Not more MPC!

The MPC Allosaurus

Marx original issue • Marx reissue • MPC • MPC
The original Marx figure is hardly one of the more inspired Allosaurus figures. However it required a relatively complex 3-piece mold - right half, left half, and a front part comprising the creature's ventral region from the neck to the upper part of the tail and the inside of both arms and both legs. By offsetting the arms and increasing the offset of the legs, and by distorting the chest in front of the arms, MPC was able to reduce their mold to a 2-piece.

MPC Allosaurus is very similar to Marx Allosaurus (b), the one which stands upright (Marx Allosaurus (a), their early one, has a pronounced list to port). MPC added some wrinkles to the skin on the back of the head and eliminated a few on the neck. MPC is about the same height as Marx, but is much narrower, and probably uses only 60% as much material.

Markings - ALLOSAURUS (left side of tail), 30 LONG (right side of tail), 19 (outboard side of left leg)

The MPC Ankylosaurus

Marx original issue • Marx reissue • MPC
As they did to Allosaurus (above), MPC reduced him from the Marxian 3-piece mold to a 2-piecer. They did it by moving poor Ankylosaurus's legs to an anatomically unlikely extent, making him look more like an end table than an animal (he doesn't look all that bad in the picture above, but that's his good side showing ... I just don't have the heart to show his bad side). In light of this I wonder why the MPC figure looks like it's so pleased with itself.

We see from a top view -

that the Marx figures (at left) are more substantial citizens all around than is the skinny MPC figure.

Markings - ANKYLOSAURUS (left margin of carapace), 25' LONG (tail, right)

The MPC Cynognathus

Marx reissue • Marx original issue • MPC
The MPC effort is a splayed-out caricature of the Marx original. The rest is the same deal as before, a 3-piece Marx mold has devolved into a 2-piece MPC mold. MPC at least didn't delete the little guy's teeth -

Marx reissue • MPC
The two halves of the MPC mold are the top and bottom of the figure (rather than the usual left and right halves). This is the rationale for the oddly splayed legs. MPC took advantage of this arrangement to save some more plastic by making the figure semi-hollow. Here's the bottom view -

Markings - CYNOGNATHIS, 5' LONG (both on ventral surface of tail)

... there's more MPC, if you can stand it ....