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These eight figures pictured above are from the original production period, sometime between 1960-61 and 1964. They display all the standard Marx colors for late original production, gray, light green, brown, and tan.
The Woolly Mammoth, Megatherium, and Smilodon look silly in green*. See below for a view of a green Megatherium. All the figures made in one shot of plastic into the mold would of course be the same color, and if you want some reptiles in green, you automatically get some mammals in green, too. I don't recall seeing original-production mammals from this group in green, but the green Moschops and Styracosaurus (above) imply that the other figures were made in green also. The figures of the "second series" mold group were reissued in the early 1970s. The plastic is slightly different from that of the original issues, and the colors - light gray, light green, or reddish-brown - were different. The reissue figures are otherwise identical (well, more or less) to the originals. Here is a reissue set - 
* Note, however, that on page 88 of Charles Knight's Before the Dawn of History (McGraw-Hill, 1935) is mention of the remains of a Megatherium with "pieces of the skin, covered with coarse greenish-yellow hair..." Unfortunately, no source is cited for this. But it raises the possibility that the greenish plastic might not be that far out of line. Back to Rubber Dino Figures from Louis Marx To Site Index |