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AKA Brian. Curator/helper monkey on the Mego Museum. Webmaster/Creator of Plaidstallions.com . President (and sole employee) of Odeon Toys. Freelance pop culture writer, toy historian and author of the book "Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings" which is now available. Shoe size is 15 wide.

Exclusive: 1966 Bat Cave Playset Coming soon!

Mego Museum Exclusive! Figures Toy Co 1966 Batcave playset.

There’s a secret hidden beneath stately Wayne Manor, and it’s one that Figures Toy Company would like to bring to the surface!  The Dynamic Duo’s base of operations, The Batcave, is being developed in a style reminiscent of its design on the Batman TV series! This all new playset differs from the previous Batcave release, with…

Farrah: America’s Sweetheart from Mego

Mego Farrach Fawcett Ad

From 1977: Farrah was a major coupe for Mego, who also made a fashion doll of her Angels Co-Star Jaclyn Smith (Much to the chagrin of Hasbro, who had the license for Charlie’s Angels). 1977 saw Mego’s biggest attempt to crack the Fashion Doll idol with their licensed TV celebrities, you can see more at…

New Exclusives from Excelsior AVAILABLE NOW!

It’s time once again for Figures Toy Company and Excelsior Auctions to join forces and bring you more retro figures that will be available exclusively through Excelsior. Get ready for the Batman Gold Series, which features some of your favorite characters from the Caped Crusader’s world in outfits never available before! The new Black Costume…

1979 Palitoy Bradgate Catalog added to the Library

Fun new addition to our growing catalog library. 1979 would be the final year for Palitoy and the World’s Greatest Superheroes (and sadly all 8″ product) but they still added another new character in their final year. Check out the 1979 Palitoy Catalog Here. Discuss this find on the Mego Museum Forum. Now Available Mego…

Action Figure Frenzy @ Figures Toy Company

It’s an action figure frenzy over at Figures Toy Company this week, as a slew of new figures have come into stock!  From legendary DC Comics characters to an iconic cartoon character, here’s what you can now order from FTC!   The popular Super Friends line goes over to the dark side with the Universe…

Hake’s Mego Auction ends tomorrow

  Celebrated auction house Hake’s Americana has a terrific sampling of Mego items in their latest auction, which ends tomorrow. Mego fans may want to check out this large sampling of boxed World’s Greatest Superheroes, mailer boxed Planet of the Apes, five face Star Trek cards, Star Trek Aliens and Palitoy Space:1999 characters while they…

The Mego Doctor Who Myth Busted!

Mego collectors may want to pick up the latest issue of Doctor Who magazine, it’s focus this month is the 1970s and with it they discuss the Denys Fisher range of action figures based on the Tom Baker era of the series. In the article, they manage to track down Peter Viner, a former engineer…

The Parkdale Novelty Action Jackson “Super-Hero” bundle

Action Jackson Mego Bundle Set

One of the biggest supporters of Mego’s Action Jackson line was Morris Kotzer, founder of Parkdale Novelty, one of Canada’s leading toy suppliers. In the MegoMuseum Pod Cast interview with Kotzer’s son Lorne, he recounted the amusing circumstances behind Parkdale placing such a big order. Action Jackson‘s sales fell well below expectations in Canada and…

SHIPPING THIS MARCH!

SUPER FRIENDS: UNIVERSE OF EVIL BATMAN WAVE 5 FLASH WAVE 1 Visit Figures Toy Company to get yours, and remember that orders over $100 get free shipping in the Contiguous United States! Also available for you at this time are tons of new releases like the debut series for Scooby Doo and Jonny Quest, Teen…

Colombian Superheroes Part 2: Joker’s Wild

As promised last week, we have more from Stephan’s epic discovery of “Los Famosos Superheroes” in Colombia, (first installment is here in case you missed it) . This time we’ll concentrate on the other loose Caravajal  figures he stumbled upon, namely Batman, Superman Penguin and…. The Joker! Any collector of Lili Ledy figures from Mexico knows…