Mego Museum Podcast: It’s Toy Fair Week. Brian and Scott are joined by EMCE Hammer to chat about Comic Book Men, a Batcave from JCPenney, and all the marvelous ReMego stuff from Toy Fair. Special interview with Jason Lenzi of BifBangPow about the latest in Dr Who, Venture Bros., SMDM and Battlestar Galactica.
Show Recap & Handy Links:
Yeti Roosevelt
- Brian and Scott mentioned that Toy Hunters is coming back for a full season and Kevin Smith’s Comic Book Men debuted on AMC last week and featured Mego figures.
- The Auction Watch segment revolved around this Mego Batcave in original JC Penney mailer box.
- Yeti Roosevelt and Algore were two favourites from Heroes in Action’s series of Presidential Monsters.
- This figure of Sylvester Stallone in the Diamond Select booth had megoheads talking.
- Steve mentioned that Spectre Toys is doing another run of Barnabas from Dark Shadows.
- The EMCE toys/Diamond Select Creature from the Black Lagoon was the belle of the ball this year.
- Both Brian and Scott are fans of Jason’s podcast Geek Shall Inherit
- Brian mentions the Encyclopedia Galactica at one point.
- Lucifer was one of the surprise reveals at Toy Fair this year.
- Three villains in this year’s Doctor Who line are from this classic story.
- There is only one Venture Brothers character left for BifBangPow to do to complete the Triad.
