How Hardcore of a Customizer are You?

[The Bat]

Me...I will take a MINT Mego Figure and Customize it...if I'm not happy with the way Mego did it. I've changed a mint off card Sue Storm Head(but Grayed)for a Doc Mego Supergirl Repo, a MINT Lizard to Customslab Bowen Lizard Sculpt, a mint off Card Thing(for a Doc Mego Thing Head & Reproheads Suit & leg Extension's).

And it doesn't bother Me a bit! I feel I'm fixing some of Mego's Screw-up's!

[Meule]

If I'm gonna redo a character Mego made I usually change almost everything, from the head down to the clothes and accessories, unless I think Mego got it right. My custom Joker is a Mego Joker with a different head, a hat and some accessories. The Penguin I have planned will be completely different tho.

But I won't take figures off of the card or out the box to customize them, I use spares, left overs, junk figures or naked bodies for my customs. That's a line I won't cross.

[Captain_Mego]

I would cut up the rarest figure ,,right off the card ,,out of the box,,chop it up I say ...lol why not ....I need that lower leg for my frankenstein.
just kidding ,,maybe:grin:

[toys2cool]

I'm not a customizer at all do to the fact that I can't damage an original toy,but if I was it would only be on stuff that you can't use anymore,i envy you guys who could do that without even thinking about it twice

[Dave Mc]

I will very rarely use any original Mego part (besides a body) on a custom. Usually I will always go with a repro part if I can. I have used an original Mr. F suit for a Johnny Storm, and things like that, but normally if I want to redo a character mego did, I want to redo the entire thing. Plus, I really prefer to keep original mego with original mego figures.

[Customslab]

i've taken a mego off the card (superman)took a razar cut the suit off took a hammer busted the chest just so i could get the arms off lol

[The Toyroom]

I use repro stuff or duplicates of figures I already have...but I never modify the ones from my collection.

[nightowlghoul]

I would have nightmares by cutting up a mint Batman or any of my favs on card or box.
I would look in ebay mego parts lot and try to out bid or most likely loose to some of you hehe.I went with the old "if ya can't beat em join em"

If I really had to have a part for my custom I would close my eyes and do it.
Most likely find a character I don't care about though if I can.
Justin

[ABMAC]

I use original Mego parts when I can, but I'll use repro parts if the quality is nearly as good. I've taken parts off complete figures like Happy Days and Waltons because they're cheap and plentiful, and because I have mint packaged ones in my collection already. In my opinion, it isn't necessary to dismantle rarer figures. If you're patient you can get any part you need, and usually at a reasonable price.

[The Bat]

In my opinion, it isn't necessary to dismantle rarer figures. If you're patient you can get any part you need, and usually at a reasonable price.


True...the Mint Figure's I have Customized...I got very Cheap.So I don't feel to bad about it, and They weren't really that rare.

[Goblin19]

I'll use orignal parts, but only if it's off of a damaged figure or a figure with a damaged outfit. I can't bring myself to take apart a complete, nice figure.

[megowgsh]

i've taken a mego off the card (superman)took a razar cut the suit off took a hammer busted the chest just so i could get the arms off lol

You call that hardcore? I got pieces of that Superman figure in my stool.

:biggrin::smiley1::biggrin::smiley1:

[The Bat]

Austin said Stool! :biggrin:

[Alberto Malnati]

Hi guis,
i'm use mego originals parts and repros as well for my customs..
for a personal choice i never made a custom of a characters that mego already did...when i make a new one i try to keep a toy's functionality and more than possible a mego's spirit..but, you know that is just my own way...personally i love to see other customizers realizations on characters as batman or cap or whatever else..
Some customs are authentic pieces of art , other are more realistic than the comics character...alls have the fashion of the hands made things, the passion of the person whom made it and much more details than a regular mego...
also for that i love customs and custom's people..:yeah::yeah::yeah::grin:
ciaociao

[Customslab]

good one austin

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I got a weird trait, (not as weird as that stool thing though) in that I CAN'T use a figure for customs unless I already have one in my collection. (That's sorta how I ended up with a set of Waltons...) BUT I've doctored up a few originals, so as to improve them. (My Supergirl has a custom outfit, Conan and Thor have custom He-Man torsos, Captain America got a full workover, Batman got a repaint, etc.)

But once that's done; ANYONE is fair game for custom fodder. Although I've also traded carded figures and rare characters for more parts instead of dismantling them.

Don C.

[Blackkryptonite]

You call that hardcore? I got pieces of that Superman figure in my stool.

:biggrin::smiley1::biggrin::smiley1:

Ok, you and Russ scare the hell out of me:terror:

[Customslab]

Ok, you and Russ scare the hell out of me:terror:

:smiley1::smiley1::smiley1::firedevil:

[GUYx1]

I remember some people (such as Former California mego dealer Paul Chu) who would go to a toy show (when people went to such things) and chop a mego to bits within 30 minutes of arriving home. Never fun to hear about that when he just took a doll you needed and turned it into SPAWN, but that charater was HUGE at the time.

Back in my day we did not have REPRO parts and mego collectors were far from the advanced craftsmen you see today.
We had to make due with what was available.
I remember Terry Semenoff painting Lizard Heads Brown, Mummies with Evel Keneval hands and painting Andorian gloves so he could trade away a complete teen titan. This was BEFORE the internet, so he didn't know this was a bad idea until it was too late.
All the parts we used for customizing were vintage. There was no Doctor mego. Only Mark Huckabone and his glorious storage locker. When in doubt Call mark's Mom and maybe she can find a part for you to use.

I remember in the 1990's when Mark H. took down a list of characters we all wanted made as mego heads, but sadly nothing would ever came of it (My biggest want was a mad max head.)

Through the years I have chopped up, dyed and dismembered more megos than many people have ever had in their collections and in retrospect, I feel kinda bad about it now.
After all the parts mixing, I have huge collection of bible megos with no arms.

Now that I see what you guys have to work with.
Such amazing heads and outfits, You are sll so gifted.
The possibilities are endless.

I think I have seen almost the entire Marvel & DC catalogue of characters.
It is truly amazing to see what you have all created.

[palitoy]

I remember picking through a box at Marks and finding many abandoned 80's and early ninties customs in there, no doubt scooped at shows for their original parts.

It's amazing how far this hobby has progressed, a lot of those customs would have impressed folks then and now would elicit giggles.

My own Red Skull from 1992 will never be shown, ever.