If we woke up tomorrow with our head sewn to the carpet, we wouldn’t be more surprised than we when NECA announced this action figure of Chevy Chase from the Christmas classic comedy “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”. In what we hope is a continuing series (the world is a dark place without Eddie, Ellen, Todd and Margot) this…
The popular Super Friends toy line by Figures Toy Company has rolled out it’s third wave of figures and well, we’re kind of suckers here at the Museum for the Super Friends! Wave three of Superfriends is the first to include members of the Legion of Doom and includes some highly anticipated characters including Riddler, Batman, Captain…
Marvel dropped this on their blog today and made a lot of people’s day Is the Marvel Retro line ready for… The Punisher?! Never released in the classic Mego toy line of yester-year, violent vigilante The Punisher is the latest Marvel character to get the 8-inch Retro action figure treatment from DST! This gift set…
Figures Toy Company is bringing back more of your favorite DC Comics figures, with an added touch of Mego authenticity. Super heroes, villains, and secret identities have all been brought together in an all new assortment that’s been captured in commemorative Kresge style packaging! The Kresge style has long been a favorite of retro figure…
Never to be outdone, America’s premiere collectible auction house Hake’s has top loaded another auction with an impressive array of vintage, here is just a small sample of the more than 5 pages of Mego goodies that await you. See it all at Hake’s
Figures Toy Company wants your input, so let them know what DC characters you want next! There are many options to tell them about your favorites: One: Take our Online Survey and pick your top DC Character from the list. Two: Shout out our choices to @figurestoycompany on Twitter. Three: Visit the Figures Toy Company…
After a unfortunate hiatus, we’re proud to get back with the video makin’. Our monthly video series (We plan to do every single Mego Toy and Action Figure Line) continues with a look at the 1975 toy line Robin Hood and the Super Merry Men. You can see all of our vintage toy short films…
A sneak peak of one of our upcoming updates is the World’s Greatest Superheroes assortment available to the United Kingdom in 1980. If you’re keeping count, that means the WGSH had three distributors in Great Britain starting with Cecil Coleman in 1974 (Coleman also carried “Johnny Jackson“) famously moving to Palitoy in the mid 1970s…
If Mego had a lasting mark on the toy fair, it was their showmanship. Marty Abrams brought a splash of colour to Toy Fair and with it, record sales year after year, his escapades would be copied in events and toy launches, that occur to this day. When Action Jackson launched, he brought in Milton Berle, for the…
Seeing as Star Trek is 50 today and it was one of Mego‘s biggest and earliest hits, we thought we’d spotlight one of the oddest and rarest pieces to come out of that delicious union, the highly sought after Close-Out Set. Our own Robyn Adams did a great write up of this piece when…
