MY DINOSAUR COLLECTION
This is my Marx Brontosaurus page. I have a bunch of pictures for this subpart of my site. I worked hard to give you a good site with lots of pictures.
And it's a wonderful subpart of my site. The Marx mold Brontosaurus is a wonderful sight to look at, and I group them together in pictures for even more fun. I have a big picture of my fleet of Marx and Marx recast Brontos. On the next page, I provide a picture of each Bronto individually. Aint I swell?
When the Marx Company went out of business around 1980 after the founder died, the molds for the dinosaurs and other plastic toys went to other companies. Some of these companies used colors which weren't used by Marx Company for certain dinosaurs. This gave us more of a variety. We now have purple Marx mold Brontosaurus and red Styracosaurus figures. Marx Comppany liked to use earthy colors for their prehistoric figures. Other companies which followed used a more bright color scheme. I still haven't found a solid red or bright orange or pink Bronto, but I'll keep looking. Here is what I do have (below and on the next few pages). This page shows you the Brontos in groups. After that, on a later page, we get to see them individually.
There were two different molds or moulds for the Marx Brontosaurus - the large mold nd the revised mold. i will go into more detail when I cover the rest of Marx dinosaurs in the next section. The one main physical difference that you will notice is the circles under the feet. The larege circles mean that the piece was molded in the large mold which was one of the original molds from back in the 1950's. Smaller circles means that it came from the revised mold which was created years later. The next picture shows the difference. The next picture after shows this witth recast Marx Brontos.
Here are some of the more expensive, hard to find, colors for Marx original Brontosaurus figures. The metallic green and milk chocolate brown often go for over a hundred dollars for ones in good shape. The one in the middle is a cross between a silver and a metallic green which I bought off Ebay for several hundred dollars.
Two large mold group green metallic brontos.
I love purple dinosaurs.
One Marx dinosaur recast company, Superior, made figures with color swirls in them similar to the marbled fgures by the Marx Compnay.
There's a Marx original yellow and a lighter yellow one which is made by recast company, SDC. SDC is the only company to have been known to have used the revised molds which feature a Brontosaurus and seven other figures. This yellow is about as colorful as Marx ever made their dinosaurs. The more colroful ones are the recast / reissue ones by companies like SDC, Toy Street, and others.
These are Marx Dump Brontosaurus figures. I have a section dedicated to the Marx Dump a little further ahead.
This brown Bronto is in great condition after all these decades. Near mint.
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