Mego Robin, the worst toy ever?

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Well, the original Robin's outfit was supposed to look like it came from his acrobatic background, so the shorts make a bit of sense. I can agree on the critiques of the Mego Robin, (although as Brian said, most of those things like the "oven mitts" I find charming) it is just that younger generation "hate on" type posting that rubs me the wrong way. To me it reads like a bully teasing another kid at school.

[david_b]

Amen, brother! I thought the exact same thing!

I think T1K hit the nail on the head: This must be coming from a really immature kid who thinks Batman: The Animated Series is an "old TV show".

But I think the MEGO Caped Crusaders both are a damned sight BETTER than the crappy pre-posed "action-less" figures that we got all through the 1990's (which the author likely enjoyed as a kid).

I literally could not find a single decent Batman or Robin action figure on toy store shelves throughout the 1990's and into the 2000's.

They were all strangely sculpted, pea-headed, with annoying molded rubber capes, and with HORRENDOUSLY hulking anatomy. Some of them were even incapable of standing on their own. Batman and Robin on MAJOR steroids!

And when the caped crusaders WERE offered as dressed "MEGO-like" dolls by Hasbro (during the late 1990's) the results were... less than stellar.

I'd take a classic MEGO Batman and Robin ANY DAY over this...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/darklord1967/HAsbroduo.jpg

You know, I still have cold-sweat nightmares with that hideously creepy Hasbro Batman face sculpt and his giant Kool-Aide smile. Kinda reminds me of that lifeless and TERRIFYING smiling plastic Burger King face mask from those BK TV ads some time ago.

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GREAT point.. Again, as I mentioned before, the Mego Robin might have been a slight drop from Ideal's Action Boy Robin (really the only other cloth-represented alternative back in those days..), but it's WAY better than any representation since..

[david_b]

The one thing I never liked about Mego Robin was his hair-doo

I know it's based on the comics, but as a kid I only knew Burt Ward as Robin and Superfriends Robin .... and the Mego Robin's hair looked nothing like either of them.

To be honest, to this day I still hate his hair.

Totally Agree.. I STILL look every now and then for a decent mego head to replace it with. I LOVE the custom made hard heads, but I still prefer plastic.

david_b

[livingdead70]

I am the one posting as Batman there, read thru where he askes me where did Robin wear that outfit, Stating that he doesnt recall Robin looking like that, and he says he has thousands of BM comics and he should know. So I clicked home on that site, lo and behold there is a picture of Robin wearing that suit, I point that out and he says I know what Robins suit looks like. Then he berates me for typing in proper English. That boy needs to stop inhaling.............
trey

[mego joe]

Robin is one of the best Megos IMO.

[ctc]

>it is just that younger generation "hate on" type posting that rubs me the wrong way.

I fully understand. It's the same way I feel when I hear the older generation grumbling about something new.

As for Robin's outfit, yeah it's SUPPOSED to be based on his old circus duds but it still kinda bugs me. HOWEVER; superheroes can get away with wearing weird outfits. It reinforced their "beyond normal mortals" status. And the Mego figure is remarkably true to the actual character at the time.

....and as long as that Batman squirt gun exists NO OTHER Batman toy will EVER be "the worst," "the weirdest," or the most "What the hell IS that?!?!"

Don C.