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Mego Announces New DC Comics 5000 Piece Limited Edition Figures 
Mego has is history with DC Comics, mainly for its long-running line of World's Greatest Super Heroes collectibles It was in 1972 when the toy company got its boost from its stepping into the world of DC Comics This gave comic book fans some of the first high-quality figures of their favorite heroes and villains,[...]
Mego Reveals New DC Comics Deathstroke and Batman Beyond Figures
Mego has just revealed two new DC Comics 8" figures that will be released as PX Previews exclusives Limited to 5,000 pieces each, Deathstroke and Batman Beyond are back with two nicely sculpted and highly detailed figures Like most Mego figures, Batman Beyond and Deathstroke feature plastic and fabric elements and will have 26 points[...]
Ghostbusters Mego Set Up For Preorder On Hasbro Pulse
Ghostbusters fans have a new set to grab, as Hasbro and Mego have announced and put up for preorder a new four figure set of the team Egon, Peter, Ray, and Winston will come packaged with fabric suits, proton packs with neutrina wands, ghost traps, a P.K.E meter, ecto-goggles, and more The four pack of[...]
Hammer Horror Gorgon and The Mummy Arrive for 2021 Topps x Mego
Hammer Horror comes to life as Mego has revealed their newest exclusive figures hitting exclusively to Topps.com We have already seen so many new Mego with a lot of Star Trek, superheroes, and now things get spooky just in time for Halloween The iconic classics of Hammer Horror come to life once more as legendary[...]
Star Trek The Next Generation Lt. Wolf and Borg Queen Come to Mego
Mego is back for their weekly Topps.com partnership event with two new figures that will be released for one week only This week's theme takes us back to the final frontier once again with Star Trek: The Next Generation and the debut of two fan-favorite characters Lt Worf and the Borg Queen have arrived at[...]
Mego Reveals Topps Two New Exclusive DC Comics Figures
Topps.com continues their exclusive line-up of Mego figures as they dive into the world of DC Comics once again Two brand new 8" figures have been revealed with Green Arrow and Ra's Al Ghul Both figures feature that classic Mego design with fabric outfits and will come in classic card back packaging Arrow will come[...]
Topps Reveals Exclusive Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Mego Figures
Topps.com is back with their weekly Mego exclusive figures as they announce the debut of Star Trek: Deep Space Nice This unpopular Star Trek franchise is finally getting some awesome collectibles from Mego with Captain Sisko and Quark Standing 8" tall, we return to Deep Space 9 with two great figures, finely tailored costumes, and[...]
Planet of the Apes Mego Exclusives Arrive At Topps This Week
Mego is back with two new Topps.com exclusive figures this week as we take a trip to a deadly future Two iconic characters from The Planet of the Apes have arrived with Colonel George Taylor and Ape Psychologist Zira Each figure stands 8" tall and will come in retro styling with its design and packaging[...]
Topps Exclusive Star Trek Spock and Klingon Kor Mega Figures Revealed
These exclusive Mego figures, are only available through Topps, and each drop will only be up for one week, and then they will vanish as new figures drop on Mondays This week we are going to Space, the Final Frontier, as two iconic characters from Star Trek is back for the newest wave of Mega[...]
Topps Reveals Exclusive Shazam and Black Adam Megs Figures
Both DC Comics Shazam and Black Adam 8" figures are priced at $19.99, can be purchased here, and are only up until August 23, 2021. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Credit: Mego Credit: Mego Credit: Mego "With the power of a mystical thunderbolt[...]
ThinkGeek Assures Us at SDCC That They are Here to Stay
TMNT, Ghostbusters, Dark Crystal, Farscape, even Plan 9 From Outer Space! Other exclusives include a Beast Kingdom Phoenix figure, a Mego Star Trek Spock figure with swappable Mirror Universe Spock parts, and multiple Funko ThinkGeek exclusives, including the Office Space poster guy. Check a couple of these out below, and if you are at the show, make[...]
