Category: Mego Museum

The 2015 Kubby Award Winners!

Its Awards show time again as we announce the winners of 2015 as chosen by you. Like every Kubby Awards, we’re thankful to the many companies that produce these figures for having so much choice in the matter. This year was a stellar one packed with Superheroes, Monsters, Villains, Robots, Apes and rebels, so much…

Up Close: THOR Comprehensive Photo Review

  Thor, the God of Thunder is the fourth in a series of ReMego Marvel comics sets from Diamond Select and EMCE Toys. Unlike the previous release of Wolverine, Thor is a classic World’s Greatest Superheroes member and the formula of Mego Reproduction, Secret Identity and Modern Interpretation are in play here. Thor is a pretty pricey…

Vote for 2015’s Best Figures in the Mego Museum Kubby Awards Survey!

Another year has passed and that means the annual Kubby Awards return to salute the best in ReMego figures for the year as picked by you, the fans. Named after former Mego VP Neal Kublan, the Kubby Awards looks at ReMego figures released in 2015 that are not simply straight reproductions of original characters (Because…

Mego North ReCap and Photo Gallery

This past Sunday, the third gathering of Canadian Mego Collectors AKA “Mego North” was held within the confines of Canadian Toy Con in Burlington, Ontario. While understandably a smaller group than the annual Mego Meet convention , Mego North was no less a jubilant experience  where members could put faces to Mego forum screen names and for…

Star Trek Cheron & Red Shirt set from Diamond Select Toys

The latest Diamond Select Star Trek set is now available for Pre-Order. The Cheron is a reverse of the previous release and the Red Shirt figure comes in two different hari colours and ranks, the variations are evenly spread in a case. Click here to order for this May!   2016 will see Star Trek’s…

Mego North 2015 is two weeks away

  The annual gathering of Canadian Mego collectors is this Sunday November 8th in Burlington, ON. Mego North is part of the bigger Canadian Toy Con, a popular vintage toy show in of itself.  A block of tables of Mego collectors is formed within the show, there is an exclusive custom figure of a Canadian icon (yet…

Figures Toy Company Super Powers Wave 3 images

The latest Diamond catalog reveals  the next wave of Super Powers  from Figures Toy Company which includes DC Comics fan favorites like The Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and Plastic Man (Not yet shown). This is definitely a wave that Mego fans have been clamoring for since the initial announcement.   The third wave of…

New Mego Flash Gordon Foreign Card Discovery!

The amazing card artwork for the Mego Flash Gordon line featured in the 1978 Wiggins Teape Catalog from the UK was largely believed by us to have never have been released. That is, until last weekend when Stephen contacted us and proved that they does indeed exist. Turns out the Mego Flash Gordon line was released…

Mego One Million BC Prototype Dug Up

A rare early version of Zon, the child character from Mego’s One Million BC line was recently discovered in a former Mego distributor’s showroom. This appears to be an early sample used for photography and promotion, as it matches the character on the back of the card. The big difference being that regular released Zon…

New Video Short: The Mangler

Our latest Mego Museum video short is a better look at one of the oddest toys in the Mego realm, the Mangler! Created for the Comic Action Heroes line in 1976, the Mangler is a strangely cartoonish device with no basis in Marvel Comics. The whole function of the Mangler is to crush the Green…