The Mego Museum Interview with Vincent Baiera

I was very fortunate to stumble across the contact information for Vincent Baiera last month, a man I'd heard mentioned glowingly several times by people such as Neal Kublan and Hal Shull.

Mr Baiera was not only keen to talk to me but he was also one of those people that I dreamt of talking to, somebody who loved what they did and remembered things nobody else could.

I am pleased to unveil the Megomuseum Interview with Vincent Baiera : Product Design Manager for Mego Toys.

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Vincent not only shares his experiences but his original production meeting notes and candid photographs of the Mego R&D department. This is something all together new for us, mysteries are solved and previously unknown detail uncovered.

The amazing 3D models and mockups are courtesy of..our founder..Scott Adams, Scott's very talented wife Julie Feinstein Adams also deserves accolade for editing this piece and making me look smart. That's no small task.

Please share your thoughts at the Mego Museum Forums

Greatest American Hero Contest at MegoMuseum

We're giving away a boxed season two Greatest American Hero DVD this week at the mego forums, click here to read more.

And check out the new mega set coming soon, click the link below:

Cool Mego Customs Spotlight

Even though we have a customego blog, I can't help but point out some of the ultra cool figures that arrive every week courtesy of the talent pool we currently have at the Mego museum. Above is Captain Mego's Iron Man, which has a removable magnetic faceplate, it's amazing

Bob is always good for a custom and here is his Marvel Comics villain Absorbing Man, gotta love it. He also did an oldschool Mego Man Wolf that looks like it came off the toy shelf.

And I now pronounce you Creature and Wife, nothing like some variants on classics as John shows us with his Mego She Creature.
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Museum Updates, Mego Book News and Rod Serling

Where to begin?

Dave McCormick has finished two new sections for the accessory check area of the museum, this time he's focused on the Star Trek and Planet of the Apes sections. Accessory check is an amazing resource for the mego collector, a photoguide to identify real versus reproduction parts. You can read all about it here.

More Great News!

Ladies and Gentlemen, World's Greatest Toys the premier book about the Mego Worlds Greatest Superheroes has a publisher. Author Benjamin Holcomb relayed the tale here on the Mego Forum. Let's just say the publisher makes high quality books about the Superhero genre, so they "get it".

Coming Winter 2007: The Ultimate Mego Superhero book.

You see a sign post up ahead......

From the incredible talent of Captain Dunsel comes this fantastic Rod Serling action figure, available through megostore in limited quantities. The likeness is really amazing, this one incredible piece.

Coming Next Week!

Next week we unveil a new interview with a member of Mego's creative department, gain never before seen insight into Mego production, see original production meeting notes, photographs and learn what Mego was planning for your favourite toy lines!
Have a great weekend!

The Interchangable World of the Micronauts

Yet another addition to the department store catalog section , today we feature the 1978 Sears spread of the Mego Micronauts. Micronauts were riding high the scif fi wave at the time and this page brings back a lot of memories.

Be sure to check out the Mego Museum Micronauts Section after.

Tomorrow's feature:

For now, I leave you with this cool Frankenstein custom by our Custommego administrator, Dave McCormick.

Breaker! Breaker! More Mego Catalog pages!

Yet another addition to the department store catalog section , today we feature the 1978 Sears spread of Mego CB McHaul. CB didn't get a lot of Catalog time so this is a pretty rare glimpse.

Be sure to check out the Mego Museum CB Mchaul Section after, it's got oodles of revised content and information.

And not to be a tease but we've got fantastic Mego discoveries on the way, a real trip into Mego R&D, stay tuned......

Cool Customs

Check out this great Seven of Nine custom by K with real rooted hair. The Custom of the week is this mean looking Professor Zoom.

The Customizer of the month is John Farley, a guy we know as type3toys, John is a talented craftsman, check out his cool work.

Flash! Ah-ahhhhhhhh!

Yet another addition to the department store catalog section (in case you hadn't noticed I'm obsessed with these) today we feature the 1978 Sears spread of Mego Flash Gordon.

Be sure to check out the Mego Museum Flash Gordon Section after, Scott has put a great deal of effort into it's new content.

And stay tuned to the Mego Museum Blog, soon we will be taking you deeper into Mego than anyone has ever gone. What does that mean? Find out soon.....

New Mego Catalog Page

Added another page to our growing database of Department store Christmas catalogs. This one is the 1978 Sears Superhero offering, pretty respectable assortment of Superheroes that year.

Other Mego Goodness:

What is your favorite Filmation show? is a topic close to my heart.

Remember the movie Kingdom of Spiders? A lot fo members chime in.

Bob has done a very nice Mego sized Rambo custom.

Ken Kelly Mego Micronauts Print available

Ray Miller has posted this amazing new offer from Ken Kelly, a print of the original art for the Mego Micronauts Hornetroid packaging. Time is limited, so hurry!

The gang at the Mego Forums are doing a Travelling Mego experiment again, time to get on board!

We've got a few neat customs to look at this week Alberto has created a really neat pair of Superhero Badguys and check out this mego version of the character HotSpot

Bryan continues his amazing work on a series of 8" KISS customs, drool worthy

The Never Produced 12" Diecast Superman

From his recent, excellent interview with John and Linda McNett, Benjamin Holcomb uncovered an interesting bit of information about a 12" Diecast Superman prototype John had created and pitched but he believed never saw production.

What transpired after the fact makes the story even more interesting and gives real insight into how fast and furious the toy world really is.

Please check out the Never Produced 12" Crushing Arms Superman Article and let us know your thoughts on the Mego Forums.

Mego Synchronicity

Don,a member of the Megomuseum Forums was kind enough to put this neat little pic in a package to me recently, it's the Police during a rolling stone photoshoot with an interesting prop. Thanks Don!

The Mego Museum Spotlight on John and Linda McNett

Our own Benjamin Holcomb, author of the upcoming "World's Greatest Toys" conducted a series of interviews with John and Linda McNett, two people with a long history with Mego Corporation.

Linda was the former assistant to Neal Kublan and John the director of design, to paraphrase Ben, both John and Linda had significant involvement at Mego, and John's impact on the world of toys in general, is impressive.

During the process of this interview, Ben made an interesting Mego discovery that we will elaborate more on later in the week.

Thanks to Ben for putting together this incredible piece and of course, to the McNett family for allowing us this candid look into their lives and careers.

Mego CB McHaul gets a revamp!

Breaker! Breaker! We've got the newly updated Mego CB McHaul Galleries, with more photos and information than ever before. Read all about the cool features of one of Mego's most unfairy "forgotten" toy lines.

Kudos to Dave McCormick for uploading the cool CB commercial.

Stay tuned to the Museum for next week, we'll be unveiling a new Mego Employee Interview with new insight and discoveries.

The Mego Museum Playset

Scott posted this Amazing new pic for the Mego Museum Accessory Check Page on the boards and it's made a really big splash. It's so cool it deserves it's own post.

The next two weeks are going to be fantastic at the Mego Museum, I'm not kidding when I say we have made tons of new Mego discoveries I'm really having a hard time keeping it to myself right now......

A couple of neat threads:

David has been Reunited with some childhood Megos

Some of the guys are doing a travelling Mego Man again, a lot of fun.

This new weird Al video hits home for many of us.

Speaking of Nerdy, What is the worst episode of Space:1999? Hey, might as well embrace your roots....

Check out this nice Nick Fury in Custom Mego

Bye for now!

The Mego Museum Accessory Check Reproduction Idenification Section is now open!

Since the Mego Museum, the most common questions revolve around
what accessories came with a certain figure, what a particular part
looks like, and mostly the question has been "How can I tell if
this part is original or
reproduction?"


That is why it is such a pleasure to to unveil the Mego Museum's latest collector resource, the Mego Accessory Check.

The Accessory Check is a guide book for collectors, to help them
identify original parts and distinguish them from reproductions.

Through the use of photographs and thorough descriptions, collectors can now judge for themselves.

This new resource shall soon be available for other 8" Mego lines but today we launch the most requested chapter, the WGSH section.

Credit for this new section goes to our own Dave McCormick who under the guidance of Scott Adams, tirelessly created a great new resource that will be an invaluable reference tool for years to come.

Thanks a million guys!

Who are the World's Greatest Mego Superheroes?

The Results are in! ok, they've been in for a little while but I got real busy and you know how it goes.....

The latest Mego Museum Top Five is the Top Five Mego Superheroes and it was voted on by members of the Mego Forums

Agree or disagree? Give us your opinion!

Updates to the Mego Logan's Run Gallery

Did some fine tuning to the Mego Museum Logans Run page, including adding more detailed shots of the REM and Francis 7 prototypes. Also added some interesting facts about how the factories disposed of left over uniforms, would you believe they were sold at retail?

Check out this cool as heck Eclipso custom or Joe's newest creation, Iron Man!

DC Direct is releasing an Isis Action Figure, sorry it's not as cute as ours.

Bill talks about the last WGSH figure he needs.

Mego Museum Presents the King Kong Galleries

Nothing is better than unveiling a new gallery at the Museum but it's just a slightly better experience when the subject matter is one of the greatest movie characters of all time. The New Mego Museum King Kong gallery shows Mego at it's creative peak, not content to be the "500 lb Gorilla" in the action figure aisle, Mego was setting itself for total toy store domination.

Please let us know your thoughts at the Museum Forums.

Logical Sneak Preview: In case you didn't notice from Friday, Scott snuck the next set of Megomuseum Trading Cards into his Enterprise thread.

This Fall on the Megomuseum will be an amazing time for Megoheads, new interviews, more photos, new articles and a brand new section for the Museum that will blow your mind! Stay tuned!

Mego Museum Celebrates Star Trek's 40th in style

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, Scott has written an article about perhaps the ultimate Mego playset, the Enterprise Bridge. Scott uncovers the many prototypes that abound for the playset, pretty interesting stuff.

And don't miss the new Mego Star Trek artwork Scott has created at the bottom of the page, it's fantastic!

You can read about it here

Cool Mego Customs for a Wednesay

We have an amazing Custom Mego Blog that is so well done it has had me really focused on the custom section of our forum.

What's great about the customs forum is I have watched people grow as artists over the years and the scope of characters change from the weekly Flash and Daredevil to a broadening variety. Here are some great examples....

The guys chose the custom of the week to be Bryan Bossart's amazing Gene Simmons, click on the pic for more detail from this sucker, it's just great!

This Captain Action Version of the Punisher is really something to behold, a real marriage of ideas new and vintage.

Joe AKA Thunderbolt has created another amazing DC character, this time it's Aquaman's evil half brother, The Ocean Master! Somehow Joe manages to elicit a cool vibe out of a normally goofy looking character, great job!

Usually the only detectives we get are the Dark Knight, this week we get two of the greats, Holmes and Poirot courtesy of Other Dude, whose customs never let us down in detail or subject matter!

Bob did another nice job with Marvel Bronze age character Damian Hellstorm, the Son of Satan.

This is the content that happened this week, I don't know how the guys pick just one figure for "Custom of the Week" like they do, I don't envy them with the amazing amount of talent that is present at our custom Mego forums.

Announcing Mego Museum Version 5.0

Better......Stronger......Faster.......

Our founder, Scott Adams has once again outdone himself in the second redesign in less than one year. (You can read Scott's post about the redesign at the forum)

Up first is the Worlds Greatest Superheroes section which will continue to expand. There is still much to do, spaces to fill in, art to replace, pictures to take. We plan to do lots of updating in the next weeks and months.

The other highlight today is the newly revised Mego Museum library

The new Mego Catalog section now has an amazing timeline, easier navigation and most importantly, BIGGER PHOTOS.

Your feedback is most important during this time, find a broken link? missing image? incorrect text? Please drop us a line or join us at the Museum forums and tell us your thoughts.

The Top Five Underrated Mego lines?

Click here to find out what we think are the truly unappreciated gems of Mego toys.

Agree or disagree at our forum!

Check out the too cool custom of the week at the custom forums.

These Conquest of the Planet of the Apes customs rule!

The battle for top five Worlds Greatest Superhero ends at 5pm today, cast your vote!

Mego Museum Super Hero Showdown!

