Marvel dropped this on their blog today and made a lot of people’s day Is the Marvel Retro line ready for… The Punisher?! Never released in the classic Mego toy line of yester-year, violent vigilante The Punisher is the latest Marvel character to get the 8-inch Retro action figure treatment from DST! This gift set…
A sneak peak of one of our upcoming updates is the World’s Greatest Superheroes assortment available to the United Kingdom in 1980. If you’re keeping count, that means the WGSH had three distributors in Great Britain starting with Cecil Coleman in 1974 (Coleman also carried “Johnny Jackson“) famously moving to Palitoy in the mid 1970s…
Seeing as Star Trek is 50 today and it was one of Mego‘s biggest and earliest hits, we thought we’d spotlight one of the oddest and rarest pieces to come out of that delicious union, the highly sought after Close-Out Set. Our own Robyn Adams did a great write up of this piece when…
We love a surprise here at the Mego Museum, so when the announcement broke last week that Think Geek was offering a variant Captain America ReMego set (crafted by Diamond Select Toys and EMCE) well, we were all over that! This set is different in many ways to last year’s Captain America Set (Still Available at…
One of the most exciting things about San Diego Comic Con this year was the triumphant return of the Micronauts courtesy of their new owners at Hasbro. They have big plans for Mego’s smash action figure line including a feature film adaptation. However for SDCC, they wonderfully recreated three of their most popular figures Pharoid,…
Now available from Figures Toy Company are new Retro Carded Superheroes, meant to give the look and vibe of classic Mego World’s Greatest Superhero cards. The best part is, the majority of these characters were never released by Mego so you can fill gaps in your vintage collection. Click here to see the entire new assortment.…
This year’s Aw Yeah Mego Meet event was held on June 18th in Skokie Illinois at the Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center. This year’s show was filled with a particularly positive energy, kicked off by a new feature, the launch party graciously hosted by our partners at Aw Yeah Comics Skokie. Early bird attendees enjoyed…
Heritage Auction Strikes again with more from the collection of sculptor Gene Salamacha, who it turns out sculpted the original line of Mego’s World’s Greatest Superheroes. This latest offering may be the strongest pieces of Mego history every put up on auction as the offering contains clay and hard copies for Robin, Superman, Aquaman and…
The popular Super Friends toy line by Figures Toy Company has rolled out it’s second wave of figures (although the Wonder Twins were also released in between those waves) and if you want to reviews of Wave one you can find it here and here. Wave two of Superfriends is comprised again of Good Guys…
Many moons ago, we had a lot of fun with one of these covered with buyer notes. Thanks to Joe, we have some clean scans of a virgin 1977 Mego Coporation Toy Fair Order form, print it out and pretend you’re the Childworld buyer. I’ll take a case of CB Mchauls and what the…
