Latest Ebay Score!

I'm Really Excited about my Latest eBaY Score! A Vintage, COMPLETE, MARX JANE WEST! Yes COMPLETE! Most parts Still Attached to Their Sprues! And the Best Part Is, I Got it for Close To Nothing! I did notice that everything Feels Oily. I'm not sure if that's some kind of Chemical Reaction from years of storeadge or what, but i'm gonna' air everything out for a few days and see if THAT Helps. Then i'll gently wash everything with soap and water.

Very nice score Jack well done, its nice when you pick up things next to nothing

I like it!

Kind of pick up the vibe that you're pleased

A very nice find & great to see it's very clean too with no Marx on it. Sorry, I couldn't resist that bit

Wow! great pick up Jack!

Thanks For The Comments Guy's! Yes I'm Quite Pleased Indeed!

Great score RAGE! Awesome!

Thanks Jim!

You have a nice piece of toy history in your hands there Rage, well done on your lucky find

Thanks Clive! I couldn't have said it better myself.

I went back and Carefully cut the parts away from the sprues and Trimmed them out. While I was doing this I got to thinking about Why These pieces were So Rubbery compared to my Vintage Johnny West pieces? And they were also Coated in some kind of Oily Substance? And I think I figured it out....This Set is a Re-Pop from the Original Marx Molds. eBaY's Full of'em right now. I found a site where some guy was talking about a 50th. Anniversary Johnny West Set that's being produced and he talked about the "Rubbery" Re-Pop Parts compared to the "Stiffer" Original Plastic parts. This would also Explain this Oily Residue on mine. I think it's the Mold Release compound that they use on the Molds. A little Soap and Water fixed that. It's Still a Beautiful Complete Set and at $12.00 + Shipping it's still a Great Deal.

Rage wrote:

I went back and Carefully cut the parts away from the sprues and Trimmed them out. While I was doing this I got to thinking about Why These pieces were So Rubbery compared to my Vintage Johnny West pieces? And they were also Coated in some kind of Oily Substance? And I think I figured it out....This Set is a Re-Pop from the Original Marx Molds. eBaY's Full of'em right now. I found a site where some guy was talking about a 50th. Anniversary Johnny West Set that's being produced and he talked about the "Rubbery" Re-Pop Parts compared to the "Stiffer" Original Plastic parts. This would also Explain this Oily Residue on mine. I think it's the Mold Release compound that they use on the Molds. A little Soap and Water fixed that. It's Still a Beautiful Complete Set and at $12.00 + Shipping it's still a Great Deal.

Hi Jack
Thats still a sweet find - I like the Marx figures as they supplemented my Action Man Crew. They also came with a bit of USA "Glamour" to them - I'm talking about the analogue 70's

If you find any more info about a 50th reissues series - Pop a line on the the forum ?

Gunner Munro wrote:

Rage wrote:

I went back and Carefully cut the parts away from the sprues and Trimmed them out. While I was doing this I got to thinking about Why These pieces were So Rubbery compared to my Vintage Johnny West pieces? And they were also Coated in some kind of Oily Substance? And I think I figured it out....This Set is a Re-Pop from the Original Marx Molds. eBaY's Full of'em right now. I found a site where some guy was talking about a 50th. Anniversary Johnny West Set that's being produced and he talked about the "Rubbery" Re-Pop Parts compared to the "Stiffer" Original Plastic parts. This would also Explain this Oily Residue on mine. I think it's the Mold Release compound that they use on the Molds. A little Soap and Water fixed that. It's Still a Beautiful Complete Set and at $12.00 + Shipping it's still a Great Deal.

Hi Jack
Thats still a sweet find - I like the Marx figures as they supplemented my Action Man Crew. They also came with a bit of USA "Glamour" to them - I'm talking about the analogue  70's

If you find any more info about a 50th reissues series - Pop a line on the the forum ?

Analogue 8-Tracks! Yea! Here's a link I was checkin' out:www.stewartsattic.com/Marx/index.cfm

Thanks Rage,

That was really interesting read - I had some dealings with Stewart but hadn't seen the 50th posts on his site .

Its a pity I wasn't active in the hobby around 2000-2005 by the look of things- some really interesting recast/customs being done at the time .

Take care
Steve

Your Welcome Gunner, anytime, i'm Glad You Liked it.

Nice pick up Rage, I collect Marx too and recently picked up a Princess Wildflower with a papoose from the best of the west series very nice piece too

Cheers Ian

Great pickup! Marx had some great items!

-Nate