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MARX SPACE FIGURES AND ACCESSORIES
Marx reissue Palm trees & ferns as outer space plants.
A small set with a wind up gyro space ship + astronauts, aliens and a few accessories. The figures and accessories were all in one mold and run in both green and orange colors. They were then split up so each set would have astronauts in one color and aliens in the other with the accessories being a mix.
Marx reissue Space Ranger items; Fourteen 30/35mm Figures (8 astronauts & 6 aliens) + three rockets with launcher (no spring)+ two other items (I am not sure of their use). A mix of off whites & grays. Pretty much the same figures as the Marx Mystery ship figures except the two astronauts with big hoops on their heads. The reissue assortment varies from bag to bag.
Small maybe 30mm in scale. Made in metallic colors.
Reissues of the spaceships in bright colors were made in Mexico in the 1990s.
Small 1/72 scale gray copies with factory paint of Marx 45mm Space Patrol figures were made in the 1950s/60s and were sold on blister cards and perhaps in "gum ball" machines. These figures can also be found in a variety of unpainted colors.
The Space patrol figures were made in tan and shades of redbrown/orange. They are made of rubber like vinyl. The mold had one each of the two aliens and two women and two each of the 8 men. Sets that had only 10 figures would then not get one of the aliens and one of the women.
This mold contained 20 cavities and has the figures known as "Rex Mars" or "generic" space figures. There were two of the figure "floating in space", and one each of the other 12 humans and 6 aliens/robots. Playsets would have multiples of this grouping depending upon size. Most of these figures exist with and without bases (the mold was altered). In early sets they were usually made in blue or yellow rubber like vinyl. In later years they were made of soft plastic in blue, silver, cream, metallic blue and a variety of other colors. Metallic blue and cream figures were used in Cape Canaveral
Looking through device, red, food premium.
This mold had 20 cavities. It contained two each of Tom Corbett standing hands on hips, seated driver figure and figure sitting reading a book + one each of the other 12 humans and two aliens. The Tom Corbet figures were usually made in gray rubber like vinyl in earlier years and soft plastic in later years.
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Six of the seven (except crawling pose) were included in the Generic "Rex Mars" mold. The big ears and face mask poses were also found in the Space Patrol mold, and the big ears and crawling poses were in the Tom Corbet mold. So the crawling figure seems hardest to find and the big ears figure the most common. Soft Plastic (polyethylene) figures have bases while earlier rubber like vinyl can be found with and without bases.
ORIGINAL VINTAGE 1950s ACCESSORIES. made in light blue & gold.
Reissue Marx PL-469 Space Academy inside accessories. Made in a semisoft red plastic.
54 and 60mm Figures
First Series 54mm Silver Astronauts
This mold was made in 1961. PL-1120 had 16 cavities that included two different 2pc "bell" suits + 12 figures in 9 poses with three of the poses in duplicate. The seated figure was also used in the space capsule mold (PL-1119) and the pointing astronaut was put into the revised ground crew mold about 1961.
The Apollo astronauts are also called the "60mm" astronauts although they are more like 58mm in scale. They were made in white and bright orange. The mold PL-1503 had 34 cavities making two "sets" of 17 pieces as seen above. There were two different rockets, a small thin box and 14 figures in 12 poses in each "set". One duplicate was the man walking with ring hand as it took two of this pose to "carry" the thin box. Based on what we have seen the other duplicate is the figure with the hammer. As the mold made two sets the second duplicate could be different between the two 17 piece sets. This was the last playset figure mold Marx made and these figures were not put into playsets as complete 17 piece sets so it is difficult to determine the mold contents. Six of the poses were also made (PL-1500) in the 6 inch scale, usually in white.
4206 GALAXY COMMAND boxed playset from the final year of Marx (1979. Looks to be near complete. There is a small crack in one of the vacuform pieces (see picture) and damage to three hard plastic pieces; trailer has railing split on one side and the disc helical radar antennae and the standard radar have broken attachment pegs. Box is a C6-7 and has insert.
Six Inch Astronaut with camera at chest, white. ()
Like many of their figure molds the Marx scientists & technitions mold had 16 cavities. The original mold made in 1959 had two each of six poses and one each of four poses (see photo above). In 1961 the mold was revised (thanks to Rusty Kern of PLAYSET MAGAZINE for the date information) and one of the two figures "holding gloves up" was replaced with a fully suited astronaut pointing (see picture below). We have seen the later mold shot figures including the astronaut in all the colors except metallic blue (this pose is also included in the silver astronaut mold and a smaller version in the Disneyland playset figure mold).
60mm Spacemen w/ plug on heads and front/backpacks, factory painted.
70mm Space Figures
Reissue Marx Cape Canaveral playset were made in the late 1990s. More stuff than is in the picture. Three sets of 45mm airforce figures (60-66 total), bag of construction workers, two white rocket launchers with multi-piece rockets, one orange rocket launcher with 3 black rockets (NO rubber tips, 3 blue saucer launchers, gray accessories, tin building and wall with plastic top piece, decals and instruction sheet. Great Christmas present.
SPACE ACCESSORIES
blister card, NONE. Picture courtesy David Schafer.
Rescue Helicopter. 
Ground vehicles. 
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Operating gantry. 
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- Compass used with this and the NIKE launchers, working.
Launchers & rockets. 
NIKE launcher, white, needs spring. 
reissue NIKE launcher. 
4115 Star Station Seven Playset;
Moon Base Accessories
Moon Base Vehicles
Marx made a small "exploding" mountain for their WWII playsets which were made in brown hard plastic. it was then used in the Moon Base playsets in light green. Picture above shows both versions (MISSING TRIGGER). It was reissued without a spring or trigger in the 1990s in a bronze color.
PL-470 Space Academy Outdoor accessories
The mold produced 17 pieces that made 11 assembled items. Usually made in a silver color hard plastic, but later sets used pieces made in blue, orange and yellow as well.
- Tin 50 Star tin litho flag with plastic pole & base. ()