Category: WGSH

Hake’s Mego Auction ends tomorrow

  Celebrated auction house Hake’s Americana has a terrific sampling of Mego items in their latest auction, which ends tomorrow. Mego fans may want to check out this large sampling of boxed World’s Greatest Superheroes, mailer boxed Planet of the Apes, five face Star Trek cards, Star Trek Aliens and Palitoy Space:1999 characters while they…

The Parkdale Novelty Action Jackson “Super-Hero” bundle

Action Jackson Mego Bundle Set

One of the biggest supporters of Mego’s Action Jackson line was Morris Kotzer, founder of Parkdale Novelty, one of Canada’s leading toy suppliers. In the MegoMuseum Pod Cast interview with Kotzer’s son Lorne, he recounted the amusing circumstances behind Parkdale placing such a big order. Action Jackson‘s sales fell well below expectations in Canada and…

Colombian Superheroes Part 2: Joker’s Wild

As promised last week, we have more from Stephan’s epic discovery of “Los Famosos Superheroes” in Colombia, (first installment is here in case you missed it) . This time we’ll concentrate on the other loose Caravajal  figures he stumbled upon, namely Batman, Superman Penguin and…. The Joker! Any collector of Lili Ledy figures from Mexico knows…

Diamond Select Reveals New Deadpool set and Punisher at Toyfair

Toy Fair had it’s share of surprises this year as Diamond Select Toys  revealed the packaging for the previously announced Punisher set (which is available to order here) and we were all pleased to see that Frank will indeed be packing heat. However, the bigger surprise is the announcement of a second DeadPool set featuring three new…

Colombian Mego Figure Discovery!

  Many thanks to our new friend Stephan, who upon a recent visit to Columbia discovered that yet another country licensed the  World’s Greatest Superheroes brand from Mego. Instead of importing Hong Kong manufactured product, Colombian distributor Caravajal produced the figures locally at the Rimax plastic factory to produce Los Famosos Super Heroes (en Accion).This…

Mego Green Arrow Car Video

  Mego Video Shorts are now a monthly feature here at the Mego Museum and well, this month we felt like playing with our Green Arrow car. Other than being hard to find in the collector market, it’s actually a well thought out and fun toy as this short will attest to. Look for more…

New Video Short: Mego Robin Hood and the Super Merry Men

  After a unfortunate hiatus, we’re proud to get back with the video makin’. Our monthly video series  (We plan to do every single Mego Toy and Action Figure Line) continues with a look at the 1975 toy line Robin Hood and the Super Merry Men.   You can see all of our vintage toy short films…

Preview: The 1980 Pedigree Toys Catalog

1980 Pedigree Toys Catalog World's Greatest Superheroes

A sneak peak of one of our upcoming updates is the World’s Greatest Superheroes assortment available to the United Kingdom in 1980. If you’re keeping count, that means the WGSH had three distributors in Great Britain starting with Cecil Coleman in 1974 (Coleman also carried “Johnny Jackson“) famously moving to Palitoy in the mid 1970s…

Up Close: ThinkGeek Captain America Exclusive

MegoMuseum ThinkGeek Review of the Captain America Set

We love a surprise here at the Mego Museum, so when the announcement broke last week that Think Geek was offering a variant Captain America ReMego set (crafted by Diamond Select Toys and EMCE) well, we were all over that! This set is different in many ways to last year’s Captain America Set (Still Available at…

UP CLOSE: Daredevil by Diamond Select Toys

DareDevil by Diamond Select Toys photo review by Mego Museum

DareDevil was another Marvel favorite that despite being created in the silver age, never got the 8 inch Mego treatment in the 1970s. To be fair, the character hadn’t quite had the media exposure that superheroic peers like the Hulk and Thor had at that point. Mego heads for the last 30 years or so,…