General New Mego Wishlist... Characters and Properties

[markp67]

Star Trek Enterprise 2 pack of Archer and T'Pol
Snake Plissken Escape from NY
The Warriors
Tombstone
Marvel
POTA original movies & tv
Knights of the Crusades: Hospitaller & Templar 11th-13th centuries, no license needed.

Would love Tombstone!

[Creature Of The Wheel]

Land Of The Lost
John Carpenters The Thing
POTA
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Pulp Fiction
LOTR/Hobbit
Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman
Spartacus
Indiana Jones
X Files
Kolchak
The Prisoner
Monty Python
Jaws
Johnny Cash
Smokey and The Bandit
Frank Frazetta Icons
David Bowie
Carl Sagan
Breaking Bad
Sherlock
Stranger Things
Benny Hill

[Falstaff13]

Down the line with the monsters, I'd love to see a couple of Dwight Frye figures--Carl from Frankenstein and Renfield from Dracula.

[bgiles73]

I don’t think anyone has suggested Brandon Lee as “The Crow” as a Mego figure. I think that would be a good seller if done right.

[LonnieFisher]

I don’t think anyone has suggested Brandon Lee as “The Crow” as a Mego figure. I think that would be a good seller if done right.

I did. I would buy several.

[LonnieFisher]

I thought the Paul Stanley head would work great for the Crow. But it won't.

[roukey]

I'd like to see The Man from U.N.C.L.E figures produced

[Chimalpahin]

If they can add bicep & thigh swivels (maybe ankle pivot and ball jointed heads, okay maybe that's too much)

I guess I wonder who the audience is for NuMego so my suggestions might not be too close to who they want. Still here's my totally odd wishlist/suggestions

The Orville, I know they have trek but still
BSG, classic or new
Millarworld, anything that Netflix is about to make like Superior, Jupiter's Legacy/Circle, Empress, Starlight (think older Buck Rogers)
GLOW, gorgeous ladies of wrestling
Coraline, maybe too stylized for mego
Charmed Reboot
WitchBlade, comic & show
Stranger Things, if available
Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Videogames!
Life is Strange
Tomb Raider
Uncharted
Fallout
Devil May Cry
God Of War
Prince of Persia
Red Dead Redemption, could capture that old wild west Mego feeling
Street Fighter
Tekken
Dead or Alive
The Last of Us, especially if TWD is taken

Anime/Manga or anime-esque
RWBY, I don't think anyone's done an 8" line. They could start with Ruby & Weiß
Gatchaman, there's already a Mego connection! Just reissue
Devilman/Cutie Honey
Little Witch Academia, think Japanese Harry Potter but all witches
Cyborg 009, a stretch but why not
Robotech, with 80s nostalgia not dying down, why not Rick, Lisa & Minmei?
Attack on Titan
My hero academia
Fruits Basket, maybe

Comics
Giant Days, more Archie like
Valiant Comics, think Faith or Manowar
YoungBlood/Supreme, we'd at least have a Superman pastiche
Saga, just imagine Prince Robot
Spawn, maybe since Todd wants a new film
Walking Dead? Might be taken.

Public Domain, just for fun
The Worm Ouroboros, a precursor to LOTR
Captain Midnight
Stardust the Superwizard
Conan the Barbarian, outside of the US
Sherlock Holmes, but they could also try for the BBC take

So that's a lot but I think the possibilities could be fun. Just my suggestions and some wish lists.

[DavidCoppola]

Robin and Aquaman

[MegoMonk]

I would really like Mego to get the POTA license again, re-make some of the old figures, but give us other figures never done before, like Brent, Julius, some Mutants, etc.
I would love to get Bonanza figures, although it would probably be easier to get the OK from Dan Blocker's estate and Lorne Green's estate than the other two.
Manos, the Hands of Fate; Torgo, the Master, those women in the see through nightgowns, the Doberman Pincher. Maybe some other iconic MST3K movies, too.
I hope they make some Happy Days characters and Brady Bunch figures that Figures Toys never made; Arnold, Chuck, Bag, Spike. Mr Brady, Sam the Butcher.
Little Rascals: the Our Gang figures from the 70s were licensed from MGM. I want some of the Classic Hal Roach era kids; Stymie (with an Artichoke), Weezer, Butch, Jackie Cooper. I doubt there is any market for this, since the Little Rascals are ever shown on TV anymore.
Kiss: Vinnie and Eric Carr.

