Category: Mego

Mego Meet Kid’s Customs Contest Results

  Every year one of the happier events of Mego Meet is the Kid’s Custom Contest which is sponsored by the good people at Figures Toy Company ,who provide not only the prizes but the various parts and pieces for the young artisans to craft their own characters. This year we had a multitude of entries…

Pre-Order World’s Greatest Toys Digest today!

Benjamin Holcomb is launching a NEW Mego publication called WORLD’S GREATEST TOYS! Digest. It is designed to work in tandem with his book, Mego 8” Super-Heroes: World’s Greatest Toys! The debut issue — entitled TOY ANARCHY IN THE UK! PART 1 — is loaded with exciting Mego content and the most comprehensive Checklist and Price…

Aw Yeah Mego Meet 2017 Show Guide and FAQ

With this year’s Mego event being next week, we thought it might be prudent to provide this handy show guides to newbies (welcome by the way, glad to have you) and as a refresher for our ” Mego Meet Veterans”. So here is some information and “Frequently Asked Questions” Where is it? DoubleTree by Hilton…

New Early Bird Superman figure from FTC

Figures Toy Company has a nice surprise for a Wednesday, this early bird Superman (limited to 200 pieces) is now available. Superman features a never before seen head sculpt (which if we may add, is pretty spiffy), so get him before he’s gone!   Don’t miss the Mego Event of the year, Mego Meet 2017!…

NECA brings us an early Christmas

Some wonderful new pre-orders are now available from NECA for this holiday season including Chainsaw Clarke Griswold from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. This is the second figure from the series and hopefully more are in store.   If that weren’t enough, NECA also has figures from A Christmas Story in the pipeline. Ralphie is ready…

Will the Batmobile/Batcycle wheels roll?

Back when we posted the poll in 2014 there were conditions on Figures Toy’s license that prevented them from producing a Batmobile with rolling wheels. Since the announcement of the Batmobile and Batcycle replicas from Figures Toy Company, many collectors have wondered if they going to have functional wheels. We’re happy to announce that has…

Farrah: America’s Sweetheart from Mego

Mego Farrach Fawcett Ad

From 1977: Farrah was a major coupe for Mego, who also made a fashion doll of her Angels Co-Star Jaclyn Smith (Much to the chagrin of Hasbro, who had the license for Charlie’s Angels). 1977 saw Mego’s biggest attempt to crack the Fashion Doll idol with their licensed TV celebrities, you can see more at…