~  in this vintage section. Not to confuse or duplicate but most of my displayed stuff is just that~vintage era. Let me think about it. 

We definitely don't need a new "vintage" toy room thread. Most posters have toys that are all mixed together. At what year would you draw the line? How would you separate things out?

The original poster probably put the thread in the Modern Toy forum because the rooms are quite naturally from today.