1978 Project: Mego Employee Panel Announced, Final Submissions due by May 20

Hey everyone! Our deadline of May 20th is fast approaching.

We are excited and proud to confirm that former Mego R&D employees Harvey Zelman and Tory Mucaro will be on our panel evaluating and offering their insight on submissions.

The catalog lineup will be announced May 21st. The selected submissions
will be displayed and photographed at Megomeet so remember to make sure you give yourself enough time to get them mailed to me by May 30th. After that, they might not make the event. (June 6-7)

Everyone who has submitted should contact me for a shipping address. You can ship them whenever you want, just make sure they are in my hands no later than May 30th.

Remember to make sure there is a note in that that gives all the information on the figures, and on who you are, complete with return address. Also remember, you are responsible for return postage, so you might want to toss in an MO, or cash or something that will cover the return trip.

Not exactly sure when the catalog will be complete, but we plan on locking Scott up in the Museum basement until he completes his task.

Check out all the submissions in the 1978 Forum.

At World's Greatest Toys Benjamin is showcasing images from the 1979 Mego Annual Report, if you don't click there and check it out you lose your status as a Mego Collector. That's right, we're pulling your union card, we can do that.

Heroes World Ad: Mego Black Hole

A fun ad in our Heroes world gallery today, this time it's a wonderfully illustrated piece for the Mego Black Hole 12" and 3 3/4" figures.

What's best about this image is how sneaky they depict Ernest Borgnine's character. Look at those shifty eyes, you know he's up to no good. DUN-DUN-DUN!

If this has left craving more Mego Black Hole, cruise over to our Black Hole Gallery for shots of loose, carded and even prototype items from Mego.

Mike Rogers unveiled his latest custom figure, Detective Dan McGarrett from Hawaii Five-0, which I think is gangbusters. Mike also has the Custom Spotlight this week with his Dracula figure, he's on a roll. Check out all the latest creations at Custom Mego.

Over at the World's Greatest Toys Blog, Benjamin is unveiling a page from the recently discovered 1975 Mego Spring Supplement , today's reveal is a never before seen page for Mego Bend N Flex, neat-o!

That's all the Mego for today, stay tuned this week for when the Mego Museum takes a look at Superman : The Movie merchandise.

The World of the Micronauts!

Another beautiful addition to the Mego Museum Department Store Catalog Archive . The 1979 Mongomery Wards Catalog had an impressive selection of Mego Micronauts including the Rocket Tubes playset.

Buy and Trade Mego Micronauts at the Mego Museum Forums, click here

We've expanded the Mego Custom Universe at our forum, now will three individual Custom Forums to serve you better, check out the expanded Custom universe at Custom Mego.

Only two months left for Megomeet, the world's only Mego Convention. Check out the official site for more information.

The Mego Superheroes Still Strong in 1979 Wards

To start a new month off right why not showcase a beautiful page such as this in the Mego Museum Department Store Catalog Archive . The 1979 Mongomery Wards Catalog had an impressive selection of Mego Superheroes including the Elastic Heroes and the larger then life play set The Wayne Foundation.

Buy and Trade Mego Superheroes at the Mego Museum Forums, click here

Speaking of Superheroes, check out this killer Mr.Fantastic figure, it's this week's custom spotlight. Check out all the cool goodies at Custom Mego.

Only two months left for Megomeet, the world's only Mego Convention. Check out the official site for more information.

Mego Memories: Wolfman Christmas

From 1974 Steve Banes opens a Mego Mad Monster Wolfman. Steve got all 4 of the Mad Monsters that year but this is the only one with a photo. He tells us he simply could not wait to have Wolfie kill G.I. Joe.

Enjoy previous Mego Memories at the Megomuseum, Part 1 and Part 2 are full of vintage coolness. Got a pic to donate? Send it on down!

Check out this week's Custom Spotlight in Custom Mego!

MegoMeet 2008: The fourth annual Mego Convention will be held on June 6 & 7 in Wheeling, WV. For more information check out the official site and forum. Be sure to see pics from past Megomeet, here are the years 2005, 2006, and 2007, Mego Meet is a blast, hope to see you there!

