Today’s addition to the Mego Museum department store catalog archive is the second part to the two page spread with yesterday’s Micronauts page. It’s a whole page of Buck Rogers goodness. According to former Mego VP Bill Baron, Buck Rogers was actually a good seller for the World’s Greatest Toy company and that can be…
Category: 1980
Enter a Galaxy of Adventure with Mego Micronauts
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I’m loving this addition to the department store catalog archive today because it’s a nice shot of the Mego Micronauts. It’s a wonderfully dynamic shot of the rocket tubes playset. Also neat is what appears to be an early Hornetroid prototype, which has a missile launcher in the front. For more on the developement of…
Mego Star Trek Returns Twice Plus Captain Action News
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A new addition to our growing department store catalog archive is this Sears 1980 Catalog Page featuring the return of the 8″ Star Trek line. Even though Mego had stopped producing the figures in 1977, they made a return to Sears by the late seventies on what many call the “Blank Back Cards” (check the…
Quick Mego Superfriends to the Hulk Hideaway!
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A new addition to our growing department store catalog archive is this neat spread from the 1980 Sears Wishbook depicting the Heroes hiding out in the Tara ToysHulk Hideaway playset. I love the Hulk transformation chamber in this piece so I’ve added a better look, you even get a cardboard Bruce Banner. You’ll also notice…
Beaming Down Some Star Trek Goodness
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A generous helping of new images to the Star Trek The Motion Picture Gallery today, courtesy of Craig MacKillop. Check out some very nice Canadian rarities such as MOC Aliens and the wonderful Grand Toys boxed Enterprise pictured above. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset
Today it’s all about CHiPs!
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A very thorough update today thanks to the contributions of collectors Craig MacKillop and Mark Schmidt, we have an exhaustive amount of Canadian packaged goodies from the Mego CHiPs line including the very rare “2+2” pack shown above. Enjoy! Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset
Mego’s Big Ideas for 1980
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This new addition to the Mego Ad Archive is a 1980 advertisement for the 1980 Mego Line Up the piece features examples from many toy companies including fashion Candy, Micronauts, Black Hole and the Elastic Superheroes. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset
Mego Star Trek for 1980
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This new addition to the Mego Ad Archive from 1980 demonstrates just how much effort Mego Corp. put into merchandising Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Sadly the film’s more adult themes didn’t translate into toy sales with much of this line seeing little to no distribution in the United States. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego…
Mego’s Outlook for 1980
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A new entry to the Mego Museum Library today is this 1980 Toy Fair preview of some of Mego’s new products. Sadly, many of them including cool Micronaut alien vehicles such as Iguanos and remote controlled VINCent from the Black Hole were never released. The rest of the week on the Mego Museum will be…
Mego Prototype Old B.O.B from the Black Hole
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Prototype continues with another look at Mego Corp’s lost treasures courtesy of Tory Mucaro, today it’s the weathered Old B.O.B from the Black Hole, a figure that never saw release in the United States. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset
