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  • LonnieFisher
    Eloquent Member
    • Jan 19, 2008
    • 10814

    Point out errors...

    I've started a lot of threads about figures with factory flaws and packaging with mistakes. This is not to belittle what Mego is doing, it's because I find them fascinating and would love to own all of them. I have bought a Sulu that was missing his number sticker, on accident. I didn't notice until I had it for a few days. I just got the one with the best looking collar. So that's super cool. There is a photo of Chekov without inner tray on a lot of ebay listings, but it's a stock photo. It must have been an early test packaging attempt. Slightly different from the retail release. So, don't think I'm bashing Mego, because I'm posting out of love and amusement.
  • LonnieFisher
    Eloquent Member
    • Jan 19, 2008
    • 10814

    #2
    It also sucks, because now I feel like I need to super examine every Mego figure I see at Target from now on!

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    • greensavage2000
      Veteran Member
      • Aug 9, 2013
      • 415

      #3
      My Jimi didn't come on a tray. I mean my Hendrix didn't.

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      • SKotK
        Career Member
        • Mar 11, 2014
        • 574

        #4
        Originally posted by LonnieFisher
        It also sucks, because now I feel like I need to super examine every Mego figure I see at Target from now on!
        Are you saying you wouldn't have enjoyed doing that anyway?

        --SKot
        Look what happens when you aren't allowed to play with "dolls"...

        WANTED: partly-unsealed or bubble-damaged carded Romulan + unbroken plant trap from Mission to Gamma VI

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        • KOMonger
          Banned
          • Feb 17, 2015
          • 267

          #5
          I wasn't going to say anything, but I noticed the star on WW's headband often doesn't look centered.

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          • KOMonger
            Banned
            • Feb 17, 2015
            • 267

            #6
            Originally posted by LonnieFisher
            I've started a lot of threads about figures with factory flaws and packaging with mistakes. This is not to belittle what Mego is doing, it's because I find them fascinating and would love to own all of them. I have bought a Sulu that was missing his number sticker, on accident. I didn't notice until I had it for a few days. I just got the one with the best looking collar. So that's super cool. There is a photo of Chekov without inner tray on a lot of ebay listings, but it's a stock photo. It must have been an early test packaging attempt. Slightly different from the retail release. So, don't think I'm bashing Mego, because I'm posting out of love and amusement.
            I like the unpainted-mouth Dracula version. It shows how nicely sculpted it is under all the paint!

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            • LonnieFisher
              Eloquent Member
              • Jan 19, 2008
              • 10814

              #7
              Originally posted by SKotK
              Are you saying you wouldn't have enjoyed doing that anyway?

              --SKot
              Of course I want to, but now I feel pressured into it. But you know what, it paid off, kind of. I found a stickerless Jeannie set today. So I took a picture of it in the store so it's got some providence. I found out I had a stickerless Sulu days after I bought it. I was checking because I saw an ebay auction where one was missing the numbers on the sticker and wondered if I got one of those.

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              • LonnieFisher
                Eloquent Member
                • Jan 19, 2008
                • 10814

                #8

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                • k2
                  Career Member
                  • Sep 12, 2007
                  • 667

                  #9
                  i passed on a nice card sulu that was missing the tricorder to get a complete fig with slightly worse package
                  kinda wish i bought both
                  Last edited by k2; Aug 7, '18, 10:13 PM.

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                  • TrekStar
                    Trek or Treat
                    • Jan 20, 2011
                    • 8355

                    #10
                    Originally posted by LonnieFisher
                    Should of grabbed the two Dracula's next to it or at least one and leave the other for someone else.
                    I only say this because depending on how bad I want something, I would buy 2 and open one and
                    leave the other as is.

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                    • captact
                      King of Super Queens!
                      • Aug 19, 2007
                      • 1997

                      #11
                      My Dracula with 2 left hands,...as they say; two lefts dont make a right!

                      hands.jpg

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                      • wise guy
                        Career Member
                        • Dec 29, 2014
                        • 894

                        #12
                        My Dracula had his upperbody backwards with hands on wrong sides but I removed
                        his suit and fixed it. The Wonder woman figures at my Target have there eyes painted
                        crooked and a Mirror set with smashed Kirk head.

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                        • TrekStar
                          Trek or Treat
                          • Jan 20, 2011
                          • 8355

                          #13
                          Originally posted by wise guy
                          My Dracula had his upperbody backwards with hands on wrong sides but I removed
                          his suit and fixed it. The Wonder woman figures at my Target have there eyes painted
                          crooked and a Mirror set with smashed Kirk head.
                          To bad you didn't take a pic of the backwards Dracula and wrong sided hands before you fixed him, it would of been
                          pretty funny, I also would of liked to have seen Kirk with smashed head, only because I'm not to crazy on Mirror Kirk's
                          head anyways.

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                          • EMCE Hammer
                            Moderation Engineer
                            • Aug 14, 2003
                            • 25679

                            #14
                            I have a smashed head Kirk and a 14" Batman with no wrist gauntlet thingies

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                            • Nostalgiabuff
                              Muddling through
                              • Oct 4, 2008
                              • 11290

                              #15
                              do all of the new figures have inner trays? I bought two Jimi Hendrix and neither has one. but all the other figures I bought do have them

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