Category: Mego

America’s Favorite T.V and Comic Hero

by Museum • September 14, 2009

This page is from the 1977 for “Johnny’s Toys” a KY/OH based chain of toystores and features a tribute to the Batman (and some marvel characters snuck in there for good measure), interesting that they’re still using RC Batman years after he was discontinued, must have confused a pile of kids. Click on the image…

by Museum • September 7, 2009

A President’s day sale after Mego’s demise shows clearance pricing on everything, including the World’s Greatest Superheroes! Sure, the ad shows Batman but I bet it was mostly Hulks….. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • August 28, 2009

A rather epic addition today to our Planet of the Apes Galleries, the first (but hopefully not last) known shot of the 1974 Mego Toyfair showroom featuring the Planet of the Apes action figures and Doctor Cornelius himself (obviously one of the store appearance suits) click on the image for a larger view. Thirsty for…

by Museum • August 14, 2009

Thanks to some great submissions from Chris Jefferys, we’ve got a complete section for the Buck Rogers 12″ figures. Come feat your eyes on what is honestly one of the nicest figure sets ever produced by Mego. Be sure to scope out the other Buck Rogers Galleries for never before seen prototypes and rare promotional…

by Museum • August 12, 2009

A beautiful new addition to the Mego Museum Planet of the Apes Galleries courtesy of Mike D’Aloia. Three stunning window boxed Mego General Ursus figures each with an outfit variation, click on the picture to visit the gallery and see larger shots. Watch for more “Ape Updates” this month. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • August 5, 2009

Here is another in our new gallery pages for the upcoming EMCE/Mattel “World’s Greatest Superheroes” line. This time we focus on the Green Lantern’s arch enemy, Sinestro. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone. Another terrific figure inspired by Challenge of the Superfriends that fufills a lot of…

by Museum • August 4, 2009

Here is another in our new gallery pages for the upcoming EMCE/Mattel “World’s Greatest Superheroes” line. This time we focus on the first official 8″ Green Lantern figure. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone. Watch for new Gallery pages all this week. What do you think? Have…

by Museum • August 3, 2009

We’ve created the first of many gallery pages for the EMCE/Mattel “World’s Greatest Superheroes” line. It seemed fitting to start with the first figure that will be available Green Arrow. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone. Watch for new Gallery pages all this week. What do you…

by Museum • July 30, 2009

Courtesy of World’s Greatest Toys author Benjamin Holcomb is the Lex Luthor prototype, our first of the new figures from this Mattel/EMCE collaberation. With all due respect to fans of Mr. Mxyzptlk, this figure is helping to erase one of the original WGSH lines biggest errors, the addition of Superman’s true arch enemy, the leader…

by Museum • July 30, 2009

Now that the dust has settled from the SDCC, we thought it might be fun to take a look individually of wave one of Mattel’s World’s Greatest Superheroes line (which is, still trippy to say) and hey, it’ll pass the time until Spring right? So, courtesy of World’s Greatest Toys author Benjamin Holcomb is the…