An unproduced vintage Mego Figure has surfaced after nearly 50 years!
Following the story we posted earlier in the week about the Star Trek Aliens prototypes being found, there was another surprise in the mix. A figure none of us saw coming.
In the original shots the Museum was sent of this lot of toys that came from a former Mego designer, there was a curious character mixed amongst the Alien Prototypes and the factory sample Teen Titans, a mystery woman of sorts.
Fortunately Tom, the gentleman who made this discovery was happy to oblige in better photographs and when handling the figure, he noticed a tag.
The tag was in English and Chinese, which means this came from Mego’s Hong Kong factory.
It didn’t take much detective work to realize this was a never produced Joanie Cunningham action figure from the Mego Happy Days line.
The Mego Happy Days line began with a single character, the Fonz who sold very well. The follow up figure line of additional characters such as Richie, Ralph and Potsie were not as well recieved. It seems that Mego had gotten pretty far with the Joanie figure before deciding to scrap it and the Happy Days line.
Joanie was confirmed by Mego Sculpter Ken Sheller, who did the work on this and apparently, a Pinkie Tuscadaro for the line. Fingers crossed a Mego Pinkie surfaces some day!
Special thanks to Tom for sharing and to Chris King for alerting us to this.
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