Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Monkey Around With These.....

Terrific Mego Ad from Marvel's "Planet of the Apes Magazine" Issue #4. For more Mego Advertising and Articles, check out our Ad Archive at the Mego Library.

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Best Wishes, Cornelius or Planet of the Apes Day!


Neat piece added to the Mego Museum Planet of the Apes gallery today. It's an autographed handout from a store appearance made by Cornelius, although any fan worth his salt could tell you that it's Caesar in the photo. Those toy company execs can't tell their McDowell's apart. Mego did a great deal of promotion for Apes, here are some wonderful back in the day photos.



The infamous Apes Macy parade float, some new photos have come out thanks to the generosity of the Abrams family, check out this thread for more.


A Long Island store appearance for Planet of the Apes, dig the minty rack of action figures....



A colour shot of a similiar appearance.


Discuss Planet of the Apes at the Mego Forum

Visit the MegoMuseum Planet of the Apes Gallery

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Mego Apes Selling Well in Miami


This report is from March 1975

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Mego of the Day: Forbidden Zone Trap

Mego of the Day is the Planet of the Apes Forbidden Zone Trap playset, what a time we lived in when our folks let us have a post nuclear city environment....

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Genesis of the Mego Soldier Ape Figure


Today, we have not one but two different stages of prototypes for the Mego Planet of the Apes Characters.

These original samples have been rumoured to exist for years and now we finally have beautiful full colour shots of the very first Mego Planet of the Apes characters.

Not only do we have the original hand made prototype but an early factory test shot of the Soldier Ape (or as early advertising states "General Ursus")

Click Here to see the original Prototype Soldier Ape figure by Mego.

Also, don't forget to register for this year's Megomeet convention, which is being held this June 5 & 6th in Wheeling WV. Admission is $20 and a dealer table (which includes admission) is $32. It's the only all Mego event of it's kind. Click here to register.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Original 1974 Mego Zira Prototype


As promised, we kick off a week of never before seen shots of the original hand made Mego production prototypes of the Planet of the Apes Characters.

These original samples have been rumoured to exist for years and now we finally have beautiful full colour shots of the very first Mego Planet of the Apes characters.

Click Here to see the original Prototype Zira figure by Mego.

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Friday, December 19, 2008

9 Inch Action Figures?

Apparently at Globe Discount, the action figures are taller.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Apes are at Big N


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We Don't Monkey Around!

"Giantway" is the coolest name for a store ever. This ad makes me giddy.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Recreate the exciting world of the Planet of the Apes!

mego apes in the JC Penney catalog

A cool catalog page courtesy of the 1974 JC Penney and Mego Planet of the Apes!.


mego 1978

The concepts are starting to come in for the Megomuseum 1978 Re:Imagine Project. Come check out what folks think Mego should have done or get involved with your own ideas.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Mego Ape Update!

Mego Planet of the Apes Galen

Thanks to a nice contribution by Mike D'Aloia we have the second issue Galen card in the Planet of the Apes Gallery. The Museum owes a great deal to it's members and cool contributions such as this one.

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