"Whoops!" (your mishaps with Megos)

[HardyGirl]

I remember when kids would go through great lengths to play adventures w/ their action figures. I mean, it had to be true to life, right? Throwing them outta the window w/ a homemade parachute, burying them in the sand, running them over w/ your SSP cars, as as my cousins did w/ a non Mego line, tying them to the back of a Tonka truck and dragging it all over the back yard while the barking dog (a monster) chased it. But sometimes the adventures would get a little hairy and something would happen to your Megos. They'd break, or be lost forever. What were some of your hairy adventures where the end result was a lost or busted Mego?

[toys2cool]

i'll never forget this,i had just gotten the Ponch and Jon 3 3/4 figures and we were going to the movies,my mom specifically told me to leave them at home,so what did I do? i stuck them in my pocket.The Ponch made it out ok,but Jon's band snapped and i lost some body parts

[Bionic Joe]

Way back in the summer of 74 i learned this lesson, Playing with an 8 inch MEGO Aquaman in the swiming pool all summer long is not a smart idea I had to get a replacement and my mom told me she had better not see this one anywhere near water

[HardyGirl]

Way back in the summer of 74 i learned this lesson, Playing with an 8 inch MEGO Aquaman in the swiming pool all summer long is not a smart idea I had to get a replacement and my mom told me she had better not see this one anywhere near water

What happened to Aquaman?

[MegoGeek]

Some here may remember mine. They visited the disaster scene immediatly afterwards and viewed the decimation first hand.

Shelving display collapse 2 years ago.

Casualty = carded Falcon. Could have been much worse.

Thankfully my old Falcon now resides happily in a fellow museum members collection.

[LadyZod]

3 3/4inch Bo and Luke in the General Lee driving off the front porch with a height of about 4 ft from door to sidewalk.

After about a billion crashes and either Bo or Luke flying out of the car, I lost a few thumbs, the flap on top of the car, and finally, they snapped in half.

This of course was not as bad as what happened to my Fisher Price adventure people guy that happened to look like Evel Knievel. Poor guy.

[saildog]

Removable Cowl Batman was not meant to fly. I had some string tied under his arms and was whipping him around in an ever-widening circle. RC Batman met a metal storage shed head-on.

By that time, Mego had moved on to the molded cowl and we didn't realize that the genius of WGSH was that despite a broken body, you can hold on to the head and costume and all of those bits from RC Batman got trashed or lost somewhere along the way. I still don't have an all original RC Batman, but you can bet the one I have won't be flying anytime soon.

[Captain]

I used to let some of my western Megos slide down the bannister into the basement, to renact a scene from some western movie I had seen where the characters slid down the side of a hill. One day Wild Bill (with arms extended in front of him) landed on his hand and snapped it clean off....Had to be his gun hand too.

Not Mego, but I once buried Dangerous Dan on his horse, Jeremiah Johnson style. When Johnny West pulled him out, his hand (again his gun hand) was missing...never did find it, and I must tore through every square millimeter of dirt in that part of the flower bed!!!

[palitoy]

One day in grade school I tossed my mego spider-man over the fence into a tree, I don't know what I was thinking, just trying to make Spiderman leap I guess.

I panicked but lucky for me the home owner was gardening and tossed it back to me. I still think of that "disaster" when I drive by.

[RG]

I sold my mint complete with box Mego Wayne Foundation for $5 at a yard sale

[vulcan2074]

I used to Love playing with my Buck Rogers Toys in Muddy Water to simulate a Swamp. So they would eventually start to rust and were always pretty dirty looking
Sammy

[kryptosmaster]

I sold my mint complete with box Mego Wayne Foundation for $5 at a yard sale

Geez Russ, I would've given you $15
Rich

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I would go through Spiderman (Spidermen?) a lot. Of the ones that I had recently found from storage. Circle suit had his hand come off by me in the early 70's when I had tied a string around it to have him swing from a web. Another lost a finger the same way (glued it back on back then). The third I owned (T1) I had found magnet tape and had stuck little cut pieces of magnet on his knees, back, cuffs to try and make him like a magnetic Batman and Robin. He was still too heavy for the magnets, though.

Steve

[starsky]

i was changing a mint thing's costume and his knee pin and elbow pin both broke on me!!!

[bobws]

Not really a Mego story but i had a brand new parachute batman and when i got home i took him out of package and threw him up in the air. the wind caught him and he kept going up up and away. i watched as he continued to sail for about 600 yards towrds the pond next door. yes he splashed down right in the middle of it! Never to be seen again. 1 throw in the air and a 4 minutes sail and 1 toy gone. that's the least amount i ever played with a toy in my whole life!