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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.

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…

Super Friends Wave 3 now up for Pre order!

Figures Toy Company has created more Super Friends for you to have fun with, and they’re being joined by two of their most famous foes!  Available to preorder now is Super Friends Series 3, which features the first two characters from the diabolical Legion of Doom! Series 3 features four new figures created in the…

Up Close: ThinkGeek Captain America Exclusive

MegoMuseum ThinkGeek Review of the Captain America Set

We love a surprise here at the Mego Museum, so when the announcement broke last week that Think Geek was offering a variant Captain America ReMego set (crafted by Diamond Select Toys and EMCE) well, we were all over that! This set is different in many ways to last year’s Captain America Set (Still Available at…

Superboy, Vans and Monkees now shipping!

Ready for more retro figure fun?  Then you’re going to want to head over to Figures Toy Company right now, because they’ve got several new series in stock for you to collect! The new line of DC Comics vehicles has arrived!  That’s right, three of the four buses (each featuring an exclusive retro figure not available separately)…