Category: Batman

Palitoy of the Day: The Penguin!

by Museum • April 9, 2009

Another beauty of a Palitoy/Mego card, courtesy of Bill Frost. Today’s feature is that chain smoking, umbrella clutching, bird fetishist, The Penguin.. Mego Museum Penguin Gallery MegoMuseum Forums Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • April 6, 2009

Moving the spotlight to UK variations for a little while, courtesy of Bill Frost. Today’s feature is the very pretty Green carded Palitoy Batman, he’s dreamy…. Mego Museum Batman Gallery MegoMuseum Forums Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • October 14, 2008

This timely custom of a Mego Version of the Ben Cooper Batman Halloween costume was produced by Anthony AKA The Toyroom and is this weeks Custom Spotlight. Check it out. What’s going on in the Mego Community: Childhood Reclaimed: Click hear to read about an awesome story about how a user found his childhood mego…

by Museum • October 13, 2008

A thrifty start to the week with the Mego Super Savers Penguin Bank, these figural banks are wonderfully detailed and highly underrated. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • August 8, 2008

Chris Flagg sent in this happy memory from Christmas 1974, he really hit the jack pot that year with the Mego Batcave playset, Batcycle, Batmobile and Batcopter. What more could a kid ask for? Thanks Chris! Looks like the folks did a bit of catalog shopping as evidenced by this 1974 JC Penney spread: Enjoy…

by Museum • July 7, 2008

A lovely new addition to the Mego Museum World’s Greatest Superheroes Section today courtesy of Bill Frost, it’s a beautiful example of a UK Palitoy Carded Penguin. One of our most popular threads at the Mego Forum is New Mego Acquisitions, in which members show what the postman done brung ’em and we can live…

by Museum • May 2, 2008

The 12″ Mego World’s Greatest Superheroes are often overlooked and that’s a shame because they are well made toys with a lot of fun variations. The 12″ Heroes began in Canada, when Parkdale Novelty CEO Morris Kotzer created the line by ordering the minimum. The first 12″ Batman is largely the most familiar as he…

by Museum • November 16, 2007

A bit of toy insider history today with this staged toy store shot from Licensing Corporation of America (LCA) who in 1977 handled the DC comics Superheroes. This four page ad, meant to entice toy manufacturers into licensing the heroes, shows the top licensors at the time which means lots of Mego product in the…

by Museum • October 8, 2007

A new addition to the gallery today thaks to Robert Doyle, it’s a JC Penney Star Trek the Motion Picture three pack, a pretty rare item to find these days. Check out this cool Joker’s Ha-Hacienda Playset from Anthony, the level of detail will astound you. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • August 16, 2007

Although it is a total coincidence, most of the updates this week have been Batman related and today is no exception, thanks to Dan Crandall we have shots of this sweet Photo Boxed Mego Batcopter. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset