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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.

The 2015 Kubby Award Winners!

Its Awards show time again as we announce the winners of 2015 as chosen by you. Like every Kubby Awards, we’re thankful to the many companies that produce these figures for having so much choice in the matter. This year was a stellar one packed with Superheroes, Monsters, Villains, Robots, Apes and rebels, so much…

Here comes Daredevil! The Mego without Fear

  Images have begun to leak out of Diamond Select Toy’s Sixth and highly anticipated Marvel Comics Set, Dare Devil! As we can see here the line up includes Yellow DD, regular old red DD and Matt Murdock,  complete with shades and briefcase. You can pre-order him right now at Entertainment Earth!   More news…

NEW CONTEST! FIVE WEEKS OF BATMAN 1966

Starting this Friday. each week we’ll be giving away one character from the Entertainment Earth Exclusive 1966 Batman set. All you have to do to win is be a subscriber. Many Thanks to our partners at Entertainment Earth for this generous donation, follow them on Twitter (@EntEarth) and be sure to use hashtag #ICollectatEE. Every subscriber…

Up Close: THOR Comprehensive Photo Review

  Thor, the God of Thunder is the fourth in a series of ReMego Marvel comics sets from Diamond Select and EMCE Toys. Unlike the previous release of Wolverine, Thor is a classic World’s Greatest Superheroes member and the formula of Mego Reproduction, Secret Identity and Modern Interpretation are in play here. Thor is a pretty pricey…

Up Close: Super Friends Apache Chief and Superman

  The Super Friends toy line by Figures Toy Company is one of the most anticipated lines of 2015 and their delivery in December meant many 70s kids got some major wish fulfillment in the plastic form of something many of us have pined for since “Challenge of the Super Friends” first aired. So we bring you…

MONKEES READY FOR PRE-ORDER AT FIGURES TOY COMPANY!

Get ready, Daydream Believers! Figures Toy Company is giving you not one, not two, but three chances to “monkey around” as they have now put the three series of The Monkees retro action figures up for pre-order! Since debuting on television in 1966, The Monkees have enjoyed an enormous amount of popularity that continues to…

High Quality Mego Commercial Reels discovered!

Thanks to an amazing contribution from former PAC Toys president Joe Ruzzi, we’ve got new higher resolution copies of over 50 Mego TV commercials and toy fair sizzle reels. We’ll be encoding them and sharing one every week in the Mego Museum Newsletter. A round of applause has to go to AcroRay’s Laboratory for donating his time and…

Up Close: Super Friends Robin and Samurai

We were delayed on this photo review due to the holidays (and our friends at Canada customs) but these figures are too interesting not to discuss. The Super Friends toy line by Figures Toy Company is one of the most anticipated lines of 2015 and they’re delivery in December meant many 70s kids got some major wish fulfillment in…

FIgures Toy Company Unveils the 2016 Fleet!

Figures Toy Company is about to take collectors on a wild ride in 2016! The makers of the DC Comics World’s Greatest Heroes figures are rolling out their first four retro figure vehicles, and each one will come with an exclusive DC Comics character! If there’s late breaking news in Metropolis, you can be sure…