Monday, January 18, 2010

Gestern Wars Promotional Piece



Fantastic Update courtesy of Jens Knappman today who was kind enough to scan this rare German leaflet for the Lion Rock Gestern Wars series but also translated the whole thing for us as well. It's a really neat look at foreign marketing many of us haven't seen before:





1939 - 1945
GESTERN WAR'S.

When the world was ablaze. The second World- War was at rage. Nearly all countries of the world were involved in this war.

Today no sensible statesman would chose the war as a means of politics. Too large were the suffers and casualties of the recent war, too powerful and deadly are modern destructive weapons. 55 million dead people and immense destruction remind us to not forget the past.

Everyone who wants to know how the world in which we are living now was created, how todays political systems and borders developed, will not get around learning about the most extensive military conflict in the history of the world.

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Time For Action, Johnny Action!

Neat addition to the Lionrock World War 2 Gallery today, it's the 1976 Mego Johnny Action Catalog featuring the military that Mego marketed around the world under many different names.


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Monday, September 07, 2009

Meg Clearance in 1983

A President's day sale after Mego's demise shows clearance pricing on everything, including the World's Greatest Superheroes! Sure, the ad shows Batman but I bet it was mostly Hulks.....

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Friday, August 28, 2009

The 1974 Mego Planet of the Apes Show Room

A rather epic addition today to our Planet of the Apes Galleries, the first (but hopefully not last) known shot of the 1974 Mego Toyfair showroom featuring the Planet of the Apes action figures and Doctor Cornelius himself (obviously one of the store appearance suits) click on the image for a larger view.


Thirsty for more Explore the Mego Museum Planet of the Apes Galleries!

Discuss at the Mego Forums

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Friday, August 14, 2009

Buck Rogers Galleries Updated


Thanks to some great submissions from Chris Jefferys, we've got a complete section for the Buck Rogers 12" figures. Come feat your eyes on what is honestly one of the nicest figure sets ever produced by Mego.




Be sure to scope out the other Buck Rogers Galleries for never before seen prototypes and rare promotional material. It'll have you typing "biddy biddy biddy" into your ebay searchs.....

MEGO MUSEUM BUCK ROGERS GALLERIES


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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Spotlight on the EMCE/Mattel Sinestro

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Here is another in our new gallery pages for the upcoming EMCE/Mattel "World's Greatest Superheroes" line. This time we focus on the Green Lantern's arch enemy, Sinestro. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone.

mattel mego green lantern from the upcoming worlds greatest superheroes line

Another terrific figure inspired by Challenge of the Superfriends that fufills a lot of 31 year old wish lists.


What do you think? Have your say on the Mego Forums

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Upcoming WGSH Spotlight: Lex Luthor

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Courtesy of World's Greatest Toys author Benjamin Holcomb is the Lex Luthor prototype, our first of the new figures from this Mattel/EMCE collaberation.

With all due respect to fans of Mr. Mxyzptlk, this figure is helping to erase one of the original WGSH lines biggest errors, the addition of Superman's true arch enemy, the leader of the Legion of Doom himself, Lex Luthor.


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Again, we have a look that 70s kids will immediately identify as being from Challenge of the Superfriends, Bravo EMCE and Mattel!

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Upcoming WGSH Spotlight: Superman

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Now that the dust has settled from the SDCC, we thought it might be fun to take a look individually of wave one of Mattel's World's Greatest Superheroes line (which is, still trippy to say) and hey, it'll pass the time until Spring right? So, courtesy of World's Greatest Toys author Benjamin Holcomb is the Superman prototype, a very fitting choice for wave one as he is part of the "original four".

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Eventhough his look has been altered, there is something very familiar about Supes, you can almost hear Danny Dark's voice coming out of this figure, Bravo EMCE and Mattel!

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Friday, July 10, 2009

1973s Greatest Stars: The World's Greatest Superheroes

mego mad monsters Again thanks to Steve F., we've got a much bigger scan of the 1974 Mego World's Greatest Superheroes Catalog page, click on it to see a larger view.



I want to go to there...

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Thursday, July 09, 2009

The American West Series

mego mad monsters Thanks to the generosity of Steve F., we also have a much bigger scan of the 1974 Mego American West Catalog page, click on it to see a larger view.



That includes a much nicer view of the Dodge City Playset, sigh....

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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

The Mad Monsters Series

mego mad monsters Thanks to the generosity of Steve F., we have a much bigger scan of the 1974 Mego Mad Monsters Catalog page, click on it to see a larger view.



I'd also love to know what the heck this is supposed to be....

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Friday, June 19, 2009

Mego's Superheroes lead pack in Windy City Sales


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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Mego Greatest American Hero Gallery Updates

Today we've got an indepth look at a Ralph Hinkley production sample figure from the Greatest American Hero line of toys. What makes this one different is that he's an earlier production sample, lots of big pictures and history about this neat figure.

Mego Museum Greatest American Hero Gallery

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Some of the offerings at this weekend's MegoMeet

Folks are showing off some of their wares early this year at the Megomeet Forum. Hang on to your waller, here is just a sampling of what will be available this weekend:


Romulans by Azrak


Vintage Mego will be in abundance thanks to folks like Blue Meanie, these type two monsters won't last long nor will this beauty of a mego Superheroes display card:



Here is Mego Spidey's Megomeet display, bet it looks even better in person!


Here is the box for this year's exclusive figure Doctor KromeDome, ignore that webslinger, box creator Mike just put him there for show.



Boss is bringing some of his custom creations to the show like this lovely Superman.


Forget Matt Murdock, the Knock Knock Toy Company will have a different Dare Devil available...

Check out the Mego Meet Forum for more

Megomeet Official Website

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Best Wishes, Cornelius or Planet of the Apes Day!


