Category: star trek

Mego at the 1975 UK Toyfair

by Museum • August 22, 2008

At the 1975 US Toy Fair, Mego was making waves with it’s new product lines and their fantastic launch party for their Wizard of Oz line. In the UK however, Mego had no toyfair presence other than the few companies that had picked up their lines for distribution, which resulted in a quieter presence. A…

by Museum • August 13, 2008

Wednesday’s entry into the Museum Forums Mego of the Day series is the incredibly suave Type 1 version of Captain Kirk, Command of the vinyl Starship Enterprise from the Star Trek line. I’m painfully aware of the in-joke, thankyou. Is this your favourite figure? Did you have it as a kid? See it? Know of…

by Museum • July 15, 2008

Olmo Giovannini sent in this wonderful piece of Mego history today for the Megomuseum ad archive today, the advertising Budget. As you can see the really big money was on the Mego Star Trek Line with almost five times the budget that than the World’s Greatest Superheroes. I don’t ever recall seeing a commerical for…

by Museum • May 21, 2008

I’m a bit behind but Mego Museum Community members have been buzzing about the new photos of the EMCE Gorn figure from the classic Star Trek series. You can almost hear him hissing….. Nate posted this fun scene using this transporter room diorama recently and it’s this week’s custom spotlight. These are just some of…

by Museum • April 29, 2008

This stunning piece of artwork is the from the Mego 1980 Toy Fair Showroom and is courtesy of Heroes West Coast. One can only imagine what the rest of that show booth looked. Click on it for a larger view. Check out the MegoMuseum Star Trek Gallery if you’re so inclined Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest…

by Museum • April 21, 2008

A new addition to our growing department store catalog archive is this Sears 1980 Catalog Page featuring the return of the 8″ Star Trek line. Even though Mego had stopped producing the figures in 1977, they made a return to Sears by the late seventies on what many call the “Blank Back Cards” (check the…

by Museum • April 9, 2008

Mego fans might want to pick up this week’s issue of Toyfare magazine as it shows the another original figure from the EMCE toys “retro cloth” Star Trek line, none other than helmsman Hikaru Sulu! Discuss it in our replica chat forum. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • March 20, 2008

This interesting catalog spread from the 1976 Sears (Canada) Catalog prominently features the Mego World’s Greatest Superheroes being sold with their “official outfits” (which are of course, closed out Action Jackson uniforms. Star Trek was still riding high while Planet of the Apes were going into deep discount, they would appear in Sears Canada catalogs…

by Museum • March 7, 2008

A generous helping of new images to the Star Trek The Motion Picture Gallery today, courtesy of Craig MacKillop. Check out some very nice Canadian rarities such as MOC Aliens and the wonderful Grand Toys boxed Enterprise pictured above. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • February 28, 2008

This new addition to the Mego Ad Archive is a 1980 advertisement for the 1980 Mego Line Up the piece features examples from many toy companies including fashion Candy, Micronauts, Black Hole and the Elastic Superheroes. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset