Category: Mego

Mego of the Day: Franz Beckenbauer

Mego of the Day for Monday is Soccer Legend Franz Beckenbauer, a German exclusive most of us didn’t know existed until we picked up John Bonavita’s landmark publication Mego Action Figure Toys. Franz shares the same scale as Mego’s other well known sports celebrity Muhamad Ali. Obviously not a lot of us had a Franz…

Mego of the Day: Type 2 Robin

Mego of the Day for Friday is the ever popular Robin, whom despite his longevity, never gets eough attention for my liking. Pop into the Mego forum and share with us on Mego Robin. Did you have Robin as a kid? See it? Know of it? Is it in your collection now? On your want…

Mego of the Day: Type 1 Kirk

Wednesday’s entry into the Museum Forums Mego of the Day series is the incredibly suave Type 1 version of Captain Kirk, Command of the vinyl Starship Enterprise from the Star Trek line. I’m painfully aware of the in-joke, thankyou. Is this your favourite figure? Did you have it as a kid? See it? Know of…

Mego of the Day: Baron Karza

Our second entry into the Museum Forums Mego of the Day series is the deadly Baron Karza, foe to Force Commander from the Micronauts line. Did you have it as a kid? See it? Know of it? Is it in your collection now? On your want list? Do we need pictures of it’s packaging in…

More Mego Spotting on the Venture Brothers

Bill McFarland mentioned this on the boards the other day, in a recent episode of the Venture Brothers one can see a vintage bit of Team Venture merchandising in the”Action Man Dune Buggy” which looks vaguely familiar. Great eye Bill! and thanks to the good people at Astro Base Go for this fun item. Megomuseum.com-…

Mego of the Day: Blackbeard

A new feature at the Museum Forums will be Mego of the Day. Where we will randomly pic a character from the Mego Toy universe and feature it. Our first inductee is the dreaded Edward Teach aka Blackbeard from the World’s Greatest Super Pirates. Did you have it as a kid? See it? Know of…

You Sculpted These Yourself?

As if we needed more evidence that The Venture Brothers is the best cartoon show ever. Here we have a clip of Doctor Orpheus (who was already my favourite character) which shows that besides being a freelance Necromancer he’s a Mego Customizer to boot,Wonderful. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

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…