Toys 2 Remember

Mego World's Greatest Super Heroes!

Probably the best Superhero toys EVER made were by MEGO in the 1970's. In one of my earlier posts, I talked about Star Trek Mego. Since I only had one picture on that post, here are a couple pictures of the Mego Star Trek Figures that survived my childhood:

Of course this is the Klingon, Captain Kirk, Spock, Scottie, and Dr. McCoy. The other bad guys were pretty cool too! Here is Neptunian and Cheron:

Hey wait a minute, this post is supposed to be about the Mego Super Heroes! Sorry, I always get sidetracked to Star Trek or Star Wars.

When it comes to Mego Superheroes, my brother and I spent countless hours playing with them. We had just about all of them (well actually, most of them were his). They were called "The World's Greatest Super-Heroes". Most of them were Marvel, but the heroes made from D.C. Comics were probably the most popular. Among them were Superman, Aquaman, and Batman and Robin! We played with the ones we had so much that this is what most of them look like today! :(

Many of them broke or were altered by our imagination. Remember how much fun they were? It wasn't just the figures either, the playsets were so cool! Our dad always called the figures "dolls" wich used to make my big brother so angry!

Anyway, we didn't destroy them all. These guys survived:

The Thing from the Fantastic Four and Aquaman

The Human Torch (also from the Fantastic Four) and Ironman

The Incredible Hulk and Batman's enemy, The Penguin

The Green Arrow and Shazzam

And now for our all time favorite:

Mego Mighty Thor with his hammer Mjolnir!

Thor was one of the later releases in 1976. I think he was the first to receive the newer body type, often referred to as Body type II. He had "real" hair, a removable metallic helmet and hammer, and rubber boots. All the other figures had plastic boots. Wait a minute, now I'm beginning to sound like a collector! As kids, we thought all of those new features made him the coolest.

I could go on and on but I need to bring this to a close. I will write a Mego Batman only post soon. Please comment below and let me know what your favorite Mego Super Hero was, or what you think I should post about next. I will try to be more frequent in my posting.

Thanks for remembering Mego with me!

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If you have read anything in this post that interests you or helped you bring back memories, I would love to hear from you. Please comment or send me an email.

I have many other toys that I can write about and show pictures of. Please comment or email if you have a favorite toy form the 60's, 70's, or 80's that you would like me to post about. If your favorite toy is before the 60's or after the 80's, I will still give it a shot. I have many of my Dad's old toys, and I know about the more recent ones too.

This blog is for you. It's for everyone. Together, lets talk about the Toys 2 Remember! Thanks!!

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Are you a Trekkie or a Star Wars Geek?

Are you a Trekkie or a Star Wars Geek? When it came to toys, I was a bit of both. Truth be known, I was much more of a Star Wars geek. My older brother was more of a Star Trek fan. I actually liked Star Wars toys better than any other. That is why I had to follow up yesterday's Star Trek post with this one. Star Trek and Star Wars does have a healthy rivalry going you know? Kenner Star Wars figures! It brings back such great memories. Notice that we usually drop the word "action" and just call them figures? Kenner took off where Mego and G.I. Joe began to decline. The Star Wars figures were the first to make the smaller size figures popular. This made the playset possibilities so much better! It was hard for a Six Million Dollar Man figure or G.I. Joe to have a good playset because it had to be so very big! Mego and Big Jim got a little smaller, but the airplane or Rescue Rig for Big Jim was enormous! (Sorry, I'll stick to today's topic, - Big Jim will be a future post) With the 4" size, Star Wars figures could have great playsets and spaceships like the Death Star Space Station, Snow Walker, millennium Falcon, X-Wing and Tie Fighters and the Land Speeder. I had almost every playset from Star Wars (now called A New Hope) and Empire Strikes back. Kenner kept making great figures for Return of the Jedi, but I became more interested in sports and girls at that time. The other reason the small size was better was because it made the cost more affordable! I would do just about anything to get the $2.09 it took to buy a new figure at Gold Circle. Once I even walked our country road for what seemed like miles, searching for glass returnable pop bottles that people had thrown out of their car. I only needed 21 bottles to make enough money. I returned home with an armload of bottles! I think I only had about 8, but my mom rewarded me for my effort and gave me the rest of the money. It was off to Gold Circle in search of that elusive Yoda figure! You remember the one? He was tiny, with the orange snake around his neck. That was the hardest one for me to find. The great thing about collecting the figures was that if I couldn't find a figure that I didn't already have, I could always buy another Stormtrooper or Jawa. I always wanted to have as many stormtroopers as are on the millennium falcon box. I think I ended up with about 7 or 8 of them. My favorite figures were always the aliens like Greedo, Hammerhead and SnaggleTooth. Of Course the bounty hunters were great too, with Boba Fett leading the way. I got my Boba Fett through that mail-in offer. Look at the picture on the right of the bounty hunters. I tried to match the bounty hunter photos from the trading cards. The trading cards were cool too! It was always a struggle deciding to buy a pack of cards or save the money toward another figure. Of course thank goodness for Grandma and Grandpa or I would not have had the playsets and ships. I also really liked everything that Kenner made from Hoth, the snow planet. They made the Snowtrooper figures and several playsets, along with the Snowspeeder and AT-AT Snow Walker. I had a cardboard Snow Walker, but the big plastic one was the only playset that I never got. It was over $30 which was way too much for a toy according to my parents. My Grandma would have paid for it, but it was the principal of the thing. I don't remember the exact cost, but it sure looked cool! Did any of you have it, or remember how much it cost back in 1980? Please leave a comment about it or any of your favorite Star Wars toy memories. Sorry for rambling here. My other posts won't be so long. If you made it all the way down here, you must have been a Star Wars fan too. Thanks for reading! ************************************************

