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Friday 25 August 2023

Go West!

When I wuz a kid in the Sixties I enjoyed playing with my Johnny West a lot, Marx's solid plastic cowboy man.

I know I had Chief Cherokee as well and maybe Geronimo.

Reading my Tomarts guide I see there were so many more figures in the range. Jamie the boy, Jane the girl ( I've bought and sold Jane), Sam Cobra the baddie, Captain Maddox and General Custer!

There were loads of accessories too. I may have had a horse and a camp set.

Which Johnny West toys did you have readers? Any other cowboy toys?
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15 comments:

  1. Baron Greystone8/25/2023 12:34 am

    I had no cowboy toys in the 60s. Space was the place for me.

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    1. WOODSY8/25/2023 11:45 am

      I know what you mean Baron. Space and Monsters were top dog for me with cowboys and army and everything else following on.

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  2. Anonymous8/25/2023 4:03 am

    Same here. It took awhile to warm to Westerns

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    1. WOODSY8/25/2023 11:46 am

      British TV was chock full of Westerns so they were just about everywhere in the Sixties.

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  3. lewis p morley8/25/2023 8:40 am

    I had a Cowboy knock-off! The head and hands were soft vinyl, but the body and boots were hollow blow-moulded polythene. The hat and gun belt were injection moulded polythene. All up, very cheap! But I did have a Genuine Marx Gold Knight...

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    1. WOODSY8/25/2023 11:47 am

      Wonder what it was Looey?

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    2. Scott Kellogg8/25/2023 1:55 pm

      Neat! My brother had the Gold Knight, and I had the Silver Knight. We both had the horses to go with them. I'd forgotten all about them!

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  4. Paul Adams from New Zealand8/25/2023 10:48 am

    I grew up with Westerns in the 1960s and 1970s. There was Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Virginian, and The Big Valley on TV, and plenty of old Western movies. There was always something with John Wayne.
    I never had any big Western dolls, but I did have various cowboy toys around 54mm size, mainly Timpo cowboys and Indians. An open wagon, and a very brittle, hard plastic stagecoach, but no covered wagon.
    Airfix also did some smaller scale Cowboy and Indian sets.

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    1. WOODSY8/25/2023 11:48 am

      Yep, sounds like Blighty that Paul. Tons of TV westerns. I think top gun was the High Chaparral in our house, Manalito and Blue et al! The theme music was fabulous!

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  5. Anonymous8/25/2023 2:53 pm

    Never collected cowboys or Indians, but still recall vividly the commercial for Johnny West in the U.S.: “It’s a fight to the finish, as you can see, between Johnny West and Chief Cherokee!!!” SFZ

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  6. Tony k8/25/2023 5:14 pm

    Western toys were amongst the many themes which sparked my young imagination as a kid, Woodsy. I still pick pieces up as and when I can. Two recent finds were Janice and Josie West from the Marx range. Johnny and Jane's pioneering daughters.

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    1. WOODSY8/28/2023 1:01 am

      Fantastic finds Tone! From a toy fair?

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  7. Paul Adams from New Zealand8/25/2023 9:14 pm

    Airfix actually did a High Chaparal set. Their existing Cowboys set with one of the old figure sprues replaced with a new sprue with the main characters from the show. Big John Cannon had his arm around Victoria - he obviously did not want to loose another wife.

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