Your best homemade Mego accessories...

[HardyGirl]

Paper clip and string grappling hooks, kleenex box cars, margarine tub spaceships...

...a kid's imagination is a wonderful thing. Even w/ all the store bought accessories, sometimes the ones you make w/ the basic stuff around the house are a lot more fun. Here are some of my personal faves:

*Furniture made from various yogurt and margarine cups
*Shields for an HQ made from clear plastic "Dannon" lids
*Nets from the netted bags oranges or potatoes come in
*Kleenex box pursuit cars
*Boats made from black containers KFC Rottisierre (sp) chicken (they float!)
* A "Bat-A-Rang" made from a U shaped Kool-Aid Koolers twist top and string
*Space helmets made from clear lids from various sundry items

What ingenious gear did you make from regular, everyday items?

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Do my custom weapons count?

Ultimately the greatest accessories are made of corrugated cardboard. Stuff like.... SUPERCITY!

Don C.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

I have made a couple of Captain America shields with the inserts of moisturizing cream jars and some fabric paint. Here is one of them (sorry cropped from crappy photo):

I have made treehouse supports from tomato stakes. Probably heaps of things if I think about it..

[Wee67]

Back in the day... I remember a pen that had a silver metal band that wrapped around. Attached to the band was an arrow that would have been used as the pen clip (if that makes sense). I would break the arrow off for Green Arrow and then use the metal band as a Wonder Women bracelet.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I would break the arrow off for Green Arrow and then use the metal band as a Wonder Women bracelet.

I know exactly what you are talking about, although I didn't have a Green Arrow, so that thought never occurred to me.

For my treks, as a kid, I would take the empty containers from pudding snack packs and use them for bridge chairs. I also would use the nets that grapes used to come in for Spiderman's webbing.

[Mikey]

I'm not sure if this counts, but I used to put masking tape all over my floor to simulate the floorplan of the USS Enterprise in scale with Mego's.

[Spyweb007]

I used string for ropes for my megos to climb, swing from and even fly. I'd put the string through a straw and attach it to the figure with an elastic and slide them down it from one end of the room to the other.

[david_b]

HardyGirl:

Excellent question~!!!

I didn't have much for Megos (or even big GI Joe vehicles..) growing up, but always remember using thin packing twine as the rope for my 'bat-climbs'.

Other than that, my guys pretty much had to walk everywhere.., although my GI Joe headquarters did double as a Batcave for a while..

Not too much for actual homemade stuff. I believe I used the netting as well for my Spiderman, but without having bought any villains as a kid, the guys I did have were a bit bored. I was getting into my teens when the Megos were hitting their stride.

[jessica]

I have made a couple of Captain America shields with the inserts of moisturizing cream jars and some fabric paint. Here is one of them (sorry cropped from crappy photo):

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I have made treehouse supports from tomato stakes. Probably heaps of things if I think about it..

I would never have thought to do that!! That looks great!!

[kryptosmaster]

I used to use those plastic trays that tomatoes came in. You know, the ones that 3 or 4 tomatoes were lined up in a plastic basket/tray and wrapped in that crinkly cellophane? I think they still package them like that in some places.
Well I used to use them for stretchers. The guys would fit perfectly in them and two others could hold it up on each end with the little loops/handles. I believe they came in different sizes so there were Mego sized ones as well as ones GI Joe would fit in.
Rich

[AAAAA]

Mine as to be my 9 milimeter Broom handle mauser pistol.

[Captain]

When I was a kid I used to build all sorts of stuff out of cardboard for the 8" and especially the 3 3/4" figures. I've mentioned my ape city elsewhere, so I wont rehash that here, but I had a multi layered Enterprise that consisted of a bridge playset ontop of a 3 shelf bookshelf. I made walls out of cardboard, and used the figures blister packs as beds for sick bay. Kirks cabin was a Big Jim camper with the one wall slid all the way out, and the Rescue rig played the part of engineering (or the Galileo shuttle if needed). The piece that snapped off the back with all the medical gear in it was stationed in Doc McCoys sick bay.
When the 3 3/4" bridge and figures came out, I made a huge cardboard Enterprise that had everything in it. It measured almost 5' across by a foot deep by almost 3 feet high. It was huge, and I kept it standing in the basement until the old Farm was sold in 94' I ended up trashing it then because I just didnt have the room for it....and after 14 years, it was starting to look like it needed a refit anyways.

Beyond these, I had a cardboard Batcave for the 8" figures and a cardboard Wayne Manor with Batcave (including a nifty rubber band powered launcher that would "fire" the Batmobile out of the batcave) for the Pocket Heroes figures. Unfortunately, Wayne Manor was restyled into a "Fort Pitt" display for the 3 3/4 Joes when they came out. I was starting to get too old to "play" with toys, but I still bought them and "posed" them in their display environments.

Also had a western town for the 3 3/4" Lone Ranger figures, a Batmobile made out of an Old Dutch potato chip box ....which was repainted green and became the Jokermobile/Riddlerrunner when I got a 8" Mego Batmobile.....and tons more ships, hideouts, starbases....etc, etc, etc.

..........Man I was a screwy kid??

[megoscott]

I tried to turn an Evel Knievel Scramble van into a Batlad by drawing new art and sticking it onto the vinyl walls. 35 years later I'm still tryin the same stuff.

But my clearest memory is making little beds for Batman and Robin from old kleenex boxes with tissue covers so they were all snug and cozy. I'll punch you in the nose if you say that makes me a sissy.

[palitoy]

I used to make cardboard Hall of Doom playsets, scarecrow was just some AJ clothes with straw in them, grodd was a plastic gorrila.

On rainy saturdays I end up making Hall of Doom and Fairy Princess castles out of cardboard, my skills haven't really improved.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Silly Putty could make any character into anyone else. I particularly liked it to use it on my pocket heroes. At the tender age of 5 I was using it to make my Lex Luthor and Luke Duke into Eagle Man 1 and Eagle Man 2. I was even into the whole generational hero thing then.

My dad's garden was slightly elevated from the ground, and had boards around it to keep the dirt in. There was a gape in the boards and a I made a hole in the garden to drop my Pocket Batman through so he could slide into the Batmobile at the bottom.

My dad also provided me with replacement utility belts when my 8" Mego ones broke. Those metal and elastic watchbands worked great!

Chris