In case you didn’t notice, we’re tinkering with a new look for the Museum front page! Let us know what you think and keep eye on the front page as it evolves. Our goal is to highlight more of our content from the past and give a bigger picture of what there is to find…
Today we are proud to unveil the Mego Museum’s latest feature, The Mego Museum Mall! We’re happy to announce that the Museum now has a gift shop. The Mego Museum Mall is a series of collector-owned online shops catering to the retro toy crowd; it’s like Etsy but with action figures. A logical extension of…
This year will mark our tenth annual Mego Meet, and we’re determined to get a head start AND keep momentum building until June.
Kansas City, Missouri. (July 17, 2013) –Castaway and ZICA Toys are bringing back the Action…. Action Jackson! That is… As the first full production line to feature their all new Type “S” body the team up of Castaway and ZICA Toys is getting historically old school! 2014 is the 40th Anniversary of the iconic Type…
Randy Falk of NECA recently tweeted something that will likely make Mego and Horror fans happy: Horror & retro fans alike. Finally “Mego style” versions of Freddy & Jason are coming this Halloween. 8″ poseable w accessories. When asked what Mego style was, he tweeted this: 70s style figural doll w fabric clothing very retro…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
