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Toy maker grows into a giant on Hollywood, comic motifs

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“He is now bringing out toy figures based on the popular TV series “The Waltons.” He expects they will do as well as the “Planet of the Apes” line, which had $10 million in sales “Hey, you can’t win them all…. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

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All this December at the Mego Museum

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All this December, a look at vintage Christmas ads and articles devoted to Mego Crop, spanning the company’s humble beginnings to it’s hay day in the 70s. There are a couple of surprises plus appearances by many of your Mego Favorites. Check it out the Megomuseum Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

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Television Shows Spawn Long Life For Merchandise

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June 22nd 1975 –For “many TV shows, the report of their merchandising divisions is almost as important as the latest rating. The sale of merchandise built around the show can be a big plus to its credit rating. I visited Barbara Atlas in heroffice, to talk about the show she and Doug Momary created and…

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Apes and Christmas Trees

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Mego Apes on sale in an ad for Kings Department Store Portsmouth New Hampshire (October 1975) Friday Nov 22, 1974: As a TV series, “Planet of the Apes” has been a major disappointment to Fred Silverman, Program VP at CBS, but it has been a big hit in the eyes of Marty Abrams, president of…

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The Apes Are Coming!

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Coming soon to MegoMuseum.com: Mike Jimenez has created a complete revisal of the Mego Planet of the Apes Galleries with every page containg new information and photography. In the spirit of all things Apes, we’ll let a few jaw dropping twists escape that we have hiding beneath the Museum archives. While it will be quite…

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