NECA gave us early today by showcasing their up coming Clark W Griswold from the film “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, the figure will be due this fall just in time for Christmas. This is exciting for us but I sure hope Santa has a cousin Eddie in the stocking for us as well, maybe an Ellen?…
Just a reminder that our annual Mego Event Aw Yeah Mego Meet kicks off this Friday June 17th at noon and the main show opens it’s doors to the public Saturday June 18 at 9am. DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago – North Shore Conference Center 9599 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL 60077, United States Show Hours:…
Entertainment Weekly broke the news today that NECA and Shout Factory were teaming up and releasing an exclusive 8″ Rufus (played by legendary comic George Carlin) action figure to coincide with the release of “Bill and Ted’s Most Excellent Collection“. The figure will not be available seperately. The NECA Bill and Ted Figures are due…
Heritage Auction Strikes again with more from the collection of sculptor Gene Salamacha, who it turns out sculpted the original line of Mego’s World’s Greatest Superheroes. This latest offering may be the strongest pieces of Mego history every put up on auction as the offering contains clay and hard copies for Robin, Superman, Aquaman and…
The popular Super Friends toy line by Figures Toy Company has rolled out it’s second wave of figures (although the Wonder Twins were also released in between those waves) and if you want to reviews of Wave one you can find it here and here. Wave two of Superfriends is comprised again of Good Guys…
Many Mego collectors know about Frankenbumps the never released vacuum pump figure (the concept was later used on Cap Toy’s Vac Man) from 1982. The figure was never released but one lucky collector has the box in their home. Now the original art for that box has surfaced in Toronto of all places. According to…
Many moons ago, we had a lot of fun with one of these covered with buyer notes. Thanks to Joe, we have some clean scans of a virgin 1977 Mego Coporation Toy Fair Order form, print it out and pretend you’re the Childworld buyer. I’ll take a case of CB Mchauls and what the…
With this year’s Mego event being just two weeks away, 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 informations and “Frequently Asked Questions” Where is it? DoubleTree…
Re-runs of The Monkees were an afternoon staple for many a 70s kid (self included) growing up, so naturally, we were delighted when Figures Toy Company announced that the first ever Monkees action figures would be in the Mego style. So we’re a bit giddy here at the MegoMuseum to have all three sets…
We got a nice surprise from Paolo today in the form of this rare Italian shop window poster advertising the die cast and Magno heroes from Mego (distributed in Italy by GIG) What a beauty! The poster measures 54 x 76,5cm (or about 21″ by 29″) and is the first one we’ve ever seen. Almost…
