HI, This is a great place!

[Lynn TXP 0369]

HI!!

I'll Introduce myself.
I'm Lynn Barlow I live in NE PA. I'm 39 years young, have a great wife, two great kids 2 and 4 years old.
I had several WGSH when I was kid, a ton of POTA figures and playsets, and a slew of countless Micronauts stuff.
I had a ball with those and a lot of fond memories, but all have since disappeared over time.

I rediscoverd Megos back in the mid late 90's when I found several dead mint almost complete WGSH all for $2- $4 each. I then got several WGSH, some Star Trek stuff, and a few mint POTA figures on eBay only to sell all of them to help finance my Darth Vader costume so I could join the 501st Star Wars costuming legion.

It was a sale that I regret to this day shortly after I sold them. I have gotten a few WGSH back a couple years ago and I just recently started selling off some of my movie prop collection and SW toys to get some of my old Megos back.

I discovered the MM and forums a few months ago and have been lurking around, I have tried to register, but have had nothing but problems logging and I finally gave up.

I'm finally able to join in on this great forum after for some reason having logging in problems.
After talking with Mego73 (Mike R) via email for a few weeks now and I mentioned my logging in problems a couple days ago, he said to try IE instead of Netscape, so here I am.... :D
Thanks Mike!!

I hope to contribute a bit and have a good time learning and enjoying this stuff.
I'm into model building, movie props, costumes, toys, and dinos.

Lynn

[mitchedwards]

Welcome aboard, glad your here

[critter2]

Welcome Lynn!! Glad to have another Apehead here!! (even if you do like the other lines):biggrin:

[txteach]

Hello and welcome Lynn. Hope you enjoy it here.

[ABMAC]

Welcome, Lynn. We'll cure you of that Star Wars obsession.

[batmanmc]

welcome abard lynn. this will e a fun long ride. you willlearn stuff and eventually teach us stuff. glad you are here and yes abmac is right we will cure you of the star wars obsession. then again maybe if you can have the best of both worlds custom mego star wars . ive seen some nice ones. mike

[Lynn TXP 0369]

Welcome, Lynn. We'll cure you of that Star Wars obsession.

Thanks! George Lucas already did cure me of that with prequils 1-3. :smiley1:
I'm sooo burnt on SW now it isn't funny, I'm very selective on getting anything now.
Thanks for the welcomes so far!!

Lynn

[Hulk]

Welcome Lynn, its always nice to get a good intro post!

[HardyGirl]

Hi Lynn!

I like POTA too. Glad you're here!

[toys2cool]

welcome ,have fun :grin: especially with the arcade :grin:

[Marvelmania]

Welcome aboard Lynn! Glad you made your way here. Enjoy yourself!

[Dave Mc]

Welcome, Lynn. We'll cure you of that Star Wars obsession.


No, no, no! We'll stoke the Mego flames while continuing to encourage your Star Wars obsession! All you have to do is make custom mego Star Wars figures. :biggrin:


Welcome aboard Lynn. Yo uare right, this is a great place!

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Glad you perservered and finally made it...I hope you have a great time here and make lots of new friends...

Cat

[Comic Book Geek]

Welcome. Welcome.

[grayhank]

Thanks! George Lucas already did cure me of that with prequils 1-3. :smiley1:
I'm sooo burnt on SW now it isn't funny, I'm very selective on getting anything now.
Thanks for the welcomes so far!!

Lynn

You do of course realize that you have to pay (G.L.) royalties everytime you mention his name! Think it's a law or somethin' :biggrin:

Welcome!

[The Sentry]

Thanks! George Lucas already did cure me of that with prequils 1-3. :smiley1:
I'm sooo burnt on SW now it isn't funny, I'm very selective on getting anything now.
Thanks for the welcomes so far!!

Lynn

Boy, you said a mouthfull! I mean 1 and 2 were okay but 3, Jesus jumpjackin' Christ! What a disaster! 3 will make me laugh a Vader eternally now!
*stretches arms out wide and screams* "Nooooooooo!" :smiley1:

Welcome to the forum man! I agree this is one awesome place!

Megos, the REAL toys of the 70's!

[mego boy CA]

Welcome! I Love it Here and You Will too. :cool3:

[DocDrako]

Welcome To The Mego Museum!

:grin:

[boywondermax]

Welcome to the insanity, Lynn!

[DCSTING]

Hi Lynn,

Welcome to the forums. You and I have the same birthday and we both live in NE PA. What part of NE PA do you live in?

Don

[megocrazy]

Welcome Lynn.

[Meule]

Hey, welcome aboard Lynn and greeting from Belgium. So, you're a prop builder and costume maker, eh? Does that mean we can expect to see some customs from you? And you make any Batman 1966 props? :grin:

[Lynn TXP 0369]

Thanks for all the warm welcomes guys!

If Mego didn't turn down the SW franchise way back when they may have been around just a little longer if not even today.

I would love to have seen some SW figures done Mego style!!!

DCSTING... I live in Montrose PA, 45 mintues north of Scranton off rt 81, 23 mintues from the NY state boarder. Where do you live??
Are you born the same year too, or just the date?

Thanks again guys,
Lynn

[Evel KMego]

Welcome aboard!

[Goblin19]

Welcome aboard.

[brineb]

Hey Lynn,

Welcome aboard!!!

[Wee67]

Hey Lynn,
this place chock full 'o 70's goodness! Its part of a complete breakfast.

[MegoMonk]

welcome aboard Lynn,

[johnmiic]

Hey! You're part of the 501st? Did you get to appear in the Documentary about them called Heart of an Empire?

[VintageMike]

Welcome. I'm 36 and have both Mego and vintage SW collections. Growing up the two were almost hand-in-hand. I have a limited amount of space so to both I have had to compromise by having small collections of both. I like it that way as I feel it keeps thing intresting and keeps me from burning out if I'm having a dry spell with one of them.

[Merlyn1976]

Welcome aboard

[Lynn TXP 0369]

Hey! You're part of the 501st? Did you get to appear in the Documentary about them called Heart of an Empire?

I used to be part of the 501st, but I got out because it was becoming to political and too much BS with wanabe top dogs in the higher ranks, besides there wasn't too much trooping activity in this area and with two little ones now I can't drive 2-3 hrs to events any more.

No, I had nothing to do with the documentary, I havn't trooped since SW ROTS came out a couple years ago.

I miss trooping as I did it off and on for about 6-7 years met a lot of great SW actors and some great people, one of these days I may get back into it.

Thanks for the welcomes.
Lynn