{"id":5265,"date":"2015-03-20T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/?page_id=5265"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:53:16","slug":"pocket-heroes-un-produced-playsets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/pocket-heroes-un-produced-playsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocket Heroes Un-produced Playsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6489\" style=\"width: 822px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/spidermanalley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6489\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/spidermanalley-812x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mego Spider-Man Alley Play set\" width=\"812\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/spidermanalley-812x1024.jpg 812w, https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/spidermanalley-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/spidermanalley-900x1135.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unproduced Mego Spider-Man Alley from a Mego Toy Fair promotional piece<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The \u00a0Mego Spider-man&#8217;s Alley Playset has rarely been seen save for the Toyfair sales film (featured below) but we&#8217;ve found a rare glimpse of it in an earlier version of the 1980 Mego Toyfair package.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The concept is a bit odd, essentially one side is Spider-Man&#8217;s apartment complete with gym while the Green Goblin lives across the street in a trashed room complete with Spider-Man dartboard. Oh the hi-jinx these neighbours would have! Not sure why the Hulk is there at all really, he looks confused.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DeSMZY-rZXA?list=PL0Y8qhZtGdGFlnCxuLpzN75bEgli1ztJl\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the original Toy Fair Sales Reel for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/?p=5257\">Mego Pocket Heroes Bat Cave<\/a> (which made it into production) and the Spider-Man Alley (which didn&#8217;t see the light of day).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mego Pocket Heroes Fortress of Solitude Playset\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/heroes\/images\/phfos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"346\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Movie Fortress of Solitude, this made sense, this should have been sold.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/heroes\/images\/phfos2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"141\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A closeup of the Set, check out the movie references.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mego Superman Earth Quake Playset\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/heroes\/images\/phtow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"378\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Mego Superman playset also made sense (but what a rehash!).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mego Bat Beam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/heroes\/pocket\/images\/batbeam.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This concept drawing for the Mego Bat Beam seemed to integrate flash light with action figure. Photo courtesy of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/bonavita\/index.html\"> John Bonavita Mego Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a0Mego Spider-man&#8217;s Alley Playset has rarely been seen save for the Toyfair sales film (featured below) but we&#8217;ve found a rare glimpse of it in an earlier version of the 1980 Mego Toyfair package. &nbsp; The concept is a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/pocket-heroes-un-produced-playsets\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5265","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=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6498,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5265\/revisions\/6498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}