Category: mego corp

New Mego Museum Newsletter!

The latest issue of the weekly Mego Museum newsletter is live and it includes: Our weekly #MMFTCNEWS update from figures toy company The latest Star Trek news from Diamond Select Toys Custom of the week Fun photo review of the Figures Toy Company Bat cave Early peak at Ras Al Ghul A preview of Hake’s…

Mego Micronaut Toy Prototype: Salesman’s Sample Lobros

Mego Micronaut Toy Prototype: Salesman’s Sample Lobros Collection of Ray “AcroRay” Miller, 2015   Discovery: This artifact was auctioned as a genuine Mego “salesman’s sample” in late 2014, astoundingly fetching only a price typical for a normal, packaged Mego Lobros.   Its new owner quickly flipped it for a modest markup, without the “salesman’s sample” claim…

New Mego Flash Gordon Foreign Card Discovery!

The amazing card artwork for the Mego Flash Gordon line featured in the 1978 Wiggins Teape Catalog from the UK was largely believed by us to have never have been released. That is, until last weekend when Stephen contacted us and proved that they does indeed exist. Turns out the Mego Flash Gordon line was released…

Mego One Million BC Prototype Dug Up

A rare early version of Zon, the child character from Mego’s One Million BC line was recently discovered in a former Mego distributor’s showroom. This appears to be an early sample used for photography and promotion, as it matches the character on the back of the card. The big difference being that regular released Zon…

Bold, New Innovations from the Interchangable World of the Micronauts

Micronauts were a massive hit for Mego, this trade ad from 1977 introduced the brand. More on the impact of the Micronauts in the coming weeks. The Mego Museum is the premier website for Mego action figures, be they vintage or the latest exclusive new releases from Figures Toy Company, EMCE, Diamond Select and NECA.…

New Video Short: The Mangler

Our latest Mego Museum video short is a better look at one of the oddest toys in the Mego realm, the Mangler! Created for the Comic Action Heroes line in 1976, the Mangler is a strangely cartoonish device with no basis in Marvel Comics. The whole function of the Mangler is to crush the Green…

Inside The Mego Factory

Every Mego collector has probably wondered at one point what the Mego factory looked like and how everything was made. Thanks to this rare document (the 1978 Mego International Shareholders Report to be exact, which we’ll soon share) we have a glimpse into the Hong Kong wonderland that was Lion Rock. This is Mego’s fully operational 250,000 square…

1977 Parkdale Novelty Catalog

This rare and wonderful piece from Canada recently surfaced and it’s a neat look into how Mego distribution worked in the great white North. Growing up just outside of Toronto, this catalog, which is hobbled together from a variety of sources, solved more than one “why didn’t I get that” mysteries for me. For more…

Big Selling Action Jackson

After a week filled with an exhaustive list of “What’s New” in Mego style figures, I can think of no better way to end it than to go back to the beginning. Thanks to a generous donation by Cat G. we have this cool toy trade item from Australia proving that Action Jackson was truly…

The Amazing Spider-Men

Courtesy of super collector Mark Huckabone, we don’t talk enough about Mego’s entry into 1/6th scale and here is proof. Four distinct variations in carded Spider-Man 12″ figures right under our noses. This would be the first version, featuring the Canadian skinny body. Version 2 features the muscular body that is more known in the…