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…
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8 Reasons to Attend Mego Meet 2008
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With this year’s fourth annual Mego Meet Convention fast approaching and looking like it’ll be a great event, it was high time to extoll the virtues and give reason to those uncomfortably sitting on the fence about attending. 1) The Official Keychain : Thanks to the ferocius generosity of Mike Conlon, Megomeet attendees get a…
A Salute to Mego 12" Batman
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The 12″ Mego World’s Greatest Superheroes are often overlooked and that’s a shame because they are well made toys with a lot of fun variations. The 12″ Heroes began in Canada, when Parkdale Novelty CEO Morris Kotzer created the line by ordering the minimum. The first 12″ Batman is largely the most familiar as he…
1978 Project: Mego Employee Panel Announced, Final Submissions due by May 20
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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…
Mego Museum Cards Go West
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Scott has unveiled the two new Mego American West trading cards currently available, Cochise (which has never been revealed before) and Will Bill. Check them out here. Trade Cards at the Megomuseum Card Forum. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset
Mego Star Trek Headquarters
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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…
Portrait of the Mego Penguin done in Magna Doodle
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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…
Concentration Strategy Scores Gains for Mego
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(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…
Galaxy of Adventure includes Mego Buck Rogers
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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…
Enter a Galaxy of Adventure with Mego Micronauts
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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…
