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**Werewolf** · Mar 17, '13, 1:56 PM

Is this another let's dump on the 80s toys thread?

I'm kidding, I'm Kidding.

Anyhoo...

I consider myself a hybrid 70s/80s kid and love toys from both. But that still doesn't mean I don't like or can't appreciate all the awesome toys from the 50s and 60s or modern stuff. I just likes toys.

**wayne foundation 07** · Mar 17, '13, 2:06 PM

If there was a Famous Covers Museum, I would probably be a member there too. Mainly because they were out when I was searching the stores for figures to collect.
But Megos will always, always be first in my heart and mind. They were what I (we) grew up on, our first real way to escape reality.

**Brown Bear** · Mar 17, '13, 2:16 PM

I was born in the mid-70's so I grew up more in the He-Man era, but my 2 older brothers had a mego collection and we played more with them than any other toy. The memories of mego and what these toys mean to me is beyond words. There is ever a day in my entire life that hasn't involved mego's in some way. Not one single day.

**Gorn Captain** · Mar 17, '13, 3:10 PM

Wait a minute!
This isn't the Spawn Fan Club here?

**Gorn Captain** · Mar 17, '13, 3:20 PM

Seriously.
My first big collections were SW (from 77) and Spawn. I had some Megos, but not that many as they didn't release all of them here. Hardly any Superheroes here.
So the 90s (and lines like Spawn) did influence me a lot.
I guess the main reason I came here was to find info about the Megos I had never had, and (luckily) to buy some I had always wanted. Megos were a part of my collection before I came here, and are my most prized part now.

When I was like ten, I just had some Star Trek Megos, a couple of knights, and some Apes a pal of mine had found in Spain.
I do remember having a lot of fun with those, and keeping them, so they never really left me.
But they were "part of the group", like my Joes and Steve Austin and Fighting Furies.

**toys2cool** · Mar 17, '13, 4:01 PM

This is a site for mego and toy collectors...that doesn't mean you had to have lived the 70's to be one...I collected megos in the 80's..My first megos were the 3" Chips and dukes of hazzard..and those were 80's toys

I honestly don't think one has anything to do with the other...if you like toys then this is a great site..most collectors here collect tons of other stuff not just megos

**Figuremod73** · Mar 17, '13, 5:35 PM

I tend to be drawn toward popular culture older than myself. The '70s is one of those decades that I have the most fascination for. I was born in '73, so I remember very little from it. It has the best music, television, cartoons, comics, toys.....well I like lots of things about the decade once I get past the clothes

I like trying to broadin my horizons.

Megos are an extention of that. They were what you bought if you wanted toys of your favorite pop culture icons. Mego had some of the best licenses of the period. I like that they arent overdone and have high quality. They look great on a shelf to.

**batmanmc** · Mar 17, '13, 6:01 PM

I grew up with megos I'm in my 40s. Me and my brother always played with megos . That's why I'm here.

**jds1911a1** · Mar 17, '13, 6:56 PM

My twin brother (spotter on the board) and I were born in 72 so megos were our first action figures, and Emergency & Superjoe figures soon joined megos in playtime (and we had a single talking muscle body 12" joe we shared which we still have). I can't tell you how we got him. We saw the birth of SW from kenner and Gi Joe A real american hero in the 80's. We was at the tail of of "acceptable" toy play when Transformers were born. We never stopped reading comics or playing with toys, we say the rise of super powers and for years hid our toy play and collecting the way some people hide an addiction for fear of being found buying a toy when we were in Highschool, but like an addict I wouldn't stop.
if there had been boards like this then I would have felt so much better about myself. now I can remince about toys from my childhood and talk about tv and movies old and new with people roughly my age. Thats priceless

**dee T.** · Mar 17, '13, 6:59 PM

I had 70s and 80s toys growing up. But my favorites have always been Megos and Kenner's brand of Star Wars. I loved them as a kid and I still do.

**spacecaps** · Mar 17, '13, 7:17 PM

I was born right at the beginning of the Star Wars craze which was the late 70's. Half the shows I watched was stuff like Buck Rodgers In The 25th Century which was steeped in the 70's, Adam Wests 1966 Batman, The Brady Bunch, and the Twilight Zone. All of those things are older than me and while I did enjoy the 80's as they happened, it was hard to avoid anything from the previous two or three decades and a lot of that rubbed off on me. Some of the toys I got early on as a child were 70's leftovers that had gone to the clearance isle by the time I came along. As for Mego's in general, I like Mego's WGSH line because it was the first toy line to really make Super Heroes into action figures consistently but when I was a kid, I only ever owned two. I also don't like "All Things Mego" either. For example, I think the Greatest American Hero is one of the stupidest TV shows of all time but the Mego toys, are in such high demand and I respect their rarity and as much as I don't like the show, I wouldn't pass up a GAH figure if I had an opportunity to get one. On the whole, as I got older I gained an appreciation for toys that I never even had a chance to own which is why most of what I collect today. Zeroids and Colorform Aliens and things that would have been 10+ years old already by the time I was born. As I mentioned on the Top 5 list, what I played with as a kid and what I collect are two separate things. I guess the best way to explain it is like when you enjoy Classic Rock & Roll. I wasn't around when it was recorded but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate it now.

**Earth 2 Chris** · Mar 17, '13, 7:29 PM

I consider myself a hybrid 70s/80s kid and love toys from both. But that still doesn't mean I don't like or can't appreciate all the awesome toys from the 50s and 60s or modern stuff. I just likes toys.

Same here. I was born in December of 1974, and I moved on from pre-school toys very quickly, so I had Megos and other action figures before the 80s dawned. I then had the 80s lines like Dukes, Pocket Heroes, etc. And then He-Man, GI Joe:RAH, Super Powers, Transformers, MASK, etc. My love of super heroes and pop culture in general allows me a deep appreciation of toys from the 1930s onward.

Chris

**TomStrong** · Mar 17, '13, 7:53 PM

I was born in 1976 and got some Megos for my younger birthdays and even have pictures of getting them. I loved them, and no toy ever equaled them in my mind. I was imprinted with Mego on my brain as a young bird hatches from the egg and see its parent. Super powers were the next best thing for me but nothing ever was as cool or reminiscent of my early childhood that I remember with a harvest golden hue as Megos. I received them as gifts on all the key points of my life and loved them. This place helps me recapture a bit of that. The fact that every transaction I have ever had here, along with every positive comment from other members is just icing on the cake.

**VintageMike** · Mar 17, '13, 9:52 PM

Born in 1971. Of course, the Megos I asked for were the ones I recognized and knew as a child, Superman, Batman, Spider-man & The Hulk. By the time I became aware how many figures in th eline they had actually discontinued many of them although I remember snagging Iron Man (boxed) at a flea market. With my friend and his brother adding Capt. America, Shazam, Robin, & Star Trek to the mix it was still a decent sized universe to play with. They actually had Joker & Penguin too but wouldn't take them out of the boxes. The explosion of Star Wars and the frustration of not being able to get figures I wanted like Joker and Green Goblin, I went full Star Wars until the beginning of Return of the Jedi, when the figure selection failed to keep me interested past the first series. I did buy G.I. Joe for a few years
but my friends stopped playing with toys so did I for the most part. Couldn't resist the Super Powers Batman related figures when they came out because I'm a big Batman fan. By the beginning of High School, I finally gave up playing with toys. I have great memories of Mego from childhood and also the inner child loved finally seeing and owning all those figures seen by my childhood eyes only in Heroes World ads.

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