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The Wayne Foundation Prototype

Todays Update: The Prototype Mego Wayne Foundation.

We end our first week of the lost archive with a pretty big bang, this is an early prototype of the Mego Wayne Foundation (you can see the one lucky kids got in 1977 here)  and as you can see it greatly differed from the one we collectors know well. Everything from the layout, to the construction to the artwork is different and hey, this one had plants!

Click on the photo and check how it originally was going to be for yourself and hey, next week we've got appearances by the Champ, two bimbos from Milwaukee and the eight wonder of the world, stay tuned Megoheads...

Discuss this on the Mego Forum.

The Comic Action Batcopter Prototype

Todays Update: Sample Shots of the Mego Batman Comic Action Batcopter.

This early test shot of the Comic Action Bat Copter has a few notable differences between it and the one that made it to market, click on the picture to check it out.

The Lost Archive Opens

Now that San Diego Comic Con has filled us with the sights of Mego like items to come, it's time to take a look back to the company that made it all happen in the first place with this new series of discoveries.

First, let's give credit where it's due, the next three weeks are all courtesy of former Mego designer Vincent Baiera. Over the past few years Mr. Baiera has been wealth of information and a good friend to the Mego collecting Community.

He contacted us recently saying he'd uncovered some documents and was more than happy to share them with the Megomuseum.

You can read our interview with Mr. Baiera here.


What we received was a series of photographs, including early test shots of produced items, prototypes of rumoured offerings and never before heard of toys and playsets from the golden age of the World's Greatest Toy Company.

To begin, we unveil the new Lost Archive Gallery at the MegoMuseum, which will be updated every day for the next 3 weeks or so, each we promise to bring you something you've never seen before.

Todays Update: Sample Shots of the Mego Batman Bat Coders and Bat Console Toys.

Magnetic Heroes Update

A fabulous update at the MegoMuseum Magna Heroes Gallery today, courtesy of Mark Huackabone we have shots of the proposed American series of cards for the four heroes.

Mego pitched the line using these very samples at Toy Fair 1980 and decided to abandon the line. These rare US cards were produced for display at Toy Fair and are the only known to exist.

Check Them out at the Mego Museum Magna Heroes Gallery.

Holy Burned Toast Batman!

A new Mego Memory, here John Fiorella recieves his second Mego Batman, what happen to the first one you ask? John created a deathtrap for him in the family toaster.

John explains his motives for doing it "The adam west show filled my brain with all sorts of traps for Bats to get out of and the toaster wasn't one of them. I wrapped him in a straight jacket of cheese slices and in he went." he adds "The outcome... well, let's just say Robin had to go solo for a few months."

Thanks for the great picture and story John, if you have a Mego Memory for our gallery, drop us a line!

Click on the link to visit our gallery of Mego Memories

America's Favorite T.V and Comic Hero

This page is from the 1977 for "Johnny's Toys" a KY/OH based chain of toystores and features a tribute to the Batman (and some marvel characters snuck in there for good measure), interesting that they're still using RC Batman years after he was discontinued, must have confused a pile of kids. Click on the image for a larger view.

Also Check out the Mego Museum Department Store Catalog Archive for more.

Mego Solid Box Robin

New to Mego Museum Robin Page (and long overdue!) is the Solid Boxed Robin. Were you a lucky kid who snatched up one of these in '73?

Randolph shares a Mego Memory

Randolph Santanna sent in this great Mego Memory for our gallery, Summer of 1976 in Miami with his Mego Batman and Robin that his Aunt Estella had just got him! And that's Randolph's sister Marlyn, trying to figure out how to snatch Batman from his hands. Great photo and even better Wall paper....

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MIB Basa Robin at the Mego Museum

It is a good day when we have something like this to share. The first boxed BASA superhero all the way from Peru, which happens to be Robin the boy wonder, is now on display at the Mego Robin page. He's really, really pretty, so be sure to take a look.

Discuss at the Mego Museum Forums

Palitoy of the Day: The Penguin!

Another beauty of a Palitoy/Mego card, courtesy of Bill Frost. Today's feature is that chain smoking, umbrella clutching, bird fetishist, The Penguin..

Mego Museum Penguin Gallery

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Palitoy of the Day: Batman

Moving the spotlight to UK variations for a little while, courtesy of Bill Frost. Today's feature is the very pretty Green carded Palitoy Batman, he's dreamy....

Mego Museum Batman Gallery

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Holy Halloween Costumes Batman!

This timely custom of a Mego Version of the Ben Cooper Batman Halloween costume was produced by Anthony AKA The Toyroom and is this weeks Custom Spotlight. Check it out.

What's going on in the Mego Community:

Childhood Reclaimed: Click hear to read about an awesome story about how a user found his childhood mego figures and marvel at how nice they are!

Deals can still be found Dep't: Check this awesome flea market score or how about this thrift shop find?

What's Your Favorite Time Machine Movie?

Shameless Plug: Still seeking submissions for the Christmas in the '70s book, don't be shy we want to hear your stories!

Mego of the Day: Penguin Super Saver

A thrifty start to the week with the Mego Super Savers Penguin Bank, these figural banks are wonderfully detailed and highly underrated.

Some fine Mego Memories

Chris Flagg sent in this happy memory from Christmas 1974, he really hit the jack pot that year with the Mego Batcave playset, Batcycle, Batmobile and Batcopter. What more could a kid ask for?

