palitoy

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.

Wonder Twins Powers….ACTIVATE at Figures Toy Company!

Figures Toy Company is ready to activate their retro figure powers and bring you the latest addition to their Super Friends line: The Wonder Twins!  That’s right, fan favorites Zan and Jayna will be released in an upcoming Super Friends three pack with their space monkey sidekick, Gleek! These will be the first multi pack…

Mego One Million BC Prototype Dug Up

A rare early version of Zon, the child character from Mego’s One Million BC line was recently discovered in a former Mego distributor’s showroom. This appears to be an early sample used for photography and promotion, as it matches the character on the back of the card. The big difference being that regular released Zon…

New Video Short: The Mangler

Our latest Mego Museum video short is a better look at one of the oddest toys in the Mego realm, the Mangler! Created for the Comic Action Heroes line in 1976, the Mangler is a strangely cartoonish device with no basis in Marvel Comics. The whole function of the Mangler is to crush the Green…

Canadian Superheroes at FanExpo 2015

This weekend’s Fan Expo convention is Canada’s largest event for fandom and it should come as no surprise that ReMego exclusives and prototypes are on display this weekend, here’s a short recap: At the Silver Snail Booth (which is 800) you’ll have your chance to grab modern Captain Canuck in his “Stealth Suit’ variant (you’d…

Mego Museum Space:1999 Video

We’re pleased to launch the second in our series of documentary style shorts about Mego Toy Lines that will be added to each  Museum Gallery. Theis month’s subject is the Mego (Palitoy) Space:1999 line from the United Kingdom, one of the most coveted television lines Mego produced. Look for another Mego Museum short this October. Narration was provided on this by Bif Bang…

Batman ’66 Villains Variants

Gotham’s most vile villains haven’t had a change of heart, but they’ve gotten a change of clothes!  Figures Toy Company is bringing four of the best remembered rogues from the classic Batman TV series back for their all new VILLAINS VARIANTS wave! Dressed in all new detailed costumes inspired by specific episodes from the beloved…

Batman’s Wayne Foundation

Mego Wayne Foundation

We were lucky enough to unearth this Mego ad to the toy trade announcing their latest (at least for 1977) addition to the World’s Greatest Superhero line The Wayne Foundation play set. Interesting to note that Wonder Woman isn’t in this piece, she had been cut from the World’s Greatest Superheroes assortment (along with Tarzan)…

Inside The Mego Factory

Every Mego collector has probably wondered at one point what the Mego factory looked like and how everything was made. Thanks to this rare document (the 1978 Mego International Shareholders Report to be exact, which we’ll soon share) we have a glimpse into the Hong Kong wonderland that was Lion Rock. This is Mego’s fully operational 250,000 square…