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Vintage Mego: Pocket Superheroes Bat Machine

This week’s installment talks about 1980 and Mego ventures into electronics with the launch of the Pocket Superheroes Bat Machine and Spider-Machines. We talk a bit about how electronic games hurt Mego more than passing on Star Wars and their partners in Mexico Ensueno toys. Visit our Forum at: https://www.megomuseum.com/community Mego Mania is the largest…

Mint Off Card: Halloween 3 set by NECA

Let’s unbox the latest retro action figures from NECA based on the once-maligned 1980s Horror classic “Halloween 3 Season of the Witch” can you believe this is happening? Me either! Life is good Mego heads. Want to order this and support the MegoMuseum? Order it right here: https://www.entertainmentearth.com/product/NC60699?id=ME-002202116 Hit me up at our Facebook Group…

Mego Leatherface Revealed

A figure that escaped yesterday’s update was Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Well, Mego Corp has generously provided that image for us as well, below is an updated look at the Leatherface figure, it features a slightly different look from ToyFair 2020 with a new chainsaw.  Join Mego Ambassadors today! You can pre-order any…

Vintage Mego Buck Rogers Star Fighter toy

This week we take a look at one of the most iconic space ship toys of the 1970s, the Mego Buck Rogers in the 25th-century starfighter and talk a bit about Mego’s relationship with the license and why mego passed on Battlestar Galactica. Mego Museum Buck Rogers Gallery: Buck Rogers 3 3/4″ Action Figures Mego…

Mint Off Card: Bob Ross by NECA

  Time for another unboxing. This figure is no happy accident, it’s Bob Ross from the beloved series “The Joy of Painting” and boy is popular in our house. So let’s take a look at this interesting and unique offering from NECA toys. Sorry about the blooper. visit us online at www.megomuseum.com Twitter: @megomuseum Instagram:…

MegoMuseum visits the Parkdale Novelty 75th Birthday Bash

  The MegoMuseum was fortunate enough to be invited to Parkdale Novelty’s 75th birthday celebration this month. Parkdale Novelty is of special historical significance to not only Canadian Mego fans but Mego collectors all over the world have been affected by this company and may not even know it. Founded in 1944 by Toronto resident…

Exclusive First Look at Abin Sur from Figures Toy Company

As we’ve seen in recent #MMFTCNEWS updates, Figures Toy Company still has a lot up their sleeve when it comes to the Super Friends retro figure series. From Solivar to Desaad, and even last week’s revelation of the Death of Superman variant, FTC has shown that they’re taking inspiration from every episode of the popular…

Mint Off Card: Mego 14″ Joker Review

A new episode of “Mego Museum Mint off Card”, where we de-card a new Retro Figure and let you explore what’s inside. Our subject this week is the new 14″ Joker figure by Mego Corp. This is from the fourth wave of Target. Mint off Card is going on hiatus with this show as I’m…

Mego Gallery Upgrade: Joker US Cards

Collecting Mego Joker Figures is no laughing matter and we’re proud to announce that the MegoMuseum Joker Gallery now includes beautiful photos of all of the Clown Prince of Crime’s US cards from every wave.   Please Visit the MegoMuseum Joker Gallery here.   Shop for Mego on Ebay and each click supports us a…

New Catalog: 1976 Poch Spain!

Thanks to our pal Joe, we have the 1976 Mego Catalog from Spain (and hey, you can buy it here right now if you’re so inclined.) Poch was Mego’s distributor in Spain and of course, even most famously created variant window boxes for the American West line but unlike a lot of European distributors, they took a boatload…