What WGSH should they have made?

[Riffster]

I know most will say Green lantern or Flash, but who else?

[jayihdz]

8" Luthor

[Marvelmania]

Dr. Doom or a Red Skull

[toys2cool]

The X-men :grin:

[saildog]

Hawkman and some more villains. Black Manta and Sinestro would have been cool.

[Raydeen1]

Hawkman
Flash
Green Lantern
Luthor in his purple and green duds.
Bizzaro
Cheetah
Atom
DareDevil

They also should have updated the earlier figures with the newer processes used on figures like Mr.Fantastic and Thor.

[Bionic Joe]

Green Lantern
Flash
the Atom
Swamp Thing
Dare Devil
Doc Oct
Red Skull
Capt Mar-vel

[SUP-Ronin]

I agree with 8' Luthor, then again anybody from the legion of doom would've been cool.

[Random Axe]

Each super hero should have had a corresponding villain. That would have been a good business model to follow. I'd have gone so far as two-packs.

Superman - Bizarro

Fantastic Four - Dr. Doom

Captain America/Falcon - Red Skull

Shazam - Black Adam

Aquaman - Black Manta

Scott

[BlackKnight]

Green Lantern, Flash, Hawkman, Dr. Doom & a Doc Ock.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I wanted a few more Justice League characters like J'onn J'onz or Hawkman (although even then I knew he would never look like he did in the comics even if they made one)

Luthor would've been cool, too. But I don't remember ever wanting to see one made back then.

[vulcan2074]

DC

Bizzaro
Brainiac
Green Lantern
Jokers Daughter
Two Face


Marvel

Doctor Strange
Electro
Ghost Rider
Hawkeye
Iron Fist
Loki

Sammy

[Meule]

Two-Face
Scarecrow (Batman's villain)
Mr.Freeze
Swampthing

And not WGSH, but I would've loved to have seen them:
Phantom of the Opera
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Checkov and Sulu

[The Toyroom]

They missed the boat on tieing in with The Challenge of the Super-Friends IMO, which would have brought us GL, Flash, Hawkman, Luthor, Brainiac, Bizarro, etc.

[david_b]

While I'd love a Hawkeye, I can see 'marketing-wise' there was already two archers (GA and Speedy). With all the Super Friends popularity still lingering at that time, I agree with everyone about Flash and GL.

Dr. Doom would have been another easy and popular one.

I mean, these were CORE characters at that time with their own comics, as well as Daredevil even. GL had just come back after a 4-5 year hiatus. Doom was in the Marvel SuperVillains comic with Subby, but was obviously popular enough.

I LOVE the two-pack suggestion ~ That would have been an easy seller to recoup any residual production investments.

[mitchedwards]

Mr Freeze
Flash
Bucky for Capt America

[garagesale]

Robin panties+Conan belt+Conan wristbands+modified Spock head= Sub Mariner.

Maybe some of you did him as a kid!?!

JamesD

[jwyblejr]

Solomon Grundy would have been easy for them to do. How hard would it have been to modify a Hulk figure?

[Riffster]

Robin panties + Spock = Subby?

[Goblin19]

Yep, GL, Flash and Lex Luthor are the big three. I'd go with Dr. Doom next.

[bobws]

GL , Flash, J'onn J'onzz, and the rest of the Satellite Justice League.
The X-Men all 14 up to the 80's
more avengers and more coresponding villians to all he heroes
i would have loved to see the Legionaires! especially the Cockrum/Grell designs!

[megowgsh]

All of them.:smile:

[Action Martin]

Here's a little poll we did back in May.
One Extra Figure - Page 6 - Mego Talk (http://megomuseum.com/community/showthread.php?t=12479&highlight=gawain&page=6)

[palitoy]

Spider-Woman would be my top WGSH.

[goldenryan]

silver surfer
dr. doom
the x-men
green lantern
maybe daredevil or rhino

[megowgsh]

Spider-Woman would be my top WGSH.

Now there's one I never heard of at the top of anybody's list.

What does your affection for Spider Woman stem from?

[johnnystorm]

Marvel:

Red Sonja
Hawkeye
SpiderWoman
Ghost Rider
Hercules
Howard the Duck
The Human Fly (Because he's REAL!!)

DC:

Black Lightning (with fake afro helmet!)
Plastic Man
Sgt. Rock
Lex Luthor
Mister Miracle

Other Companies:

Green Hornet
Doc Savage
The Shadow
Lone Ranger


TV:

Kolchak the Night Stalker

[wayne foundation 07]

I would have loved to seen a Bizzarro.He would have been easy,minor change to supes suit and even something as simple as Draculas white head.

[johnnystorm]

Oh, I forgot Disco Dazzler from Marvel- woulda been a natural in the 70s.

Come to think of it, why was their never an official music line other than the Sonny & Cher, Capt & Tennile dolls? Music was huge in the 70s, everybody had a TV Variety series!

