Category: up close

Mint Off Card: Birdman from Figures Toy Company

  Time to de-card another modern figure, our subject this week is Birdman from Figures Toy Company, based on the popular Hanna Barbera cartoon. This video was created by Brain Heiler (@plaidstallions) Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYta3nz_7FAzPvP8FPSgpg?view_as=subscriber Our facebook group is MegoMania: https://www.facebook.com/groups/megomania/

Up Close: Grundy, Grodd and Black Manta

  The popular Super Friends toy line by Figures Toy Company has a new set of bad guys! This wave of Superfriends is all members of the Legion of Doom and includes some highly anticipated fan favourites  including Grodd, Solomon Grundy and Black Manta. So, as with all of our “Mego Museum Up Close” features,…

Up Close: The Old Man from NECA’s A Christmas Story

Mego Museum NECA review

  Since it’s debut in the 1980s, Bob Clarke’s wonderful “A Christmas Story” has gone from memorable cult film to absolute beloved classic. When something is beloved around the holidays these days, well, here comes the merchandise! NECA has quietly been dominating this market in the 8″ scale with their previous releases from holiday centered…

Up Close: Chainsaw Clark Griswald by NECA

We were elated last year when NECA announced the National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation license, one of our favourite holiday films and last year’s Santa Clark made it into our Christmas decorations. So it’s exciting to hear that the initial figure sold well enough to spawn a second, even if it is another Clark and not…

Up Close: The Punisher by Diamond Select Toys

Mego Museum Photo Review Unboxing of the Punisher set by Diamond Select Toys

It’s been entirely too long since we’ve done an “Up Close” photo review/unboxing of a shiny new ReMego toy set. That’s why the arrival of the Punisher set by Diamond Select Toys is so welcome this summer. Originally promoted last year, this set has been highly anticipated by fans. Although he was a product of…

Up Close: Mezco Space Ghost (Glow in the Dark Exclusive)

The Mezco 1:12th line of action figures has taken the Mego Community by storm in the last couple of years. The choice of licenses combined with the fact that these were reportadly inspired by the Custom Mego work of Charlee Flatt, have made these a fan favourite around these parts. That’s why we were so…

Up Close: Super Friends Wendy and Marvin

A nice January surprise is the arrival of several different Figures Toy Company’s product lines including the oft forgotten brother sister team of Wendy and Marvin, the teen sidekicks in the first season of the Super Friends. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”114″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”200″ thumbnail_height=”175″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”0″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder”…

Up Close: Super Friends Wave 4

  Both the recent waves of Super Friends figures came at the same time, which is fine by us. Wave four of Superfriends is 75%  Legion of Doom members and includes some highly anticipated characters including Bizarro, Cheetah, Toy Man and the Green Lantern. So, as with all of our “Mego Museum Up Close” features, we let the…

Up Close: Super Friends Wave 3

The popular Super Friends toy line by Figures Toy Company has rolled out it’s third wave of figures and well, we’re kind of suckers here at the Museum for the Super Friends! Wave three of Superfriends is the first to include members of the Legion of Doom and includes some highly anticipated characters including Riddler, Batman, Captain…