Neat piece added to the Mego Museum Planet of the Apes gallery today. It's an autographed handout from a store appearance made by Cornelius, although any fan worth his salt could tell you that it's Caesar in the photo. Those toy company execs can't tell their McDowell's apart. Mego did a great deal of promotion for Apes, here are some wonderful back in the day photos.



The infamous Apes Macy parade float, some new photos have come out thanks to the generosity of the Abrams family, check out this thread for more.


A Long Island store appearance for Planet of the Apes, dig the minty rack of action figures....



A colour shot of a similiar appearance.


Discuss Planet of the Apes at the Mego Forum

Visit the MegoMuseum Planet of the Apes Gallery

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Friday, April 17, 2009

Palitoy of the Day: The Thing


Oh yes indeed it's Clobbering time with the ever loving blue eyed Thing on his very rare Palitoy green card. Sure he's common as heck on a French "Pin Pin" card but hop the English Channel and he's one tough cookie to find. This comes from the collection of Bill Frost. More Palitoy goodness on Monday....


Mego Museum Thing Gallery Page


Discuss Mego at our Forum

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Monday, April 13, 2009

The Mego Museum Friar Tuck Trading Card

Another series of cards is upon us, continuing with the Legends theme we have Friar Tuck from the World's Greatest Super Merry Men giving Mego Robin Hood a little help across the river. Our own Scott Adams designed this fun scene and the card was sponsored by Anderson, Erik and Mark, three great members of the Mego Forum.

As is par for the course, we've also redesigned the Mego Museum Gallery for Page for the good Friar so be sure to check it out.

MegoMuseum Friar Tuck Gallery

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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Megotronic Cheque


An odd little piece of Mego history today, looks like somebody got the big payday of forty two smackers from the electronics division of Mego.
One man's trash is another man's lunatic obsession. Click on the image for a larger look (if your heart can take it)

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Mego Toyfair Showroom 1975

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Toy Fair 1975: B. Goldberg and J. Romaine (presumably sales reps) show the new Wizard of Oz line from Mego. The Diorama featued makes you wonder what other displays looked like...

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Friday, February 20, 2009

Mego of the Day: Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy


No "Dammit Jim" jokes please. I've always loved this figures expression, it's a great likeness.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Mego of the Day: Steve Goal Getter


Mego of the Day is UK Exclusive Steve Goalgetter, produced by Mego corp for toy distributor Wiggens Teape in the late Seventies. Steve remains one of the harder items to find in the Mego collecting world.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Mego of the Day: Forbidden Zone Trap

Mego of the Day is the Planet of the Apes Forbidden Zone Trap playset, what a time we lived in when our folks let us have a post nuclear city environment....

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Mego of the Day: Bend N Flex Batgirl

Just like her WGSH counterpart Bend N Flex Batgirl is super cute and a little tougher to find in good shape than most of her male counterparts.

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Friday, January 30, 2009

The Mego Doctor Zaius Prototype


We end our week of never before seen shots of the original hand made Mego production prototypes of the Planet of the Apes figures with the big guy himself, Dr. Zaius. Thanks for reading!

Click Here to see the original Prototype Dr. Zaius figure by Mego.

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Genesis of the Mego Soldier Ape Figure


Today, we have not one but two different stages of prototypes for the Mego Planet of the Apes Characters.

These original samples have been rumoured to exist for years and now we finally have beautiful full colour shots of the very first Mego Planet of the Apes characters.

Not only do we have the original hand made prototype but an early factory test shot of the Soldier Ape (or as early advertising states "General Ursus")

Click Here to see the original Prototype Soldier Ape figure by Mego.

Also, don't forget to register for this year's Megomeet convention, which is being held this June 5 & 6th in Wheeling WV. Admission is $20 and a dealer table (which includes admission) is $32. It's the only all Mego event of it's kind. Click here to register.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The 1974 Mego Cornelius Prototype


As promised, we kick off a week of never before seen shots of the original hand made Mego production prototypes of the Planet of the Apes Characters.

These original samples have been rumoured to exist for years and now we finally have beautiful full colour shots of the very first Mego Planet of the Apes characters.

Just like Zira yesterday, Cornelius proves to be another wonderfully detailed figure.

Click Here to see the original Prototype Cornelius figure by Mego.

Also, don't forget to register for this year's Megomeet convention, which is being held this June 5 & 6th in Wheeling WV. Admission is $20 and a dealer table (which includes admission) is $32. It's the only all Mego event of it's kind. Click here to register.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Original 1974 Mego Zira Prototype


As promised, we kick off a week of never before seen shots of the original hand made Mego production prototypes of the Planet of the Apes Characters.

These original samples have been rumoured to exist for years and now we finally have beautiful full colour shots of the very first Mego Planet of the Apes characters.

Click Here to see the original Prototype Zira figure by Mego.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

It's Vinyl Cape Superman!


Megohead Steve Bracha sent in this rarely seen variation of the Mego Man of Steel, the vinyl cape. Check it out here at the Mego Superman Gallery. Thanks Steve and thanks also to Chet for pointing this out.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The Doctor's Enemy #1 : The Daleks

I'm sure everybody saw this coming, today we take a new look at the demented product of the planet Skaro, the Daleks! Check out the new gallery page.
This concludes are look at the Denys Fisher Doctor Who line, many thanks to Bill Frost for all the help.

Stay Tuned Next Week for the Prototypes from 1974!

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Friday, December 05, 2008

Action Jackson is only $0.99 at Two Guys

And to think I almost spent an extra $0.29 yesterday, I'm glad I waited.....

Coming this Monday: The birth of the World's Greatest Superheroes!

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