Mego Logan’s Run : The Lost Toy Line video

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MegoMuseum presents the history of Mego Logan’s Run: The Lost Toyline. Chronicling Mego’s attempts to make a toy line out of both the film and TV version of the 1970s Science Fiction classic “Logan’s Run”. “Subscribe Now* and get all our videos featuring vintage, custom, and new Mego action figures. Our Channel includes “Mint Off…

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[LonnieFisher]

Great story!

[PNGwynne]

Terrific video, I fondly remember the series. How wonderful it would be to have New Mego produce Logan's Run figures.

[Nostalgiabuff]

great video. I do not recall knowing about the show on TV back then, but I definitely knew the movie. would have loved action figures. as a kid I actually used to use Adama and Starbuck from the Gallactica line to be Logan and Frances

[The Bat]

That was a GREAT video! Thanks for sharing!

[Earth 2 Chris]

Great video. as always! I think I had somehow missed the Farrah angle on Mego getting the license, so this was a new revelation to me.

Chris

[Werewolf]

That was really good and I always wondered why Mego licensed the brand. The movie was actually pretty dark and certainly not as kid friendly or as toyetic as something like Trek or Apes. Licensing it to stop others from making Farrah dolls and products makes perfect sense. I had never thought of that angle.

[palitoy]

The Farrah angle came out of Tomart's interview with Marty, I also think that they were buying SF properties to protect the Micronauts brand as well.

[Neutron X]

Fun video!!! Thanks for this. I liked Logan's Run back then and like any kid I had no idea why it was cancelled. Now I need to find the pants!

[EmergencyIan]

Excellent!

The reason for Mego securing the Logan’s license makes perfect sense.

- Ian

[sprytel]

Great video! I knew these were super rare, but never knew the whole story.

I still don't understand the bigger 9.5" figure size for these. The Logan's Run outfits do not have a lot of complexity to them that would need a bigger figure to do them justice.

[newlyknighted]

Great video! Those are some really nice sculpts on the prototypes. I wonder if Mego 2.0 would like to borrow those from the collectors who own them now, so they could use them for new molds and production? I would love to see those on toy shelves in the 8" format.

[Wee67]

This is a great video, explaining how a lot of things came together to get this line almost released. It helps reveal as much about Mego at that time as it does the Logan line.

I wish we had more specific information as to how far along production had occurred. Are the existing figures prototypes or were they factory produced trial runs? Seeing those uniforms on fashion dolls does imply some further levels of production had indeed occurred. I realize there is no evidence of the line being more fully produced (loose heads, more complete figures, packaged figures (GASP!)), but I find it interesting that there are claims that the line did reach fuller production. If only there was some sort of proof.