Category: Megomuseum

UP Close: Mary Marvel and Harley Quinn

mEGO mARY mARVEL AND HARLEY QUINN MEGO MUSEUM FIGURES TOY COMPANY

  Fans have been asking for a while to bring on the ladies and Figures Toy Company delivered this past month in the form of fan favourites Mary Marvel (sister to Captain Marvel now known as Shazam!) and Harley Quinn, known accomplish to “Mr. J” who has been a fan favourite since her debut in…

Heritage Auctions offers incredible Mego Prototype items this February

Mego Captain America Prototype

Heritage Auctions is hosting some incredible pieces of Mego history today and answered questions Mego fans have wondered for decades who sculpted classic Mego characters like Scotty, Dr McCoy and Captain America? Sculptor Gene Salamacha is auctioning off his collection of Mego prototypes including original paperwork and reference materials from the World’s Greatest Toy Company.…

The 2015 Kubby Award Winners!

Its Awards show time again as we announce the winners of 2015 as chosen by you. Like every Kubby Awards, we’re thankful to the many companies that produce these figures for having so much choice in the matter. This year was a stellar one packed with Superheroes, Monsters, Villains, Robots, Apes and rebels, so much…

Up Close: Super Friends Apache Chief and Superman

  The Super Friends toy line by Figures Toy Company is one of the most anticipated lines of 2015 and their delivery in December meant many 70s kids got some major wish fulfillment in the plastic form of something many of us have pined for since “Challenge of the Super Friends” first aired. So we bring you…

New Video Short! The Mego Mad Monsters

Just in time for Halloween, we have a new video short on Mego’s incredible glow in the dark Mad Monsters action figure line. Narrated by Jason Lenzi and edited by Brain. Enjoy! More news like this every week in our newsletter Subscribe today! Join us at the world’s only dedicated Mego Forum. Follow the MegoMuseum…

Batman’s Wayne Foundation

Mego Wayne Foundation

We were lucky enough to unearth this Mego ad to the toy trade announcing their latest (at least for 1977) addition to the World’s Greatest Superhero line The Wayne Foundation play set. Interesting to note that Wonder Woman isn’t in this piece, she had been cut from the World’s Greatest Superheroes assortment (along with Tarzan)…

Inside The Mego Factory

Every Mego collector has probably wondered at one point what the Mego factory looked like and how everything was made. Thanks to this rare document (the 1978 Mego International Shareholders Report to be exact, which we’ll soon share) we have a glimpse into the Hong Kong wonderland that was Lion Rock. This is Mego’s fully operational 250,000 square…

Up Close: Wolverine

Wolverine is the third in a series of ReMego Marvel comics sets from Diamond Select and Marvel Comics. Our friends at Entertainment Earth were the first get him this time, so we have the scoop before the comic shops. Before I roll out the photo review, two things I want to mention in an effort…

The Top Ten Mego Lines you want to see for 2015

During this year’s 2015 Kubby Awards (which elicited our biggest response in years, thank you!) we asked you, the age old question “What new  license would you like to see in ReMego format for 2015” and the responses poured in, some were very diverse (and interesting but here are the top ten responses that resulted…