Great White Update

It's time to take a look at a classic bit of Mego magic with the revised Aquaman Vs the Great White Shark gallery. We've improved the original photography for this wonderful (and stupildy hard to find) toy and added new links and info.

Visit the Great White Shark Gallery Here.

Discuss at the Mego Museum Forums.

Venture News plus DC Retro Action

The upcoming Mego styled 8" Venture Brothers action figures are now available for Pre Order at Entertainment Earth.

Plus if you preorder through this link it helps the Mego Museum!

Virtually all of the new Bifbang pow lines are available for preorder at EE including Flash Gordon, Lost, Twilight Zone and we've created special galleries for all of them at our Remego Section.

Click Here to Visit the BifBangPow! Galleries

Also, we've also updated our Retro Action Heroes Galleries with new photos of finished Wave 1 figures, come check them out here and then swap area reports at the Mego Forum.

Retro Action Heroes Hit the Shelves

Steve V wrote in today to tell us of the first sighting of the Mattel Retro Action Heroes wave 1 hitting Toys R Us stores in Southern California. Keep your eyes on your local TRU and if you can share your photos at the Mego Forum.

Mego Museum Retro Action Heroes Gallery

You can also Order DC Universe Retro-Action Wave 1 Figures Set from Entertainment Earth! Each purchase made through this link helps out the Mego Museum!

The Man in Black from Lost

Our pals at BifBangPow have sent another close up shot of their upcoming 8" product, this time it's the man in black from Lost. More on Lost later on today.
All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

To Serve Mego

DIG THOSE KISS BOOTS! A shot of the upcoming Kanamit figure from the BifBangPow action figure based on the classic Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man". For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in collaboration with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

Go Dean Venture!

A shot of the upcoming Dean Venture figure from the BifBangPow series of action figures based on the Television series The Venture Brothers . For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in colleberation with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

The Masks

A shot of the upcoming Gremlin figure from the BifBangPow action figure based on the classic Twilight Zone episode "The Masks". For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in collaboration with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

There's a Mego on the wing!

A shot of the upcoming Gremlin figure from the BifBangPow series of action figures based on the classic Television series The Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 24,000 feet". For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in collaboration with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

Rusty Venture!

A shot of the upcoming Doctor "Rusty" Venture figure from the BifBangPow series of action figures based on the Television series The Venture Brothers . For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in colleberation with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

The Dude Abides

A shot of the upcoming The Dude figure from the BifBangPow series of action figures based on the movie "The Big Lebowski". For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in collaboration with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

The one that talks like Ray Romano

A shot of the upcoming Henchman 24 figure from the BifBangPow series of action figures based on the Television series The Venture Brothers . For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in colleberation with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

After the twist, you'll feel a snap and the body goes ragdoll on you

A shot of the upcoming figure of OSI killing machine and the last champion of the "short long", Brock Samson from the BifBangPow series of action figures based on the Television series The Venture Brothers . For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in colleberation with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

BifBangPow Releases Satan himself

A shot of the upcoming Satan figure from the BifBangPow series of action figures based on the classic Television series The Twilight Zone. For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in collaboration with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

Henchman 21

A shot of the upcoming Henchman 21 figure from the BifBangPow series of action figures based on the Television series The Venture Brothers . For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in collaboration with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

Hail Ming!

A shot of the upcoming Ming the merciless figure from the BifBangPow series of action figures based on the 1980 classic film "Flash Gordon" . For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in collaboration with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

The Mighty Monarch!

A shot of the upcoming Monarch figure from the BifBangPow series of action figures based on the Television series The Venture Brothers . For more shots of this figure please check out the Mego Museum Gallery Page. These 8" figures were produced in collaboration with EMCE Toys.

All BifBangPow! figures shown today should be available for preorder this weekend at Entertainment Earth and other fine retailers.

The BifBang Pow Figures lines will be on display during this week's 2010 Toyfair at
the EMCE toys booth (number 4944).

The Mego Museum is making an Action Figure!!!!

The Mego Museum is proud to announce it's first exclusive action figure on display at the EMCE Booth at the Toy Fair 2010 in New York City.

As the Time Traveling Guardian of the Mego Museum,

The Super Collector uses his time machine playset carrying case

to accquire rare Mego artifacts in the 1970s for citizens of the future

to enjoy at the Mego Museum...

