Sunday, February 28, 2010

Great White Update

It's time to take a look at a classic bit of Mego magic with the revised Aquaman Vs the Great White Shark gallery. We've improved the original photography for this wonderful (and stupildy hard to find) toy and added new links and info.

Visit the Great White Shark Gallery Here.

Discuss at the Mego Museum Forums.

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Today is Green Arrow Day!


Just a friendly reminder that today is the first day that you can order the initial figure from the Mattel "Retro-Action: DC Super Heroes" line (fomerly known as World's Greatest Superheroes). Eight inch Superheroes with real cloth costumes, it's a good day but stop and smell the roses, get your order in at mattycollector.com now, before they sell out!

Discuss the Retro-Action Line at the Mego Museum Forum

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Monday, December 21, 2009

Retro-Action Sinestro: Up Close


Thanks to good people at Mattel and EMCE we have another early look at the Mattel Retro Action DC Super Heroes line, this time it's 8" Sinestro head sculpt again in the rather fitting "Mugshot" style.

As with Lex there is a "Challenge of the Superfriends" vibe going on here and it's just one thing about this figure that makes me happy, the other is that the appearance of Sinestro also clears up one of Mego's bigger omissions, an 8" Green Lantern.


Sinestro will also be in "Wave One" of the Retro-Action Superheroes this Spring.

Looking at this thing, it still feels a little surreal at the moment. 2010 will truly be the year of the Mego Scale.


Discuss at the Mego Museum Forums!

Retro-Action Sinestro Gallery at the MegoMuseum

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Superman: Soft, Cuddly, Safe?



A fun update today at the Mego Museum Super Softie Gallery, today we take a look at Superman with new packaging shots and an honest to goodness variation. Who knew?

All that plus you can click to hear Superman talk, click the link to be transported to "plush Metropolis"



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Monday, December 14, 2009

Magnetic Heroes Update

A fabulous update at the MegoMuseum Magna Heroes Gallery today, courtesy of Mark Huackabone we have shots of the proposed American series of cards for the four heroes.

Mego pitched the line using these very samples at Toy Fair 1980 and decided to abandon the line. These rare US cards were produced for display at Toy Fair and are the only known to exist.

Check Them out at the Mego Museum Magna Heroes Gallery.

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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

WGSH Becomes Retro-Action!



Great Update on Matty Collector.com today, unveiling the revised card art for the Green Arrow Figure. The big change here is the line's name is no longer "World's Greatest SuperHeroes" but "Retro-Action: DC Super Heroes".



This begs the question, what other things does Mattel have planned under this "Retro-Action" banner? It sounds like 2010 will be truly be the year of the Megohead.


Retro-Action Green Arrow will be available Tuesday December 15th 2009 only at MattyCollector.com


Discuss the Retro-Action Line at the EMCE Toys Forum


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Monday, September 07, 2009

Meg Clearance in 1983

A President's day sale after Mego's demise shows clearance pricing on everything, including the World's Greatest Superheroes! Sure, the ad shows Batman but I bet it was mostly Hulks.....

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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Spotlight on the EMCE/Mattel Sinestro

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Here is another in our new gallery pages for the upcoming EMCE/Mattel "World's Greatest Superheroes" line. This time we focus on the Green Lantern's arch enemy, Sinestro. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone.

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Another terrific figure inspired by Challenge of the Superfriends that fufills a lot of 31 year old wish lists.


What do you think? Have your say on the Mego Forums

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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Spotlight on the EMCE/Mattel Green Lantern

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Here is another in our new gallery pages for the upcoming EMCE/Mattel "World's Greatest Superheroes" line. This time we focus on the first official 8" Green Lantern figure. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone.
Watch for new Gallery pages all this week.

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Monday, August 03, 2009

Spotlight on the EMCE/Mattel Green Arrow

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We've created the first of many gallery pages for the EMCE/Mattel "World's Greatest Superheroes" line. It seemed fitting to start with the first figure that will be available Green Arrow. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone.
Watch for new Gallery pages all this week.

