Sold in dimestores, the a set of the large figures cost 25 cents, and The animals represented, large, medium, and small. Marx sitting and squatting poses are undersized. Pose 5 also appears rather small, but I have found that several Note that Pose 4 below is much smaller and stouter than the otherįigures, and appears to either be a boy or come from aĭifferent prehistoric line in the development of modern mankind. Separate group of enemy cavemen to add a little human conflict. Marx could certainly have created quite a playset byĮxpanding the number of figures in this group, perhaps even including a Of the company's more violent 6-inch cavemen shown at the bottom of The variety of poses puts them well ahead Unfortunate, because when viewed through a magnifying glass (orĮnlarged in photos as below), these figures prove to be almostĮxquisitely sculpted. The Wild West, military, cartoon, and other themes. While Marx' dinosaurs were and remain very popular, this group ofĬavemen has taken a backseat to the many more popular figures in The figures were made in soft plastic and came in a variety of cream, brown, and tan colors. Movies did the same thing, and they looked a lot more excitingly real to us kids than the boring facts did. Not have cared less that it was totally unrealistic. To provide kids a good guy versus bad guy scenario in all his playsets,Īnd cavemen against the dinosaurs did the trick. Live during the period that dinosaurs ruled the Earth, but Marx wanted This small group of cavemen was available only in the company's prehistoric playsets. The final playset was a storage box style World ofĭinosaurs shortly before the company went bankrupt in 1980. Marx halted its production of prehistoric playsets in 1963, but theĬompany's subsequent owners produced several additional sets in theġ970s, adding large mountain pieces shown in the accessories Some of the same dinosaurs (see Cartoons page of this web site). Marx probably did better with its cartoon Flintstones Play Set that used Popularity by never creating any unique accessories or significant number of human figures in this theme. Virtually guaranteed that its prehistoric playsets would not gain great Were (and remain) much in demand by fans of prehistoric Many popular movies of the time featuring monsters and dinosaurs in theġ950s, the company's dinosaurs sold well right from the start, and they At the same time, I am pretty sure that not all Prehistoric animals are in a much smaller scale than the cavemen, aboutĢ5mm (1/72). PFPC Issue 66 points out that most of the Were never sold individually and appeared only in Two years later, the first Marx prehistoric playset appeared in the Sears Christmas Catalog for $4.67, including a group of 45mm cavemen and several terrain pieces. Marx first sold its dinosaur figures in 1955 at dimestores.
Magazine had not featured the Marx prehistoric playsets in any of its In PFPC Issue 28, from which I have drawn additional information.
Marx dinosaurs areĪlso discussed in an article by Wilson McClung on toy dinosaur figures Glenn Ridenour, which appeared in Plastic Figure and PlaysetĬollector (PFPC) magazine, Issue 64. The primary exceptions to this are 1) 6-inch figures, which are decreasedīy about half and 2) some larger terrain items that have been decreased in size.Ī great deal of the information on this page comes from theĪrticle "Prehistoric Sets, The Untold Story" written by Rusty Kern and Are shown in approximately proper proportion when comparedįigures.
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