[NewKidInTown]

I'd be up for some Clint Eastwood. Specifically the classic Man With No Name character.

Brody, Hooper, & Quint

Jake & Elwood Blues

Queen, Bowie, Duran Duran

Lets face it, TONS of great properties out there !!!

[B-Lister]

Give us some Public Domain Golden Age heroes. I'd buy Black Terror and Tim in a heartbeat. Maybe not everybody would. Make it an exclusive. Or tie it i to Project Superpowers. Alex Ross is a Megohead.

[Joshua the Atomic Robot]

Give us some Public Domain Golden Age heroes. I'd buy Black Terror and Tim in a heartbeat. Maybe not everybody would. Make it an exclusive. Or tie it i to Project Superpowers. Alex Ross is a Megohead.

I would love public domain comic book heroes. It'd be a great way for them to get back in the 8 inch superhero game without a license from Marvel and DC. And I would really love to have many of those characters.

[MRP]

Just to play devil's advocate on public domain super-heroes-there's a reason why they are available in the public domain-not only did their copyrights lapse but no one maintained trademarks on them-in an era where IPs are the most valuable commodity, you have to ask if no one saw them as being valuable enough to keep in print to maintain or establish trademarks or to renew the copyrights with all the mechanisms to do so available to IP holders, then are they a commodity that can provide any kind of reasonable return on the investment to produce them? Is there enough demand in the marketplace to make them a viable product for the mass market? There are some viable and valuable IPs that have elements in the public domain, but they aren't available for most people to use because even though the stories featuring them are in the public domain, there are trademarks still valid protecting their use by the IP holders. Tarzan is a good example of that-many Tarzan stories are in the public domain, but there are trademarks in place on the name Tarzan and other aspects of the property. This is because it is still a viable property and worth maintaining. This is not the case with a lot of public domain superheroes. There have been many attempts to revive those heroes in comics (Project Superpowers in particular from Dynamite), and many of them have failed to achieve 5000 units sold per issue. If they cannot generate enough interest to sell 5K units as a comic, how will they move 10K units a a toy? Don't get me wrong, I really like a lot of those characters and would likely by Mego versions of them, but realistically forma business standpoint, you have to wonder how viable the property is if its been available in the public domain for a while and no one has been able to use it profitably.

-M

[Joshua the Atomic Robot]

Just to play devil's advocate on public domain super-heroes-there's a reason why they are available in the public domain-not only did their copyrights lapse but no one maintained trademarks on them-in an era where IPs are the most valuable commodity, you have to ask if no one saw them as being valuable enough to keep in print to maintain or establish trademarks or to renew the copyrights with all the mechanisms to do so available to IP holders, then are they a commodity that can provide any kind of reasonable return on the investment to produce them? Is there enough demand in the marketplace to make them a viable product for the mass market? There are some viable and valuable IPs that have elements in the public domain, but they aren't available for most people to use because even though the stories featuring them are in the public domain, there are trademarks still valid protecting their use by the IP holders. Tarzan is a good example of that-many Tarzan stories are in the public domain, but there are trademarks in place on the name Tarzan and other aspects of the property. This is because it is still a viable property and worth maintaining. This is not the case with a lot of public domain superheroes. There have been many attempts to revive those heroes in comics (Project Superpowers in particular from Dynamite), and many of them have failed to achieve 5000 units sold per issue. If they cannot generate enough interest to sell 5K units as a comic, how will they move 10K units a a toy? Don't get me wrong, I really like a lot of those characters and would likely by Mego versions of them, but realistically forma business standpoint, you have to wonder how viable the property is if its been available in the public domain for a while and no one has been able to use it profitably.

-M

Those are good points, no doubt. I'd point out that I'd never heard of "Face of the Screaming Werewolf" before the Mego figure, and apparently that is selling out. So I don't think you necessarily have to have a successful IP to sell a Mego figure. It seems to me that what is selling the best from the first three waves is the craziest and weirdest looking stuff, the figures that really catch your eye, not so much what is the most popular IP. I'd like to see them pick one or two characters and just try it out to see how well they sell, maybe somebody like the Black Terror, whose costume is so cool looking I think he would appeal to people even if they don't know who he is. It's hard for me to imagine that that would sell less than something like "The Facts of Life."