Last weekend was the big Marx Toy Show in Wheeling (at The Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum, of course) and your humble blogger took photos and video was shot by the lovely Mrs. PopCulteer and yours truly, and…you will see most of that cool stuff tomorrow.

So today you get a dozen pics from the show, just enough to whet your appetite for a large photo essay and (hopefully) video to hit tomorrow.  It’s possible that the video might be delayed until Sunday. It depends on how many more telemarketers decide to bombard me with calls today.

Today is just a hit-and-run post, but I do want to mention that the hit of the show this year was Matt Burnett, who brought a large herd of 3D-printed animals, perfectly-scaled to Johnny West. That’s Matt with Terry Ryder, in a photo I swiped from Facebook, over to the right.  While Johnny West was famous for having wonderful horses made to scale with him, when it came to other livestock, like cows or deer, he was out of luck.  There was a Buffalo, but it was hilariously tiny, and wasn’t really in scale with him at all. It was more of a Buffalette.

Matt corrected that oversight and printed Buffalo, Cattle, Moose, Hogs, Chickens, deer and other barnyard animal and fauna of the Old West, and his work is amazing. I came home with four of his critters (which you will see tomorrow). At some point Matt intends to open a website to sell his 3D printed livestock, and when he does, I will tell you about it here.

You may also notice a bit of a difference in the photos, as I used a total of five different cameras, some of which were insanely tiny, and also very cheap. I’m trying them out so I can write about them in this blog later.

Today, however, let’s look at a dozen images from The 2026 Marx Toy Show…

Each animal Matt brought was incredible, but seeing them all together was even more impressive.

I forogt to mention the dogs.

We got in Thursday, and there was an informal show-and-tell around the firepit at the hotel. Sadly, I didn’t make it to the official show-and-tell Friday night because the MG meds got the better of me.

At times, the “Johnny Room” at the show was crowded like the Black Hole of Calcutta.

It’s always cool to see Francis Turner, who ran the Marx Toy Museum in Moundsville until it closed in 2016.

If I had the room to collect playsets…(insert wistful sigh here)

Folks setting up playsets and more in the Peanuts room.

Busy time in the Train Room.

So…one of the new cameras only cost ten bucks. I used it to get this photo of cool Cowboyishness.

A playset featuring a bustling Sears store at its core is now an historical playset…or a fantasy set.

Folks beginning to gather for the group photo.

Finally, Mel got a shot of yours truly using the tiny camera to take a photo of the Prehistoric Playset, which you will see tomorrow.

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