Urban, Suburban, or Rural: Your Mego Environment

[HardyGirl]

Where you grew up I think has a lot to do w/ our Mego memories. Different environments make for different play situations. A city kid will not have the same play experiences as a kid from the burbs, and a suburban kid wouldn't have the same experience as a kid from a more rural area. So what was your play environment like? What would you use to enhance your play? A fire escape? Trees? Mud puddles? Monkey Bars at the local playground?

Let's go back in time and play awhile!

[kryptosmaster]

I played with mine indoors mostly but when I did play with them outside it was a little of everything. Yard, porch, rocks, woods, playground, driveway, trees. I think I took them in the snow once.I don't recall taking my Megos in the pool but I know I took my GIJoe in. I did take baths with some of my Megos but even at an early age I knew not to take the ones with rivets in the water so Zira took a lot of baths. Maybe that's why she got so wiggly? LOL
Rich

[spamn]

After the Moonraker movie came out, I was obsessed with the freefall sequence at the beginning. We had an above ground pool, and I discovered that Micronauts sank at just the right rate to simulate that scene.

My Galactic Defender did a lot of jumps that summer. I'd put him in the freefall position and watch him slowly sink through a diving mask, grabbing him to re-enact other parts (like when he took the Space Glider dash wing off of the Time Traveler he overtook in the fall).

[Orlock]

I played with mine indoors mostly but when I did play with them outside it was a little of everything. Yard, porch, rocks, woods, playground, driveway, trees. I think I took them in the snow once.I don't recall taking my Megos in the pool but I know I took my GIJoe in. I did take baths with some of my Megos but even at an early age I knew not to take the ones with rivets in the water so Zira took a lot of baths. Maybe that's why she got so wiggly? LOL
Rich

This is me exactly. We lived in a rural area after we moved from Sevierville, Tn. I remember having my mom take the costumes from my Joker and Spidey while I'm sitting in the bath tub so they could take baths with me and stuff. I was maybe...five or six years old at the time. Good times.

I really wish I could go back and stop my brother from destroying my things when he got mad at me, because I had SO MUCH cool stuff and I took very good care of it.

[palitoy]

My basement or my neighbour's basement for the majority of mego play. My folks had one of those big conversation pits and it made great buildings/alien planets.

[cjefferys]

Just everywhere: all over the house, in the backyard, in the forest behind our house, in the pool, in the snow, at my friends houses, even at the beach. And of course I took them all with me when we went camping in the summer, because it was always fun finding new outdoor environments to play with them in.

[wayne foundation 07]

The sandbox and the back yard is where my megos roamed.I remember making parachutes out of bread bags pretending they were jumping out of planes.

[Duncan]

I grew up in a row-house in Philly, so lots of concrete outside. We did some Megos out there, but more often GI Joes & Evel Knievel. I did my Megoing inside, and had the BatCave & Enterprise playsets. Bath time was cool - I had a boat about the right size to be a BatBoat.

[Orion]

Fun topic. Mostly indoors - used the fireplace hearth as the Bat-Cave on many occasions. Also I remember we had some built in book cases that my brother and I used as an apartment building where our Superman and Spiderman lived when they weren't on duty. Aquaman made it outside on the porch the most - as I used to fill up buckets of water and let him swim. And unfortunately he was a T1 so it was too good for him to be submerged in water like that.

[Marvelmania]

I used my closet as a batcave but growing up in a subdivision where lots of houses were being built I had most of my mego fun in areas like that. There were always lots of nearby piles of gravel, dirt, lots of extra wooden boards, planks and such with a little imagination it all made great play areas for Megos.

[vulcan2074]

I grew up in Texas. So I played in the desert. It was so cool. I had a few spots that I would hit up. One was a dried up Creek and another was some Hills that we would ride our bikes down. Good times :beaming1:
Sammy

[drmego]

When I was 7 or 8, any armchair in the living room could serve as the Batcave.
For location shots in deserts, my bed worked best on a Saturday morning.

We had chair molding in the dining room which served as ledges for Superman
to fly off or the Dynamic Duo to climb up to.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

This is a great thread! I lived in an apartment growing up, so the Megos were indoor folk. I remember many a time the couch being a mountain and the cushions were usually exploded boulders that Superman had to stop from crushing the rest of the heroes.

