The 2026 Marx Toy Show In Photos

Picking up where we left off yesterday, this is the photo I was taking with a tiny camera, as seen in the last photo I ran yesterday.

This is the same view, sort of, taken with an even tinier camera, closer up.

When we got in Thursday, there was an impromptu show-and-tell around the fire pit. This UK Fighting Eagle with an unusal arm connector was one of the cool things we got to see.

Fighting Eagle and the chromed horses were brought by Terry Ryder. This is believed to be of Mexican PlastiMarx orginis.

Here’s Terry and Dave Roth with another, more substantial, chromed horse, which remains a bit of a mystery.

Terry also had this one-of-a-kind hand-painted prototype for a Chief Cherokee footlocker/carry case. This was made by Marx, but never went into production beyond this sample.

Terry also had some really cool stuff for sale at her table in The Johnny Room.

The caramel-colored Johnny West figures are notorious for crumbling over the years due to an instability in the plastic. Terry rescues these broken figures, glues them into a fixed pose, and “bronzes” them, creating really cool display pieces. I’m proud to have a few in my collection. This is a rebuilt Chief Cherokee.

Here, Bill Buck is given new life as a work of art.

It’s always cool to get a selfie with Dave Roth, because my selfies are usually out of focus or have me staring intently at the camera instead of smiling.

We’re going to devote a few photos to Matt Burnett’s animal horde, which was the hit of the show.

The photos don’t really do justice to how epic this scene was.

The Grizzly and the Cow were two of the four animals that came home with us. Here they are riding safely in the back seat.

Back at home, mother cow and calf were reunited in the PopCult photo studio.

The Grizzly seems a bit hangry.

Finally, we have a true 1/6 scale buffalo, seen here with a knockoff GI Joe for scale. Y’know, if he’d print these in green, Marshall fans would go nuts over them.

The gang’s all here, and too big to get them all in focus at the same time.

There are already plenty of horses available for Johnny West and his friends.

Here’s part of Dave Roth’s offerings.

It wasn’t all Johnny West. Marx Toys made all kinds of other cool toys that I simply don’t have room to collect.

For instance, I don’t have room to start collecting playsets…but I took several photos of various prehistoric sets.

At some point, I’ll probably have to add one of these to the collection.

It might be blasphemy, but I’d love to get one of these giant rock formations to display my super7 Godzilla ReAction figures. I mean, who wouldn’t want to own Monster Island?

More playsets, taunting me with their seductive plastic forms.

A cool tin firehouse, just so I can still have lottery dreams.

The train room is always fun, but in a house with O, HO, N and S Gauge trains, I can’t even think about getting into Marx Trains.

…no matter how cool they are.

The lady of the toy show is a foul temptress, but I was able to resist (largely because I spent so much money on Matt Burnett’s livestock).

One last look at the train room. Not this year…not this year.

This shot from the ten-dollar camera captured the vibe of the Johnny room, which was always hopping.

Luckily, at this point, my Johnny West collection is nearly complete.

But I don’t have this guy in the box…yet.

Some of Tom Heaton’s cool fantasy and reproduction boxes.

We head into the home stretch with some cool random toys, not all of which are from Marx.

More tempting toy soldiers

We leave you with these small, boxed Marx animal sets. I vividly remember having several of these when I was a kid. We’d get them at the Ben Franklin on Tenth Street in Dunbar. For reasons I don’t fully understand, I have never been tempted to collect these as an adult.