Category: mego corp

Childworld 1975 : Mego Star Trek Ad

by Museum • January 16, 2008

For the remainder of the week, we’ll be looking at some wonderful clippings from a 1975 newspaper circular for Childworld in 1975 with it’s wonderfully recoloured Mego Reproduction Art. First up is Mego Star Trek which was the big star of 1975 for Mego. Check back everyday this week for a new piece from this…

by Museum • January 14, 2008

The Mego find of the decade sounds a bit like a dream a lot of collectors have had, a young Mego employee asks to keep the items from the 1974 Toy Fair showroom and then stores them in a climate controlled closet for 34 years. That’s exactly what toy collector/dealer Bruce Zalkin encountered recently when…

by Museum • January 8, 2008

A terrific addition today to the Megomuseum Galleries, the extremely rare Mego Comic Action Heroes Batmobile Set. This is without a doubt one of the rarest Superhero toys Mego produced, few boxed examples have survived. The Fourth wave of Mego Star Trek Aliens are just one of the submissions to the 1978 Re:Imagined Project that’s…

by Museum • December 31, 2007

January 2008 will be an epic month for the Megomuseum as we present “Lost Treasures of the Mego Showroom” an event filled with new discoveries, never before seen items and a find that will have collectors talking for years to come. It all starts January 14th, see you in ’08. Happy New Year from the…

by Museum • December 21, 2007

“I’ll never forget the day they came to me with the Torino from Starsky and Hutch and asked me if I could make it look like the General Lee!” Tory Mucaro has one of the more unqiue stories when it comes to his tenure at Mego, hired by John McNett while still in high school,…

by Museum • December 19, 2007

Another addition to the Mego ad archive today.This June 1976 article announcesMego Star Trek Phaser Game with a box by Harold Shull. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • December 13, 2007

If there was ever a childhood to envy it would be Chris Kublan’s, his dad Neal Kublan was vice President of Research and Development for Mego Corp, meaning he made our favourite toys. Chris gave us some fun insight into the inner workings of Mego and what was like to grow up during the companies…

by Museum • December 12, 2007

We have a new gallery addition to the Wizard of Oz Galleries thanks to the contributions of Mike “Mikeoz” Lopategui who contributed not only the great photos but the text as well to create the new Mego Munchkinland page. Come check out this very Mego play set. The Megomuseum is always open to contributions, so…

by Museum • December 11, 2007

Today’s addition to the department store catalog archive is from another Canadian department store chain, Eaton’s and it sports 12″ Superman and the ever popular Mego Micronauts. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • December 7, 2007

Our first Mego interview of the month is with Orit, the former creative director at Mego. Orit took time out of her schedule to give us her take on working at the world’s greatest toy company, toyfair and why she thinks Mego had so much success. Click here to read the Megomuseum Interview. Look for…