Who had MARX Best of the West ?

[Thundarr]

Ok, here's the dope: The elbows and knees are on an older style ball-joint, the wrists rotate, and the shoulders and hips are actually on metal SPRINGS. That is actually very cool, imo. I thought I remembered one of my bros having him sitting on a large horse. Anyhow, when my Vikings and/or Knights arrive, I'll put a few pictures here. Supposedly from many reviews I have read, they are 98% comparable with the original Marx...thats damn cool!


Joe

[saildog]

Ok, here's the dope: The elbows and knees are on an older style ball-joint, the wrists rotate, and the shoulders and hips are actually on metal SPRINGS. That is actually very cool, imo. I thought I remembered one of my bros having him sitting on a large horse. Anyhow, when my Vikings and/or Knights arrive, I'll put a few pictures here. Supposedly from many reviews I have read, they are 98% comparable with the original Marx...thats damn cool!


Joe

Cool...you found it. I was just digging around and found the info about springs here http://www.stewartsattic.com/Marx/fi...adingchart.cfm and then came here to see you had discovered the springs fact already.

Wow. I really need to dig those out because I didn't remember springs, but then again, none of them busted so I never had one apart.

[Thundarr]

Now I have to decide on Knights or Vikings...don't wanna spend too much. There are four Knights, two Vikings. Probably the Vikings, as the Knights had production errors that were later corrected. (Rivets sticking out too far..people complained that the armour wouldn't go on correctly, so Marx fixed it. Here that CTVT? ) Like I said man, I'll post pictures once they are in my possesion.


Joe

[BubbleGumFink]

I love the Marx figures. Too bad they don't have anything quite as cool as the Mego Museum going for them.

[gman]

I never liked BOTW but Stoney Smith and the Knights were awesome. Dave do they make repros of Stoney Smith accs. ?

[MegoScott]

I spent a lot of time playing with my BOTW. I had Johnny and Geronimo with horses. My dad bought them for me---he liked them better than the WGSH. I always wanted Custer or the gals. I loves the blue and yellow color scheme.

[Captain]

Sorry for adding so late into this post....I am still trying to figure out the new museum!
Anyways, I have all of the Johnny West line (except Zeb Zachary) and class the Best of the West line as the ultimate all time greatest toy line ever! Growing up in a family of Cowboys and the fact Johnny looks just like my Dad may have some influence on this?

I can vouch for the work Dave's buddies do as well. The Jesse figure was incredible. So are the other parts they produce. Jed Gibson has some minor construction issues, but nothing that takes away from the overall playability or enjoyment of the figure. (Probably not even noticable to a non Marx nut!)The Coops also have a host of custom heads and gear. An much like the Mego community, it seems everday more and more folks are coming out with new custom parts and equipment.

[Aloha girl]

Don't know much past Johnny and Jane (I have a one-armed of the latter - her limb lost, no doubt, courageously)

Would love to find a horse reasonably, or perhaps trade for gear. I have duplicates of both girl and guy clothes (chaps, hats, etc.) and a couple of sets of horse tack with some misc. -knife, rifle and rifle sling (?), small chest... forget what else without looking.

Enjoyed reading all the posts.
Aloha girl