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True.. my Captain Action childhood memories,being a little older, are like many folks' Mego Memories (getting them as holiday presents etc...).Originally Posted by kryptosmaster
Even so, I "adopted" the Mego line years later (in the 70's) as a collectible , seeing it as a "spiritual" successor to CA (albeit in a smaller size), the same way you might look at CA as a "big Mego-like ancestor"!So, we can expand past the nostalgia element, though it helps to be rooted in it in some way...
I didn't have Cap as a kid, but I kinda started liking this line b/c of a cool layout I saw in the old Collecting Toys magazine. I really would have like Cap as a hero in his own right. They did have kinda cool playsets, and a villain back then. I do have a Green Hornet Playing Mantis Cap though.
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I actually had a CA as a kid, i found one at a yardsale and i got my mom to buy him for a quarter and i thought he was a GI JOE at the time till my older brother told me no dummy hes CAPT ACTION not GI JOE i was let down but he was still a cool action figure
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Great story!
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Wish i still had em sadly he didn't surive my childhood, But i still have the one by PLAYINGMANTIS
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I remember finding out about Captain Action when a neighbour down the road gave me his old comics when he went off to college. I was about 8... 9 maybe and was shocked and amazed to stumble on the classic full page Captain Action ad in an old Superman comic. At the time I regretted not being a few years older so I could have got Cap and some of his gear.
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I remember being amazed as a kid to have some of my DC & Marvel favorites in toy form .. just like a 12" GI Joe. When I ever saw the Captain Action comic book I knew he was "official" !! (Superman was even in one issue, that "proved" it!).
I always hoped for a CA Green Lantern and Flash (See you Megoheads, thart particular quest even started before Megos!) but alas!
Even with his absurdly long arms, the 12" Capt. Action was definitely a favorite for this 60'schild!
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