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Hi Everyone. I'm new to the board and happy to be here. I've been
posting on The Mego Buzz and Mego Marketplace for a while now and
somehow I got a hold of this site. I've already seen a lot of
familiar names from The Buzz and hope to meet a lot more of you
maniacs in the future.
That was my first post on the Yahoo Mego List back on Jan 29, 2001. My member name back then was skull_leader1. I've been gone a long time my Brothers. Some of the major players back then were: JPKEMPO, pkane, Rob Chatlin, maddmoz, Nova191919, Keene Silfer, palitoy, minu68, Lou Melograna, Jim Hampton and Joe DeRouen. The last big debate that I remember before I left was wacky maddmoz trying to convince the other members that Christ had nothin' on Charlee Flatt.
So the beginning of the end for me occurred when I met up with Rob Chatlin and another member at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles for a Toy Show many moons ago. We went to a few collectible shops afterwards (Bray's Toy Mine, which is now in Anaheim, is the only one I could remember now); one of which I picked up my first POTA figure: a common soldier Ape missing his bandoleer, gloves and M-16. We ended up at Rob's place where I got to see his amazing collection. I asked (begged) if he would sell me a rifle for my empty handed Ape, so he whipped out a Zip-Lock Baggie chock full o' M-16's and sold me the firearm. Earlier I had asked Rob what his best score at the Shrine was. He told me he had scored 4 boxed Shogun Warriors for $100.
Shogun Warriors, eh? Well my Brothers, this led your humble narrator down the Diecast (and Vinyl) trail of Japanese Robots & Monsters (Kaiju) for almost a decade:
There's plenty more nonsense where that came from, but let's just say that I fell astray from what started it all; and what started it all was this Spidey:
I picked him up at a Toy Show at the Pasadena Civic Center in the mid 90's. I think I actually bought him from Rebel Toys; Mr. Mego himself. At the time, I remember him looking like Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden. As I looked at some of my earlier posts on the List, I may have referred to him as Mr. Repro once or twice, but maybe he has cleaned up his act over the years (no repro parts on a loose Spidey, right?)
My modest Mego collection:
Though I strayed from the path for many years, my Brothers, I am glad to say that I'm cured!
posting on The Mego Buzz and Mego Marketplace for a while now and
somehow I got a hold of this site. I've already seen a lot of
familiar names from The Buzz and hope to meet a lot more of you
maniacs in the future.
That was my first post on the Yahoo Mego List back on Jan 29, 2001. My member name back then was skull_leader1. I've been gone a long time my Brothers. Some of the major players back then were: JPKEMPO, pkane, Rob Chatlin, maddmoz, Nova191919, Keene Silfer, palitoy, minu68, Lou Melograna, Jim Hampton and Joe DeRouen. The last big debate that I remember before I left was wacky maddmoz trying to convince the other members that Christ had nothin' on Charlee Flatt.
So the beginning of the end for me occurred when I met up with Rob Chatlin and another member at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles for a Toy Show many moons ago. We went to a few collectible shops afterwards (Bray's Toy Mine, which is now in Anaheim, is the only one I could remember now); one of which I picked up my first POTA figure: a common soldier Ape missing his bandoleer, gloves and M-16. We ended up at Rob's place where I got to see his amazing collection. I asked (begged) if he would sell me a rifle for my empty handed Ape, so he whipped out a Zip-Lock Baggie chock full o' M-16's and sold me the firearm. Earlier I had asked Rob what his best score at the Shrine was. He told me he had scored 4 boxed Shogun Warriors for $100.
Shogun Warriors, eh? Well my Brothers, this led your humble narrator down the Diecast (and Vinyl) trail of Japanese Robots & Monsters (Kaiju) for almost a decade:
There's plenty more nonsense where that came from, but let's just say that I fell astray from what started it all; and what started it all was this Spidey:
I picked him up at a Toy Show at the Pasadena Civic Center in the mid 90's. I think I actually bought him from Rebel Toys; Mr. Mego himself. At the time, I remember him looking like Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden. As I looked at some of my earlier posts on the List, I may have referred to him as Mr. Repro once or twice, but maybe he has cleaned up his act over the years (no repro parts on a loose Spidey, right?)
My modest Mego collection:
Though I strayed from the path for many years, my Brothers, I am glad to say that I'm cured!
-Tallahassee 
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