Originally I had planned to bring you a massive photo essay and the annual Marx Toy Show video today, but the fates conspired to delay that a few days.

Today we’re bringing you ten quick photos, and the plan is to have the video ready on Sunday, hopefully after my power stops going out every five minutes and I regain enough of my voice to narrate it. Three weeks of ducking in and out of air conditioning finally caught up to me and I have the type of summer cold that drops your voice three or four octaves. If this doesn’t clear up by the weekend, expect the Marx video to sound like it’s narrated by Thurl Ravenscroft.

We had a lot of fun at this year’s Marx Toy Show at Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum, and we’ll be sharing much more of it with you this weekend.

I did remember take plenty of photos of the folks at the event, as well as the toys, plus we’ll have our usual video recap.  after that, with any luck, I can dig into the huge backlog of cool stuff I’ve done, photographed and shot video of over the last month.

For now, here’s ten random pics from the event, carefully selected and captioned while your humble blogger is coughing his head off and chugging Ale 8 One.

It’s always cool to catchup with Dave Roth and leave him with some of my money in exchange for cool vintage Johnny West Stuff. This photo was swiped from his FB page.

Just a fraction of the cool toy trains for sale.

A candid shot of Allen, from the Kruger Street Museum, in conversation with Jay Horowitz, the current owner of Marx Toys, in the Johnny Room at the show.

A small part of Dave Roth’s Johnny West goodies.

Rick Provence created these incredible “Ghost Johnny” figures, animals and accessories.

A look at the contents of Glen Ridenour’s Cape Canavral playset.

Another cool train set

A tiny sliver of the cool stuff Mark Hegeman had for sale.

Things to ponder when you have unlimited money and space.

We leave you with an impressive stack of playsets. We will have a much more extensive photo essay and video on Sunday.