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Some fine Mego Memories

Chris Flagg sent in this happy memory from Christmas 1974, he really hit the jack pot that year with the Mego Batcave playset, Batcycle, Batmobile and Batcopter. What more could a kid ask for? Thanks Chris! Looks like the folks did a bit of catalog shopping as evidenced by this 1974 JC Penney spread: Enjoy…

Dinah-Mite’s Fun Fashions!

A neat addition to the Mego Museum’s Dinah-Mite Gallery today. It’s a window boxed gift comprised of Dinah and three fashions. Except for the Folk Singer set, the other two fashions are from a series known as the “New Fashions“. That would date this set as having a 1975 release, if only Mego had done…

Aaaaaaaaayyyy!

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

Mego Bill Maxwell Prototype Found!

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!

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

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

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

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!

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!

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…