Louis Marx & Company Cars Of The Future - Gray Car #4

Well, with a little interruption to the schedule (are blogs s'posed to have schedules?) we finally put a cap to our look at repo Marx Cars of the Future in gray - car #4. I do have several other sets in different colors but am reluctant to post them as we could potentially be looking at the same four cars for months on end.  Now, from what I've been able to determine, none of the repo cars were issued in bright, playful colors like some other repo Marx stuff I've seen out there. And in fact, I've never noticed an original Marx Future Car from this series in really bright colors either. I have seen smaller Marx space cars in bright colors though.

I'm not sure yet what I'll post next by way of space stuff so just stay tuned to this station! Enjoy!

Louis Marx & Company Cars Of The Future - Gray Car #3

Here's the third installment of the Louis Marx & Co. Cars of the Future. Now keep in mind that these are  repos of cars originally made in the '50s. The cars pictured here were made by an '80s  era company with rights to use the Marx name as the original Marx went out of business in 1975. I was going through some of my space stuff and found - to my surprise - that I do in fact have the original Marx cars!! WOW Okay, so it stands to reason that some day I'm gonna have to feature them here as well. But for now - Enjoy!

Louis Marx & Company Cars Of The Future - Gray Car #2

Today Toys & Stuff features car #2 (the numbers are cast underneath the body, so it's easy to determine what they are) in the 'Cars of The Future' series. Enjoy!

Louis Marx & Company Cars Of The Future - Gray Car #1

The 1950s was a great time for space toys and every toy company jumped on the space band wagon. The Marx Company was no exception and had everything from large space themed playsets featuring a terrific tin-litho  building and lots of Astronauts and Aliens. They also had ray guns, space ships, and futuristic space cars like the ones shown here. Space Cars or Futuristic Cars were a popular sub-category of space toys and were offered by many toy companies. Marx's plastic versions measure approx 5" (12.7cm) L and came in nice metallic colors like copper. Fast forward to 1992; the original Loius Marx & Company, Inc. is now defunct, the tooling has been spread to the four corners of the earth, and one of the companies which was formed in the late 1980s using some of the old Marx tooling goes by the name Louis Marx & Company.

This new incarnation of Marx made a grand attempt at producing toys in the same vein as the original, putting out playsets which also featured tin-litho centerpieces, and a variety of other toys. One of those re-releases was a set of plastic Cars Of The Future. This 4-pack included two different 'convertibles' and two different hardtops. The sets came in four different colors and each set of four was packaged in a header bag. All four sets could be purchased in a cardboard box pictured below. We'll start with the gray set and feature one car a week - that way it gives me time to work on other things  Enjoy!I Like it auch Deine Frau Bettina :)