Category: mego corp

Spotlight on the EMCE/Mattel Sinestro

by Museum • August 5, 2009

Here is another in our new gallery pages for the upcoming EMCE/Mattel “World’s Greatest Superheroes” line. This time we focus on the Green Lantern’s arch enemy, Sinestro. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone. Another terrific figure inspired by Challenge of the Superfriends that fufills a lot of…

by Museum • August 4, 2009

Here is another in our new gallery pages for the upcoming EMCE/Mattel “World’s Greatest Superheroes” line. This time we focus on the first official 8″ Green Lantern figure. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone. Watch for new Gallery pages all this week. What do you think? Have…

by Museum • July 30, 2009

Courtesy of World’s Greatest Toys author Benjamin Holcomb is the Lex Luthor prototype, our first of the new figures from this Mattel/EMCE collaberation. With all due respect to fans of Mr. Mxyzptlk, this figure is helping to erase one of the original WGSH lines biggest errors, the addition of Superman’s true arch enemy, the leader…

by Museum • July 30, 2009

Now that the dust has settled from the SDCC, we thought it might be fun to take a look individually of wave one of Mattel’s World’s Greatest Superheroes line (which is, still trippy to say) and hey, it’ll pass the time until Spring right? So, courtesy of World’s Greatest Toys author Benjamin Holcomb is the…

by Museum • July 24, 2009

At the “Mattel and DC Comics: A Heroic Partnership” Panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con the big announcement was the return of the 8″ Superhero format! It’s the one Mego fans have been waiting for and something Dr.Mego (AKA Paul Clarke) and Joe Sena of EMCE toys have toiled on for ages. It’s…

by Museum • July 21, 2009

Click on the ad for a larger view New to the MegoMuseum Ad Archive is this wonderful ad from Starlog Magazine circa 1985, over the years I’ve heard many folks mention this ad as being the thing that drew them back to Mego in their adult life. The company is no long called “Planet Earth”…

by Museum • July 16, 2009

Mark Schmidt sent in photos of this rare item, a bilingual boxed Spider-Car from Parkdale Novelty. Previously it was believed all Parkdale did was sticker the US packaging, it seems that they also did a run of their own box. Thanks to Mark for sharing this northern rarity. MegoMuseum Spider Car Gallery Megomuseum.com- The Web’s…

by Museum • July 15, 2009

New to the MegoMuseum Ad Archive is this rare Australian Magazine Ad for Toltoys (the down under distributer) who took the 1973 Mego Superheroes Catalog page and made it their own! Click on the image to see a bigger version. Check out the MegoMuseum Library for hours of Mego browsing. For More on…

by Museum • July 10, 2009

Again thanks to Steve F., we’ve got a much bigger scan of the 1974 Mego World’s Greatest Superheroes Catalog page, click on it to see a larger view. I want to go to there… Mego Catalog Library Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • July 9, 2009

Thanks to the generosity of Steve F., we also have a much bigger scan of the 1974 Mego American West Catalog page, click on it to see a larger view. That includes a much nicer view of the Dodge City Playset, sigh…. Mego Catalog Library Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset