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Due to popular demand, The Official Marx Toy Museum
is bringing more of the museum to website!
A Vintage 1950's Snack Area &
Gift Shop
Go back to the "good ole days" in the 1950's snack area and gift shop.
Complete with "old" style restaurant booths, black & white tile floor, juke box,
original coke machines, vintage signs, and more. Sit back and enjoy some
freshly made popcorn, a bottled Coca-Cola, and a little sock hoppin' music to
get you tappin' your toe. And while you're visiting, you might want to
pick up a little something to take home to remember your visit. The museum
gift shop offers movies or magazines giving more detail to the history of Louis
Marx and Marx
toys, a Marx Toy Museum shirt or hat, a reproduction sign from the 1950's, an
old Coca-Cola thermometer, or newly reissued Marx Toys.
Playsets of the 50's & 60's
The Marx playsets of the 1950's and 60's provided not only hours of fun for the
children of the time, but produced childhood memories that will last a lifetime
for millions around the world. The Official Marx Toy Museum takes pride in
the collection of playsets currently on display and the many memories they have
bought back to those who visit...
Model Room
The Official Marx Toy Museum has been fortunate to have met with many artists
from the Marx model room. Their creations were proven brilliant by the
children who played with them, their talents were proven to be truly amazing by
the enthusiast who collect them today. The Official Marx Toy Museum displays not only the original
hand-carved prototypes behind the toys
produced by Marx, but the original pencil sketches, the artwork, the molds of the toys, the ideas that never
came to production, and the stories the toys can not tell.
Western Related Items
Almost everyone remembers the Marx Fort Apache, the giant fort that would snap
together with little blockhouses over the corner and a gate in front. What
about some of the TV related western toys, such as the Gunsmoke, Wagon Train,
Zorro, Roy Rogers, and the Lone Ranger Playsets. The Official Marx Toy
Museum takes you into the playset with a life-size western town with jail
side...straight out of the western town playsets. Guaranteed to make you
feel like a cowboy when you swing open those saloon doors!
Wind-Ups
When you think of the Marx wind-ups, you are thinking about those classic
toys before plastic was even invented, with the Marx Merrymakers being the most
memorable. The Marx wind-ups were amazing toys with truly remarkable
engineering. Their creativity is what has kept them so memorable to this
day.
Service Stations, Transportation, & Construction
Marx believed that children enjoyed playing with toys that they would see
in real life, and as a result, his toys stopped nothing short of anything and
everything children might see from day to day. From dump trucks to garbage
trucks, road graders to telephone trucks, tractor trailers to car haulers, army
trucks to fire engines, if it was out there and driving on the road, Marx
created a toy to its liking. Marx produced a wide variety of service
stations in all forms from single levels to three level car garages, service
stations with elevators, service stations with car washes. And a
construction set in a four foot sandbox could open the imagination of any
child...
Action Figures
Although the majority of the Marx action figures did not come about until
later in Marx's toy production, a new generation of Marx enthusiasts will never forget
the hours of imagination spent playing with Johnny West, Stoney Smith, Sindy,
and the many others. Unlike previous figures that Marx produced, these
action figures stood 12" tall, were fully movable, and were designed to compete with GI Joe & Barbie.
Ride-On Toys
Marx produced ride-on toys throughout the many years of toy production.
Starting with simple ride-on trains and fire engines, to the battery operated
cars of the late 50's, the Stutz Bearcat of the early 60, and perhaps the most
memorable, the Marx Big Wheel and its many variations.
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