Category: WGSH

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,…

New Retro Carded Superheroes at Figures Toy Company

Now available from Figures Toy Company are new Retro Carded Superheroes, meant to give the look and vibe of classic Mego World’s Greatest Superhero cards. The best part is, the majority of these characters were never released by Mego so you can fill gaps in your vintage collection. Click here to see the entire new assortment.…

Mego Superhero Prototypes discovered (and for sale!)

Mego Prototype heads for the World's Greatest Superheros

Heritage Auction Strikes again with more from the collection of sculptor Gene Salamacha, who it turns out sculpted the original line of Mego’s World’s Greatest Superheroes. This latest offering may be the strongest pieces of Mego history every put up on auction as the offering contains clay and hard copies for Robin, Superman, Aquaman and…

Up Close: Super Friends Wave 2

Figures Toy Company Superfriends Wave 2 Mego

The popular Super Friends toy line by Figures Toy Company has rolled out it’s second wave of figures (although the Wonder Twins were also released in between those waves) and if you want to reviews of Wave one you can find it here and here. Wave two of Superfriends is comprised again of Good Guys…

1977 Mego Order Form Revisited

1977 Mego Order Form

Many moons ago, we had a lot of fun with one of these covered with buyer notes. Thanks to Joe, we have some clean scans of a virgin 1977 Mego Coporation Toy Fair Order form, print it out and pretend you’re the Childworld buyer.   I’ll take a case of CB Mchauls and what the…

Up Close: Removable Cowl 1966 Batman by Figures Toy Company

Batman 1966 Removable Cowl Adam West Figure

The last wave of 1966 Batman figures by Figures Toy Company were met with a flurry of interest but the spotlight most definitely belonged to Batgirl and Barbara Gordon, hardly anyone spoke of the latest Batman variant that was also in the wave. That’s a bit of shame because it’s a Removable Cowl Batman, something…

Up Close: Scarecrow from Figures Toy Company

Mego Batman Scarecrow

While reproductions are fine and all, we here at the Mego Museum are always more excited when a new ReMego character is produced. Especially when it’s a character like the Scarecrow, this bat villain has been long overdue for the Mego treatment and Figures Toy Company has made it happen in 2016. Released as the…

Up Close: Aquaman Vs the Great White Shark

Mego Aquaman Shark set

Aquaman Vs the Great White Shark is one of the most elusive sets in the Mego Superhero patheon. Figures Toy Company took on the heroic task  of toolinga recreation of the original shark so many collectors wouldn’t have to shell out for an original (which aren’t in heavy circulation.) We decided to check it out and…