If you have read anything in this post that interests you or helped you bring back memories, I would love to hear from you. Please comment or send me an email.

I have many other toys that I can write about and show pictures of. Please comment or email if you have a favorite toy form the 60's, 70's, or 80's that you would like me to post about. If your favorite toy is before the 60's or after the 80's, I will still give it a shot. I have many of my Dad's old toys, and I know about the more recent ones too.

This blog is for you. It's for everyone. Together, lets talk about the Toys 2 Remember! Thanks!!

Remember Star Trek Mego!

Remember the fun we had with Star Trek? My brother and I used to play Star Trek. We had plastic phasers, comunicators and tricorders. Most of the time my brother got to be Captain Kirk. I was usually Spock. We had fun with those play phasers but the aliens and villians we faced always had to be imaginary - Until Mego came out with the Star Trek action figures! Mego was already great at making super heroes, but now they had star trek! My brother got the U.S.S. Enterprise playset and the whole crew(except Lt. Uhura) ! We also had The Klingon, Neptunion, Cheron and Gorn for them to fight. Mego never made Sulu or Chekov or any generic crew members. We used our many Action Jackson figures as the extra crew that could be killed. The other aliens that Mego made were The Keeper, Romulan, Talos, Andorian and Mugato. I learned that from the Star Trek portion of the Mego Museum website. If you are a Mego fan, I'm sure you've seen the Mego Museum. If not, you need to check it out. They have many details and pictures for all of the Mego lines. It is undoubtedly the most comprehensive website about Mego. Mego made action figures for at least 10 years, but these 8" Star Trek figures were only manufactured between 1974 and 1976. After that they made the smaller "Star Trek The Motion Picture" figures that were about 4" tall. I had some of these that were mixed in with my Star Wars figures, but they were not as fun as the 8" toys. They also didn't have any playsets that I can recall. The Enterprise playset for the 8" figures was awsome! It had the bridge and a working transporter. You put the figure in, spun it real fast and when it stopped, - he was gone! Of course you could get him back by opening the "secret" door behind the transporter. It worked similar to how Batman's "to the batcave" batpole worked. The Batcave was also awsome, but that is material for another post. This toy blog is new for me. It is simply for me to recall all of the great toys I had as a kid, and show some pictures. Future posts may cover Star Wars toys, Space 1999, Battlestar Gallactica, Major Matt Mason and other space toys, Micronauts, Robots, Six Million Dollar Man, Shogun Warriors, Big Jim, G.I. Joe, Fisher Price toys, Adventure People, Weebles, Playskool square people, classic games like Rock'em Sock'em Robots and Shoot out in Space, vintage board games, Slot cars, Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, Race Track sets and Lionel Train sets, Best of the West and other Marx toys, Atari games, handheld electronic games like Mattel Football and many more toys that I can't think of right now. Since this is new for me, I'm not sure what toy to highlight next. I'm not even sure if I have any readers yet. If you are reading this and are the least bit interested, PLEASE leave a comment and tell me what you would like to see next. Did anything on the above list interest you? What did you like from the 60's 70's or 80's that isn't on the above list? I want this blog to be fun.

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If you have read anything in this post that interests you or helped you bring back memories, I would love to hear from you. Please comment or send me an email.

I have many other toys that I can write about and show pictures of. Please comment or email if you have a favorite toy form the 60's, 70's, or 80's that you would like me to post about. If your favorite toy is before the 60's or after the 80's, I will still give it a shot. I have many of my Dad's old toys, and I know about the more recent ones too.

This blog is for you. It's for everyone. Together, lets talk about the Toys 2 Remember! Thanks!!

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