Thanks to our new friend Neil Kenny at the Blast Process Channel (You should subscribe!) we’ve got some images from UK ToyFair and some surprises from the Mego booth including new monsters and a certain Queen. Very interesting!
Mego has released images of the Young Frankenstein two-pack featuring wonderful sculpts by Andrew Covalt, this set is exclusive right now to Wal-Mart as part of the Happy New Fear program. To find a Wal-Mart store near you, click this link:https://www.megomuseum.com/mego-happy-new-fear-store-locator/
As part of the Wal-Mart “Happy New Fear” promotion Mego is releasing an exclusive 8″ Black and White Creature from the Lagoon in a window box. Photos are below. For a list of participating Happy New Fear Wal-Mart locations, click here.
The 8″ Universal Monsters Invisible Man will soon be appearing in a new Wal-Mart exclusive window box in the next few weeks. This follows the announcement that The Toxic Crusader and the second version of The Reptile will also arrive at Wal-Marts in a window box. Get our new book “Knock-Offs: Totally Unauthorized Action Figures”
Mego has revealed that Wal-Mart will soon be selling the Toxic Avenger in an old school window box! look for these to roll out in the next few weeks!
Vintage Mego this week goes in, through, and beyond Mego’s relationship with Disney’s 1979 Science Fiction blockbuster, The Black Hole! This episode explicitly discusses the 12″ Mego line of action figures based on the Black Hole characters, considered one of Mego’s biggest failures. Why did it fail? We give you a breakdown while discussing its…
New to the channel? Subscribe! ►https://bit.ly/3D3zxJK MegoMuseum talks about one of Mego’s most successful if not, the most successful playset ever produced the Mego Star Trek USS Enterprise Action Playset. This wonderful cardboard and vinyl set is probably also one of Mego’s most famous creations and sold almost half a million units. Our magazine Toy-Ventures…
Because you demanded it! Mego Museum Mint Off Card takes a look at General Ursus from the Planet of the Apes. He’s one of the new figures from wave 13. It’s a modern Mego figure but with a classic Mego connection. You can Order the new Mego figures here Check out all the Wave 13…
Leapin’ Lampreys! a major Vintage Mego Discovery! The Third Series Mego “Kresge” Card for Aquaman has recently surfaced (see what I did there?). I use quotes around Kresge because these early cards were sold in other stores as the “Mason’s” price tag on this example loudly suggests. It’s been rumoured to exist but it’s nice…
Vintage Mego this week looks at one of the rarer catalogs to come from Mego, the 1980 Spring supplement which features toylines they thought would be the highlights of 1980 including the Micronauts, BGlack Hole, Star Trek the Motion Picture, Fashion Candy, Web Spinning Spider-Man and Elastic Plastic Man among others. GET Issue…
