NEW MEGO DISCOVERY: X-Men Danger Room Playset 1976 WARNING PICTURE AND VIDEO HEAVY

[thunderbolt]

nice pile of figures, really like the catalog pic and commercials.

[rob_moz]

WOW...It looks like you had alot of fun!! I love that you where able to work with others and come up with a great presentation!!

Great Job!!

[EMCE Hammer]

The love shines through - great job Austin

[samurainoir]

really run stuff!

[Earth 2 Chris]

Wow, that was FUN! Great work Austin, Jim and all involved. I love the line about Thunderbird being "that great INDIAN super hero". Totally non-PC Mego.

Chris

[johnmiic]

Catalogs, commercials, custom figures? Tour de Force! You wrote the script for the narrator? That's TV worthy. Jim did video and editing?

[jimsmegos]

Catalogs, commercials, custom figures? Tour de Force! You wrote the script for the narrator? That's TV worthy. Jim did video and editing?

Austin handled the directing, scripting and camera... all I did was cut it up and add a little post-processing following his direction. Austin is indeed the genius behind this project. Spielberg who?

[Vinny0026]

This has to be one of the greatest posts of all time!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The whole post is amazing! the back story, the ads and the commercial!
This had to be great fun to work on - hands down COTW

and a great post to always come back to look at!
Outstanding!!

This will be very hard to top!

[HardyGirl]

Yes, I posted on this, and I'm posting again! This totally captures the Mego spirit of the 70s. This is what we remember from watching after-school and Saturday morning cartoons. And this is how I wish kids could still play today. I wish I had the skills to do something like this. I'd make a whole pile of Mego (and other 70s action figure) goodness! BRAVO!

[Mego Milk]

Beautiful!

[CAZAFANTASMA]

Love the tv spots, you should do more my friend! Great that your son voiced some of the heroes too!

[Aricosaur]

I saw this yesterday and I thought I had commented but I don't see my comment anywhere. Oh well, better late than never...

Awesome job! The X-men were my favorite Marvel heroes for years (Until Grant Morrison ruined them) so I really appreciate this project. You got everything perfect (except Gambit sneaking in there ). Is it wrong that I know where all your props came from? (Sentinel hand, octo-arms, etc...)

Hey, megowgsh, do you play with your custom figures or are they just display ware?

[hawkmike]

flipping awesome bub!

[mjaycox]

The figures are all awesome. I think my favorite remains Sunfire, as he is the only one I never made a version of myself...

But, is it wrong that I love the commercials and fake catalogue pages even more than the figures themselves?!

I think the best line in the commercial is the "Falconesque" one: "Thunderbird, that great Indian superhero". So Un-PC, so perfectly 70s, and absolutely Mego-ish.

The only time the illusion was broken for me was Collusus. Great tag line, but I don't think the word "Soviet" would've found its way into a toy commercial then... Still love it though. They probably would've done something more vanilla and banal-- like "The Steel Siberian".

I was sad to not see TV Reb Brown Captain America in the Americar in the catalogue page. I love that figure.

I guess you can relax now...

But there is always a Peter Hooten Dr Strange to do..

Or Hasselhoff Nick Fury

Of Nicholas Hammond Spiderman



Matt

[bobws]

What can i add the this glowing priase? Just my own Glowing praise. WOW! all of that was amazing and what Mego should have made that year and maybe still in business today.