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Final Date for 1978 Entries

by Museum • May 20, 2008

Today is the closing date for the Mego Museum’s 1978 Re:Imagined project, so if you have projects/concepts today is the final day. The entries will be judged by two members of the MegoMuseum Forum as well as two former Mego Employees, the selected pieces will then be included in our 1978: Re Imagined Catalog to…

by Museum • May 7, 2008

Chris Franklin has made another discovery in sourcing the origins of Mego packaging art, this time with the 1978 Superman the Movie Package. It seems Lex is from the classic Treasury Edition Comic “Superman VS Spiderman” which of course our own Scott Adams paid tribute to with our Superhero Checklist Trading Card: View more of…

by Museum • May 1, 2008

Hey everyone! Our deadline of May 20th is fast approaching. We are excited and proud to confirm that former Mego R&D employees Harvey Zelman and Tory Mucaro will be on our panel evaluating and offering their insight on submissions. The catalog lineup will be announced May 21st. The selected submissionswill be displayed and photographed at…

by Museum • April 29, 2008

This stunning piece of artwork is the from the Mego 1980 Toy Fair Showroom and is courtesy of Heroes West Coast. One can only imagine what the rest of that show booth looked. Click on it for a larger view. Check out the MegoMuseum Star Trek Gallery if you’re so inclined Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest…

by Museum • April 28, 2008

This portrait of the Mego Penguin figure was done by World’s Greatest Toys scribe Ben Holcomb on a Magna Doodle. There is no more fitting canvas for a Mego product than on another Mego product. Great OA! Paul made this neat Guardian figure from the Green Lantern, check out all the new homemade heroes in…

by Museum • April 25, 2008

(February 1974) NEW YORK-A switch to a “concentration” television advertising strategy scored gains for Mego Corp. and its customers in 1973. The change involved Mego’s spending less for TV than the year before, but-achieving greater in-depth impact in selected key markets. As a result Mego returned to the black, three of its products appeared on…

by Museum • April 23, 2008

Today’s addition to the Mego Museum department store catalog archive is the second part to the two page spread with yesterday’s Micronauts page. It’s a whole page of Buck Rogers goodness. According to former Mego VP Bill Baron, Buck Rogers was actually a good seller for the World’s Greatest Toy company and that can be…

by Museum • April 22, 2008

I’m loving this addition to the department store catalog archive today because it’s a nice shot of the Mego Micronauts. It’s a wonderfully dynamic shot of the rocket tubes playset. Also neat is what appears to be an early Hornetroid prototype, which has a missile launcher in the front. For more on the developement of…

by Museum • April 21, 2008

A new addition to our growing department store catalog archive is this Sears 1980 Catalog Page featuring the return of the 8″ Star Trek line. Even though Mego had stopped producing the figures in 1977, they made a return to Sears by the late seventies on what many call the “Blank Back Cards” (check the…

by Museum • April 11, 2008

December 15th, 1978 saw the release of the Richard Donner helmed Superman: The Movie, the world’s first (but definitely not last) comic book blockbuster movie. Mego Corporation, being the toy licensor for action figures was well prepared for this event and created a great deal of product to coincide with this fantastic opportunity. Having a…