Rare Mego Batmobile Gift Set

A terrific addition today to the Megomuseum Galleries, the extremely rare Mego Comic Action Heroes Batmobile Set. This is without a doubt one of the rarest Superhero toys Mego produced, few boxed examples have survived.

The Fourth wave of Mego Star Trek Aliens are just one of the submissions to the 1978 Re:Imagined Project that's in full swing. Check out the 1978 forum to see all the submissions!

And don't forget in 6 days, we unveil the Lost Treasures of the Mego Showroom, truly the Mego find of the decade and one you won't want to miss...

The Mego Uncle Miltie Connection

This newly discovered item in the Megomuseum ad archive explains how the 1972 Mego line up which saw the debut of Action Jackson was presented by none other than Comedy legend Milton Berle. If only they had camcorders back in the day.

December will be a month you will not want to miss if you're a mego fan, new articles, three new interviews with former Mego employees including never before seen prototypes. Stay Tuned.

Only one more day to enter in our "Win a copy of World's Greatest Toys" contest. All you have to do is tell us your favourite Mego Superhero in this thread and you're in!

Customizer of the month for December is the talented Joe Hanus, come check out his detailed creations here.

Action Jackson is always Well Dressed!

Our Mego Advertising Archive gets a new addition today in the form of this 1972 article about the upcoming Action Jackson Scramble cycle. This is an early piece of Mego history and shows the growing company's expanding creativity.

Jason submitted this wicked Jason Todd Robin and it is this week's custom spotlight. Customs are an integral part of the upcoming 1978 Re:Imagine project from the Megomuseum, if you missed the announcement click here.

Oh Happy day: World's Greatest Toys is now available at your local comic store, hurry and grab it today!

Why is this man smiling?

Mostly because he's got the first copy of his book World's Greatest Toys in hand, which means the rest of us should be getting it very soon. If you haven't ordered your copy yet, click here to the Amazon page.

Fred made a very cool custom of Boston Brand AKA Deadman that is also this week's custom Spotlight.

Customizer of the month is Dr K A Thomas click the link to see his many cool creations.

Rob's Mego Memories

Our own Rob Kelly (Namtab) provided us with some vintage coolness for the Mego Memories Page, if you have shots you'd like to share, drop us a line!

Every Mego fan should head over to the World's Greatest Toys website today and check out the kicking new samples author Benjamin Holcomb has laid on us. Like we needed more evidence of how much this book was going to rock.

In keeping with the spirit of the month, Joe has cooked up this fantastic Mr Monster custom, love the detail on this guy.

Check out the Megomuseum for more Monsterous updates all October.

Mego Hulk Visits Egypt

Bill has sent back some trippy pics of his Mego Hulk in Egypt, check it out here

Customizer of the month is the very talented Anthony Durso, check out the interview with pictures of his cool packaged creations.

V Man created this very nice Planet of the Apes Doctor Zaius and it's this week's custom spotlight.

Just in time for Halloween, we've added a Monster Movie/Horror Forum
and we're welcoming horror fans whether you're preference is Jason, Lugosi or El Hombre Lobo.

Coming soon: Spooky Monster Gallery Updates you won't want to miss!

Star Trek Aliens 3 Pack

A new addition to the gallery today thaks to Robert Doyle, it's a JC Penney Star Trek the Motion Picture three pack, a pretty rare item to find these days.

Check out this cool Joker's Ha-Hacienda Playset from Anthony, the level of detail will astound you.

Wizard World Chicago Highlights

Thanks to some extra credit card air miles and very generous friends, I found myself at Wizard World Chicago this weekend, soaking up the superheroic vibes.

The show was a great mix of media, guests and toys both new and vintage. It wouldn't be complete without folks walking around in costume would it? Now onto the Mego Content:

Our own Megogeek at his booth, Charlie brought a great mix of Mego and other vintage toys, bronze age marvels and Treasury editions. I spent a lot of money there.

In what should come as no surprise, Mark Huckabone of Heroes West Coast brought an unmatched display of vintage toys. Some great deals were available and I ended up with a happy purchase.

