Megos with Memories...

[MegoGeekJr]

I was wondering if everyone (or anyone) has a certain mego that has a certain meaning to you or have a memory, be it good OR bad, associated with it?

[toys2cool]

Well i'll always remember the Batman mego figure cause it was the 1st buy I ever had at a toy show,i was 8

[UOBob]

All of my best, most vivid and all around outstanding Megories are of/involving the ST Bridge Playset (especialy the transporter!) and the POTA Fortress, which was bigger than I was, and way cooler.

[starsky]

wgsh superman-- my very first ever mego at age 7

[Dave Mc]

Cornelius. I wanted him so badly I couldn't stand it. I still remember my Dad surprising me with it.

[VintageMike]

A few.

Most promimently Spider-Man. Reason being the one I own is the same one I've had since I was six years old! That's some heavy history.
Plus, while he's whole he was repaired the old fashioned way back in the day.
Less important Megos made donations to keep Spidey going. Unlike some of my other toys I never put him away to the best of my recollection. He's always been out of display even when he was my sole Mego survivor.

Dr. McCoy would be there was well. Despite taking a ton of abuse (being a donor for spidey, being painted white as a stand-in for The Joker, etc) Many of his parts survived to the point I used a few of them and he's now been givena ninth life on a fresh ST body. Childhood head, clothse, belt & communicator. I actually have the torso & wasit but am not good enough at restringing. Plus I don't think his head coudl survive another transplant as the neckplug is ripped already.

The Shazam I own now was formely owned by my primary Mego childhood playmate. So he's basically a childhood Mego too, I jusy didn't own him back then.

I carried The Fonz EVERYWHERE when I was a kid. I've told the story before where I was holding him outside the car window and my mom told me "If you drop him, I'm not buying you another. She kept her word and The Fonz would not make his way back to me until a early 90's toy show.

Batman was a childhood favorite which sadly was in a sad state when he I sold him at a garage sale in my ealry teens. Years before I would get into Mego collecting full on I'd own a carded Batman (later sold) and a perfect loose Batman would be my very first purchase on Ebay on November 13, 2001. Say what you want about PayPal but it's great to be able to pull up a record like that!

[toys2cool]

Hey Mike I didn't know you could do that...I gotta see what my first paypal purchase was,I only started using paypal a few years ago

[HardyGirl]

My apologies if anyone has read this first memory before, but I copy/pasted from a previous thread:

Being a girl, I probably didn't play in the traditional way w/ my AJ guy. But he was my constant companion when I first got him. He hid under the covers and watched out for monsters w/ me at night, he watched Saturday morning cartoons w/ me, he went to Show & tell in kindergarten w/ me. I used to make him climb the couch in the living room, like a mountain, and then I'd put his head in my mouth to get it wet and make it look like he worked up a sweat, (gross I know, but I was only 5). Later on when I got my Big Jack (from Big Jim's world), I used to pretend that Big Jack was the dad, AJ was the older son, and my Ernie Sesame Street finger puppet was the youngest son, and they'd go off in the pursuit car, (Kleenex box), to explore the living room. Sometimes AJ was the boy in my games of house w/ my dolls, (I never had a Ken). When I lost him, I was devastated. We looked all over the apartment for him, finally I just decided to ask Santa to give me a new one for Xmas. He did, but it wasn't the same. He was a darker shade of black than my first one, (who was sorta millato), but what do you know? Xmas day, we found my old AJ behind the couch, so now I had 2, plus 2 new adventure outfits. AJ was my first action figure that started my love for action figures to this day. Now I have 5 AJ's (sadly not my original 2), and I'll always remember my old friend.

The other memory is of the only other Mego I had, the Dancing Lainie doll. I got her for Christmas when I was 7. I had a foster sister from Africa at that time, and she got a Remco Singing Mimi doll. Both were 18" in height. We used to love trading clothes w/ my other 18" dolls, pretending they were putting on shows as a night time night club act. After my foster sister went back to Africa, I still played, but it wasn't the same. Then one day I went to play w/ Lainie, and her motor had died. My dad, hating to see the hurt in my eyes, took her apart and attempted to fix her, but to no avail. Lainie would never dance again. I now have a Lainie that I bought from a Toy show, in the box, but her leg is broken and she doesn't work either, but someday she'll team up w/ my Mimi doll they will reunite and put on another show for me.