From the 19777 Western Auto Christmas Catalog comes this great image of a hot selling item for Mego, it’s Fonzie and his motorcycle. Check out the Fonz and other great TV lines at the Mego Museum TV Gallery. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset
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Mego Bill Maxwell Prototype Found!
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A startling new discovery today, the Mego Greatest American Hero Bill Maxwell figure, long thought lost is now up for display at the Megomuseum. One cannot begin to go on how incredibly cool that 25 years after Mego folded, that stuff like this is still being found. Discuss this at the Mego Forum! Megomuseum.com- The…
1976 Mego TV Promotion Schedule!
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Olmo Giovannini sent in this wonderful piece of Mego history today for the Megomuseum ad archive today, the advertising Budget. As you can see the really big money was on the Mego Star Trek Line with almost five times the budget that than the World’s Greatest Superheroes. I don’t ever recall seeing a commerical for…
Mego Walking Twiki Prototype
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This sales sample of the walking Twiki Figure, meant to go along with the 12″ Buck Rogers figure is a new addition to the Museum galleries. The figure is completely solid and does not have any moving parts, the label appears to be hand colored. Mego Designer Tory Mucaro happily elaborated on the process used…
Don’t be scared, he’s really a good guy
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Wonderful catalog spread today just added to the Mego Museum Department Store Gallery, it’s from the 1979 Spiegel catalog which like everybody else is all about TV’s biggest star at the time, the Hulk. The Mobile Batlab is a unique choice for this page, you didn’t see it much in late seventies catalog. Mego’s in…
The Ever Loving Blue Eyed Palitoy Thing
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Completing our Trifecta of foreign cards this week, a clobberin’ new addition to the Mego Museum World’s Greatest Superheroes Section today courtesy of Bill Frost, it’s a beautiful example of a UK Palitoy Carded Thing, only he and the Human Torch saw release on these sweet cards. No love for the Invisible Girl in London…
Hiss at the Palitoy Lizard!
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A lovely new addition to the Mego Museum World’s Greatest Superheroes Section today courtesy of Bill Frost, it’s a beautiful example of a UK Palitoy Carded Lizard. One of the toughest to find in the series, no small accomplishment. There is always something new to see at our Finished Customs Forum, each day somebody displays…
Wak! Wak! It’s Palitoy Penguin!
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A lovely new addition to the Mego Museum World’s Greatest Superheroes Section today courtesy of Bill Frost, it’s a beautiful example of a UK Palitoy Carded Penguin. One of our most popular threads at the Mego Forum is New Mego Acquisitions, in which members show what the postman done brung ’em and we can live…
CHiPs Gets Launched!
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Sweet update to our Mego CHiPs Gallery page today courtesy of the always great Olmo Giovannini, this is the bike launcher set (very similiar to the old Evel Knievel toys) and it’s in the rarely seen Italian (GIG) box. Thanks Olmo! Got something we don’t? Send it to us, we’ll gladly show it off. Mego…
Wes’s Mego Memories
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Wes shares with us this happy moment from Christmas of 1974 where he received not only a World’s Greatest Superheroes Robin figure but a Planet of the Apes Soldier Ape as well. Nice stuff Wes! Enjoy previous Mego Memories at the Megomuseum, Part 1 and Part 2 are full of vintage coolness. Got a pic…