Thanks Chris! Looks like the folks did a bit of catalog shopping as evidenced by this 1974 JC Penney spread:

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!

Wak! Wak! It's Palitoy Penguin!

A lovely new addition to the Mego Museum World's Greatest Superheroes Section today courtesy of Bill Frost, it's a beautiful example of a UK Palitoy Carded Penguin.

One of our most popular threads at the Mego Forum is New Mego Acquisitions, in which members show what the postman done brung 'em and we can live vicariously through them.

Dan’s Mego memories

Dan shares with us this happy moment from Christmas of 1974 where he received a World's Greatest Superheroes Batmobile in a beautiful header card box as well, drool, what I wouldn't give...

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!

A Salute to Mego 12" Batman

The 12" Mego World's Greatest Superheroes are often overlooked and that's a shame because they are well made toys with a lot of fun variations. The 12" Heroes began in Canada, when Parkdale Novelty CEO Morris Kotzer created the line by ordering the minimum. The first 12" Batman is largely the most familiar as he is rather common due to Parkdale having overstock up until the 80's.


The first 12" Batman has a unique head sculpt that was more realistic than his 8" WGSH counterpart.

While his gloves were of similiar material, his cape was a shiny vinyl and belt was merely sewn on.

The rest of this series was rounded out by Spider-Man, Superman and Robin who was 9" tall.

THe figures utilized "Skinny Bodies" that were also used for celebrity figures like Captain And Tenneil.

The artwork on the from utilized the 8" Packaging stock art which was actually dating back to the 1960's. The heroes heads in the bubbles can also be seen in the 1976 DC 8" card art.

The back of the box utilizes much of the same art seen on the original solid boxes.

The notable distinction being the crudely traced swipe of a Jim Aparo Batman from Detective comics 443 (thanks to Chris Franklin for that tip)

In 1978, Mego began to solicit the 12" line across the world, packaging for the 12" heroes can be found in UK, Italian and French packaging.

There is even a second release of this figure that believed to sold to the American market.

This second release of the 12" Batman has a new image of the caped crusader and the smiling hero head bubbles are taken from the 1979 DC comics 8" hero card.

It's interesting to note that the Batman figure has a small emblem, this is a legitimate variation and only seems to happen with this box.

There is an Italian version of the packaging as well but it seems Mego corrected the sticker problem by that time. This version of Batman has a cloth cape as well.

It's largely thought this figure was released in the US for a brief time before Mego decided to finally release a 12" Batman.






The back of the box uses the popular Neal Adams Batman that is also seen on the Japanese Popy Batman box.

Mego actually used that image of Superman in ads to promote the WGSH and who doesn't love that happy skipping Robin?

While the Superman box in this series recieved new artwork, there has never been a sighting of a revised Robin box although by this time Mego had swapped out the original 9" Robin and added a 12" figure.

In 1979, Mego finally embraced the 12' line in America, Fly away action was introduced to combat Remco's line of Energized Superheroes.

Magnetic Batman received not only a new muscular body but a revised head sculpt, man was he PO'd looking. This was possibly the most comic accurate Batman figure Mego produced.

Both Batman and Robin were given Magnetic hands and feet, a wonderful concept that had many Batman figures hanging from fridges.














The back depicted happier times with the Dynamic Duo as they hang from a girder. Mego made a big splash about these figures with TV and comic book advertising.

This line was sold in Canada well although boxed Grand Toys versions are hard to find.

What's interesting to note is the Magnetic concept only ran one year and didn't appear to succesful, by the 1980 catalog Mego was marketing the figures without the magnetics and in new packaging.











These figures represented the end of the 12' line for Mego.

The box is now a sharp purple and the flap now protudes the reverse of the other packaging. Fly Away Action is now written on the packaging.

The box has a stark feel to it, almost symbolizing what was going on at Mego at the time, a company who by the early 80's had lost a great deal of it's creative energy.

It's interesting to note that these Purple boxed Batman figures are incredibly rare with only four known specimens reported. One of which has a sewn on vinyl belt, so a variation abounds.

Mego must have shipped these out in very limited quantities, they were advertised until 1981.




The back of the box recycles the wonderful neal Adams Art used for the Wayne Foundation Playset as a cheery dynamic Duo going flying off somewhere.

In 1982, Mego pulled the 12' Heroes, although their tenure in the US was brief, it did make for some memorable and interesting figures while it lasted.

For More Info, check out our 12" Mego Superhero Gallery.

Buy, Sell or Trade Mego Superheroes at the MegoMuseum Froums.

Get it at the Superhero Shop

A bit of toy insider history today with this staged toy store shot from Licensing Corporation of America (LCA) who in 1977 handled the DC comics Superheroes. This four page ad, meant to entice toy manufacturers into licensing the heroes, shows the top licensors at the time which means lots of Mego product in the mix.

Check out the MegoMuseum Ad Archive for more toy insider information on the World's Greatest Toy Company and stay tuned to this blog for a big announcement!

Star Trek Aliens 3 Pack

A new addition to the gallery today thaks to Robert Doyle, it's a JC Penney Star Trek the Motion Picture three pack, a pretty rare item to find these days.

Check out this cool Joker's Ha-Hacienda Playset from Anthony, the level of detail will astound you.