Created by Brian Heiler and Scott C Adams

Sculpting: Sean Sansom

Costume prototyping: Steve Moore

Package design and illustration: Scott C Adams

Manufactured by EMCE Toys

The Super Collector comes with his trademark Mego Museum playset carrying case which will be molded plastic with an applied sticker.

The Super Collector will be released in a printed solid box with artwork based on the classic Mego superhero packaging.

In an exciting crossover, the Mego Museum is teaming up with it's sister site PlaidStallions.com to create a Brick Mantooth figure. Both characters will come in a single box that shows Super Collector on one side and Brick Mantooth on the other. The box will contain both heads, both costumes, and ONE body.

The heads are sculpted by Sean Sansom, an industry pro who has worked with EMCE toys on many of their recent Mego-like offerings.

Look for Brick and the Super Collector this spring at MegoMuseum.com and PlaidStallions.com!

1978 Re-Imagined Cover Revealed! Catalog Coming Soon!

That's right! The long awaited Mego 1978 Reimagined Product Catalog is almost done! This fantasy Mego product catalog showcases the work of the Mego Museum's amazing custom action figure artists and presents an All-Star line-up of figures we all wish Mego HAD MADE!

Star Wars • World's Greatest Super Heroes Continued • Star Trek Expanded • Scooby-Doo • KISS • Wizard of Oz • Universal Monsters • Batman 1966 and much more!

Design and Layout by Anthony "The Toyroom" Durso

Cover illustration by Scott C Adams featuring the Super Collector, the Time Travelling Guardian of the Mego Museum.

This full color 16 page catalog will be available soon at the Mego Museum. Stay tuned for more news!

You can preview the pages and review the sbmissions at the Museum's 1978 Forum.

Introducing: The Super Collector!

Enough with the teasing! Here he is! This recently discovered ad from a 1973 issue of Captain America proves that our attempts to invent time travel have succeeded! Mego Museum scientists have sent the Super Collector back in time to discover the secrets
of Mego history and bring back rare artifacts in his Museum playset carrying case.

People have often said that visiting the Mego Museum is like taking a trip back in time. But now it can be said once and for all: The Mego Museum IS a time machine!

Meanwhile, back in 1973:

The Future is Tomorrow!

Isn't the future great? 2010 is looking to be a great year for Mego fans and fans of the Mego Museum! Stay tuned...

A Brief history of the Mego Museum and Obscure Mascots.

When the Museum started in 1996 the Roman columns and marble statues were inspired by a trip to Caesar's Palace in Vegas. The headless body of the Type 2 Mego--the foundation of virtually everything we know as Mego--was the main symbol, or mascot, for the Museum.

The earliest mascot of the Museum was Anselm, a janitor figure created by Jason DeWitt of wearesmall.com. Here he is digging some artifacts out of the basement circa 1997.

The front entrance to the Museum looked like this from the late 90's on. The picture in the window changed all the time. Here it shows another old Museum mascot, Wink Blinkman, the World's Greatest Super Anchorman.

For a brief time Wink was joined by a cast of characters including Cubby Mulrooney, a feisty curator and part-time jazz dance instructor, and two others who's names have been forgotten. The idea of a Mego Museum mascot faded away.

Then, in 2004, the idea of making a virtual building to represent the Museum was floated. The building shape is based on the iconic Mego Corp. logo and retains the marble and columns that have always characterized the Museum.

That idea was quickly abandoned in favor of a Mego style vinyl playset of the building, which is a much more fun idea that celebrates Mego toys over cheesey faux marble. Above is an early concept sketch.

Since 2005 the Mego Museum playset carrying case has served as the logo and face of the Mego Museum. How exactly does the the playset carrying case work? What does it do? What is it's purpose? Who, if anyone, actually carries it?

Only TIME will tell.

Get Lost with Bif Bang Pow

Online Retailer Entertainment Earth has leaked the first images of Bif Bang Pow's 8" Lost action figure line in collaberation with EMCE toys. Shots of Hurley, Locke and Ben Linus are up, giving us a greaty idea of what we can look forward too this August.

Visit bifbangpow.com often for updates, specific character announcements and images. Pre-orders begin today for select items at entertainmentearth.com and other fine retailers.

Bif Bang Pow! to Produce '70s Style Action Figures Based on Some of the World's Most Popular Properties

LOS ANGELES, CA (February 2, 2010) – Announcing one of the widest ranges of highly articulated 8-inch retro-style action figures in years. In cooperation with EMCE Toys, Bif Bang Pow!™ is proud to bring the original "’70s style" of play to a brand-new line of articulated action figures based on some of the world's most popular properties.

