Benjamin Holcomb is launching a NEW Mego publication called WORLD’S GREATEST TOYS! Digest. It is designed to work in tandem with his book, Mego 8” Super-Heroes: World’s Greatest Toys! The debut issue — entitled TOY ANARCHY IN THE UK! PART 1 — is loaded with exciting Mego content and the most comprehensive Checklist and Price…
Figures Toy Company has a nice surprise for a Wednesday, this early bird Superman (limited to 200 pieces) is now available. Superman features a never before seen head sculpt (which if we may add, is pretty spiffy), so get him before he’s gone! Don’t miss the Mego Event of the year, Mego Meet 2017!…
Fun new addition to our growing catalog library. 1979 would be the final year for Palitoy and the World’s Greatest Superheroes (and sadly all 8″ product) but they still added another new character in their final year. Check out the 1979 Palitoy Catalog Here. Discuss this find on the Mego Museum Forum. Now Available Mego…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
