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AKA Brian. Curator/helper monkey on the Mego Museum. Webmaster/Creator of Plaidstallions.com . President (and sole employee) of Odeon Toys. Freelance pop culture writer, toy historian and author of the book "Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings" which is now available. Shoe size is 15 wide.

Up Close: Super Friends Wave 3

The popular Super Friends toy line by Figures Toy Company has rolled out it’s third wave of figures and well, we’re kind of suckers here at the Museum for the Super Friends! Wave three of Superfriends is the first to include members of the Legion of Doom and includes some highly anticipated characters including Riddler, Batman, Captain…

EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK AT THE BLUE FALCON AND MISTER HYDE

Enjoy this sneak peek at Blue Falcon from the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon.  You won’t need to go all the way to Big City to solve the mystery of how to get Radley Crown and his foil Willie the Weasel – aka Mr Hyde. Make sure to check back each and every Friday for all the…

Marvel Reveals Punisher Mego Set

Marvel dropped this on their blog today and made a lot of people’s day Is the Marvel Retro line ready for… The Punisher?! Never released in the classic Mego toy line of yester-year, violent vigilante The Punisher is the latest Marvel character to get the 8-inch Retro action figure treatment from DST! This gift set…

Series 4 Kresge Cards now in Stock!

Figures Toy Company is bringing back more of your favorite DC Comics figures, with an added touch of Mego authenticity.  Super heroes, villains, and secret identities have all been brought together in an all new assortment that’s been captured in commemorative Kresge style packaging! The Kresge style has long been a favorite of retro figure…

Figures Toy Co asks What DC Characters do you want to see next?

Figures Toy Company wants your input, so let them know what DC characters you want next! There are many options to tell them about your favorites: One: Take our Online Survey and pick your top DC Character from the list. Two: Shout out our choices to @figurestoycompany on Twitter. Three: Visit the Figures Toy Company…

New Video Short: Mego Robin Hood and the Super Merry Men

  After a unfortunate hiatus, we’re proud to get back with the video makin’. Our monthly video series  (We plan to do every single Mego Toy and Action Figure Line) continues with a look at the 1975 toy line Robin Hood and the Super Merry Men.   You can see all of our vintage toy short films…

Preview: The 1980 Pedigree Toys Catalog

1980 Pedigree Toys Catalog World's Greatest Superheroes

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…

Mego’s Last Splash at ToyFair

Megto at toyfair 1982 launching the Eagle Force, from left to right Captain Eagler, Darren McGavin, Cathy Lee Crosby, Marty Abrams." width="917" height="505" /> Megto at toyfair 1982 launching the Eagle Force, from left to right Captain Eagler, Darren McGavin, Cathy Lee Crosby, Marty Abrams

If Mego had a lasting mark on  the toy fair, it was their showmanship. Marty Abrams brought a splash of colour to Toy Fair and with it, record sales year after year, his escapades would be copied in events and toy launches, that occur to this day. When Action Jackson launched, he brought in Milton Berle, for the…

Inside the Mego Close-Out Star Trek Set

Mego Star Trek Clearance Set

  Seeing as Star Trek is 50 today and it was one of Mego‘s biggest and earliest hits, we thought we’d spotlight one of the oddest and rarest pieces to come out of that delicious union, the highly sought after Close-Out Set. Our own Robyn Adams did a great write up of this piece when…