Mego collectors may want to pick up the latest issue of Doctor Who magazine, it’s focus this month is the 1970s and with it they discuss the Denys Fisher range of action figures based on the Tom Baker era of the series. In the article, they manage to track down Peter Viner, a former engineer…
One of the biggest supporters of Mego’s Action Jackson line was Morris Kotzer, founder of Parkdale Novelty, one of Canada’s leading toy suppliers. In the MegoMuseum Pod Cast interview with Kotzer’s son Lorne, he recounted the amusing circumstances behind Parkdale placing such a big order. Action Jackson‘s sales fell well below expectations in Canada and…
SUPER FRIENDS: UNIVERSE OF EVIL BATMAN WAVE 5 FLASH WAVE 1 Visit Figures Toy Company to get yours, and remember that orders over $100 get free shipping in the Contiguous United States! Also available for you at this time are tons of new releases like the debut series for Scooby Doo and Jonny Quest, Teen…
As promised last week, we have more from Stephan’s epic discovery of “Los Famosos Superheroes” in Colombia, (first installment is here in case you missed it) . This time we’ll concentrate on the other loose Caravajal figures he stumbled upon, namely Batman, Superman Penguin and…. The Joker! Any collector of Lili Ledy figures from Mexico knows…
Toy Fair had it’s share of surprises this year as Diamond Select Toys revealed the packaging for the previously announced Punisher set (which is available to order here) and we were all pleased to see that Frank will indeed be packing heat. However, the bigger surprise is the announcement of a second DeadPool set featuring three new…
One of the nicer surprises at this past weekend’s Toy Fair was the sighting of NECA’s new “A Christmas Story” retro clothed action figures of Ralphie and his “Old Man” (aka Carl Kolchak himself, Darren McGavin) these will fit in nicely with previously release yule time NECA figures like Clarke Griswold and the Home Alone…
Many thanks to our new friend Stephan, who upon a recent visit to Columbia discovered that yet another country licensed the World’s Greatest Superheroes brand from Mego. Instead of importing Hong Kong manufactured product, Colombian distributor Caravajal produced the figures locally at the Rimax plastic factory to produce Los Famosos Super Heroes (en Accion).This…
Good news for fans of Figures Toy Company’s Super Friends series! Your favorite Friends have been brought together in five limited edition multi packs, available exclusively through Excelsior Toys! Each series of Super Friends has been grouped together in limited edition packaging, allowing collectors to claim a complete set in one package! Each series…
A nice January surprise is the arrival of several different Figures Toy Company’s product lines including the oft forgotten brother sister team of Wendy and Marvin, the teen sidekicks in the first season of the Super Friends. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”114″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”200″ thumbnail_height=”175″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”0″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder”…
Mego Video Shorts are now a monthly feature here at the Mego Museum and well, this month we felt like playing with our Green Arrow car. Other than being hard to find in the collector market, it’s actually a well thought out and fun toy as this short will attest to. Look for more…
