ED'S MARX MOON GRABBER

I've had one Marx Moon Grabber in the collection for years now. 

I believe there were four total in the series, and they are bloody hard to acquire in complete and working condition. My sample is fine cosmetically but doesn't work. They're perfectly scaled to display alongside any 54mm astronaut. 

The box photo was culled from fleaBay.

From Vegas Base

Ed

USA

WILL OSBORNE'S MARX MOON SETS

Some pictures of my Marx toys moon sets.

Will.

More Marx Moon Base

Hi Woodsy, the Marx vehicles are named in this picture from an old toy mag.

CS

Woodsy says: thanks a lot CS. Coincidentally, Toad recently shared the whole article with me, which was fascinating. Here's a piccy of the relevant issue, #35 from 1995 in case anyone wants to track it down. It would appear from the Plastic Figure and Playset Collector Magazine Website that back issues are still available!

Mystery On Moon Base

Does anybody know what scale this 1960's Marx Operation Moon Base is? Are the vehicles the same size as Spacex/ Golden Astronaut? Any information would be welcomed. I'd be particularly grateful for a photograph of the small blue bulldozer [far left] next to any Spacex/ Golden Astronaut or Apollo Moon Exploring toys for comparison. Thanks.

WOTAN wades in: Ive got a repro version of the red Mercury capsule on the upper right. The figures would appear to be 54mm as PT suggests, but the vehicles vary in relative scale, like Spacex toys. If the red capsule is to scale with evrything else in the photo, the blue bulldozer would be about 3 inches long.

 This pic shows the various parts, the astronaut is a standard MPC one, roughly the right kind of pose to sit in the recessed base.

 Just for comaparison, I also have this loose red capsule with Spacex scale pilots, this would have come from one of the spring launched Atlas rockets in the sixties.