[Captain]

I grew up on the farm, so I had a ton of great places for toyland adventures! I mentioned on here before how my Sister, best friend, and I built an APe City in the corner of the orchard using cinder blocks, a large old wood wire spool, and some other scrap wood and stuff. That development ended up being used as everything from skyscrapers when we played with hotwheels (or dinky cars as they were all referred to back then), a western town for Johnny West, an alien city for the Trek gang (and later for 33/4 Trek/Star Wars/ and Buck Rogers adventures), and of course...Ape City.
Beyond that, there was the barn, the shop, and of course, the great wide open!! Our old farm house had these huge (well, when I was a wee gaffer they were huge) cement steps leading up to the front door, complete with these great big wide rails down the sides...just like you see on those big houses in New York in the old movies. I used those for an ancient temple for the Trek guys to investigate. A mountain fortress for GI Joe to explore, and a Rebel base for Star Wars.

Darn I miss the farm!!!!!

[Mikey]

I grew up on a farm but I never took my Megos outside ... Even at an early age I didn't want to get them dirty :)

Outside was for playing with fun outdoors stuff :grin:

[Cmonster]

I was an outside kid, so most of the mego and Star Wars play, went down outside. I grew up in NY, so the winters usually consisted of lots of Hoth re-enactments, resulting in finding all my lost snowtroopers, taun-tauns, rebel soldiers, etc, in the Spring, after the snow melted.:smiley1:

In the summers, my family spent a lot of time in Montauk, LI at the beach, so my apes always had plenty of killer sand and flora and fauna to lurk in. I was a really creative kid, so I built a lot of environments, too... Ape city, the hall of justice, all kinds of stuff. Some of it was cool and some it fell apart and didn't work that well, but it was all FUN. That's what it was all about back then. Such a great time...

Another thing I remember, is my friends and I making a huge zip-line out of monofilament fishing line (huge fishing family) and sending the megos across to each other's houses. One guy had the end upstairs, out the window, and the other was attached either somewhere on the ground or downstairs, basement window, etc... We broke a lot of figures that way, but when you really think about it, broken figures and lost parts, for me anyway, was the impetus for making the first custom/mish mash figures I ever made... I could sit here and write for hours about this stuff, but I've gotta get to work!:terror:

SC

[Wee67]

Most of my Mego memories are in the dark, wood-paneled hallway of the apartment building we lived in. I could drag my Batcave and whatever else I wanted into the hallway and it seemed more fun than the apt.

But there was this one big tree on a sloping here with its roots sticking out of the hill. That stood in for all kinds of sets- jungles, alien planets, etc.

[Gorn Captain]

I had a pretty large house (well, my parents did), so there was plenty of space to explore. When SW came around, my best friend and I went totally space opera.
All our figures, Star Wars, Action Man, SMDM, Lone Ranger, they all went to live on Tatooine. We made a huge Cantina, where all species (from 3 inch to 12 inch) lived together in one big drunken brawl. Luke was engaged to the bionic woman. Maskatron was painted gold and became C3PO (old Goldenrod never looked so impressive) because we didn't have a 3PO. Oscar Goldman was always chasing those pesky Jawas.
Cheron wore Fighting Furies cowboy duds, and became Han Solo Jr!
We used an Action Man style amphibian car for our Landspeeder.
It was a two-level Cantina, and one day the roof caved in. Man, we spent several days "rescuing" survivors. Luckily, Golden Maskatron took the brunt of the crash with his head. He was a bit wobbly after that.
I remember that Cheron once wore Uhura's clothes, but he was probably still shell-shocked from the big roof crash. Let's not talk about that any further...

We had great adventures!

[Surfsup]

My Megos rarely ventured out of the bedroom or lounge, me and my bro had plenty of fun with them there. Doctor who used to spend time with Galen and Spock in the Tardis and have a jolly good time. My Action Men on the other hand were more urban, they used to tussle with the Intruder in the mud and parachute from the trees. I'm still surprised to this day that they survived many a drop!

I also remember The Mole from Thunderbirds drilling through many a muddy pit in the garden. Thunderbird 2 never fared well flying through the air though unfortunately. Ahhh, good times!

[clemso]

My Mego Superman and Action man took a pounding in my back garden. I used to throw them up in the air as high as I could, i really wanted to believe that my Mego Superman could fly :smiley1: