Hey, I don’t know if you noticed but it’s Christmas! If there is something toy collectors know and like, it’s nostalgia. So let’s time travel back to the time when photography was not super great and photo mats were a thing. Several members of our community have shared that absolutely brilliant shots of Christmas past…
Regarding the figure lines produced by Mego Corp., we all have our favourites, and it’s safe to assume that the World’s Greatest Superheroes, Planet of the Apes, Micronauts and Star Trek will always cram that top 5. But what about all the other toy lines Mego created? Indeed there are a few underappreciated entries in…
This week, some exciting news from White Elephant Toyz, as they’ve introduced yet another line heading our way in 2023, Combat Man. This 1/6th scale figure line harkens to 70s and 80s toy lines melding military characters with Science Fiction. The characters include Fighting Yank, Super Joe Commander, Dynamic Man, Major Gunn, Captain Zargon, Caldoz…
1975 was a tremendous year for Mego, and one of their best partners was the now sadly defunct Montgomery Ward chain of Department stores. Mego created many an exclusive figure for MW in the 70s, and in 1975, the wishbook featured 8 pages of Mego goodness. Let’s dig in, shall we? The Mego Wizard of…
Do you like 8″ Monsters that glow in the dark? Then check out our latest review of the Frightful Fiendz by White Elephant Toyz. The Horrible Mummy and Teenage Bog Monster are the latest figures in this soon to be long-running series of action figures. Shop at White Elephant Toyz new website: http://www.whiteelephanttoyz.com/shop Visit the…
In last night’s Mego Corp Livestream, it was revealed that the latest horror license is the 1982 George Romero feature “Creepshow,” and Mego showed off the first figure from the range, Nathan Grantham from the “Father’s Day” segment complete with a severed head and his cake! Toy-ventures is the only full-colour print toy collector magazine…
Now on YouTube: We rip the Hasbro/Mego Ghostbusters out of their cardboard prison and see how they stack up. Join us, won’t you?
Our Mego Collector spotlight for September is a name a lot of people will recognize because he’s been one of the most positive people in the Hobby and is truly having fun with this. Ladies and gentleman, Kevin Fiore. Name: Kevin Fiore aka Bronxboykev on the Mego Museum aka #Keviemas365 according to my brother and…
Mego revealed their next toy license and it’s an interesting surprise. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (or simply Pinocchio) is an upcoming stop-motion animated musical fantasy drama film directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, and written by del Toro and Patrick McHale. Based on Gris Grimly‘s design from his 2002 edition of the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, it marks the animated…
Vintage Mego returns with a look at the Mego 1978 catalogue filled with Micronauts, KISS, World’s Greatest Superheroes, 2-xl, Magna doodle, CHiPs, Laverne and Shirley, Playboy Playmates and Puppet Love? It’s an episode jam-packed with Mego goodness. #mego #micronauts #kiss New to the channel? Subscribe! ►https://bit.ly/3D3zxJK Issue 7 of Toy-Ventures Magazine is now available: http://www.plaidstallions.com/reboot/shop For…
