Penney and Spiegel especially around Christmas. Marx's less expensive toys were extremely common in dime stores, and its larger, costlier toys were staples for catalog and department store retailers such as Eaton's, Gamages, Sears, W.T. Marx also made several models of typewriters for children. Marx's toys included tinplate buildings, tin toys, toy soldiers, playsets, toy dinosaurs, mechanical toys, toy guns, action figures, dolls, dollhouses, toy cars and trucks, and HO scale and O scale trains. In fact, the Big Wheel, which was introduced in 1969, is enshrined in the National Toy Hall of Fame. Although the Marx name is now largely forgotten except by toy collectors, several of the products that the company developed remain strong icons in popular culture, including Rock'em Sock'em Robots, introduced in 1964, and its best-selling sporty Big Wheel tricycle, one of the most popular toys of the 1970s. Reputedly, because of this name confusion, the Italian diecast toy company Martoys, after two years of production, changed its name to Bburago in 1976. As the X sometimes goes unseen, Marx toys were, and are still today, often misidentified as "Mar" toys. The Marx logo was the letters "MAR" in a circle with a large X through it, resembling a railroad crossing sign. A child on a Big Wheel in 1973 ( Rogers Park, Chicago)
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