Category: castaway

Re-Mego of the Day: Dr Eville

by Museum • October 7, 2009

CastAWay toys snagged the license to this baby boomer favourite and melded the 60s with the 70s by shrinking them down to 8″ baby. CastAway Toys Galleries Mego Museum Forums Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • September 29, 2009

September 29th, 2009 (Shawnee KS) – Cast-a-Way Toys is bringing the ACTION back again! CAPTAIN ACTION that is… Continuing their line of Retro-style action-figures Cast-a-Way Toys is once again partnering with Captain Action Enterprises to produce new 8-inch scaled action figures based on the iconic Captain Action and Dr. Eville.This time the good Captain returns…

by Museum • July 22, 2009

Premiering at this year’s San Diego Comic Con is Bif Bang Pow!’s 8” Flash Gordon figure. The proposed series will feature a Cast A Way body and will embody the likeness of Flash Gordon (Sam Jones) and Ming the Merciless (Max Von Sydow) on the 1980 cult Classic Dino De Laurentiis film “Flash Gordon”. proposed…

by Museum • June 3, 2009

Cast-A-Way toys has come up with a fun promotion at this year’s Mego Meet, the “Kit Bash” contest. The rules are simple: Make it at the show! Whatever you get from the Meet dealer room is fair game. No sandbagging with stuff from home, this is to see what you guys can do on the…

by Museum • December 1, 2008

There has never been a better Christmas to be a Megohead than 2008 (well I guess the 1970s but we don’t have a time machine) , seeing as there are more choices than just vintage product for those inclined to all things 8″ with clothing. Here are some of the things that can be under…

by Museum • August 24, 2008

New Gallery! Come see the new Gallery for the Majic Productions Greatest American Hero figure, the latest releases from Castaway Toys and find out who the Mystery Mountie is in Unknown Toys Section.. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • June 9, 2008

Dealer’s Room A close second to being in a room full of people who share your obsession (and speak your Mego language) is the Mego Meet Dealers Room. Whether your poison is MOC, loose, custom, repro, parts, you will never find a better grouping of all things Mego under one roof than here. The room…

by Museum • April 23, 2008

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…

by Museum • April 22, 2008

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…

by Museum • April 21, 2008

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…