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Post by stoneage on May 22, 2011 21:25:45 GMT
Wow, the text in that booklet is fantastic! ;D I especially love the idea that the 'age of man' began 70 MILLION years ago! Because as everyone knows dinosaurs were the only prehistoric animals, ever. ;D ;D And Allosaurus - leapin' lizards! Thanks very much for sharing all this Stoneage. ;D Well yes that why they included the cave men. They killed off the dinosaurs. I love lines like "Most of them were slow, lazy, plant-eating creatures who were probably harmless except for the great size of their clumsy bodies. Others were truely terrible, cold-blooded monsters living to kill and eat and kill again." Kind of like people. And don't forget the Dubious Hadrosaur and Trachodon. |
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Post by Himmapaan on May 22, 2011 23:56:40 GMT
I love lines like "Most of them were slow, lazy, plant-eating creatures who were probably harmless except for the great size of their clumsy bodies. Others were truely terrible, cold-blooded monsters living to kill and eat and kill again." Kind of like people. And don't forget the Dubious Hadrosaur and Trachodon. I was boggled by those lines too. ;D I'm rather impressed by those perching Pteranodon.  |
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Post by stoneage on May 23, 2011 21:34:04 GMT
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Post by stoneage on May 24, 2011 21:07:00 GMT
Brontosaurus  Silver Brontosaurus   |
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Post by Himmapaan on May 24, 2011 21:20:25 GMT
Look, their tails don't actually touch the ground!  |
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Post by stoneage on May 25, 2011 22:21:17 GMT
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Post by bokisaurus on May 26, 2011 4:38:27 GMT
that silver t-rex looks really cool, it looks really metallic. |
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Post by stoneage on May 26, 2011 22:43:51 GMT
that silver t-rex looks really cool, it looks really metallic. In the early Marx Playsets they sometime included Metallic figures of the Pot Belly T-Rex, Brontosaurus or Kronosaurus. The Metallic colors were Silver, Green and Brown. Although knowing how much variation of Marx there was, there could be even more. I've seen Marbled Figures. |
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Post by stoneage on May 26, 2011 22:50:48 GMT
T rex and Marx Cavemen   |
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Post by deanm on May 27, 2011 1:00:21 GMT
Ahh the classic Marx cavemen! I still like them for their elegant brutishness (yes, I know it is an oxymoron). A fantastic collection - great stuff beyond dreams |
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Post by Himmapaan on May 27, 2011 2:58:01 GMT
Ahh the classic Marx cavemen! I still like them for their elegant brutishness (yes, I know it is an oxymoron). But one which is particularly appropriate in this instance! |
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Post by Meso-Cenozoic on May 27, 2011 4:28:00 GMT
Wow, such memories! The Marx sets were the first prehistoric toys I can remember having. I wonder what became of mine?  |
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Post by stoneage on May 27, 2011 20:53:26 GMT
The first Marx sets only had reptiles except for the cavemen. So when Nabisco Rice Honeys released premium figures of prehistoric mammals, when I was a kid, I excitedly grabbed them up. They look like the were based on the Zallinger mural. Here is Smilodon.  |
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Post by ichthyostega on May 28, 2011 7:53:01 GMT
*sights* I really need to get more marx figures  |
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Post by stoneage on May 28, 2011 23:57:53 GMT
Nabisco Woolly Mammoth  |
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Post by stoneage on May 29, 2011 14:45:44 GMT
The first Macruchenia figure  |
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Post by ichthyostega on May 29, 2011 15:31:06 GMT
From witch year are the Nabisco's?
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Post by sbell on May 29, 2011 17:41:22 GMT
From witch year are the Nabisco's? Something makes me think they were 1950s figures--but it might have been early 60s. EDIT--check that, yup, they are from the 1950s. |
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Post by stoneage on May 29, 2011 19:13:46 GMT
From witch year are the Nabisco's? Something makes me think they were 1950s figures--but it might have been early 60s. EDIT--check that, yup, they are from the 1950s. Okay here is what I think. Although some sources say 1957 I don't think so. I believe the Nabisco Dinosaurs were released then at the time of the first Marx playsets. I believe the mammals weren't released till the early sixties. www.prehistorictimes.com/dinostore.htmlZallinger didn't start painting his "Age Of Mammals Mural" until 1961. I believe I already had at least one Marx Dinosaur playset (1959) when I started getting them out of cereal boxes. |
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Post by stoneage on May 29, 2011 23:02:39 GMT
I never got any of the Nabisco Dinosaurs, but I'd like to have the Paleoscincus and Rhamphorynchus. The Dinosaur just weren't all that well done. Here we have the Brontotherium.  |
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