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Upcoming WGSH Spotlight: Lex Luthor

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Courtesy of World's Greatest Toys author Benjamin Holcomb is the Lex Luthor prototype, our first of the new figures from this Mattel/EMCE collaberation.

With all due respect to fans of Mr. Mxyzptlk, this figure is helping to erase one of the original WGSH lines biggest errors, the addition of Superman's true arch enemy, the leader of the Legion of Doom himself, Lex Luthor.


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Again, we have a look that 70s kids will immediately identify as being from Challenge of the Superfriends, Bravo EMCE and Mattel!

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Upcoming WGSH Spotlight: Superman

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Now that the dust has settled from the SDCC, we thought it might be fun to take a look individually of wave one of Mattel's World's Greatest Superheroes line (which is, still trippy to say) and hey, it'll pass the time until Spring right? So, courtesy of World's Greatest Toys author Benjamin Holcomb is the Superman prototype, a very fitting choice for wave one as he is part of the "original four".

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Eventhough his look has been altered, there is something very familiar about Supes, you can almost hear Danny Dark's voice coming out of this figure, Bravo EMCE and Mattel!

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Friday, July 24, 2009

The Mego World's Greatest Superheroes are Back!

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At the "Mattel and DC Comics: A Heroic Partnership" Panel at this year's San Diego Comic Con the big announcement was the return of the 8" Superhero format!

It's the one Mego fans have been waiting for and something Dr.Mego (AKA Paul Clarke) and Joe Sena of EMCE toys have toiled on for ages.


It's a bright and sunny day in Megoland, for soon the heroes will return to toy store shelves before Easter 2010.

Wave One Includes:
Green Arrow
Hal Jordan GL
Superman
Lex Luthor
Sinestro
John Stewart GL


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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Vintage Mego Ad from the pages of Starlog

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New to the MegoMuseum Ad Archive is this wonderful ad from Starlog Magazine circa 1985, over the years I've heard many folks mention this ad as being the thing that drew them back to Mego in their adult life. The company is no long called "Planet Earth" but they are still in business.
I ordered a Frankenstein from this ad, I had never seen one before and had to have it. The Spider-Man figures in this ad were actually the very rare Canadian Parkdale Novelty cards.



Check out the MegoMuseum Library for hours of Mego browsing.

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Canadian Boxed Spider-Car




Mark Schmidt sent in photos of this rare item, a bilingual boxed Spider-Car from Parkdale Novelty. Previously it was believed all Parkdale did was sticker the US packaging, it seems that they also did a run of their own box. Thanks to Mark for sharing this northern rarity.


MegoMuseum Spider Car Gallery

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The Mego Superheroes Down Under


New to the MegoMuseum Ad Archive is this rare Australian Magazine Ad for Toltoys (the down under distributer) who took the 1973 Mego Superheroes Catalog page and made it their own! Click on the image to see a bigger version.
Many thanks to Catherine AKA "SlipperyLilSuckers" for bringing this to our attention!

Check out the MegoMuseum Library for hours of Mego browsing.

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Friday, July 10, 2009

1973s Greatest Stars: The World's Greatest Superheroes

mego mad monsters Again thanks to Steve F., we've got a much bigger scan of the 1974 Mego World's Greatest Superheroes Catalog page, click on it to see a larger view.



I want to go to there...

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Monday, July 06, 2009

Mego Solid Box Robin

New to Mego Museum Robin Page (and long overdue!) is the Solid Boxed Robin. Were you a lucky kid who snatched up one of these in '73?

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Friday, June 19, 2009

Mego's Superheroes lead pack in Windy City Sales


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Friday, June 12, 2009

Meet Spider-Man, the Wicked Witch and Cornelius the Ape at Gold Circle!


