Category: WGSH

Superman: Soft, Cuddly, Safe?

by Museum • December 15, 2009

A fun update today at the Mego Museum Super Softie Gallery, today we take a look at Superman with new packaging shots and an honest to goodness variation. Who knew? All that plus you can click to hear Superman talk, click the link to be transported to “plush Metropolis” Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • December 14, 2009

A fabulous update at the MegoMuseum Magna Heroes Gallery today, courtesy of Mark Huackabone we have shots of the proposed American series of cards for the four heroes. Mego pitched the line using these very samples at Toy Fair 1980 and decided to abandon the line. These rare US cards were produced for display at…

by Museum • December 9, 2009

Great Update on Matty Collector.com today, unveiling the revised card art for the Green Arrow Figure. The big change here is the line’s name is no longer “World’s Greatest SuperHeroes” but “Retro-Action: DC Super Heroes“. This begs the question, what other things does Mattel have planned under this “Retro-Action” banner? It sounds like 2010 will…

by Museum • September 7, 2009

A President’s day sale after Mego’s demise shows clearance pricing on everything, including the World’s Greatest Superheroes! Sure, the ad shows Batman but I bet it was mostly Hulks….. Megomuseum.com- The Web’s Greatest Mego Playset

by Museum • August 5, 2009

Here is another in our new gallery pages for the upcoming EMCE/Mattel “World’s Greatest Superheroes” line. This time we focus on the Green Lantern’s arch enemy, Sinestro. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone. Another terrific figure inspired by Challenge of the Superfriends that fufills a lot of…

by Museum • August 4, 2009

Here is another in our new gallery pages for the upcoming EMCE/Mattel “World’s Greatest Superheroes” line. This time we focus on the first official 8″ Green Lantern figure. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone. Watch for new Gallery pages all this week. What do you think? Have…

by Museum • August 3, 2009

We’ve created the first of many gallery pages for the EMCE/Mattel “World’s Greatest Superheroes” line. It seemed fitting to start with the first figure that will be available Green Arrow. Click here to see large photos of the prototype. Images courtesy of Mark Huckabone. Watch for new Gallery pages all this week. What do you…

by Museum • July 30, 2009

Courtesy of World’s Greatest Toys author Benjamin Holcomb is the Lex Luthor prototype, our first of the new figures from this Mattel/EMCE collaberation. With all due respect to fans of Mr. Mxyzptlk, this figure is helping to erase one of the original WGSH lines biggest errors, the addition of Superman’s true arch enemy, the leader…

by Museum • July 30, 2009

Now that the dust has settled from the SDCC, we thought it might be fun to take a look individually of wave one of Mattel’s World’s Greatest Superheroes line (which is, still trippy to say) and hey, it’ll pass the time until Spring right? So, courtesy of World’s Greatest Toys author Benjamin Holcomb is the…

by Museum • July 24, 2009

At the “Mattel and DC Comics: A Heroic Partnership” Panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con the big announcement was the return of the 8″ Superhero format! It’s the one Mego fans have been waiting for and something Dr.Mego (AKA Paul Clarke) and Joe Sena of EMCE toys have toiled on for ages. It’s…