Kid Customizers

[WheresRICHARD]

Anybody do any "cusomizing" of your Megos as a kid, to create new looks, new characters that you otherwise wouldn't have?

Don't laugh at this, but my first "customized' character was a Prince Namor / Submariner. I just took off a Spock head, put it on a type 2 body, complete with the blue unerwear,drew in a slight point to Spock's hair in the front, and lued some paper wings to his feet. Instant Namor......Ok, so his head wasn't flat enough, but the hair was the right color and he had the pointed ears and raised eyebrows.

Anyone else do any customzing as a kid?

[SUP-Ronin]

I switched uniforms and costumes all the time, but never really any new outfits of my own design. That ability to switch out the suits is really what made them fun to me.

[garagesale]

Hand sewed a Flash suit and put it on AJ. Did it out of some pink and yellow doubleknit fabric my grandmother had left over. No red available. Played with it/kept it around for years.

JamesD

[Earth 2 Chris]

Oddly enough, I made Namor too. This was after the 60s Marvel Super Heroes toons started airing in my area in the early 80s. I took my Spock, put his head on a normal Type 2 body, and gave him Robin's shorts and belt. Done. I distinctly recall throwing him off the deck into the tiny kiddie pool in our back yard!

Chris

[WheresRICHARD]

Oddly enough, I made Namor too. This was after the 60s Marvel Super Heroes toons started airing in my area in the early 80s. I took my Spock, put his head on a normal Type 2 body, and gave him Robin's shorts and belt. Done. I distinctly recall throwing him off the deck into the tiny kiddie pool in our back yard!

Chris

Great minds think alike, eh? Your story reminded me when my brother and I used to play on this boulder sticking out of a hill by the road (Hey, this was West Virginia), and we'd knock the megos down what was probably 12 feet to the ground below. You want to know what kind of braniac I was at 10? I argued until I was blue in the face with my brother, telling him that they fell too fast. That in real life it would take longer. He vehemently disagreed and said it takes the same amount of time for an 8 inch toy to fall 12 feet as it would take someone 9 times as big to fall 9 times as far. I told him and told him he was simply wrong, because of Newton's theory that says two bodies dropped at the same time under the same circumstances would hit at the same time, which means there is a certain length of time ANYTHING would take to fall 100 feet, and it was more than the time it takes an 8 inch toy to fall 12 feet.

No wonder I wasn't popular in school.

[GlobalObserver]

I made a Doc Savage out of a naked Aquaman wearing Dr. Zaius pants and a torn shirt from an old AJ. I dabbed some red food coloring on his pants and shirt to simulate blood, and drew some scratches on his chest with a red magic marker.

I also made a few masked wrestlers by stretching the tips of balloons over their heads and drawing on the mask designs.

Crude customs, but I enjoyed playing with them.

[Fuzzysnail]

I was expecting you to say, you pushed him off to prove your theory.

Great minds think alike, eh? Your story reminded me when my brother and I used to play on this boulder sticking out of a hill by the road (Hey, this was West Virginia), and we'd knock the megos down what was probably 12 feet to the ground below. You want to know what kind of braniac I was at 10? I argued until I was blue in the face with my brother, telling him that they fell too fast. That in real life it would take longer. He vehemently disagreed and said it takes the same amount of time for an 8 inch toy to fall 12 feet as it would take someone 9 times as big to fall 9 times as far. I told him and told him he was simply wrong, because of Newton's theory that says two bodies dropped at the same time under the same circumstances would hit at the same time, which means there is a certain length of time ANYTHING would take to fall 100 feet, and it was more than the time it takes an 8 inch toy to fall 12 feet.

No wonder I wasn't popular in school.

[WheresRICHARD]

I made a Doc Savage out of a naked Aquaman wearing Dr. Zaius pants and a torn shirt from an old AJ. I dabbed some red food coloring on his pants and shirt to simulate blood, and drew some scratches on his chest with a red magic marker.

I also made a few masked wrestlers by stretching the tips of balloons over their heads and drawing on the mask designs.

Crude customs, but I enjoyed playing with them.

Balloon idea is awesome. I discovered with GI Joes, they're also good for making gloves.

[kryptosmaster]

I made the sorely missing Nova figure for my POTA collection from my sister's catwoman. I even managed to erase the mask paint from her face. Made top and bottom from scraps of old felt. She's still dressed like that today.
Rich

[drmego]

I took the bottom part of a Shazam costume and, using the blonde guy from
SWAT, made a Son of Satan mego.

He lasted until my mom saw me drawing a pentagram on his chest.

[jwyblejr]

Only thing I ever did was swap Superman and Batman's outfits with each other.

[rche]

That spock/namor custom is still popular with today's kids, and I think I picked up that Doc Savage custom in a lot I recently purchased.

[almitysufx]

My Uncle had me hooked on Sunday morning Tarzan movies so before Mego made him, I had an AJ with a loin cloth. Even after I got the Mego Tarzan, I played with my AJ Tarzan.

[Brown Bear]

I did more customs as a kid then I did as an adult. I remember making a Riker by ruining a Peter Parker red sweater with black marker and drawing a beard on Supe.

Also made my Bo Duke a Canadian boxer named Donny Lalonde during his fight with Sugar Ray.

Also made a Capt Kirk into Elvis, complete with bodyguards: AJ was Red West and Klingon was Sonny.

I also dyed a Ronald MacDonald hair black, painted his face and tried making Salvador Sanchez.