New Vintage Mego Video tonight! We begin 2025 with a Mego toy from the 25th Century (aka 1979) with the Buck Rogers Laserscope Fighter an electronic toy that promises space battles. Does it do what it says it does on the box? Find out on the latest episode #mego #megomuseum The Lincoln Monsters are here!…
Spotlighting this wonderful ad from 1979, celebrating the launch of the Mego Buck Rogers toy line. The line did not fare anywhere near as good as Mego had hoped but was still considered a success, mainly due to the weekly television series being very popular with kids at the time. More Mego Buck Rogers on…
Toy-Ventures Returns from a fun day at this past weekend’s Mississauga Toy Expo. Man, it was full of surprises, including a super cool score! Toy-Ventures is our magazine; we’re an independent publisher trying to bring back print toy magazines; if you would like to support us, please check out the latest issue: https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/shop #mego #knockoff…
Vintage Mego looks at in our humble opinion, is one of the nicest range of action figures produced by Mego, the 12″ Buck Rogers line. However, it’s not without its problems. Join us and our special guest, Marty Abrams, talking about Mego’s 1/6th scale revival in the late 1970s. Get Toy-Ventures Magazine here: https://www.megomuseum.com/odeon/store/products/…
This week we take a look at one of the most iconic space ship toys of the 1970s, the Mego Buck Rogers in the 25th-century starfighter and talk a bit about Mego’s relationship with the license and why mego passed on Battlestar Galactica. Mego Museum Buck Rogers Gallery: Buck Rogers 3 3/4″ Action Figures Mego…
This week we look at the total oddity that is the “Buck Rogers Star Searcher” a repackaged Micronauts vehicle, we also look at some of the other proposed (but not produced) vehicles and playsets for this line. They may look familiar. Visit us online at : https://www.megomuseum.com/galleries/buck3/ Twitter: @megomuseum Facebook Group: Mego Mania
This week we focus on an underrated item and a favourite of mine, the Buck Rogers Land Rover vehicle. This was actually used on the series and is a pretty cool toy. We had our first casualty on the set of Vintage Mego, more details on that in the video. Visit the Mego Museum Buck…
BIDI BIDI BIDI! This week’s installment of Vintage Mego covers the prototype of Twiki from Buck Rogers. I go into my affection for the Mego Buck Rogers line, dispell some myths and share my collection of Twiki stuff. For more information on the Buck Rogers line, please visit the Mego Museum gallery page: Buck Rogers…
The MegoMuseum was fortunate enough to receive some wonderful “Behind the Scenes” photos from Mego Corporation in 1980 that we’ll be sharing over the coming weeks. While the folks in this photo aren’t identified (but we’d love to know who they are) we can identify that this is the show room for the Mego Buck Rogers…
By Brain Heiler One of the bigger myths (constantly) written about Mego is the notion that none of their Science Fiction licenses in a post Star Wars world were a success of any sort. While Star Trek the Motion Picture and the Black Hole were certainly disappointments for the company, the weekly kid friendly adventures…
