![]() In early 1976, Dunbee-Combex Marx, a British conglomerate, bought the remaining American and English Marx operations. In 1976, Quaker Oats closed the plants in Erie and Girard. Also, Quaker Oats made a decision not to involve Marx in the growing electronic toy market. Quaker Oats expected a synergy to develop between the two companies. Quaker Oats owned Fisher-Price at the time. In 1972, Marx sold his company to Quaker Oats and retired at age 76. Growing labor costs made it difficult to compete with cheap Japanese imports. Toys produced in Japan were marked under the Linemar brand. Marx started producing some of its toys in Japan in the mid-1950s. In January 1946, Fortune Magazine dubbed Louis Marx “The Toy King,” a title reconfirmed by Time Magazine in 1955. The Girard plant was acquired in 1934 via the purchase of the Girard Model Works, a producer of toy trains.īy 1950s, Marx was the largest toy manufacturer in the world. Marx’s revenues grew during the Depression as the company established factories in Girard and Erie, Pennsylvania, Glen Dale, West Virginia, and Swansea Wales in England. Although some earlier toys were sold under the Marx brand, they were made by outside manufacturers. Louis and David Marx were millionaires by 1922. Marx identified six key qualities for a successful toy-comprehensibility, familiarity, play value, skill, sturdiness, and surprise. More than eight million of each were sold within two years. Can't remember everywhere we mentioned, say, Velociraptors or Marx Toys? Just put in your search term and you'll get a listing of everyplace on our site where you can find what you are particularly interested in.The company’s first toys used former Strauss molds to produce the Alabama Coon Jigger and Zippo The Climbing Monkey toys. You can use this site-search box to find everything you need about Dinosaur toys collecting. (Click link or Below.) You can use the search bars to either search the site for all things Dinosaur (toys) or search the entire web for all things anything at All-a-saurus.ĥ) As you have been perusing this site you may be wondering, "Can I do that?" Well, if having your own website has been your dream you can make that dream come true, here.Ħ) Our always open Donate-O-saurus Center (opens new window) where you can make a donation and keep us in business, such as it is. ![]() Thank you.Ĥ) Our mighty and inimitable Search-osaurus Center. After all, this site is for your information.ģ) Social Networking links (way bottom, upper left) so you can share this page, and our site, with your friends. We have instituted our:ġ) The (easily subscribed to, FREE) Daily "Dino-Blog" where you are regularly updated as each new page is created and kept up-to-date on Dinosaur toys news and the happenings in "Dino-town."Ģ) Our Contact-osaur-Us form which you can use to send us comments and tell us what you need and want to see. In order to best achieve that goal, in addition to providing pages on individual figures, advice and suggestions on obtaining the Dinosaur toys and pricing, availability and age and personality appropriateness information. Providing you, our readers, with the best, most informative and entertaining information about Dinosaur toys both past and present. We here at The Dinosaur Toys Collectors Guide have only one purpose in being here at all. These will all be further topics of discussion as we explore the World of Marx Toys and the Dinosaur toys that inhabit it. The Mold Groups, Playsets, accessories, Dumposaurs and Binosaurs and the great variety of colors produced both on purpose and by mistake. We will have a lot to do here in Marx Toys country.
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