Meule
Jan 30, '08, 4:13 PM
Ben for writing the book and Larry for sending me a copy.
Wow, what can I say. I won a couple of postersized pages at Mego Meet's raffle two years ago, I've seen previews, I've read all the reviews and praising posts here and still I was FLOORED when I glanced through the book. All those pics, the vibrant colors, the details, the lay-out, the history, the research and info... at first it's a bit overwhelming, I was completely in awe, speechless.
And from a first glance I saw so many things I didn't know yet: Riddler's elastic belt, Batcopter version without windshield, the size of the WW cufs, ... and so much more.
The 360° pics are beyond cool, especially for the Fantastic Four: 4 pages with nothing but 360° pics, ya gotta love it.
The thing that stood out to me, small as it may be, are the little pics of the price tags. It seems insignificant to a non-Mego fan, but it adds so much to Mego collectors.
Another thing I really enjoyed were all the Mego adds throughout the book.
And last but not least (for now, after a first glance) where the totally amazing, kickass, drop dead gorgeous paintings by Otto. My God, is that guy talented. And he's even a pretty good sculptor :wink_y:
PS: After thinking about it: the MOST impressive is the fact that you managed to take pics of some of the most rare cards out there. Some authors would simply mention that card X from 197.. is the rarest variant out there or that there are only .. known in existence, but you actually show pics of them. All I have left to say is that you have raised the bar for yourself to extremes heights if you ever plan to write a book on the Legends or Star Trek series or so. And not only for yourself, your book is THE example for all future authors of vintage toys books.
PPS: I probably just missed him, but is Jet Jungle mentioned in the book? I saw the Basa Batman and Superman (too bad Robin didn't show up early enough to take a pic for the book), some Ledy's and Popy's, but I must've overlooked JJ. But in my defense: there is sooooooo much to take in, it's easy to miss a few things the first time around.
Wow, what can I say. I won a couple of postersized pages at Mego Meet's raffle two years ago, I've seen previews, I've read all the reviews and praising posts here and still I was FLOORED when I glanced through the book. All those pics, the vibrant colors, the details, the lay-out, the history, the research and info... at first it's a bit overwhelming, I was completely in awe, speechless.
And from a first glance I saw so many things I didn't know yet: Riddler's elastic belt, Batcopter version without windshield, the size of the WW cufs, ... and so much more.
The 360° pics are beyond cool, especially for the Fantastic Four: 4 pages with nothing but 360° pics, ya gotta love it.
The thing that stood out to me, small as it may be, are the little pics of the price tags. It seems insignificant to a non-Mego fan, but it adds so much to Mego collectors.
Another thing I really enjoyed were all the Mego adds throughout the book.
And last but not least (for now, after a first glance) where the totally amazing, kickass, drop dead gorgeous paintings by Otto. My God, is that guy talented. And he's even a pretty good sculptor :wink_y:
PS: After thinking about it: the MOST impressive is the fact that you managed to take pics of some of the most rare cards out there. Some authors would simply mention that card X from 197.. is the rarest variant out there or that there are only .. known in existence, but you actually show pics of them. All I have left to say is that you have raised the bar for yourself to extremes heights if you ever plan to write a book on the Legends or Star Trek series or so. And not only for yourself, your book is THE example for all future authors of vintage toys books.
PPS: I probably just missed him, but is Jet Jungle mentioned in the book? I saw the Basa Batman and Superman (too bad Robin didn't show up early enough to take a pic for the book), some Ledy's and Popy's, but I must've overlooked JJ. But in my defense: there is sooooooo much to take in, it's easy to miss a few things the first time around.