This rare and wonderful piece from Canada recently surfaced and it’s a neat look into how Mego distribution worked in the great white North. Growing up just outside of Toronto, this catalog, which is hobbled together from a variety of sources, solved more than one “why didn’t I get that” mysteries for me. For more…
Category: prototypes
Prototype Mego Knights
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•How gorgeous is the Catalog page from Marx UK (this is the only Mego line they were selling in 1975) which shows the hand painted Super Knights in all their glory? Try and spot all the little differences between these and the factory versions, also, you might notice somebody is missing. Check out the Mego…
The Mego Fonzie Prototype
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•Thanks to super collector Mark Huckabone we have another glimpse into the inner workings of the Mego toy corporation. This rare early vinyl test head reveals an early rejected head sculpt for Arthur Fonzerelli AKA “The Fonz” from the Mego Happy Days line. Found at the home of a former Mego employee, this early head…
Cylon Sneak Peak
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•Hakes Auction #204 delivers Mego Magic
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•Prototype 12 Inch Superman The good folks at Hake’s Americana have really outdone themselves with their current slate of auctions which include an unprecendented amount of rare carded Mego Superheroes from the Benjamin Holcolmb collection . The show stopper this time around however would be the Mego 12″ Superman prototype from the Parkdale Novelty archives. Kresge Carded…
A tale of three Ralphs
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•Thanks to good our friends at Heroes West Coast, we have what is generally referred to as an embarrassment of riches. Not one but three different stage Ralph Hinkley action figures, two early prototypes and a finished, carded production figure. I don’t know about you but I’d have gone nuts if I saw this in…
Greatest American Discovery
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•Another terrific discovery this year provided by our friends at Heroes West Coast, this is a carded Bill Maxwell sales sample recently purchased from a former department store toy buyer. The sample gives great indication as to what the finished product would have looked like. A close up of the figure, note it’s differences…
The Lost Mego Star Trek Playset
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•Todays Update: The Star Trek Enterprise Playset. Saving the best for the very last, we at the Megomuseum are proud to unveil this never before seen Mego playset, the Star Trek Bridge 2.0! Not only do we have a little history behind it, for 1977 the Mego R&D crew were attempting to create more detailed…
Lost Mego Archives Found
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•Coming Summer 2010 to the Mego Museum: Newly uncovered images of Mego items straight from the original R&D department including several never before seen prototypes. You only thought you’d seen it all…. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset
Mego Greatest American Hero Gallery Updates
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•Today we’ve got an indepth look at a Ralph Hinkley production sample figure from the Greatest American Hero line of toys. What makes this one different is that he’s an earlier production sample, lots of big pictures and history about this neat figure. Mego Museum Greatest American Hero Gallery Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset