The Island of Lost Megos

What do you do when a toy company marries your favourite television show with your favourite action figure design? Well, if you're Scott Adams, the founder of the Megomuseum website, you create a blog about it.


The Island of Lost Megos celebrates Bif Bang Pow's new "Lost" line and hopes to introduce series fans and toy collectors alike to the addicting pleasures of Mego and more importantly, creating your own custom Lost characters to go along with your BBP figures.

As Scott elaborates in his recent article "Eight Reasons Why It's Awesome They Are Making Lost Megos" there is already a lot of opportunity for custom goodness, so check it out and enjoy.

The Island of Lost Megos

Lost Action Figures at Entertainment Earth

Wave 2 Retro Action Heroes Carded

Matty Collector released carded shots of the highly anticipated wave 2 of the Retro Action Heroes today including Batman, Two Face, Aquaman and Black Manta. A couple of nice surprises in there, check them out here.

Time Travel Benefits Part Two

Only $12.95 back then but you almost never see them pop up on Ebay.

The Benefits of Time Travelling

Heroes World 1976 saw the mysterious exclusion of Mr. Mxyzptlk ....

Behold the Mighty Monarch in Package!

The good folks at BifBangPow! have given the Megomuseum yet another scoop with this amazing first look at Dr Venture's "Arch" the Might Monarch on his extra groovy card.

Click on the Picture for a better look, I'm told the wong mechanism on his vack made for a larger bubble, he really is awesome..

Visit the Bif Bang Pow Brothers Gallery Gallery at the Mego Museum

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Stay Tuned Later Today for Coverage of MegoMeet (it'll most likely be kind of slurry)

First Look: Flash Gordon Figures In Packaging

Yet another exclusive peak from BifBangPow! This time it's the highly anticipated Flash Gordon action figures based on the cult classic 1980 film. Here is what we can expect to get this August:

I'm so happy to see this makes me weepy.

Check out Flashes Swivel arms baby! Click on either pic for a bigger look

Visit the Bif Bang Pow Flash Gordon Gallery Gallery at the Mego Museum

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Order Flash Gordon and Ming 8-Inch Action Figures from Entertainment Earth!

Stay Tuned Today for Another Amazing Reveal!

The Revised Brock Samson Figure

Entertainment Earth has released updated photos of their Dr. Venture and Brock Samson figures. Brock has undergone a number of changes since we showed the prototype last February, all of them good.

Not only does Brock have a new headsculpt but he's got an entirely new muscular body type as well! A whole bunch of customizers just got chills....

Check them out at Entertainment Earth

Visit the Bif Bang Pow Brothers Gallery Gallery at the Mego Museum

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Flash Gordon Packaging: First Look

Yet another exclusive peak from BifBangPow! This time it's the highly anticipated Flash Gordon action figures based on the cult classic 1980 film.

The card art for series one features some beautiful artwork used to promote the original film itself.

What do we have on the back of the card? The Flash Gordon Prototype figure, sweet!

Visit the Bif Bang Pow Flash Gordon Gallery Gallery at the Mego Museum

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Order Flash Gordon and Ming 8-Inch Action Figures from Entertainment Earth!

Venture Brothers Card Art: A Sneak Peak

The good folks at BifBangPow! have given the Megomuseum another early look at their packaging, this time for Henchmen 24 and 21 from the hit series "The Venture Brothers"

If you think they pretty true to the show, it's because show creators Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick jointly designed them, you can't get a better pedigree than that!

Each figure will contain a part of the Helper "Build a Figure" , which really does feel like something Rusty Venture would put together.

Visit the Bif Bang Pow Brothers Gallery Gallery at the Mego Museum

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Stay Tuned Later Today for a Look at the Flash Gordon Packaging!

Twilight Zone Packaging Revealed

The good folks at BifBangPow! have given the Megomuseum an exclusive look at the packaging for their highly anticipated line of Twilight Zone 8" Action Figures. Each one of their retro styled figures will come on this wonderfully designed card back, click on the images for a closer look.

Visit the Bif Bang Pow Twilight Zone Gallery at the Mego Museum

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An Update From China

My mail box was filled with unbridled joy this morning as I got my first glimpse at the finished Mego Museum Super Collector action figure packaging. Stay tuned for more updates...

Read all About the Super Collector Here!

21 and 24 Now Available for Pre Order

21 and 24, Henchman to the Mighty Monarch and mild nuisance to the Venture family are now ready for pre order at Entertainment Earth. Which is a good thing because I finally have that Ray Romano voice down pat.

Bif Bang Pow Unveils More from the Twilight Zone

Two killer toys from Bif Bang Pow!

Won't you give Talky Tina and Willie a try?

SDCC Exclusive action figures based on the The Twilight Zone TV series!
Feature retro, vintage-style sculpting with authentic fabric clothing.
Entertainment Earth Comic-Con San Diego 2010 Exclusive! Faithful followers of the iconic The Twilight Zone TV series have reason to rejoice. Bif Bang Pow! brings an astonishing assortment of fully articulated, 8-inch tall action figures to your table. Each extraordinarily lifelike character features authentic fabric clothing and a retro design that's sure to please fans of the most popular action figures of the 1970s. These figures come individually carded in blister packaging.

This Series 3 set includes 2 individually packaged action figures (subject to change):
1x Talky Tina
1x Willie

Long before Chucky, there was Talky Tina, star of one of the most spine-chilling episodes of The Twilight Zone ever aired. In the show titled "Living Doll" that also starred Telly Savalas, Tina kept coming back and coming back, no matter what he did to try to destroy her. If you remember that frightening episode, you may think twice before ordering this item. But don't worry. After all, she's only an innocent, 8-inch tall action figure… or is she? Tina features fabric clothing, multiple points of articulation, and a retro design right out of the 1970s!

Based on the ultra-eerie 1962 The Twilight Zone episode titled "The Dummy" that starred Cliff Robertson, this almost-too-real rendering of Willie may make your skin crawl. But no need to feel threatened. This Willie is simply an action figure, fully articulated and standing 8-inches tall. He comes in actual fabric clothing and is designed after very popular action figures of the 1970s. Won't you give Willie a try?

Attending San Diego Comic-Con July 21-25, 2010? Just stop by booth #2343 and be the first to pick up this item anywhere. No need to order now. (Prices and availability subject to change.)

Can't make it to Comic-Con? Order now for shipment after the convention (while supplies last).

An Up Close Look at Retro Action Heroes Wave 2

We've got some larger shots of the EMCE/Mattel Retro Action Hero prototypes on display in the EMCE Toys section of the Megomuseum.

Click on any image to visit the revised gallery or click here: Retro Action Heroes Gallery at the Mego Museum

Wave 2 of the Retro Action Heroes are also available to preorder at Entertainment Earth or patiently stake out your local Toys R Us this summer, whatever floats your boat.

77 Mego Order Form Part 2: Loving the Micronauts!

Another find from the smelly box of musty old paperwork.

It's page four of the 1977 Mego Order Form complete with the thoughts of the toy buyer, it's interesting to see what the thought process was at the time. Click on the image for a better look:

As we can see here, somebody was crazy for the Micronauts and with good reason too, Mego spent the money on TV advertising to make sure that this line became a household word.

If you want to see more Vintage Mego Order Forms, check out our Order Form Gallery at the Mego Museum Library.

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A 1977 Mego Order Form with Buyer's Notes

In a box of very musty paperwork comes this wonderful bit of Mego history. It's a 1977 Mego Order Form complete with the thoughts of the toy buyer, it's interesting to see what the thought process was at the time. Click on each image for a better look:

Page One The buyer seems impressed with the two million dollar Cher TV promotion but not the items that won't have commercials. Apparently he doesn't care for Jaclyn Smith or Lindsay Wagner much...

Page Two No love for the Star Trek Mission to Gamma 6 Playset and the Science Kits are labelled "Difficult Item" but the Trekulator is great? CB Mchaul is a total no go but there is much love for the Wayne Foundation.

Page Three A lot of lines like Our Gang and One Million BC get shot down but Muhammad Ali, Starsky and Hutch and King Kong get gold stars. Most interesting is the thumbs up for the abandoned Comic Action Spiderman Tower playset, too bad more buyers didn't think that way.....

If you want to see more Vintage Mego Order Forms, check out our Order Form Gallery at the Mego Museum Library.

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Retro Action Green Arrow Back in Stock at Matty Collector

If you missed out on the first run of the Retro Action Green Arrow, Matty Collector has them back in stock and ready for order. Get 'em now before they're gone!

Mego Ad: 1970

This rather inconspicous ad is from a 1970 toy trade publication, buried deeply in the back. Within three years Mego was taking out the front page of almost every toy industry publication and would remain doing so until the close of the decade.

Long John Silver Finds Mego Treasure!

Mego Museum Trading Card Number 84 is celebrated literary character and dirty sea dog Long John Silver! As expected we've updated his Gallery page to show packaging, foreign items and his type two doppleganger!

Captain Patch Give No Quarter To His Mego Enemies!

Mego Museum Trading Card Number 83 is the most generic of scurvy dogs, Captain Patch! As expected we've updated his Gallery page to show packaging, foreign items and his weird-o knockoff!