Happy Wednesday! Here’s an awesome Mego World’s Greatest Superhero catalog spread from 1976 pairing Spider-Man with Wonder Woman? we’d love to track down that mailer box! Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/TheMegoMuseum/
When we posted the original Mego 1976 trade advertisement featuring the Mystery General Urko art yesterday a sharp-eyed reader by the name of Dave noticed another weird anomaly, As featured in yesterday’s ad, here is the prototype for the Mego World’s Greatest Superheroes Hall of Justice Playset. It’s obviously been handcrafted. One thing missing from this…
Here’s a fun Mego Mystery that we don’t have the answer to. Prior to Toy Fair 1976 Mego Corporation (who were, really at the top of their game) took out a clever two-page ad (at the front) of all the leading toy trade magazines showcasing their successful and upcoming toy lines for 1976. Page One is…
Mego Museum’s inaugural issue of Megozine, the magazine for Mego Collectors. Issue one is now expanded and Includes: Secret Origins of the 1/6th Scale Superheroes- Which details Mego s 12 inch Superhero figures and includes a never before seen prototype of a never made Mego 12 hero. A Mego Museum Super Collector comic adventure Escape…
1980 was an ambitious year for the World’s Greatest Toy Company as this Spring supplemental catalog showcases. Mego had high hopes for the two Science Fiction Black busters that year namely Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Disney’s The Black Hole and tremendous plans to expand the Micronauts aliens brand. On the Superhero side we…
We’ve mentioned these guys before but seeing as we didn’t get much insight and it’s almost Halloween, what better time to reintroduce them and perhaps get some pieces to the puzzle. Above are the Mystery Mad Monsters bendy figures that we procured from the UK a few years back. The seller knew nothing about…
We got a splendid surprise this month courtesy of Museum founder Robyn Adams, a set of original Mego proof cards that originally came from former Mego director of creative services Tom Lavely. Some of the other items that Tom managed to save included this original proof card for the Pocket Superheroes and cards…
Couldn’t help but notice this Mego Superman cameo in this 1977 Licensing Corporation of America (which was a division of Warner Brothers) booklet extolling the wonders of toy licensing. Also depicted are a Batman bop bag by Mulitple Toys and the Empire Toys Bat Cycle. Click here for the Mego Museum Photo Review…
We love a good mystery at the MegoMuseum and our new friend Rainman reached out to us via our sister site PlaidStallions.com with this handsome fellow. He writes: “Hi I have had this strange vinyl Hulk figure for years and haven’t had any luck in identifying the manufacturer. The person I got from in the…
This giant sized Trade advertisement from 1979 celebrates Mego combining stretch toys with the Superheroes licensing. Pretty inspired and something that has been repeated through the decades. Unfortunately, Kenner (purveyors of the Stretch Armstrong line of toys) believed the “big idea” the Mego stretched was theirs and promptly sued. Many former Mego executives…
