{"id":555,"date":"2012-10-22T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T18:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/?page_id=555"},"modified":"2015-03-18T14:10:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T14:10:59","slug":"legends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/legends\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends and Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"galleryimg\"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"h3tag\" --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/legend\/LegendsArt.jpg\" alt=\"Legendary Heroes--Mego\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><!-- InstanceEndEditable --><\/div>\n<div id=\"rightbox\">\n<ul id=\"linklist\">\n<div id=\"menutitle\"> Legends and Monsters  <\/div>\n<li class=\"indent\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/american-west\/\"> American West <\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"indent\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/merrymen\/\"> Robin Hood &#038; The Merry Men <\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"indent\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/knights\/\"> Super Knights<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"indent\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/superpirates\/\"> Super Pirates <\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"indent\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/madmonsters\/\"> Mad Monsters <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"basicblack\">The World&#8217;s\u00a0Greatest Super Knights ,\u00a0Super Pirates ,\u00a0Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Heroes of the American\u00a0West<\/span> and the ever-popular <span class=\"basicblack\">Mad\u00a0Monsters<\/span>. Among them, they represent\u00a0some of Mego&#8217;s best work in the 8 inch line. Please note that\u00a0<span class=\"basicblack\">World&#8217;s Greatest Super Legends<\/span> is the Mego Museum&#8217;s\u00a0designation for this category, it was never an official Mego term.<\/p>\n<p>By going with figures from literature and history, Mego was firstly\u00a0able to appeal to a very wide audience. Beyond the limited genres\u00a0of Superheros and Science Fiction they presented marvelous representations\u00a0of archetypes that little boys are genetically hard-wired to appreciate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cowboys. Knights in shining armor. PIRATES. Monsters. Swashbucklers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Certainly, they were also figures that <strong>some<\/strong> parents were\u00a0more inclined to purchase, either for vaguely educational reasons\u00a0or because they themselves had childhood attachments to the subjects.\u00a0Additionally, these also seem to be dolls that were collected by\u00a0<strong>doll collectors<\/strong>, not just sci-fi and comic fans. Consequently,\u00a0they are found in numbers and conditions that belie their production.\u00a0The Knights were only on store shelves for a year or two, yet they\u00a0are often found never removed from their mint boxes.<\/p>\n<p>The added advantage of using these characters was that they are\u00a0properties in the public domain. Not having to pay a license fee\u00a0Mego was able to divert a few extra pennies to the individual dolls.<br \/>\nThe results are chromed swords, lace ruffles, embossed and painted\u00a0shields, the WORKS.<\/p>\n<p>The Legends lines (particularly Robin Hood and the Knights) were\u00a0marketed by Mego for a year in the US, they were distributed internationally\u00a0by Marx (Germany), Baravelli (Italy) and Toltoys. Historical toys\u00a0faired better in Europe and the Knights horse was even released\u00a0there (check out it&#8217;s gallery page)<\/p>\n<p>Contrary\u00a0to rumour, these lines were released by Mego themselves and were\u00a0not &#8220;backdoored&#8221; in Hong Kong as implied by other sources.<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0of the newer additions to the Galleries are the revised American\u00a0West section with new foreign packaging shots and an amazing glimpse\u00a0at the original Gray Morrow Art.<\/p>\n<p><!-- InstanceEndEditable --><\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legends and Monsters American West Robin Hood &#038; The Merry Men Super Knights Super Pirates Mad Monsters The World&#8217;s\u00a0Greatest Super Knights ,\u00a0Super Pirates ,\u00a0Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Heroes of the American\u00a0West and the ever-popular Mad\u00a0Monsters. Among them, they&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/legends\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5107,"parent":0,"menu_order":218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"legend_green_page.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-555","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/555","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/555\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}