Picture the Beatles in the Sgt. Pepper costumes, Donna Summer Disco Queen, and a Saturday Night Fever line with & the Bee Gees & a Travolta recycled from the Kotter dolls.

Or for that matter, classic comedy- for instance, where was the Jerry Lewis figure?
Oh, Layyyyyyddeeee!!

[RussG]

Flash he's almost made for them ... an altered shazam outfit with a reworked capt. America head

[BradMego]

The Vision was one that I used to wish for when I was a kid playing with my Megos. I always thought that maybe there was one out there, and I had just never found him, or seen an advertisement for him.

Flash and Green Lantern really seemed like obvious choices that were missing from the line up.

I don't remember really knowing who the X-Men were when I was playing with my Megos. They really didn't have any outside of comic books popularity like what a lot of the DC characters had thanks to Super-Friends.

And I agree with whoever said that they really should have gotten something going with the Challenge of the Super-Friends. There were a ton of easy to do characters available there.

I used to always want a Hawkman when I was a kid too. I imagined the wings being made of cloth, kind of like Falcon's wings, but bigger and on his back, and with a plastic mace.

Plastic Man seems like one that they would have made too, seeing he had his own cartoon back then. At least I think that it made it out before Mego went under.

And there really did seem to be a lack of DC villains, compared to how many Marvel villains that they put out.

[kingdom warrior]

Ooooops sorry read the thread wrong...:grin:
Because the WGSH line needed more brothers:
Black Vulcan
Black panther
Blade
Luke cage
Black Goliath


1.Birdman and the galaxy trio
2.Herculoids
3.Space ghost
4.Samson and Goliath animated version
5.Jonny Quest
6.The Phantom
7.Dick tracy and his villans
8.The Flintstones 8 inch
9.Rankin/Bass holiday figure line...the year without a santa claus Rudolph etc....
10.Plastic Man
11.Scooby doo
12.Tv show versions of Batman and Superman
13.Worlds greatest sports heroes....
14.The Man from U.N.C.L.E
15.James Bond 8 inch
16.The Addams Family/The Munsters
17.The Brady bunch/Partridge family
18.The Jackson 5/The osmonds
19.Lost in space
20.ELVIS Jumpsuit version

[The Phantom]

Solomon Grundy would have been easy for them to do. How hard would it have been to modify a Hulk figure?

Or used the Hulk to make a Rhino.

[saildog]

rs:

Black panther
Luke cage



I would have snatched either or both of these two up as a kid.

Chalk up Power Fist for me, too after the Luke Cage selection. Man, I loved those two as a kid.

Probably a lame-o selection, but I was a big Human Fly fan, as well. Chalk it up to Evel Knievel's influence. I honestly tried to customize (though I had no idea what customizing was) a Human Fly as a kid, but my Mom talked me out of "ruining" a Mego. In retrospect, she was right.

[Earth 2 Chris]

DC:
Flash
GL
Hawkman
Atom (although back then, the Atom's costume disappeared at full size)
Teen Titan Robin
Lex Luthor
Brainiac
Sinestro
Cheetah
Bizarro
Captain Cold
Solomon Grundy

Marvel:
Daredevil
Dr. Strange
Sub-Mariner
Dr. Doom
Red Skull
Loki
Mandarin

Chris

[huedell]

Besides Hal and Barry?

In order (roughly):

DR. DOOM
LEX LUTHOR
RED SKULL
PLASTIC MAN
ATOM
DR. OCTOPUS
SPIDER-WOMAN
HAWKMAN
DR. SIVANA
RHINO
SUB MARINER
DR. STRANGE
SILVER SURFER
HAWKGIRL
MERA
GHOST RIDER
CHEETAH
BIZARRO
SINESTRO
LOKI
BRAINIAC
CAPTAIN COLD

I think that's it for what I think are vital add-ons
to what MEGO started.

ELECTRO and VULTURE happen to be two real favorites of mine
that were actually popular enough, I think, to have actually
made it into the real line too---if it would have continued on
a bit longer...

When FAMOUS COVERS produced an ELECTRO figure in
that classic costume choice---I have to say say I was
more than just a little impressed :)

MOLE MAN would have been a great choice too.
FOUR Fantastic Four characters and NO F4 villains?
I mean, c'mon! :)

[phil]

Back in the '70s when I was playing with my MEGO figures I would loved to have had figures of Doctor Doom, The Red Skull and Nick Fury.

[Jmass]

Spidey villians, lots of 'em. Mysterio, Ock, Vulture, etc. For myself, always Red Tornado and Mister Miracle. Mister Miracle's color scheme alone would have made a really eye-catching figure!

[Red Catchup]

The Vision

[Brown Bear]

The obvious Mego's that "should have" been made that never were are Lex Luthor of course and I would have loved to see a Joe Frazier & George Foreman to go with Ali.