Best Wishes, Cornelius or Planet of the Apes Day!

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Neat piece added to the Mego Museum Planet of the Apes gallery today. It's an autographed handout from a store appearance made by Cornelius, although any fan worth his salt could tell you that it's Caesar in the photo. Those toy company execs can't tell their McDowell's apart. Mego did a great deal of promotion for Apes, here are some wonderful back in the day photos.

The infamous Apes Macy parade float, some new photos have come out thanks to the generosity of the Abrams family, check out this thread for more.



A Long Island store appearance for Planet of the Apes, dig the minty rack of action figures....



A colour shot of a similiar appearance.

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[Wee67]

Having only originally seen that B/W parade float picture, I never realized Marty was wearing an Astronaut/AJ costume.

[palitoy]

Having only originally seen that B/W parade float picture, I never realized Marty was wearing an Astronaut/AJ costume.

I never noticed that before either, I always thought he was wearing a suit.

[Mikey]

I never noticed that before either, I always thought he was wearing a suit.

Me too,

I think everyone thought that.

If you remember a few years ago when Corry Wood colored that photo, I think he made Marty's suit white -- as in he thought it was a suit too.

[drmego]

Look at Marty's pants - near the shoes - he is wearing another pair of
pants under the AJ jumpsuit.

Brian - you should add the picture Ken sent me the other day to the
gallery.

[palitoy]

Look at Marty's pants - near the shoes - he is wearing another pair of
pants under the AJ jumpsuit.

Yeah, it's crystal clear now but I'd have never noticed it if not for the other pictures.

Brian - you should add the picture Ken sent me the other day to the
gallery.

[/QUOTE]

Yes, you are correct sir...

[Wee67]

Check out how evil the glare is coming from the ape in the Long Island picture from Playthings. He really looks like he is just not happy at this appearance.

[jessica]

The gorilla suit on the day of the parade looks authentic, like it was a hero one from the first movie. Marty looks like he still sports the same hairstyle.

[Mikey]

I was just thinking, if that was nowadays, they'd make them put a railing around the top so the kids don't fall off.

[kryptosmaster]

I'd have loved to have that float in my backyard to play on.
Rich

[vulcan2074]

Those are some seriously great pictures. I Love POTA
Sammy

[Marvelmania]

Wow, I missed out on so much fun stuff as a kid. All we got were Christmas parades with Shriners and Santa Claus.

[mego73]

http://www.megomuseum.com/pota/image...eliusphoto.jpg

Neat piece added to the Mego Museum Planet of the Apes gallery today. It's an autographed handout from a store appearance made by Cornelius, although any fan worth his salt could tell you that it's Caesar in the photo. Those toy company execs can't tell their McDowell's apart. Mego did a great deal of promotion for Apes, here are some wonderful back in the day photos.

http://megomuseum.com/megolibrary/ad...hive/macys.jpg

The infamous Apes Macy parade float, some new photos have come out thanks to the generosity of the Abrams family, check out this thread for more.

http://megomuseum.com/megolibrary/adarchive/images_adarchive/apeart1.jpg

A Long Island store appearance for Planet of the Apes, dig the minty rack of action figures....

http://megomuseum.com/megolibrary/adarchive/images_adarchive/apesappearance.jpg

A colour shot of a similiar appearance.

Discuss Planet of the Apes at the Mego Forum
Visit the MegoMuseum Planet of the Apes Gallery

http://megomuseum.com//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9116082-7045997674697567074?l=www.megomuseum.com%2Fblog%2Fmegoblog.html

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Where are the rack of action figures, all I can see are a bunch of sweet Treehouses.

[toys2cool]

Great pics

[Meule]

Awesome pics, I wish toy companies would still go all out like this on promotion, how cool would that be