Category: mego corp

A 1977 Mego Order Form with Buyer’s Notes

by Museum • May 18, 2010

In a box of very musty paperwork comes this wonderful bit of Mego history. It’s a 1977 Mego Order Form complete with the thoughts of the toy buyer, it’s interesting to see what the thought process was at the time. Click on each image for a better look: Page One The buyer seems impressed with…

by Museum • January 18, 2010

Fantastic Update courtesy of Jens Knappman today who was kind enough to scan this rare German leaflet for the Lion Rock Gestern Wars series but also translated the whole thing for us as well. It’s a really neat look at foreign marketing many of us haven’t seen before: 1939 – 1945GESTERN WAR’S.When the world was…

by Museum • January 14, 2010

Neat addition to the Lionrock World War 2 Gallery today, it’s the 1976 Mego Johnny Action Catalog featuring the military that Mego marketed around the world under many different names. It’s a beautiful toy line that deserves demands more attention, check it out here. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • September 7, 2009

A President’s day sale after Mego’s demise shows clearance pricing on everything, including the World’s Greatest Superheroes! Sure, the ad shows Batman but I bet it was mostly Hulks….. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • August 28, 2009

A rather epic addition today to our Planet of the Apes Galleries, the first (but hopefully not last) known shot of the 1974 Mego Toyfair showroom featuring the Planet of the Apes action figures and Doctor Cornelius himself (obviously one of the store appearance suits) click on the image for a larger view. Thirsty for…

by Museum • August 14, 2009

Thanks to some great submissions from Chris Jefferys, we’ve got a complete section for the Buck Rogers 12″ figures. Come feat your eyes on what is honestly one of the nicest figure sets ever produced by Mego. Be sure to scope out the other Buck Rogers Galleries for never before seen prototypes and rare promotional…

by Museum • August 12, 2009

A beautiful new addition to the Mego Museum Planet of the Apes Galleries courtesy of Mike D’Aloia. Three stunning window boxed Mego General Ursus figures each with an outfit variation, click on the picture to visit the gallery and see larger shots. Watch for more “Ape Updates” this month. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

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…