Do You Have A Mego Collecting Goal?

[Wee67]

I will never reach my Mego goal. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

First off let me say - There is no wrong way to collect Megos. Whatever brings you joy personally is the best way to collect anything.

I think I may be the last person foolish enough to want to collect all things Mego post-1972. I don't think I'll ever get everything, but it helps me continue the hunt.

I know others may just focus on WGSH or 3 & 3/4 figures. Others have changed over the years, maybe collecting AJ then selling and shifting focus to POTA or Trek. Some even find joy in collecting only the figures they had as a kid. Do you have a Mego focus?

[Mr.Marion]

I don't have a end goal as far as mego collecting. I wanted to get a shelf of the 7 WGSH Batfamily loose in great shape. Then it was every mego Aquaman item. Then Superman which I am missing more than a few examples of. Really mego made so much it can take a lifetime to find or buy.

[Marvelmania]

Re-starting my collection I am focused on just completing the WGSH Marvel line, after that I do want to venture into all of the CAH line then who knows.

[kresge1]

I want it all

[boss]

I had a goal to collect all “regular” 8” US figures. It was a great day when I accomplished that. Now I just buy things I’m excited about.

[PNGwynne]

I'm not sure. I'm almost done with 8"--just need Dick Grayson trousers. I'd like a few rarities like the gray stallion and the jousting horse.

I bought my first 12" figure at the recent meet, so I'll continue with those in a limited way. And CAH/Pocket heroes have always been very tempting.

[XXXPHOENIX]

Given the huge number of box and blister variants, when collecting MEGOs you need to make choices and establishing a goal or several goals is fundamental to avoid wasting money in anything you encounter...
I have an additional problem...I live in Italy...

20 years ago I chose to collect ONLY the WGSH and I gave myself the goal of:
1- Finding all 8'' and 12'' Harbert mib/moc
2- Finding all USA 8'' playsets
3- Finding all the 8'' WGSHs ...loose in all possible variations of costumes / bodies / accessories WITHOUT repro pieces.
4- Finding all USA 8'' in window box in all possible box variations
5- Finding all 4 Alter Ego
6- Finding all 8'' loose FF
7- Finding at least 1 version per character on sealed cards (LOL)
8- Finding all 4 solid boxes
9- Finding all 4 MOC Teen Titans
10- Finding at least 1 version per character of the Kresgee cards
11- Finding all 12'' in box
12- Finding the remaining versions of the 8'' moc

While goals 1-6 are close to completion... I will certainly never be able to accomplish the remaining five...but dreaming does not cost anything, right ?

[Mr.Marion]

I usually only collect what has personal attachment to me.There is enough WGSH, Trek, Legends figures and playsets to keep the search alive and well for me. Now when I only have the Flukes of Hazzard and Dr. Kromedumb left then I will give up the ghost.

[B-Lister]

I collect what I like. My long term goal is a collection of the POPY figures in box.

[TrekStar]

After finding a Kirk and Spock in a shoebox, my goal was to collect the complete 8" line of Mego Star Trek.
It took a long time and much patience, but I was able to achieve the goal, albeit there all lose with custom window boxes
but the condition of them is near perfect, which was important to me.

My long term goal I guess would be carded aliens, but I don't think it will happen.

[1st_PEST]

Happy To Be Buried In Mego's

I've spent way too much time buying and selling on ebay... and thanks to my father the auctioneer.... too much time doing clean outs and sales.... My Greatest find that RE-lit the Mego bug 19 years ago... Was in an attic... at the bottom of a trunk full of musty blankets... A boxed type 1 removable cowl batman( some rotton kid made sure their brother wasn't gonna find it)... Since then... I collect what sparks my interest at the moment... there were so many great action figures when we were all growing up... but Mego by far was and will always be my favorite... I don't care what kind or condition.... they're my goto action figure.... and that's more than anyone wanted to know... Lol...

[LonnieFisher]

Welcome to the museum!

[BATMAN89]

I never wanted anything more than the original 8 inch Superheroes, but I am not willing to pay hundreds on stuff either.
I have lots of WGSH, Star Trek, and Ape stuff from my childhood too.
Although I love a lot of the new stuff coming out, the fact that I am having to downsize to a condo is making me look at this collecting differently now.
With nowhere to display all of it, it seems silly to buy more stuff. It would just take up more space in a rented storage unit.

[glimpy]

What a doggone good question!!! I think about it... and I think what my situation is, it's more of an addiction.

[glimpy]

I think I want to add more... at first I wanted the superheroes, just the main ones. Then I started to go after all of them. Then I wanted the foreign figures. Then I went after all the Star Trek and then the Planet of the Apes!! And now all the new stuff and whatever I can get my hands on that I don't have, because now I am YES, I am an ADDICT!!!