Reproductions reminiscent of the best-selling action figures of the 1970s and early 1980s, these
highly articulated figures will feature body designs by EMCE Toys. Each 8-inch scale figure will
include real cloth clothing and plastic accessories where appropriate.

Over 40 licensed action figures are planned for 2010. The first are targeted for an early summer arrival and Comic-Con International: San Diego 2010, with others to follow later in the year. Included are much-demanded characters from:
The Venture Bros.™ (Cartoon Network)

Dexter™ (Showtime Networks)

Lost™ (ABC Disney)

The Big Lebowski™ (NBC Universal)

The Twilight Zone™ (CBS)

Flash Gordon™ (King Features)

Scott Ian (Anthrax)

The Venture Bros.™ creator Jackson Publick, who has been working closely with Bif Bang Pow! to bring these to market, noted that the upcoming figures are “very impressive and extremely faithful to the characters, while also finding a very comfortable middle ground between 2-D and 3-D design. Bif Bang Pow! has deftly solved a number of design problems I thought anyone attempting a 3-D interpretation would get thrown off by. Brock, especially, is going to make the fanboys crap themselves. Let's show these to the world already!”

"We're very excited about launching this new range of action figures. For the first time in Bif Bang Pow! history, all of our licenses will be living in the same universe. So if you've always wanted Dr. Girlfriend to seduce Dexter Morgan, or for Ming™ the Merciless to fight The Dude, now's your chance!", said Jason Lenzi, CEO of Bif Bang Pow! "And the exceptional articulation makes the posing possibilities virtually limitless, which comes in handy for animated characters!"

"The 8-inch format hasn't seen this breadth of licenses since its peak during the Mego days," said Joe Sena, President of SphereWerx, corporate parent of the EMCE Toys brand. EMCE partner Paul "Dr. Mego" Clarke added, "It is exactly this intention to mix a variety of characters into imaginative play that started my journey to bring this format back ten years ago. We're honored that Jason and his team sought us out to 'Mego-ize' the licenses he holds."

Retailers and press can see the first prototypes at New York Toy Fair, February 14-17, 2010, at the EMCE Toys booth #4944. For sales and to schedule an appointment while attending New York Toy Fair, please contact your EE Distribution account representative or Jenna Banks, Sales Manager, at 818-255-0090 x128 / sales@eedistribution.com in advance.

About Bif Bang Pow!
Bif Bang Pow!™ (bifbangpow.com) produces first-rate collectibles for such popular properties as Dexter™, Lost™, Californication™, The Venture Bros.™, The Twilight Zone™, The Big Lebowski™, and Flash Gordon™. Founder Jason Lenzi is a seasoned television producer and the ultimate fan of cultish pop culture. So when he created his company in 2005, he took the fan's perspective. His idea was to bring items to the marketplace that he himself would want to own. Cultivated from TV, movies, books, comics, music, and more, Bif Bang Pow!’s mission is to provide high-quality action figures, toys, and collectibles to the massive cult audience (and kids of all ages) that wishes these toys were already in their collection. Bif Bang Pow! is a unit of JLA Direct, LLC.

About EMCE Toys
The EMCE Toys brand (pronounced "em-see") was founded to bring playability back to toys.
Inspired by the original action figure company, Mego Corp., we strive to craft quality, durable action figures, playsets, and collectibles that recreate the sense of fun that toys were originally made for. Our launch lines are either licensed reproductions of original Mego toys and packaging, or original creations modeled after the classic lines of the 1970s and early 1980s.
EMCE is proud to have the active input and cooperation of Marty Abrams, founder of Mego and father of the modern action figure. We hope to continue to honor his legacy with our work. We have also been honored to incorporate the talents of veteran artist Harold Shull, original illustrator of Mego's classic and distinctive packaging from the 1970s. As we continue to extend this kind of inclusion of the original Mego teams, we get closer to our goal of bringing Mego back as a viable toy company in all but name. EMCE was created by veteran pop culture entrepreneur Joe Sena, President of SphereWerx, LLC, and craftsman Paul "Dr. Mego" Clarke.

(Many, many heartfelt thanks to our friends at Bif Bang Pow! for giving the Mego Museum the opportunity to break this news to the world!)

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