Monthly Archives: October 2014

Here is an auction for Star Wars action figure card. I repeated  this auction for a Star Wars action figure card. No figure is included. Have the smell salts ready. http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/141450597811?item=141450597811&lgeo=1&vectorid=229466

Last Sunday Laurie and I went to the Delaware Toy Show in New Castle, Delaware. This a great toy show where we always find a few items for the collection and resale. Afterwards we  stop at an authentic Mexican restaurant … Continue reading →

This Saturday is the Allentown Toy Show at Allentown Fairgrounds.  The show runs from 9AM to 3PM.  The show has a wide variety of toys, but no over the counter toys. There are a lot of interesting vendors. I will … Continue reading →

  As you can see our very good friend  Mathias has sent us a photo of the next Pvblivs  figure set.  The set is Battle of Peipus Lake. The set has six different figures.  According to Wikipedia “In 1242, the southern … Continue reading →

We found on the French Forum  another site with pictures of Bad Nauheim. The person has almost 300 photos! Some of the unpainted models are by Adi Jansen. http://338570.forumromanum.com/member/gallery/gallery.php?action=gallery_index&USER=user_338570&onsearch=1

I noticed that Marx 60mm Soccer Figure has the word soccer on it. Seeing the word soccer on the figure made me wonder was Marx afraid that people would not know what the figure was? what do you think? 

The Marx 54mm prototype Wyatt Earp figure is up for auction at www.hake.com. The starting price for the figure is $500.00. you can see the figure at the link below. http://www.hakes.com/item.asp?Auction=213&ItemNo=137198

Here is another company that makes 3D scans of people. It is not cheap. http://www.3ders.org/articles/20141026-artec-shapify-booth-creates-3d-full-body-scans-3d-printed-custom-figurines.html

Besides the French Zouaves copied from the Marx Civil War Union, this Mexican company copied other Marx figures. The first one we have is two of the Marx 60mm Spacemen. The poses are  spaceman  walking with box the figures are downsized. … Continue reading →

Here is another great piece at the Prince Valiant web site. It is Prince Valiant at the Bridge recreating a great scene from Hal Foster’s era of Prince Valiant. http://www.princevaliant.org/finalBridge/index.html