{"id":6422,"date":"2015-10-12T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/?page_id=6422"},"modified":"2015-10-12T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T16:33:30","slug":"dallas-action-figures-and-games","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/dallas-action-figures-and-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Action Figures and Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/megomuseum.com\/teevee\/images\/dalcard.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"basicblack\">Dallas<\/span> was a TV drama about the struggles of wealthy oil barons, the Ewings. The series ran from 1978-1991 and for a while, it made a TV Mega Star out of Larry Hagman for his portrayal of scheming rat John Ross (JR) Ewing.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas rating peaked in the early eighties with the phenomenal &#8220;Who shot JR?&#8221; storyline (yes, the Simpsons stole it) Clever Mego got on the band wagon and attempted to sell toys based on the Ewing clan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/megomuseum.com\/teevee\/images\/ewings.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re all here, Bobby, Jock, JR, Ms Ellie, Pam (oh Victoria Principle, sigh!) Lucy and of course, Sue Ellen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/megomuseum.com\/teevee\/images\/bwdallas.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Buyers purchased many of Mego&#8217;s other Dallas toys (JR Target, Card Game) but passed on the figures. According to a 1981 interview with Mego VP of marketing, Allan Chernoff mentioned that Dallas was a &#8220;bomb&#8221; for Mego. They obviously never got beyond these scratch built figures (see the Kenner Product in there?) so like the 1988 season, these figures are just a dream&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas was a TV drama about the struggles of wealthy oil barons, the Ewings. The series ran from 1978-1991 and for a while, it made a TV Mega Star out of Larry Hagman for his portrayal of scheming rat John&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/dallas-action-figures-and-games\/\">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":"buffalo_page.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6422","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422","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=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6423,"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422\/revisions\/6423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}