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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.

#MMFTCNEWS! SUPERFRIENDS SERIES 4!

There’s more in store for fans of Figures Toy Company’s Super Friends line!  Just one week after announcing the four characters included in the soon to be released Series 3, Figures Toy Company is ready to let loose with the lineup for Super Friends Series 4! Much like Super Friends Series 3, Series 4 will…

Aw Yeah Mego Meet 2016 ReCap

Aw Yeah Mego Meet 2016 ReCap

This year’s Aw Yeah Mego Meet event was held on June 18th in Skokie Illinois at the Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center.   This year’s show was filled with a particularly positive energy, kicked off by a new feature, the launch party graciously hosted by our partners at Aw Yeah Comics Skokie. Early bird attendees enjoyed…

Christmas Vacation Clark Griswold coming from NECA

  NECA gave us early today by showcasing their up coming Clark W Griswold from the film “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, the figure will be due this fall just in time for Christmas. This is exciting for us but I sure hope Santa has a cousin Eddie in the stocking for us as well, maybe an Ellen?…

AW YEAH MEGO MEET 2016 Starts this Friday!

Just a reminder that our annual Mego Event Aw Yeah Mego Meet kicks off this Friday June 17th at noon and the main show opens it’s doors to the public Saturday June 18 at 9am. DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago – North Shore Conference Center 9599 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL 60077, United States Show Hours:…

NECA Rufus action figure coming as Exclusive

Entertainment Weekly broke the news today that NECA and Shout Factory were teaming up and releasing an exclusive 8″ Rufus (played by legendary comic George Carlin) action figure to coincide with the release of “Bill and Ted’s Most Excellent Collection“. The figure will not be available seperately. The NECA Bill and Ted Figures are due…

Mego Superhero Prototypes discovered (and for sale!)

Mego Prototype heads for the World's Greatest Superheros

Heritage Auction Strikes again with more from the collection of sculptor Gene Salamacha, who it turns out sculpted the original line of Mego’s World’s Greatest Superheroes. This latest offering may be the strongest pieces of Mego history every put up on auction as the offering contains clay and hard copies for Robin, Superman, Aquaman and…

Up Close: Super Friends Wave 2

Figures Toy Company Superfriends Wave 2 Mego

The popular Super Friends toy line by Figures Toy Company has rolled out it’s second wave of figures (although the Wonder Twins were also released in between those waves) and if you want to reviews of Wave one you can find it here and here. Wave two of Superfriends is comprised again of Good Guys…

The Great FrankenBumps mystery

Many Mego collectors know about Frankenbumps the never released vacuum pump figure (the concept was later used on Cap Toy’s Vac Man) from 1982. The figure was never released but one lucky collector has the box in their home. Now the original art for that box has surfaced in Toronto of all places. According to…

1977 Mego Order Form Revisited

1977 Mego Order Form

Many moons ago, we had a lot of fun with one of these covered with buyer notes. Thanks to Joe, we have some clean scans of a virgin 1977 Mego Coporation Toy Fair Order form, print it out and pretend you’re the Childworld buyer.   I’ll take a case of CB Mchauls and what the…

Aw Yeah Mego Meet 2016 Show Guide

With this year’s Mego event being just two weeks away, we thought it might be prudent to provide this handy show guides to newbies (welcome by the way, glad to have you) and as a refresher for our ” Mego Meet Veterans”. So here is some informations and “Frequently Asked Questions” Where is it? DoubleTree…