{"id":3765,"date":"2013-07-12T19:15:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/?page_id=3765"},"modified":"2013-07-12T20:25:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T20:25:32","slug":"great-white-shark-playset","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/great-white-shark-playset\/","title":{"rendered":"Great White Shark Playset"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"galleryimg\">If you are a true child of the Seventies,it shouldn&#8217;t take you long to figure out what movie inspired this playset.<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/wgsh\/playsets\/images\/shark5.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The shark itself has a jaw that would close if it bumped into something\u00a0with it&#8217;s battery powered propeller. The Aquaman figure is a standard\u00a0type two mego figure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/wgsh\/playsets\/images\/shark1.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"224\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The biggest question for this playset is why? Aquaman would never\u00a0be afraid of a shark, he commands them! As well, a fully clothed Mego is hardly an ideal tub toy although it wouldn&#8217;t matter to a\u00a0seven year old.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/wgsh\/playsets\/images\/shark4.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"273\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0something that was spotted on clearance aisles in abundance, the\u00a0Aquaman playset is one of the hardest to find, a boxed edition can\u00a0set you back thousands. The shark however is rather generic and\u00a0probably could be found cheaply, so keep checking those boxes below\u00a0dealers tables!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/wgsh\/playsets\/images\/mego_aquaman.jpg\" alt=\" Mego Aquaman VS the Great White Shark Box\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boxed version of the Great White Shark playset\u00a0(thanks to Dan for the photos)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/wgsh\/playsets\/images\/mego_shark.jpg\" alt=\"Notice how Aquaman is tucked away in there, very dynamic\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aquaman\u00a0and Shark were packaged in a dynamic position, very cool.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/wgsh\/playsets\/images\/mego_shark_box.jpg\" alt=\"beautiful Mego artwork shows a pumped up Aquaman fighting his enemy\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0am absolutely in love with this artwork!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/wgsh\/playsets\/images\/aquaman_shark.jpg\" alt=\"the rarely seen back of the box for this rare mego playset\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Shark&#8217;s instructions take up the back of the box and are rarely\u00a0seen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/megomuseum.com\/megolibrary\/reproart\/78\/aquamansharkw.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/megomuseum.com\/megolibrary\/reproart\/78\/aquamansharkwt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"77\" height=\"100\" border=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/catalog\/1978\/wgsh_003.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/catalog\/1978\/images\/tn-hro-x.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"77\" height=\"100\" border=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original\u00a0Catalog pages, repro artbook pages and comic book ads for the launch<br \/>\nof the Aquaman and Great White Shark playset, click on them for<br \/>\na larger view<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a true child of the Seventies,it shouldn&#8217;t take you long to figure out what movie inspired this playset. The shark itself has a jaw that would close if it bumped into something\u00a0with it&#8217;s battery powered propeller. The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/great-white-shark-playset\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3765","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3765\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}