Batman and Robin the teen wonder (literally) showed up on Saturday afternoon as did Doom himself, this guy towered over everybody. If you look closely in the back, you can see a display of EMCE toys Star Trek dolls.

These customs were made by a fan in the eighties and were just awesome, people were scooping them up just because they were so fun. I wish I had grabbed that Vision.

12" Mego Spiderman as Giant Man, wonderful.

A chalk artist puts together an amazing Batman Mural

Mattel displayed a glimpse of the upcoming year of Superheroes, it looks like the future will be expensive for me. For more of this coverage please check out our Modern Toys forum.

I left this years Wizard World with a full suitcase (and cardboard box), the predictable empty wallet and a lot of great memories. I hope to save a few more airmilesfor next year.....

1978 was all about Superheroes

And not just Mego Superheroes as evidenced by this 1978 Aldens Catalog page now up in the Megomuseum Library.

Black Kryptonite whipped up this awesome Moon Knight as a Get Well Soon for Forum Pal Merlyn, how cool is that?

August is Apes Month!

Just because we've been quiet doesn't mean we're not working, actually we're working even hard then usual. Starting shortly will be a month long journey to the Planet of the Apes line by Mego with newly revised galleries, photos and artwork. It's going to be great but bear with us.

Dave hasn't been idle, he's incorporated all the recently released EMCE toys Star Trek rerelease figures in accessory check so you can distinguish repro vs original.

Stunning is the only word I can use to describe Cat's amazing Automan custom, based on the short lived 80's series of the same name. I can't think of what's more surprising, the fact that the figure glows in the dark or that Cat has never seen the series!

Cyberman Gallery Upgraded

Added new pictures and information to the Denys Fisher Doctor Who Cyberman Gallery today. Click to see all the info on this very rare and well, fragile action figure

Mike's rendition of TV Shazam! is this week's custom spotlight and hey it's worthy of kudos!

Check Out this Months TV Film Memoribilia

This month's TV Film Memorabilia has an expansive history of Mego Corporation article written by Spencer Peet, many of the photographs are from the Mego Museum. The article covers the rise and fall of Mego and includes a wide amount of rare product from all their lines.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super-Spider-Man? Ron's latest creation is a very imaginative alagamation of two pop culture icons.

Pocket Super Heroes Gallery Updated

Spiffy update today, new photos of the Pocket Heroes white card set which now includes each character. Look for more revised galleries all summer long.

Russ made a killer Mad Max car and figure recently, check it out here.

Hulk and Spider-Man Commercial

From 70's toy Explosion comes this newly tranferred 1979 Hulk and Spiderman with Fly Away Action Commercial. Look for more commercials soon.

I forgot to mention these fabulous Doctor Who Customs when they first arrived on the scene but they are worth a look, plans are in the works apparently for the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Doctors as well!

Rare Superman from Peru

Thanks to Rudy we have pics of the ultra rare Superman figure from Basa (Peru). Very few of these are known to exist and we're lucky to have shots of it.

Jason has created a pretty fantastic mego sized version of Corsair from the pages of the X-Men. Check it out here.

Ray posted this great video of one of Scott's Dida play sets from last weekend's Megomeet. Well worth a look

Rare Canadian Micronauts Spread

Terrific and personal addition to the department of catalogs today, it's a rare page from the 1979 Eaton's Toy Flier. Showcasing the Mego Micronauts, seeing as Eatons is the place I got most of my micronauts, you can figure out why it's so personal. Look for the rest of the flier on Plaidstallions.

Customs Spotlight this week goes to all the folks who donated for the Megomeet auction, what a fantastic success it was and we want to thank everyone for their generosity.

Top Five Mego Lost Figures

We've all heard of unproduced Mego lines like Ark 2 and Logan's Run but what about the figures that were cut from established Mego lines? Now thanks to some information from a mego insider we present the Top Five Lost Figures, characters that were cut from the team before production. Check out what might have been here.

Anthony's neat Aquaman 3 pack is on display in the customs forum.

Tomorrow is Megomeet, hopefully I'll see some new faces there this year. That means the online portion of the raffle will close today at 5pm EST. If you haven't got your tickets click here.

New Action Jackson Commercial

Another from 70's Toy Explosion is this newly transferred commercial for the figure that started it all Mego Action Jackson.