There is just so much to love about this vintage Mego store appearance ad, like the word Shaboom and the use of Aquaman and Tarzan in the toy ad. Below are some of the pieces of paper you would get from such an appearance.

Spidey would hand these little fliers to kids, fortunately kids saved them!

Lucky Apes kids would get this, a signed picture of Caesar acting as Cornelius, a McDowell is a McDowell to mego....

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Mego Greatest American Hero Gallery Updates

Today we've got an indepth look at a Ralph Hinkley production sample figure from the Greatest American Hero line of toys. What makes this one different is that he's an earlier production sample, lots of big pictures and history about this neat figure.

Mego Museum Greatest American Hero Gallery

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Friday, May 15, 2009

MIB Basa Robin at the Mego Museum

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It is a good day when we have something like this to share. The first boxed BASA superhero all the way from Peru, which happens to be Robin the boy wonder, is now on display at the Mego Robin page. He's really, really pretty, so be sure to take a look.

Discuss at the Mego Museum Forums

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Monday, April 27, 2009

Palitoy of the Day: The Joker


Another beauty of a Palitoy/Mego card, courtesy of Bill Frost. Today's feature is the clown prince of crime, the Joker. Weird that they removed the Penguin's umbrella on his package but left the cane....
MegoMuseum Forums : Better than ever!

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Friday, April 17, 2009

Palitoy of the Day: The Thing


Oh yes indeed it's Clobbering time with the ever loving blue eyed Thing on his very rare Palitoy green card. Sure he's common as heck on a French "Pin Pin" card but hop the English Channel and he's one tough cookie to find. This comes from the collection of Bill Frost. More Palitoy goodness on Monday....


Mego Museum Thing Gallery Page


Discuss Mego at our Forum

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Mego Museum Will Scarlett Trading Card

Continuing on our Merry Men theme this week is WillScarlett from the World's Greatest Super Merry Men giving Mego Robin Hood a lesson in humility it seems. Our own Scott Adams designed this fun night scene and the card was sponsored by Jadan and his dad Darren aka "Starsky" at the Mego Forum.

As is par for the course, we've also redesigned the Mego Museum Gallery for Page for the good Friar so be sure to check it out.

MegoMuseum WillScarlett Gallery

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The Mego Museum Little John Trading Card

Continuing on our Merry Men theme this week (not in order mind you) is Little John from the World's Greatest Super Merry Men giving Mego Robin Hood a lesson in humility it seems. Our own Scott Adams designed this fun scene and the card was sponsored by Bobby Simpson aka Bobws at the Mego Forum.

As is par for the course, we've also redesigned the Mego Museum Gallery for Page for the good Friar so be sure to check it out.

MegoMuseum Friar Tuck Gallery

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Friday, April 10, 2009

Palitoy of the Day: Spider-Man!


Another beauty of a Palitoy/Mego card, courtesy of Bill Frost. Today's feature is the Marvel's premiere Superhero and one of the best selling Mego figures of all time, Spider-Man.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Toy Sale at K-Mart! Mego Comic Book Heroes $3.38

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Sadly people this sale ended December 9th, 1978.

Mego Forum

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Mego of the Day: Bend N Flex Batgirl

Just like her WGSH counterpart Bend N Flex Batgirl is super cute and a little tougher to find in good shape than most of her male counterparts.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

It's Vinyl Cape Superman!


Megohead Steve Bracha sent in this rarely seen variation of the Mego Man of Steel, the vinyl cape. Check it out here at the Mego Superman Gallery. Thanks Steve and thanks also to Chet for pointing this out.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Year end Mego Museum round up


These $1.99 Teen Titans are just some of the fun things you can find in the print ad archive which shows not only the ads that have been featured all this month but a few more that didn't make the cut.










Thanks to everyone for such a fun 2008 at the Mego Museum, we look forward to the new year and hopefully we'll see some of you at Megomeet this June.

Happy New Year!

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