Vintage Mego this week looks at one of the rarer catalogs to come from Mego, the 1980 Spring supplement which features toylines they thought would be the highlights of 1980 including the Micronauts, BGlack Hole, Star Trek the Motion Picture, Fashion Candy, Web Spinning Spider-Man and Elastic Plastic Man among others. GET Issue…
This week we look at the total oddity that is the “Buck Rogers Star Searcher” a repackaged Micronauts vehicle, we also look at some of the other proposed (but not produced) vehicles and playsets for this line. They may look familiar. Visit us online at : https://www.megomuseum.com/galleries/buck3/ Twitter: @megomuseum Facebook Group: Mego Mania
Seeing as it’s the 40th anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture let’s take a look at the tough to find and under-appreciated line of second series characters from Mego’s toy line. Visit us online at: Follow us on Twitter: @MegoMuseum Mego Museum Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/TheMegoMuseum/ Mego Mania Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/megomania/
While the Mego World’s Greatest Superheroes is one of the successful toylines of all time, it like any other toyline, did have a fair share of items that didn’t make it into production. Vintage Mego takes a look at a few Superhero items that just didn’t make the cut. Which one of these do…
by Brain Heiler Mego- A name synonymous with “Superhero” in the 1970s and certainly one of the pioneers of licensed action figure success, while they are no longer, their formula and creativity live on today (hey, you may have heard, we’re fans). While the World’s Greatest Toy Company had an incredible, unprecedented amount of…
1980 was an ambitious year for the World’s Greatest Toy Company as this Spring supplemental catalog showcases. Mego had high hopes for the two Science Fiction Black busters that year namely Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Disney’s The Black Hole and tremendous plans to expand the Micronauts aliens brand. On the Superhero side we…
A sneak peak of one of our upcoming updates is the World’s Greatest Superheroes assortment available to the United Kingdom in 1980. If you’re keeping count, that means the WGSH had three distributors in Great Britain starting with Cecil Coleman in 1974 (Coleman also carried “Johnny Jackson“) famously moving to Palitoy in the mid 1970s…
Thanks to our good friends at Hake’s Americana we have another wonderful rare foreign Mego catalog spread from Italian distributor GIG. This catalog not only features the rare Italian Magnetic Superheroes but the Diecast Superheroes and finally answers our question as to how many Pocket Superheroes were released on white cards in Italy. Be…
Mego Micronaut Toy Prototype: Salesman’s Sample Lobros Collection of Ray “AcroRay” Miller, 2015 Discovery: This artifact was auctioned as a genuine Mego “salesman’s sample” in late 2014, astoundingly fetching only a price typical for a normal, packaged Mego Lobros. Its new owner quickly flipped it for a modest markup, without the “salesman’s sample” claim…
The latest issue of the Mego Museum Super Collector news has the score on the upcoming Captain Canuck action figure launch, takes a look at Mego Toyfair , all the goings on in the Mego hobby this week plus a new contest where you can win the Seven Million Dollar man! Click here to check…