We're down to the final ten in the MegoMuseum Who are the top five greatest Mego Superheroes? Poll. Who will make the top five? Vote today for your favourite.

Cool Kresge Carded Spiderman on Ebay.

John is working on a Palomino ship from the Black Hole, an amazing undertaking.

Paramount is reissuing Star Trek with new CG effects, will you watch it? I personally can't wait for the all new CG character, "Ensign Binks"

Mego News for a Friday

We're still under construction but it'll be worth the wait, some fantastic new content, galleries and articles are going to be unveiled in September. In the meantime, there are some neat things going on in our forum:

Paul has created some killer Mego Wall Paper for you desk top, it features our line of trading cards in some creative ways, worth a look.

Speaking of Mego Trading Cards, a poster asks "Will there be more?" and we give some hints.

I'm loving this old Burger King Commercial, remember the Duke of Doubt?

Andrew has created a killer Alice Cooper custom that you gotta check out. Why didn't Mego make an Alice Cooper doll?

Joe has done another amazing job on this figure of Orion from the New Gods

Vinny has a Super Mega sales list of cool Mego stuff, it's causing a riot folks!

Lastly, Shop at any of these vintage toystores? focuses on pictures of long forgotten toy stores....

New Foreign Mego Superheroes Discovered!

It's a rare occasion when we discover something totally new but this is, pretty cool. Much like the Lili Ledy discovery of the 1990's, we've found evidence of yet another foreign distributor in South America producing their own licensed version of Mego figures.

Read all about the Superman from Peru here

In case you missed yesterday, I got another piece to solving the Mego Mystery Man puzzle.

The guys are swapping stories after seeing this vintage toy store pic.

Mike reviews the weekends Supermega show in NJ.

We're showing cool old Christmas morning pics in Mego buzz

Another Piece to the Mystery Man Puzzle

I've been asking former Mego employees about one of our greatest mysteries and received some interesting information, check it out at the Mego forum.

And stay tuned Monday for a new Foreign exclusve you've never seen before!

The Mego Museum Top Five Headsculpts

New Feature today in what I am hoping will be a series, the Megomuseum Top Five list, today's subject? The Best Headsculpts by Mego.

Also going on:

Roberto has started a Megohead Fantasy Football League and is looking for some folks to join up.

An interesting question about those Mego like Pez heads from the 1970's, who is the man in the Orange mask?

Ben has posted an update in the World's Greatest Toys forum, definitely what we needed to hear.

I'm loving this classic Trek Harry Mudd custom that Georg has revealed.

Ray appears to have been sucked into the world of Mego collecting without even noticing, can you say "Ha-Ha!"

Random Mego Babble

We're busy with a few new projects for the Museum, some pure fun and some mind blowing stuff that's really going to bring us into a new level, seriously. So instead of a real update today, I'm just going to point out some of the sutff going on at the forum.

A solid boxed Aquaman only fetched $600 on ebay, was everybody asleep?

There is a Zorro Alert on Ebay, prepare your wallet!

A new member reflects on his first month on the Museum boards, so i stole his thread title for the blog.

I asked a question about paying more than a toy is worth and people have really given me some great feedback.

Ever heard of the Turkish Star Trek movie?

Ron has made a killer Superfriends Bizarro figure and Dave has done a mego scaled Yoda in customs.

Cool Mego Black Hole Ad plus more!

Added a cool vintage toy industry ad for the Mego Star Trek and Black Hole line of toys. It features the unproduced Palamino playset amongst other cool items.

For more info on those unappreciated lines, check out the Mego Black Hole and Star Trek The Motion Picture sections at the Museum.

Other Mego Goodness

Mike proudly shares with us his collection of Mego Planet of the Apes Bendies and the vintage display box he's trying to fill. Warning! You may be prone to fits of jealousy!

If that wasn't enough for one week, Charlie shares with us his amazing collection of Mego Superheroes on 1976 cards. There are only so many ways to say "wow".

Tim shows us how he displays his Mego Museum Trading cards. Better than how i do it, that's for sure.

Joe shows off his custom Iron Man in the works while Laurie is hard at work on a scary good BeetleJuice custom.

