Be sure to check out episode 27 of Action Figure Blues Podcast as hosts Ben, Scott and John sit down with the Museum’s own Palitoy (Brain) and talk Mego Superheroes, Super Collector, rack toys and more!
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Figures Toy Company to release Retro 8 inch Mad Monster figures and Mad Monster Castle Playset
For the month of August we are checking-in with one of the next generation of Mego customizers, Sean Gordy. Sean is the son of Chad Gordy, a longtime customizer of both packaging and figures. Sean has been quite busy since being bitten by the customizing bug.
“When it rains, it pours” department: Not long after we revealed the discovery of the Elastic Heroes head molds that a third has surfaced and under the roof of the Mego Museum. Richard aka “TheBatmanProfessor” at the Mego forum has sent in photos of the Batman Elastic Heroes head mold. According to Richard, he purchased the item…
Thanks to an old issue of Toy magazine we’ve got two rare views of Mego’s 1976 Toyfair promotional appearances as they launch the Cher and Muhammad Ali lines in spectacular fashion. The Champ headlined the “Mego Breakfast”. Check out the Mego logo on the front of the podium. Pure awesomeness. Sonny and Cher were the…
The Megomuseum was lucky enough to spend a little time with the original head sculpts for the upcoming fourth wave of Diamond Select Universal Monster figures produced in conjunction with EMCE toys. Both figures were sculpted by veteran toy sculptor Sean Sansom, who has crafted some memorable Re-Mego figures such as Bif Bang Pow!’s Twilight Zone Bob Wilson and the upcoming Creature…
Some amazing pieces of Mego history recently surfaced in the form of these original factory head molds for the Mego Elastic Heroes line of toys. Pictured above the Spider-Man head mold reunited with his “child” a factory produced Spider-Man. Original Mego factory molds are not regularly or commonly found with most feared destroyed decades ago.…
Steve sent in some amazing shots of some very rare Muhammad Ali merchandise, the very rare boxing gloves and bop bag which we’ll be adding to our Muhammad Ali Gallery very shortly. Click on any of the images below for a better look: [nggallery id=35]
Never one to disappoint us in the goodies department, Hake’s Americana has opened up Auction 206 and it’s full of amazing examples of classic Mego toys, including: Kresge carded Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Robin(s) Carded Bend n Flex Heroes Window Boxed Superheroes Laverne and Shirley set Mailer Boxed Hall of Justice and much more Visit Hake’s…
You may notice a service outage today and then a Mego forum that you don’t quite recognize. That’s because after five years, we’re finally upgrading the forums with a “space age” new forum and look. This was made possible through your participation in things like the Museum customs auction and clicking on our ebay and…
