Hope no one minds my digging this up but I've had some thoughts on who he is. First,I don't think he's an astronaut. The blue jumpsuit and colors on his helmet remind me of the Blue Angels. Now,I can't prove anything but maybe this guy was meant to be sold at air shows. This could explain why he was packaged the way he is.
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Hope no one minds my digging this up but I've had some thoughts on who he is. First,I don't think he's an astronaut. The blue jumpsuit and colors on his helmet remind me of the Blue Angels. Now,I can't prove anything but maybe this guy was meant to be sold at air shows. This could explain why he was packaged the way he is.Comment
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Hope no one minds my digging this up but I've had some thoughts on who he is. First,I don't think he's an astronaut. The blue jumpsuit and colors on his helmet remind me of the Blue Angels. Now,I can't prove anything but maybe this guy was meant to be sold at air shows. This could explain why he was packaged the way he is.
You know that's the only think I can think of. Really, I'm a newbie and I don't know half of what you guys/gals do here. Hell the only thing I can really claim to be an expert on is Hulk, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Wayne Gretzky, Transformers and M*A*S*H* stuff, and like my grandpa said to me when I was young, "You may be a smartass on somethings in life, but trust in this, there's always someone out there that knows more than you." To the newbie to the forum, welcome, but read, it's the only shurefire way to know what the hell your talking about. If I came on here half-cocked rattling on about info about the most illusive Mego known to collectors as the *clears throat* "The MYSTERY Astronaut" I doubt anyone on here would want me here.
Just my opinion here.
Then if/when that happens I'll totally shut up and eat crow!sigpic
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Really though, I think that TheCollector07 and the one that started this thread are probably the same person, or at least tied to one another in some way... They come on here, make sh*t up and think that knowledgable collectors are gonna fall for it and drive the price(s) up on their wares...Comment
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Nothing to suggest that? But what about TheCollector07's great knowledge about that? He/she said right here on the boards that "The Mystery Astronaut" is part of an early POTA set... Now, when a newbie comes along making such claims, not even giving any evidence to substantaite their claims, and then never being heard from again, you know it has to be true!
Really though, I think that TheCollector07 and the one that started this thread are probably the same person, or at least tied to one another in some way... They come on here, make sh*t up and think that knowledgable collectors are gonna fall for it and drive the price(s) up on their wares...Comment
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MEGO 1971 MYSTERY MAN Figure
I think collector07 just made a simple mistake. He or she was a newbie and saw a generic figure in a blue jumpsuit and just made a guess which was wrong. It happens.
Mind you, I suspect whoever collector07 was, they've been scared off now.Comment
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That was my initial reaction. I think this person most likely simply mistook the Mystery Astronaut/Pilot for the Astronaut that was part of the POTA line.WANTED - Solid-Boxed WGSH's, C.8 or better.Comment
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I like the Blue Angels idea. If Mego made the AJ Indy car in green just for PB they certainly could have released a generic pilot at a Blue Angels show. Gotta love a company that still raises questions 25 years after they folded.sigpic WANTED: Boxed, Carded and Kresge Carded WGSHComment
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It's possible that Mego made him as a pilot for AJ's helicopter and the Blue Angels objected because of the similarity of his outfit to their uniforms.Comment
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The name spread because John Bonavita called him the Mystery Astronaut in his book. He was never afraid to make up an answer when the facts weren't known.
It's possible that Mego made him as a pilot for AJ's helicopter and the Blue Angels objected because of the similarity of his outfit to their uniforms.
You've given me the impression over the years that you think JB is full of it. I never bothered to read his book, so I don't feel qualified to disagree. But I can't beat him up too much over this particular issue. Mystery astronaut, pilot, driver, man........I just would like to see the mystery solvedComment
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i tend to think he is a pilot of some sort but cant say for sure . it could have just been mego had a lot of material left from another planned line which never got started and used up the material and the bruce wayne heads. who really knows but its fun to speculate. mikeComment
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