BC Toy Spotting: Avengers: Endgame, NECA, Funko, Transformers, and More!
Sivana from Shazam!, and the Bruce Lee MEGO doll is in stores now. #gallery-6 { margin: auto; } #gallery-6 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-6 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-6 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Finally this week, my local Target totally broke street date and put out the first wave of Hasbro's basic figures from Avengers:[...]
BC Toy Spotting 33
This line is a huge hit so far. #gallery-7 { margin: auto; } #gallery-7 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-7 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-7 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ And finally Targets got in the Jimi Hendrix Mego figure, and new Shazam! toys continue to trickle into Walmarts.   What are YOU finding in stores right now? Let[...]
NECA Friday The 13th Pamela Voorhees Figure 8
She will come in a clamshell case like all of their other Mego-style figures. This one is due to release sometime in the spring of 2019 You cn see pics and details below, and place a preorder right here. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see[...]
Figure History Lizard Collage
He is my favorite of Spidey's rogues gallery, and I am excited to take a look at some of the various collectibles that have been out over the years. The first Lizard figure was released by Mego, and one of the coolest they did back then One of the more clever designs they did, finding one[...]
Mego, the Funko of the 1970s, Is Back! [SDCC]
Mego Even if you don't know the name, you should be familiar with the figure Mego was a pioneer amongst toy manufacturers for designing action figures based on popular franchises, properties, and public figures. The figures were revolutionary for the care taken in crafting likenesses close to the source material Beyond verisimilitude, the figures were imbued[...]
Mego Returns Target Figures 2
Mego is making a comeback The big announcement came through today that the classic toy line will be available exclusively at Target stores starting on July 29 The figures will cost between $14.99 and 29.99 The first wave of figures will features toys from DC Comics, I Dream of Jeannie, and of course, Star Trek[...]
The Toys That Made Us Season 2, Episode 1 Talks Star Trek
There was an agreement for AMT to make the Gallelo 7 shuttlecraft on the show for the rights to make additional toys. Remco's Star Trek but not really Star Trek were repackaged as 'Astro' items instead of their military line. When Paramount bought the rights to Star Trek from Desilu, the quality of toys went backwards, and[...]
Iron Man 10 Years Later: Ole Shellhead's Top 10 Action Figures!
While the movies may have taken forever to get in on the armor action, that has never been the case for toys! Tony's various armors (and the man himself) have seen quite a few pieces of plastic produced in their honor over the years, and to celebrate his anniversary, we are going to take a[...]
The Punisher Gets A 8" Retro Figure From Diamond Select Toys
Frank Castle aka the Punisher debuted during the peak popularity of the Mego toy line, but by the time he became popular enough to warrant a figure, Mego had filed chapter 11 bankruptcy Now for fans who always wanted the classic 8" version of the vigilante you're in luck Diamond Select Toys have created the[...]
It's A Marvel Mego Revival From Diamond Select and EMCE Toys
By Christopher Smith Fans of the "Re-Mego" 8" figure trend spearheaded by the likes of Doc Mego and his EMCE Toys imprint have gotten an embarrassment of riches over the last several years, including painstaking reproductions of the Star Trek and Planet of the Apes figure originally produced by Mego Toys in the 1970s, as well[...]
When I Was A Kid My Batman Had A Sticker On His Chest…
If you grew up in the age of disco and loved comics, the odd were you had some Mego figures… I know I did… and you have the fond memories to go with them FTC is offering up a series of new figures in two-packs for a little more than I remember paying as a[...]
Toy Collecting Shifts Away From The Big Two – An Odyssey In Plastic
For me, Mego-inspired revival figures have been the real charm, springing up from a cottage industry started by none other than Dr Mego himself, an inspired mad scientist sort who began by hand-casting his own reproduction parts for the fondly remembered series of 1970's 8" dolls, then starting to produce some of his items in[...]