Category: Mego

1979 JC Penney’s Superhero offerings: regular and elastic

by Museum • January 21, 2008

Another addition to the rapidly expanding Mego Department Store Catalog Archive this time focusing on Superheroes both 8″ or the Elastic kind, it’s your choice! Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • January 18, 2008

Perhaps my favourite of the entire lot of Child World Ad art, this ad for the Mego Planet of the Apes line is just too pretty for words. For more about Mego Reproduction Art, visit the Museum Gallery Here. Scott surprised everybody(including me) by unveiling two new Megomuseum trading cards, this time for the American…

by Museum • January 17, 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 Wizard of Oz which was another big attraction in 1975 for Mego. Check back everyday this week for a new piece from…

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 15, 2008

The official date has been set for what will likely be the Mego collector event of the year, all of the Mego Showroom pieces will go on the Ebay block this January 28th. Seller Littlemarz reminds will be offering these auction with no reserve and starting at $9.95. Please do not ask them to end…

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