A poster asks Whats on your desk? with interesting results.

A strange toy find happened to me recently.

A beautiful boxed Mego Batlab has folks wondering, How high will it go?

That's all for now, stay loose! Or carded, whatever turns you on.......

Neat Stuff at the Mego Museum

What's going on at the Web's largest Mego Community

Dan has a few uber cool mego rarities up on Ebay, the guy is always selling quality. A lot of people wish they could be Dan ;)

Speaking of Sales, Vinny is threatening a massive sales list soon Keep your eyes on that topic....

Vinny also pointed out these awesome 70's Superhero kitchen magnets

Mattel has announced a series of Superfriends Action Figures, anticipation runs high as a bunch 30 somethings get ready to hit the preschool aisle! Self included!

John shares the Mego love with a pic of his first carded Titan.

Comic Action Heroes Update at Mego Museum

Added a unique Canadian Carded CAH Wonder Woman to the packaging section today, worth a browse if you've never checked it out.

Charlie shares pics of his latest aquistion, a minty Clark Kent.

It's good week on Ebay with a MIB Enterprise Gift Set and the motherlode of Lili Ledy figures.

In Microverse, we're discussing what figures you'd have added to the Star Trek: The Motion Picture line.

This pic of the new Justice Society Comic has folks drooling.

New Mego Pocket Super Heroes Piece

A neat piece to showcase today, a set of Mego Pocket Super Heroes in their original JC Penney Mailer box. You don't see stuff like this as much as you should.

Other Mego Stuff

A tale of intrigue : Mom rescued my heroes

General Buzz has turned into a series of "Picard VS Kirk" debates, yet this nice little thread about the DVD rerelease of Forbidden Planet has arisen.

Stefano bought this cool 1970's Supergirl Knockoff worth a look!

Another piece to the Mego Mystery!

A cool addition to one of the most confusing Mego Mysteries. Thanks to Rob Chatlin, we've established a date of sale for the Mego Mystery Man (Pilot/Astronaut?). One of these days, we'll figure this out until then, we'll be discussing it in this thread on the Mego Forums.

Other Bits of Mego Goodness:

Dave picked up a cool new Planet of the Apes Piece

I love this Batman from Superfriends Custom

Lou explains why Paul Clare is his hero

Ben is having some auctions to raise money for the Legal Fees associated with publishing World's Greatest Toys his upcoming Mego book. Not only will you be buying yourself a brand spanking new toy but you'll be helping out one of the most anticipated books of the year. It's win-win! So bid now and bid hard!

Highlights of his auction:

Popy 8" Heroes, 12" Mego Robin and Spiderman and more

One Million BC Gallery Updated with great new info!

Some nice new additions to the Mego One Million BC Gallery, including:

• Shots of the prototype Tribal Lair Playset
• Pictures of the Prototype Mada figure
• Additions of the original Mego Catalog back story to all the figures.

Discuss this in the Forum Thread

Other Topics:

Who will be member 1,000 of our forum? Will it be you?

Who is the Best Mego Likeness? I'll explain why i need this later.

Joe made a very cool Creeper Custom

Isis is returning to the DCU

Everyone is a buzz about the new Batman Movie

And if you missed it, there is still talk about yesterday's Bill Baron Interview

that's right, I'm proud of it.....

The Mego Museum Interview with Bill Baron VP R&D Mego

Why is Darren McGavin dressed like Captain Eagle? You'll have to read the Mego Museum exclusive interview with former VP of R&D Mr Bill Baron to find out.

Mr Baron shares his experiences from 40 years in the toy business highlighting his tenure at Mego, as an added bonus Mr Baron's wife Mary Anne Baron has shared her fantastic photographs of the Mego Eagle Force launch.

We also added the original Eagle Force commercials that come from Bill's personal collection, these commercials haven't likely been seen since 1981.

Some new and exciting bits of Mego History, only at the Mego Museum! Please drop by and let us know what you think at the Mego Buzz Forums!

Interesting Topics on the Forums

The Toy list that almost ruined Mego collecting is an interesting bit of history.

What are your top five favourite Sci Fi Shows?

Information about the Mego Star Trek Warehouse find