I recently passed up on a Marx Gold Knight at a car boot sale. The box was a bit battered and I didn't want to part with £15. I'm getting definitely tighter as I get older!
I loved the Marx Knights as a kid though. You got tons of accessories like swords, cuirasses, helmets, leg armour, boots and maces. I had a Black Night as well and a Marx Horse. fabulous toys when I think back and similar to the Marx Johnny West and Johnny Apollo line of action figures and accessories.
Nowadays if I see gold plastic I always think of my Marx Knights. There's surprisingly more gold plastoc around than you think and bottle caps are a good example of Marx gold! I wonder if it could be easily melted down to help reproduce missing Marx parts, although I have a feeling that many Marx action figures like the Noble Knights and sets have been re-issued around the world and may even still be in production. Does anyone know?
I have come to associate gold plastic with Marx more than anyone else. Although I can't recall I wouldn't be surprised if I mixed up my gold accessories as a kid and had the Gold knight sporting an air tank, Johnny West wearing a helmet and Johnny Apollo riding a horse! Have you any Marx memories readers?
I've still got Thunderbolt, the Palomino horse that a pal swapped with me for a tin truck back around 1968. I've now got another few to go with Johnny West & Chief Cherokee figures I got back in the late '80s or early '90s. (As well as some Dapol re-issues.) Not quite Action Man, but not without their own charm.
ReplyDeleteAh, Thunderbolt! That was a neat swap I reckon Kid, I loved the Best of the West figures as a nipper in the Sixties. I thought Johnny West had the toughest face of any 'ombre going [maybe he was based on a film star?]. There was something brilliant about having everything made out of plastic, especially that thick clammy stuff Marx made the waistcoats and Indian chestplates out of. I then found two later boxed figures in a charity shop about 20 years ago. They were so cool. Alas, in the goldrush of the early Ebay days I flogged 'em. Gone west!
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