Curator and Editor in Chief
Brian "Palitoy"
Brian (AKA "Brain") grew up in a suburb of Toronto, Canada. In the
70's, Brian's father specialized in toy closeouts especially stuff like Action Jackson and Planet of the Apes. Visits to Mego
Canada were common, as were Saturday afternoons pouring through toy industry
magazines.
The Mego bug hit Brian at age 15 when he received
a Space:1999 Captain Zantor figure from the UK. It set him off to
discover what other Mego products were available worldwide.
A longtime contributor to the Museum, Scott
gave the "keys" to the museum to Brian in 2000, and it's been a crash
course in html ever since. Brian still resides outside of Toronto
and is now a freelance product developer, acquiring many
of the same licenses as the toys he collects. Brian is happily married
with two great kids, a mortgage and a shrinking amount of space
for his toys. His love for the 1970s toys and fashion continues at his other website Plaidstallions.com
Brian's first book "Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings" is a love letter to fun toys that broke super easy and is available here.
Email Brian at palitoy@megomuseum.com |
Museum Creator & Art Director
Scott C Adams
Scott
grew up in Southern New Mexico and got his first Mego Super Heroes
at Montgomery Wards with his grandfather. After giving them away
when he hit puberty, he bought a few Megos in the early 90s. When
he first got online in 1996 he found there were no Mego websites
so he started one with the few figures he had as a way to learn
how to build web pages. The Mego Museum came online November 4,
1996 and soon attracted a group of online Mego collectors. The
exchange of knowledge (and toys) soon caused the Museum to grow
from a small home page to a large unruly archive on Toymania.com.
In 2000 Scott left the Museum to pursue other interests and handed
the reigns to Brian who guided the Museum to even greater
heights. Finally in fall 2005 Scott was inspired to finally take
on the challenge of completely redesigning what had become an
enormous and ungainly website, with an all-new graphic design
scheme and new trading card illustrations in the galleries. Scott
is an animation artist living in Oakland, CA with his wife, son,
and a respectable Mego collection. www.scottcadams.com
Email Scott at scott@megomuseum.com |
Museum Engineer and Webmaster
Joe DeRouen
Joe was born and raised in Carthage, Illinois, and currently resides in
Northwest Arkansas with his wife Andrea, their son Fletcher, and three
cats. He's a contributing editor for Computer User magazine, where he
writes a monthly column about Windows. Joe found the Museum in 1997 and
quickly became an addict. He took over hosting duties for the Museum in
2001 and began to get more
involved in the day-to-day running of the website as the years passed.
Joe's first-ever Megos were the RC Batman and RM Robin, way back in
1974, (he lost Robin's mask in less time than it's taken you to read
this bio) and his all-time favorite is Spider-Man. Joe also runs The
Mego Store, a website where you can buy practically anything having to
do with Megos other than actual vintage Megos themselves. You can visit
his home page at www.JoeDeRouen.com or the store at
www.megostore.com
Email Joe at joe@megomuseum.com |
Museum Utility
Dave McCormick
Dave spent his 70's youth growing up in Southeast Michigan and playing with action figures or as he called them at the time, "guys". Mego was the biggest part of those "guys", especially Planet of the Apes. Dave eventually reached an age where he thought he was too old to play with toys and took what once was his beloved collection of action figures and dumped them in the trash, something that haunts him to this day. He moved on and eventually married, had a son and moved to Ohio. xnxx
It was that son who brought Dave back to Mego as an adult. When he was 1 year old, Dave's son found an old beat up Mego Superman in the bottom of an old toy box at Grandma's house. He plopped the Superman in Dave's lap and wandered off. That brought it all back and sent Dave to the internet to research the toys of his youth where he found the Mego Museum and tons of information on the toys he grew up with.
Dave eventually joined the Museum staff, revamping Customs and creating and updating the Accessory Check pages of the galleries. He also heads up the annual MegoMeet convention in West Virginia each year.
www.tigersbonemachine.com www.megomeet.com
Email Dave at dave@megomuseum.com |
Regular Contributor
John Bonavita
There aren't many Mego collectors who don't know who John Bonavita is, author, spokesperson
and all around booster for Mego collecting in general, John has
been a friend to the Museum ever since he first logged on.
John's many contributions to the Museum can be seen on these many pages
and don't forget John's website, now hosted on the Museum:
The Megohead Archive
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Regular Contributors
More Bios to come
So many other folks to list, we'll get to them shortly for now, thanks to:
Neal Kublan, Harold Shull, Ken Abrams, Paul Kirchner, Bill Baron, Charles Marshall, Morris Kotzer and of course, Martin Abrams.
Stephen Leach (who has saved Brian on more than one occasion)
Tom L (Variation Expert)
Vincent Cerbone and Bill Kaufman (Lion Rock experts)
Ben Holcomb (Super Genius)
Mike Jimenez (Ape-zilla)
Rob Chatlin ( Mego Lifer)
Scott Arendsen (My Hero)
Ed Weinstein, Matt Jaycox, Kevin Kaup,
the gang and the Mego Forums and anyone who has ever in any way given us a hand.
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