Mego Warehouse Mystery Solved… Or Is It?

[kryptosmaster]

Maybe Geraldo can do a special on Breaking into the Mego vault.

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HEY! You stole that from me!


Rich

[jessica]

Probably a rat with a little corner of a superman cape hanging out of his mouth

[LOU]

And just think there was rumored that there was a whole pallet of boxes on that fork lift when they walled it up.

Maybe Geraldo can do a special on Breaking into the Mego vault.

Gentlemen bring the pick axes.

LOL! I know! Can you imagine that?! That would be something.
Question is, does it make sense that anyone would seal a tunnel with a forklift in there much less one with a pallet of old stock on it?

[Tothiro]

mural Itself could have been painted over, thats not uncommon.

That would actually make more sense, wouldn't it? That a giant mural of company specific stuff might have been there (who knows - Superman? Ape Soldiers? Marty's smiling face?), but then gotten covered over when the new tenant moved in by a generic "morale booster" painting.

[LOU]

Perhaps next time you guys can go scrape some of the paint off the wall mural and see if you can see an older layer of paint underneath...

[SUPERUNDERDOGGIE]

Well gang...apparently we spoke too soon....there IS evidence that Mego was there. Our contact at the warehouse sent us two photos this morning of Rubber Shipping Stamp imprints that he found on the wall since our visit.

Here's the first....to the JC Penny Catalog Center



Here is the second...to Montgomery Ward Store #8200



What's interesting is that these are obviously rubber stamps but are hand written.

[Wee67]

How cool is that!!! Its too bad we missed that while we're there.

[megoscott]

Wow! Like cave paintings or something...

[starsky]

i just cant believe the current tenants are so helpful !

[miguet]

The rubber stamp imprints are neato.

Hey, maybe we can contact the folks at "History Detectives" (PBS TV program) to do a show on the mythical Mego mural.

[Marvelmania]

This just gets better and better.

[toystalker]

anyone feel a road trip coming on

the holy grail wall carvings... i mean rubber stamps are cool

yeah my family business is 100 odd years old, my gramps used to write on a stamp and stamp it back in the days ive been told

no not at mego factory though

[SUPERUNDERDOGGIE]

So....I'm going through my old toy trade magazines and I find this ad for warehouse space in Brentwood, NY. Is this ad the very one that Mego responded to when they needed more space? I dunno but I thought the coincidence was pretty crazy. This was a 1977 Ad but I see it in other years too.

[ScottA]

Too cool for words.

[kingdom warrior]

Great story! You guys should have taken pics of the wood paneling by itself...then we all could have made custom Mego Office playsets....