The exact beginning of my Mego love.

[justzeg18]

While digging through some old boxes in my parents basement I happened to find THE magazine that turned me on to Megos.
As far as I can tell from the pages that are left, it was an issue of Collectible Toys & Values from '92. I was 10.

Ever since then I have had a thought in the back of my head that I would track down these ever illusive vintage figures. but it wasn't until 2001 that I'd buy my first Mego, join a Mego yahoo group, then find my way here.

even though (thanks to this site and community) I know way more than I ever could have learned from that article, it still excites me 17 years later.

Just figured I'd share.

love that he referred to the secret identities as rumors.

[Iron_fox85]

cool man, cool.

[VintageMike]

Cool. I still have that somehwere.

[megoscott]

That's really unusual, to get into them so long after they were collectibles. Very cool. What was it that excited you about them? They were pretty different from the toys you would have had growing up.

[60'schild]

Yes, I would guess that justzeg18's initial perception of Mego's must have been quite different than those of us who encountered them "back in the day"...

I'd be curious of his impressions as well... definitely a different path here than mine!

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Great find. Thanks for showing us.

[Wee67]

Very cool article. Thanks for sharing. But I have to echo others' curiousity- Can you remember what about them stoked a passion in you? There's NEVER a bad reason to be into Megos, its just yours is a more unique story and curious to those of who had them as kids.

[palitoy]

I remember this piece, I was kind of ticked about the IDs because at that point I actually owned one and had the catalog they were in.

I wish I had something like this that I could identify as setting me off, the closest I'd say was finding a vintage Captain Action ad in a comic when I was 11 and wondering if I'd ever be able to find such a toy.

[clemso]

This cover is the one that really done it for me. I had an interest in megos (own a few too) but really did not know the extent of the wgsh range until i saw this magazine cover. I may have called Mark Huckabone from a ad in here too and bought a load of $10 foreign carded FFs

Clem

[goldenryan]

http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/file...go1_332623.jpg

This cover is the one that really done it for me. I had an interest in megos (own a few too) but really did not know the extent of the wgsh range until i saw this magazine cover. I may have called Mark Huckabone from a ad in here too and bought a load of $10 foreign carded FFs

Clem

yep, i got that magazine too. $10 ff's can't beat that . invisible girl goes for $70 loose now.

[vulcan2074]

Damn thats a pretty Cool article
Sammy

[megoat]

Cool story.

I know exactly when my Mego love began for me. Christmas of 1993 my girlfriend at the time gave me a Mego Apes soldier. That sent me deep into nostalgia land and I started scouring fleas, antique malls and comic book shops for old megos. Those were fun days!

[justzeg18]

Dang guys, I didn't expect my story to be so interesting!

I don't really know how to explain what about it all sparked so big in my mind, I've kind of always chucked it up to that special "it" factor that these figures had back when they first came out. More of a testament to the seemingly timeless quality that generally awesome kids toys tend to have.

I had already at that point started "collecting" star wars figures via an old box of donated figures my mom brought back from her job at a day-care. But after seeing that article I decided even then that I needed to work up to megos in a sense.

That took about 10 years of collecting and trading and all-but dealing in 80's toys.

somewhere along the way ( i think early high school) I picked up John Bonavitas book, and was completely amazed that there was such a demand for megos as to warrant an entire book to them. not to mention that I had very little idea that much of the lines listed in the book even exsited.

a few years later, and a find of what I thought to be a good deal on an incomplete catwoman on ebay followed by a loose batgirl ( I had the impression that the supergals were so hard to find that I had better jump on them when I had a chance) it all kind of went downhill from there so-to-speak.

traded a basement find of complete transformers for the bulk of my first-score DC megos, kept hitting up ebay and contacting sellers and buyers, eventually bugged megomanjess about always bidding on auctions I was, he said to check out the museum, and here I am still years later.

I'm sure there's more to add to this, like pictures and further anicdotes but I am already late for work so I should just post this and follow up later.


-Justin Z-