We begin “Mego Meet Recap Week” with the big one first. Mego President Marty Abrams along with Paul “Dr. Mego” Clarke spoke to a jam-packed hall at this Saturday’s Mego Meet 2018 for a panel about Mego’s past and it’s future. We’ll have a video up of this session soon, it was a fun experience…
When we published our list of the “Top Ten Mego Superhero items that never got made” recently, we forget to mention one of the more interesting rumors that swirl around the World’s Greatest Toy Company. The concept that Mego was developing “World’s Greatest Superhero” vitamins was confirmed by the late Neal Kublan when interviewed by…
Happy Wednesday! Here’s an awesome Mego World’s Greatest Superhero catalog spread from 1976 pairing Spider-Man with Wonder Woman? we’d love to track down that mailer box! Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/TheMegoMuseum/
When we posted the original Mego 1976 trade advertisement featuring the Mystery General Urko art yesterday a sharp-eyed reader by the name of Dave noticed another weird anomaly, As featured in yesterday’s ad, here is the prototype for the Mego World’s Greatest Superheroes Hall of Justice Playset. It’s obviously been handcrafted. One thing missing from this…
Here’s a fun Mego Mystery that we don’t have the answer to. Prior to Toy Fair 1976 Mego Corporation (who were, really at the top of their game) took out a clever two-page ad (at the front) of all the leading toy trade magazines showcasing their successful and upcoming toy lines for 1976. Page One is…
When we published our list of the “Top Ten Mego Superhero Toys that never got made” one thing we didn’t have a good image of was the Wonder Woman Paradise Island Playset from 1977. It’s such an interesting item that we decided to rectify that by giving it it’s own blog post. Shop for…
by Brain Heiler Mego- A name synonymous with “Superhero” in the 1970s and certainly one of the pioneers of licensed action figure success, while they are no longer, their formula and creativity live on today (hey, you may have heard, we’re fans). While the World’s Greatest Toy Company had an incredible, unprecedented amount of…
Mego Museum’s inaugural issue of Megozine, the magazine for Mego Collectors. Issue one is now expanded and Includes: Secret Origins of the 1/6th Scale Superheroes- Which details Mego s 12 inch Superhero figures and includes a never before seen prototype of a never made Mego 12 hero. A Mego Museum Super Collector comic adventure Escape…
We’re upgrading our content at the Museum currently and one gallery that was a little underwhelming was the 12″ Captain America page. New photos, information and promotional materials have been added for Cap. We even get a little into the history of the first Avenger. Check out his shiny new page here. Discuss…
1980 was an ambitious year for the World’s Greatest Toy Company as this Spring supplemental catalog showcases. Mego had high hopes for the two Science Fiction Black busters that year namely Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Disney’s The Black Hole and tremendous plans to expand the Micronauts aliens brand. On the Superhero side we…
