MOTD: Richie Cunningham

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Mego of the Day is everyone's second favourite Happy Days character, Richie Cunningham. Despite being marketed for only a year, Richie is one of the more affordable MOC Mego figures out there.

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[AJ Collector]

Now we all know Marion Cunningham would never let Richie leave the house without tucking in his shirt!

[Earth 2 Chris]

That face...I see Ron Howard in there, but he was never that homely. Clint, maybe, but not Ron.

And why didn't Mego give him strawberry-blonde hair? Mego made some odd hair color choices. As dead-on as their Captain Kirk is, his hair is too dark. The Shat's haircolor is hard to nail, but it's not that black/REAL deep brown color.

Chris

[toys2cool]

the only figure I've ever owned from this line was the Fonz

[palitoy]

I have a weird memory about these figures. They were never sold in Canada to my knowledge, if they were, I didn't see them.

We went to Florida Christmas of 1977, drove all night and my parents woke me up to use a truck stop bathroom around 5am. The Happy Days gang was in the toy section of this truck stop, I was barely awake and stared at them for a minute. For years, I pretty much thought I dreamt that..

[Mikey]

Fonzie was the only Mego Happy Days figure I ever had or knew existed at the time.

I don't think my local stores carried the others.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I had Fonzie and his Jalopy (which was really Ralph's on the show). I guess I as aware of the others from the Jalopy packaging, but I never really wanted them that badly, which is odd, since I was a huge Happy Days fan.

Chris

[Wee67]

I don't evem remember the other, non-Fonzie characters being produced. That's a great story, Brian. I can completely understand how you might think that was a dream.

[Orion]

I don't evem remember the other, non-Fonzie characters being produced. That's a great story, Brian. I can completely understand how you might think that was a dream.

Ditto that. My brother and I had memories/stories like that from our childhood vacations as well. You catch a glimpse of a comic or toy in your travels - - - and then years later you question whether you actually saw it. It becomes like "kid mythology" - - - did that toy/comic really exist or was I dreaming?

[Bionic Joe]

Fonzie was the only Mego Happy Days figure I ever had or knew existed at the time.

I don't think my local stores carried the others.

Same here in NJ Fonzie was everywhere but i dout the others hit the stores in NJ but if i had seen em i would have passed on em as i was more in to the STAR TREK figures and the WGSH figures

[DocDrako]

As an adult, I've always liked the Happy Days figures, but only ever owned Fonzie. As a kid I didn't know the others existed either. I probably wouldn't have wanted them as a kid, but now is a different story.

[kryptosmaster]

I just FINALLY got my loose Potsy. I paid more for him that the other 3 combined (well, granted I did only pay like $10 or so for the 3).
I've always thought these guys would've looked better on Type 1 bodies. Richie's shirt is too tight on that buff chest and he was a rail anyway.
I never had these as a kid but my best friend did have Fonzie. I've toyed with picking up the "missing" characters that CTVT produced. Maybe someday i will. I'd like to get the playsets/accessories now.
Hmmm, maybe a custom Arnold's playset should be on the drawing board? hehe
Rich

[Mikey]

Now that I look at it, Richie is actually a pretty lousy sculpt.

It looks like an existing figure was tinkered with (very bady) to try and make it resemble Ronny Howard.

The chin is the worst.

[kryptosmaster]

Actually I think it does have a lot of his features. It looks almost like a cartoon version of Ron Howard. He's kind of goofy looking in real life anyway so a little exaggeration on his features is understandable.
Rich

[starsky]

i think they did a great job with the figures.