Price of vintage Megos going down?

[Jade88]

I've recently put a NIB Deadstock Wizard of Oz Emerald City playset, and over 5 days it has 13 views and no watchers. I was shocked considering the box and content condition.

Is it just Wizard of Oz stuff, or is the vintage line's value trending downward.

[Blue Meanie]

Although the line is a nice set to have...it never had anywhere near the interest of the WGSH or Monsters/POTA/Trek. It's kind of sad because it really is a great line of figures. Which made the choice of re-issue a little odd for the New Mego re-issues. You could find original boxed ones for about $10 - $15 more than they were going for at Target. But yeah...WOZ figures were always kind of inexpensive to obtain since as far back as I can remember. The only ones that ever had high $$$ was the Witches Castle and the Munchkins...oh and a boxes Wizard if you could ever find him boxed.

[cjefferys]

Yep, there's never been a huge demand for that playset. As Berto mentioned, only the Munchkins, Witches Castle and a boxed Wizard bring decent prices and demand in this line.

[palitoy]

Although the line is a nice set to have...it never had anywhere near the interest of the WGSH or Monsters/POTA/Trek. It's kind of sad because it really is a great line of figures. Which made the choice of re-issue a little odd for the New Mego re-issues. You could find original boxed ones for about $10 - $15 more than they were going for at Target. But yeah...WOZ figures were always kind of inexpensive to obtain since as far back as I can remember. The only ones that ever had high $$$ was the Witches Castle and the Munchkins...oh and a boxes Wizard if you could ever find him boxed.

Yeah i think the big mitigating factor with Oz were the adult collectors in the mid 1970s. While action figure collecting was somewhat fringe, doll collecting was huge and i believe that many people tucked away those Oz figures and kept them MIB. They aren't hard to find MIB, supply has always slightly outweighed demand.

[PNGwynne]

I'm a huge fan of the Mego Oz line, but they're amongst the inexpensive of vintage items and frankly I"m glad of it. I'm not fond of the Munchkins, but I also love their playset and the Witch's Castle.

Most boxed Oz will run about $40, the Witch $50-60, and the Wizard about $100. There are box & figure variations, and I like the second-issue boxes, but probably only someone like me cares about these minutiae.

[Mikey]

I think it's almost impossible to compare the value and demand of a figure with a playset or even vehicle

There's so many more people that just want figures and nothing else

It's like the Star Trek bridge, with or without a remake it's still worth about the same thing it always was.

Rare stuff is the exception because of the supply and demand thing being upside down