Category: Mego

Italian Mego Black Hole Advertising

These cool retro comic book ads from Italy showed up this week created by then distributor GIG. If only Mego had done stuff like this in the US, the toyline may have sold better. Note the appearance of the sadly not produced Old B.O.B magnetic figure which was removed from later adverts. For more Black…

Up Close: Big Bang Theory

Recently these two gentlemen showed up at the front door of the Mego Museum. The Mego treatment seems incredibly fitting seeing as the characters themselves collect Mego toys on the show. It’s only fitting we take a more up close look at the TV sensation that is “Big Bang Theory”, more photos below! You can…

Announcing the Mego Museum Mailing List and Newsletter

The Mego Museum has been the center of the online Mego community since 1996 (18 years! Holy cow!), connecting hundreds and thousands of collectors, customizers, and even manufacturers. Today there is even more Mego chatter than ever but we have noticed that there are many people on Facebook who are not members of our Mego…

More FTC reveals from the Farrow

    Danny “The Farrow” Anniello  gave us an awesome shout out and made some more fun announcements on the Electric Ballroom Radio Show tonight including confirmations: Superfriends will Include: Samurai, apache chief, new versions of Superman, Batman and Robin Batman 1966 will include Shame and Bookworm (which he mentioned is finished). DC Characters will include Jimmy Olsen, TeenTitans…

FTC shows us their Gleek

One week after we learned of FTC’s Superfriends line of 8″ figures, they’ve teased us with an image of their Gleek prototype on their facebook page. It’s a good day to be a 70’s kid. Discuss this on our Figures Toy Forum! 

Mego North 2 on Sunday September 7th

After the first successful event, Mego North is returning on Sunday September 7th at Canadian Toy Con event in Burlington ON. Mego North is a gathering of Mego collectors from the United States and Canada and is housed in a fantastic vintage toy show. This year we’ll have an exclusive figure (with strong Canadian flavouring) and will…

The Farrow making FTC Kiss announcement on the Electric Ballroom show

Celebrated sculptor Danny Farrow Anniello AKA “The Farrow” will be a special guest on “The Electric Ballroom” radio program this weekend and plans to make a special announcement regarding  which new KISS figures and era’s he will be doing with Figures toy company as well as discuss other lines such as Teen Titans, Batman 66 and more. The Electric…

Up Close: Penny Dreadful from Bif Bang Pow!

This week’s up close centers around Bif Bang Pow’s newest release of figures based on Showtime’s Horror drama “Penny Dreadful”, the line starts small with the main principles Ethan Chandler and Vanessa Ives but it’s a great start and definitely has us interested in more characters.   Figures are currently available at Entertainment Earth http://www.entertainmentearth.com/hitlist.asp?id=ME-002202116&theme=Penny+Dreadful…