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Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Mystery Marx Men

These two 6 inch spacemen are currently being Ebayed in the USA. The witty seller, sallyanddust, describes them as being marked as Marx. As also pointed out they do look like a sort of Major Matt design. I'm intrigued! Anyone know what they are?

PS. these guys remind me of the Michelin Man driving our friend the Moon Ranger! hee hee.

3 comments:

Devlin Thompson said...

There are a bunch of similar Mexican astronaut figures, some (like mine) having ape heads:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/devlinthompson/2930347947/

Here are some others that I don't own:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhuntercollection/5570140314/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhuntercollection/6366760501/

And here's one with an identical chest:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendofziras/4346967316/

Anonymous said...

I buy one of this guys, exactly the same one in 1973 in spain.

WOODSY said...

Thanks for those links Devlin. Fascinating. I love the Ape Men! So these two spacemen maybe Mexican then.

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