Sharing our Marx toys is a privilege we take seriously.
This site is updated regularly. Please check back often to find out more wonderful information about Marx Toys. Last updated on April 16th, 2012. Click here to see about THE DUMP!!!!!!!!!
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BULLETIN --- BULLETIN --- BULLETIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's time again for the annual MARX Toy and Train convention in Wheeling, West Virginia
This 14th convention will be held on June 15 and 16 2012 at the Kruger Street Toy and Train Museum. The address is 144 Kruger Street -- Wheeling, West Virginia 26003. You may call 1-304-242-8133 or toll free 1-877-242-8133 if you need information or e-mail museum@toyandtrain.com There are motels close by and fine restaurants in the area also. It is a fun time for all ages !!!!!
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| HELLO TOY COLLECTORS !!!!!!
It has been a very nice summer and we are back from our trips in the search of more rare toys. The Marx Toy & Train convention at the Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum was a lot of fun and the special talks were great. One talk, authored by John Twarog, was about special trains that were featured on the Johnny Carson show. This is a convention not to be missed !!
The year was 1998 and a group of people started to plan the birth of a museum, featuring MARX toys, in Erie, PA. We had a 1927 Buick in the storage barn intending to restore the car to it's original condition. While planning for the new museum, we wanted to have public exposure so it was decided to use the Buick as a parade car. After looking at many MARX toys, we decided to duplicate the MARX LEAPING LENA windup toy into a life size down the road parade car !!!!! After much cutting and bolting, viola !!! we had the body built and painted black and the tires white. THEN--- former MARX artists Dick Rastetter and Norm Thompson put their skills to work and lettered the car exactly like the toy. Look at the picture of the radiator and see the toy in place. We put the car in the Erie Zoo Parade and it was greatly received. Now after many years we have replaced Lena with the two cars shown above and participate in about 4 to 5 parades a year. Toys of any size are a fine way to stay young !!!!!!!!
HAVE FUN:
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| The VIRTUAL MARX MUSEUM volunteers in the community at special events. The parade cars, shown to the left, are a big hit with the children and adults too!!! This picture was taken in front of the ExpERIEnce Children's Museum, in Erie PA and shows some of the volunteers. The occasion was the annual Halloween Party (HALLOBALOO) held on October 24th & 25th 2009. The Virtual Marx Museum volunteers to take the children on a tour of the downtown Erie area. The rides are about fifteen minutes long. Everybody, including adults, really enjoy riding in a " LIFE SIZE " Marx toy train !!!!!! You may see the ExpERIEnce Children's Museum's web site by going to our link page.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL TOY COLLECTORS AND HISTORY BUFFS !!
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UPDATE!!!!!! 1/19/2011
The PLAYSET MAGAZINE people, Rusty & Kathy Kern, have once again produced another book about the great Louis Marx Toy Companies empire. The first book, which is still available, was volume #1 and now we have volume #2 entitled "Toy Kings". This current book, again, has information that the world has never known about MARX toys and the people that made them !!!!! We commented before that volume one was exceptional and the pictures were rare. Volume #2 continues on and is a book that is a must read !! You may contact Playset Magazine from our link page.
A new book that details the history of the Louis Marx Toy Company is now available for purchase
from PLAYSET MAGAZINE . This book is a masterpiece of the life of Louis Marx and his empire of Marx toys and playsets. We have read many interpretations of The Marx Company but this is the entire true story never told before. The contents are so detailed, with hundreds of never before published pictures, that we are now reading it for the third time. Russell and Kathy Kern are to be congratulated for such a fine publication. You may preview, and purchase, the book by clicking on their link.... http://www.playsetmagazine.com/
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| It has been two years now that the MARX MUSEUM in Erie PA closed. The story may be found on this page -- look for the line. The toy museum began in 1998 when a group of people met in downtown Erie and made plans to open a museum featuring MARX toys. It was the proper thing to do since Louis B. Marx opened his first toy factory here. There were some former employees, interested people and toy collectors present and the seed was planted !! We found a building and got to work. After a little more than a year, of hard work, the doors opened and the dream came true !!!! Museums, ALL museums, must have dedicated personel to remain open. But--time goes on and men grow old. For those of you that have pictures of the Marx Museum building, please copy the ones on this page. What you are looking at is the final death knoll of the story. There will be another toy museum, in Erie PA and the plans have been on the drawing board for many months. Stay tuned----we will never give up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Click on the McDonalds to find out where to find $.15 hamburgers!!!
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A Sampling of our Marx toy collection can currently be experienced in downtown Erie at two premier museums of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Because we love our toys and are obsessed with Marx Toy history, we have established this "cyber" museum to present and exchange toy pictures and information.
FUN STUFF is planned for the website as well, including updates on the museum displays, articles dedicated to cleaning and repairing tips for your old tin wind-ups, and perhaps an on-line toy appraisal before you list it on e-bay!
Our goal in all this remains the same. We want to share the toys with other Marx wind-up enthusiasts. In doing so, the rich history of Marx Toys will be preserved and protected.
Please keep checking back as we add more reference information about these toys. For example, would you be interested in all the history we can present about the Climbing monkeys, the wind-up geese, the disney character toys? Stay tuned while we finish taking the pictures and writing up the history!!
What would you like to see on this site?
SEND US AN E-MAIL!!!
Sincerely,
Bud,Kobie&Dan
Click here to e-mail your ideas or feedback!
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Hello to the world of toy collectors, toy sellers, and those of you just taking a trip down memory lane!
We, THE MARX VIRTUAL MUSEUM, have established this site as a family oriented place for all ages of people to visit. We offer nothing for sale nor do we have commercial advertisements.
Our museum is for the enjoyment of all people. You have our permission to use the material of www.marxmuseum.com, but please mention that you found the information here so others can find us.
The Marx Virtual Museum is NOT affiliated with any other toy museum. We have this cyber site and we install displays for special occasions in public institutions. We also design and manufacture motion displays with a theme for all ages.
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