Custom Spotlight this week goes to Black Knights neato Yondo from the Guardians of the Galaxy, dig that expression!

This year's Megomeet convention is three days away, we'll be giving live updates all weekend at the new Mego Message Boards, of course it would be awesome to see some new faces as well.

Rare Peruvian Batman Discovery

Cool find today, the never before seen Basa Batman from Peru. This unique figure was produced under license from Mego and is the only known example.

It's one week until this year's Mego Meet Convention. What's in store:

• An Amazing Dealer Room, with more Mego and Custom fodder found in one location since, well, last years Mego Meet.
• A Great Lineup of Guest Speakers and Panels
• The Incredible generousity of the people who donated loads of Mego and miscellaneous goodness for the Museum Benefit Raffle
• The Donations of, and Chances to Win Awesome Custom Figures for the Benefit Auction
• Not One, but TWO Brand New Mego Museum Trading Cards, created by our very own Creator and Artistic Muse of the Museum Scott Adams.
• Jaw Dropping displays of Mego and Custom figures put on display from the collections of our very own members
• Complimentary Access to the Vast and Superb collection of Vintage Toys and Trains collected by our gracious hosts, the Kruger Street Toy and Train Museum
  
  
  

Laurie wowed us with this perfect Jimmy Olsen custom this week, see more customs at our new forums.

10-4 Good Buddy!

Added a new commercial from 70's Toy Explosion, this time it's a new cut of the CB McHaul commercial, one of my personal favorite lines

Sha-Zam! Custom Spotlight goes to Albert's killer Captain Marvel custom

Mego Raffle: The deadline to get tix for this years Megomuseum raffle is next Thursday. To see the amazing prize lots or to buy tickets click here

Mego Meet: The World's Greatest Mego Convention is next Friday and Saturday. THis year we've recieved advertising in Lee's, Wizard and Toyfare and it promises to be a great show. Have you registered?

Mego Meet mention in Wizard

The groovy folks at Wizard Entertainment have shown Megomeet some love in the latest issues of Wizard and Toyfare. It's two week's until the third annual Mego Convention gets underway.

Catherine's amazing Doctor Steel from Big Jim custom deserves plenty of attention!

Star Trek Phaser Battle Commerical

Another remastered commercial from 70's toy explosion, this time it's for the Phaser target game, enjoy!

Check out Joe's awesome Liz from Hellboy in the new customs forum.

The New Mego Museum Forums

The day has finally arrived, our new forum software is up and what a difference! The new software has a ton of new features including an arcade (I'm not kidding), new chat software. If you're an existing member please sign in to the old forum to get your new activation password. If you're new to our forums, there has never been a better time to join us at the World's Greatest Mego Forum

Today's Forum Highlights:

Folks are discussing Big Jim in the Vintage Toy (Plaidstallions) Forum

The Rock might be playing Captain Marvel?

The First Custom Posted on the boards is a Shadowlass from Legion of Superheroes.

DC Comics Rule is a pretty easy to understand thread in the Comic Book Guy Forum.

Megomuseum in this month's Lee's

Pick up this month's Lee's Toy Review for an indepth Mego article from the folks at the Mego Museum. The topic this month is Superhero Shuttle vehicles.

Anthony has made a killer custom playset for his Mego sized Captain Action.

Check the MegoMuseum Blog this Friday for a big announcement regarding the Megomuseum site.

Dinah-Mite!

Taking a trip right back to the early days with this cool 73 Aldens page featuring Dinah-Mite and Lainie, two of Mego's earlier girl's toy offerings.

Anthony unveiled his take on the Legion of Superheroes Wildfire, this week, love the little touchs on the box.

Buck Rogers Goodness from Down Under

Thanks to Will over at Toltoys.com (a great toy blog from Australia) we have images of this cool Mego Buck Rogers contest box from Paul's Ice Cream. Click the link to see more!

Derek shows off his modern take on the Mego Lizard, pretty amazing stuff!

Added even more prizes to the Mego Raffle, remember, you don't have to attend MegoMeet to participate.

Cool Apes & Star Trek Ad from the UK