2014 is the 40th anniversary of the body that changed a generation! What better way to celebrate that than to have a truly new 8 inch body that captures the iconic look but also brings it into the future?! David Lee (Cast-a-way toys: The Phantom, Captain Action, and customizing accessories) and Craig Owen (ZICA toys,…
Category: Mego
The Super Hero Shop is now open
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The Mego Museum is proud to unveil thesuperheroshop.com, an online tribute site to the legendary Heroes World stores. Before the internet, 70s kids got the majority of toy news from Department store wishbooks and TV. However, for a child who loved Superheroes there was no better check list than the many ads and…
Mego article in SFX’s Star Trek Special
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The new special issue, on sale now, is titled “The A-Z of Star Trek” and is the “ultimate guide to all things Star Trek.” Interviews in the magazine include Star Trek into Darkness‘ Simon Pegg, Benedict Cumberbatch and Alice Eve; other inteviews are with Rene Auberjonois, Brannon Braga, Michael Dorn, Ronald D. Moore and many…
Mego Museum interviews Anthony Balasco of Figures Toy Company
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The Mego community, indeed the entire toy collector world was taken by surprise a few weeks ago when it was announced that Figures Toy Company had acquired the licenses for Batman, Dukes of Hazzard, Conan and Tarzan, Evel Kneivel, Gilligan’s Island and Dallas. After a lifetime of waiting we learned we’d be seeing Mego-style Adam…
A Close-Out Star Trek Enterprise Playset Surfaces
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UPDATED: The May 5th episode of Toy Hunter on Travel Channel featured this very playset variation! In the episode host Jordan Hembrough barely misses out on grabbing the set when Mego collector extraordinaire Mark Huckabone runs off with it. Mark tells us that he only knows of 2 that exist. He confirms that the set…
Figures Toy Company announces new licenses!
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Figures Toy Company is set to Release Retro 8 and 12 inch Action Figures based on Batman TV Series, Retro Batman, Dukes of Hazzard, Evel Knievel, Conan The Barbarian, Tarzan, Dallas TV Series, Gilligan’s Island and a Talking Barack Obama figure
Game of Thrones action figures from Sprytel of House Mego
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Season Three of Game of Thrones premieres on HBO tonight and there’s no better way for Mego-heads to celebrate the return of this amazing series than with a batch of amazing Custom Megos!
BifBangPow! Toyfair booth shots
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The good folks at Bif Bang Pow! were nice enough to send us some shots of their booth, which allows us to see some of the new lines for 2013. We’ve been told official shots of everything will follow after the show. Here we get to see what’s new for Doctor Who, Venture Brothers, Twilight…
Good dog K-9!
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Thinkgeek.com offered a pretty neat little exclusive that nearly got past us. K-9 is the same figure that will come in the TARDIS playset that’s due out this year. So, if you really aren’t a playset person but really want the Doctor’s tin dog, then head on over to Thinkgeek pronto. They even threw him in a…
Mego Museum Trading Card #99
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Our return to Trading cards is the classic and hard to find UK only figure Zorro! Breathtaking art by Scott Adams and sponsored by the new book Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings by PlaidStallions Press. The Zorro card is shipping with copies of Megozine right now and doubles are being circulated in the trading card…
