Brain

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.

Coming Soon A Christmas Story figures from NECA

One of the nicer surprises at this past weekend’s Toy Fair was the sighting of NECA’s new “A Christmas Story” retro clothed action figures of Ralphie and his “Old Man” (aka Carl Kolchak himself, Darren McGavin) these will fit in nicely with previously release yule time NECA figures like Clarke Griswold and the Home Alone…

Colombian Mego Figure Discovery!

  Many thanks to our new friend Stephan, who upon a recent visit to Columbia discovered that yet another country licensed the  World’s Greatest Superheroes brand from Mego. Instead of importing Hong Kong manufactured product, Colombian distributor Caravajal produced the figures locally at the Rimax plastic factory to produce Los Famosos Super Heroes (en Accion).This…

New Exclusive Super Friends Packs from Excelsior Toys

  Good news for fans of Figures Toy Company’s Super Friends series!  Your favorite Friends have been brought together in five limited edition multi packs, available exclusively through Excelsior Toys! Each series of Super Friends has been grouped together in limited edition packaging, allowing collectors to claim a complete set in one package!  Each series…

Up Close: Super Friends Wendy and Marvin

A nice January surprise is the arrival of several different Figures Toy Company’s product lines including the oft forgotten brother sister team of Wendy and Marvin, the teen sidekicks in the first season of the Super Friends. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”114″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”200″ thumbnail_height=”175″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”0″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder”…

Mego Green Arrow Car Video

  Mego Video Shorts are now a monthly feature here at the Mego Museum and well, this month we felt like playing with our Green Arrow car. Other than being hard to find in the collector market, it’s actually a well thought out and fun toy as this short will attest to. Look for more…

New Custom Heads available @ Classic TV Toys

If this week wasn’t full of enough ReMego surprises, Classic TV Toys just rolled out a new series of vintage inspired rotational molded heads for your custom pleasure. The Jack series of (somewhat vaguely familiar) heads includes bearded, clean shaven and curly haired variations in a variety of colour combinations. Best of all, they’re shipping right…

Make your own Super Friends of Legion of Doom 2 Pack!

Hey collectors! Got a few favorite Super Friends that you’d choose to battle the Legion of Doom? Or would you rather create a dastardly duo to try and take over the world? Now’s your chance to get creative, because Figures Toy Company is offering you the chance to create your own Super Friends 2 pack!…

New Mego Museum Video: The Denys Fisher Doctor Who line

Our Christmas gift to you is another Mego Museum Video Short! This month’s topic is the Mego Doctor Who line by Denys Fisher UK. Like all of our video shorts, this piece is narrated by Jason Lenzi (@bbplenzi) and written by Palitoy (@plaidstallions). This video showcases the known history of the line, dispelling some myths…

Up Close: Super Friends Wave 4

  Both the recent waves of Super Friends figures came at the same time, which is fine by us. Wave four of Superfriends is 75%  Legion of Doom members and includes some highly anticipated characters including Bizarro, Cheetah, Toy Man and the Green Lantern. So, as with all of our “Mego Museum Up Close” features, we let the…