Mego Memories: Wolfman Christmas

From 1974 Steve Banes opens a Mego Mad Monster Wolfman. Steve got all 4 of the Mad Monsters that year but this is the only one with a photo. He tells us he simply could not wait to have Wolfie kill G.I. Joe.

Enjoy previous Mego Memories at the Megomuseum, Part 1 and Part 2 are full of vintage coolness. Got a pic to donate? Send it on down!

Check out this week's Custom Spotlight in Custom Mego!

MegoMeet 2008: The fourth annual Mego Convention will be held on June 6 & 7 in Wheeling, WV. For more information check out the official site and forum. Be sure to see pics from past Megomeet, here are the years 2005, 2006, and 2007, Mego Meet is a blast, hope to see you there!

Mego Planet of the Apes Store Appearance!

An awesome submission from a great Mego fan today, a rare colour shot of a Mego Planet of the Apes Store Appearance. That wall of minty Treehouses is hypnotic...

Here is another view from the Megomuseum Ad Archive.

Action Jackson Appreciation Day

We pay a little homage to the original Mego 8" Man of Action Today with some much needed updates to the Mego Action Jackson gallery. Included are new photos to the boxed figure page, new entries in the foreign outfit section, more catalog gift sets and a page devoted to the long lost Adventure Set. There are literally dozens of new additions and changes to these pages so take your time and explore. If you have anything we don't and would like to add it, drop us a line!

Discuss, buy or sell Action Jackson at the Mego Forum!

Mego Action Figures In Full Force in 1976 Sears Catalog

This interesting catalog spread from the 1976 Sears (Canada) Catalog prominently features the Mego World's Greatest Superheroes being sold with their "official outfits" (which are of course, closed out Action Jackson uniforms. Star Trek was still riding high while Planet of the Apes were going into deep discount, they would appear in Sears Canada catalogs until 1978, note the exclusive Horse, Wagon and Catapult set pictured.

For More Retro Christmas Catalogs check out the Mego Museum Catalog Archive

Discuss your favourite Mego figures or do some buying and selling at the Mego Forum.

New! Captain America with Fly Away Action

New to the Mego Museum Ad Archive is this 1980 Toy Fair Flier for the Mego 12" Captain America figure. No mention of the giant head though....

Mego Gets a License to Kill with Moonraker

An exciting update today as we add a new page to our Mego Moonraker Gallery. Today's update explores the 1979 Mego Moonraker catalog which reveals many items that were never released, including color photographs of prototype figures and vehicles. See what Mego had in store for 007 with this new page.

Beaming Down Some Star Trek Goodness

A generous helping of new images to the Star Trek The Motion Picture Gallery today, courtesy of Craig MacKillop. Check out some very nice Canadian rarities such as MOC Aliens and the wonderful Grand Toys boxed Enterprise pictured above.

Today it's all about CHiPs!

A very thorough update today thanks to the contributions of collectors Craig MacKillop and Mark Schmidt, we have an exhaustive amount of Canadian packaged goodies from the Mego CHiPs line including the very rare "2+2" pack shown above. Enjoy!

Buck Rogers Gallery Updates

Thanks to Craig MacKillop we have some updates today to the Mego Buck Rogers Gallery including some rare Canadian issued Carded figures. Look for more Canadian updates all this week.

Black Hole Gallery update

Thanks to Craig MacKillop we have some updates today to the Mego Black Hole Gallery including some rare Canadian issued Carded figures. Look for more Canadian updates all this week.

New Mego Museum Trading Card Revealed

As Scott so nicely put "With a quick draw and deadly aim, Wild Bill joins Davy Crockett and Wyatt Earp as the latest American West card....Full set coming this spring!

Read About it here

Mego's Big Ideas for 1980

This new addition to the Mego Ad Archive is a 1980 advertisement for the 1980 Mego Line Up the piece features examples from many toy companies including fashion Candy, Micronauts, Black Hole and the Elastic Superheroes.

Make Mine Marvel Mego

This new addition to the Mego Ad Archive is a 1980 advertisement for licensing Marvel comics characters the piece features examples from many toy companies including Milton bradley, Empire, funstuff, Remco and of course Mego World's Greatest Superheroes.

Mego Star Trek for 1980

This new addition to the Mego Ad Archive from 1980 demonstrates just how much effort Mego Corp. put into merchandising Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Sadly the film's more adult themes didn't translate into toy sales with much of this line seeing little to no distribution in the United States.

Mego's Outlook for 1980

A new entry to the Mego Museum Library today is this 1980 Toy Fair preview of some of Mego's new products. Sadly, many of them including cool Micronaut alien vehicles such as Iguanos and remote controlled VINCent from the Black Hole were never released.

The rest of the week on the Mego Museum will be devoted to Mego at the 1980 toy fair, stay tuned for updates.

Mego Toy Store Pic from 1980

This awesome new colour picture of the Mego Superheroes in Gimbels demonstrates how the line had shrunk down it's core by this time. Note there is a whole display of 12" Incredible Hulk dolls and Remco Spider-Copters behind.

This just one of many vintage toy store shots that we have in the Mego Museum Ad Archive.

This image is from 1975 and shows an end cap of Mego Super Vators and Batcaves as well as an above average selection of G.I. Joe.

Look carefully at this Circus World image from 1976, you'll see something familiar in the window.

Another great scene from 1976, this time a WGSH Display box nestles calmly between a literal army of Adventure Team Joes.

What was your favourite place to buy Mego back in the day?
Discuss it at the Mego Museum Forums.

New 8" Star Trek characters coming in 2008

A great video from Toyfair 2008 showing off some of the new characters this year:

Not only Chekov is coming out but Sulu and a show accurate Gorn? Yep, read it all about it here.

Mego Prototype Harry Booth Sculpt from the Black Hole

Prototype Week finishes with another look at Mego Corp's lost treasures courtesy of Tory Mucaro, today it's the clay head sculpt for the 12" Harry Booth from the Black Hole, something Mego collectors rarely see.

Micronauts Prototype Hornetroid

Today's entry into prototype week is a submission by Ray Miller, who did some digging an uncovered the evolution of the killer Micronauts vehicle The Hornetroid. It's an interesting look at how many changes can be made to a toy before it gets to the store.

Mego Prototype V.I.N.Cent from the Black Hole

In keeping with our theme of Prototype week we present the original V.I.N.Cent from the Black Hole. Mego made some changes to this guy before he was released so it's an interesting piece to say the least.