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  • SUP-Ronin
    Stuck in a laundry shoot.
    • Oct 8, 2007
    • 3146
    #1

    Random Mego Sighting

    was just watching the Saturday Night Live Christmas special on tv featuring clips spanning their history. There is a skit with Dan Ackroid and Candice Bergen called "Consumer Probe". Dan plays the shifty president of a toy company that makes unsafe toys, Candice is a reporter. The Mego special appearance is Fonzie (renamed Johnny Switchblade Adventure Punk) featuring 2 sharp knives that spring out of his elbows.

    The pics aren't great, but it ain't easy to photograph your tv screen.





    Just thought someone might enjoy it. Cheers.
    "Steel-like jaws clacked away, each bite slashing flesh from my body - I used my knife and my hands, and when they were gone, my bloody stumps - and yet the turtles came."
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    • timb
      Will Draw for Toys
      • May 1, 2009
      • 1128
      #2
      Good catch! It's always exciting to catch a Mego cameo in a movie or tv show.
      I seem to remember a mego Hulk making a cameo appearance in the movie Poltergeist.

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        • AJ Collector
          The Biggest Little Man!
          • Aug 24, 2008
          • 2148
          #3
          Nice catch Nate.....

          Is it safe to say the 40 year old virgin still holds the # 1 spot for most megos in a movie or TV show?

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            • ScottA
              Original Member
              • Jun 25, 2001
              • 12264
              #4
              Originally posted by AJ Collector
              Nice catch Nate.....

              Is it safe to say the 40 year old virgin still holds the # 1 spot for most megos in a movie or TV show?
              No. The Toy had a whole endcap of carded WGSH's in it.
              sigpic WANTED: Boxed, Carded and Kresge Carded WGSH

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                • AJ Collector
                  The Biggest Little Man!
                  • Aug 24, 2008
                  • 2148
                  #5
                  Originally posted by ScottA
                  No. The Toy had a whole endcap of carded WGSH's in it.
                  Is that the Gleason / Pryor movie? I will have to check that out.

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                    • MEGOMAN
                      Defender of the Megoverse
                      • Dec 30, 2008
                      • 1103
                      #6
                      Originally posted by ScottA
                      No. The Toy had a whole endcap of carded WGSH's in it.
                      Yes, I remember that. That is the scene where the kid sees Richard Pryor and wants to buy him. There's a lot of MEGO figures in that scene.

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                        • Sideshow Spock
                          valar morghulis
                          • Mar 8, 2005
                          • 2859
                          #7
                          They dug that sketch up for last year's Christmas special too:

                          Johnny Switchblade Adventure Punk - Mego Talk

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                            • megoscott
                              Founding Partner
                              • Nov 17, 2006
                              • 8710
                              #8
                              Richard Pryor cruises past a Mego Display in his Wonderwheel: Mego Museum



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                                • Meule
                                  Verbose Member
                                  • Nov 14, 2004
                                  • 28720
                                  #9
                                  I can see Robin, Superman, Shazam, Hulk, Conan (or is it WW?) and lotsa Batman in that Pryor pic. What else is there?
                                  "...The agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair..." - Edgar Allan Poe

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                                    • palitoy
                                      live. laugh. lisa needs braces
                                      • Jun 16, 2001
                                      • 59764
                                      #10
                                      I showed that picture to Mark Huckabone last month when he popped round to the house. He told me they shot the Wonder Wheel scene twice, meaning there are two distinct mego displays in the film. Time to search the DVD dump bins.

                                      Saw that SNL skit and it made me laugh, the fonzie doll also appears in a Halloween episode.

                                      Still trying like mad to find the SCTV skit where kirk and shazam are shown dancing together, apparently it has music rights issues.
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                                        • MEGOMAN
                                          Defender of the Megoverse
                                          • Dec 30, 2008
                                          • 1103
                                          #11
                                          There's a different MEGO display in the scene where they are trying to convince Richard to go with the kid and he keeps saying "NO". You have to look closer.

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                                            • toys2cool
                                              Ultimate Mego Warrior
                                              • Nov 27, 2006
                                              • 28605
                                              #12
                                              in Full house you can catch the Ponch one
                                              "Time to nut up or shut up" -Tallahassee

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                                                • Raydeen1
                                                  Persistent Member
                                                  • May 23, 2008
                                                  • 1036
                                                  #13
                                                  I saw this movie in the theatre and about crapped my pants when that scene was happening.
                                                  Originally posted by AJ Collector
                                                  Is that the Gleason / Pryor movie? I will have to check that out.

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