The Mego World's Greatest Superheroes are Back!

[Hulk]

Thanks for the info Joe. Keep on keepin' on. We appreciate the info and anything less than positive or uber-enthusiastic is only meant as constructive criticism. I am glad to here Mattel will be working on minimizing fray.

[EMCEtoys]

Okay, here's an update.

It's been asked whether or not we're making any improvements to the capes, be it material or some kind of hemming to prevent the classic "fraying" problem of vintage MEGOs.

We can reveal that the material is still nylon in keeping with MEGO, because we believe that changing the material of something with as much area as a cape is leaning a bit too far out of the "MEGOverse".

However, the Mattel factory is going to apply a process that seals the edges so fraying won't be a problem.

Hopefully that will be seen as an improvement without straying too far away from what we're intending to so with the line.

As always, more info as it comes in.

I posted this in the forum we started down in "ReMego" and I'm posting here until we can get this whole duplicate thread thing figured out.

[callistofreak]

I'm sure this will push our addiction... I mean hobby, to a better place.
Thanks for all the hard work you guys do.

Dr.Mego
EMCE
and the MUSEUM

You guys rock!!

[shornk]

I was very hopeful this would happen. I remember seeing some old Mego Superheroes at an EMCE booth at a con some months ago. Looks like the forshadowing came true. Wonderful to see the heroes that never got a Mego release. I hope that Marvel will want in on this too.

Congratulations on this effort everyone.

[Brown Bear]

Will these be selling in Toys R Us CANADA?? I certainly hope so.

[Cosmicman]

Being that Green Arrow is one of my favorite super heroes. I am really stoked about seeing this. Even made a cartoon joke to the Doc saying how much would it take to "Send it to me" right now. Doc sternly reminded me about being under contract and would get in a lot of trouble for doing that. LOL Dr. Mego and Marty need a lot of kudos. I have been waiting forever for these to make it on shelves again. Never imagined I would see it in my lifetime.
The suspense is killing me. What do they mean by special order? Where would we be able to find Green Arrow?

[GAFan]

Will they be general Mattel releases or internet-only?

According to the current buzz, Green Arrow will be an exclusive on Mattycollector.com but the rest will be at Toys R Us.

[PNGwynne]

The figures are being made by Mattel in their factory.
EMCE Toys are design consultants. We make the prototypes
and any changes requested by DC on said samples.

Diamond is not involved in this except to be REALLY happy
for us!

Will they be general Mattel releases or internet-only?

[AcroRay]

I'm just happily floored by all of this. For me - since I'm a Mego fan but not so much of a WGSH collector - its just pure joy to see folks who grew up with & love these toys so much actually be able to *make* them.

I'm so happy for you guys!

[Wee67]

Just plain WOW!

I missed this over the weekend i can only say I'm stunned. I really didn't think this could happen. Congrats Paul and Joe for really bringing Mego to a new generation.

[vulcan2074]

I pulled up the inflation calculator and $20.00 today is equivalent to $5.00 in 1975. That is exactly what a GI Joe cost, at the time.

$14.00 today would put the price very close to what Megos sold for in 1975. $16.00 would be only slightly higher.

As Elmer Fudd would say, " It's awww wewative.".

Kind of puts some perspective on how much our folks were paying for these things back in the day, if you do a little research.
(and I don't remember my folks ever *****ing about the price of Mego, Joes, Big Jim, or The Lone Ranger.)

I guess what I am trying to get at is the fact that I balk a little at the price I see slapped on new Star Wars figures, but that $6.75 price tags pans out to exactly what they cost me in 1977, when adjusted for inflation. The vehicles are about $15.00 cheaper, now. Now wonder they had to wait for Christmas and couldn't be a, "Hey Mom, how bout ya buy this for me?" type of thing.

Thats a Great perspective. I never really thought of it like that before
Sammy

[saildog]

I pulled up the inflation calculator and $20.00 today is equivalent to $5.00 in 1975. That is exactly what a GI Joe cost, at the time.

$14.00 today would put the price very close to what Megos sold for in 1975. $16.00 would be only slightly higher.

As Elmer Fudd would say, " It's awww wewative.".

Kind of puts some perspective on how much our folks were paying for these things back in the day, if you do a little research.
(and I don't remember my folks ever *****ing about the price of Mego, Joes, Big Jim, or The Lone Ranger.)

I guess what I am trying to get at is the fact that I balk a little at the price I see slapped on new Star Wars figures, but that $6.75 price tags pans out to exactly what they cost me in 1977, when adjusted for inflation. The vehicles are about $15.00 cheaper, now. Now wonder they had to wait for Christmas and couldn't be a, "Hey Mom, how bout ya buy this for me?" type of thing.

[drmego]

Expect these figures to be priced about the same as the Star Treks
as a rule of thumb. Bigger retailers may have some wiggle room on
the final price.

[txteach]

If these are going to be at TRU they surely can't be priced over $20 each right? I really can't see parents buying their kids a $20 figure. Now me on the other hand, I'd buy a $20 figure for myself.

[Tothiro]

You're right. It's funny that after all of these threads/posts, we still don't know the answer to that proverbial $64,000.00 question.

Anybody in the know care to help us out???

I thought Emcetoys stated early in the question response process somewhere in the multiple threads that there are no bands in the internals. So I'm guessing the new body is similar in shoulder/hip construction to a Joe.

[Edit]
Having checked, either I remembered that information incorrectly or the info has been "redacted" ... like maybe it's still under development.