Urban, Suburban, or Rural: Your Mego Environment

[HardyGirl]

Where you grew up I think has a lot to do w/ our Mego memories. Different environments make for different play situations. A city kid will not have the same play experiences as a kid from the burbs, and a suburban kid wouldn't have the same experience as a kid from a more rural area. So what was your play environment like? What would you use to enhance your play? A fire escape? Trees? Mud puddles? Monkey Bars at the local playground?

Let's go back in time and play awhile!

[kryptosmaster]

I played with mine indoors mostly but when I did play with them outside it was a little of everything. Yard, porch, rocks, woods, playground, driveway, trees. I think I took them in the snow once.I don't recall taking my Megos in the pool but I know I took my GIJoe in. I did take baths with some of my Megos but even at an early age I knew not to take the ones with rivets in the water so Zira took a lot of baths. Maybe that's why she got so wiggly? LOL
Rich

[spamn]

After the Moonraker movie came out, I was obsessed with the freefall sequence at the beginning. We had an above ground pool, and I discovered that Micronauts sank at just the right rate to simulate that scene.

My Galactic Defender did a lot of jumps that summer. I'd put him in the freefall position and watch him slowly sink through a diving mask, grabbing him to re-enact other parts (like when he took the Space Glider dash wing off of the Time Traveler he overtook in the fall).

[Orlock]

I played with mine indoors mostly but when I did play with them outside it was a little of everything. Yard, porch, rocks, woods, playground, driveway, trees. I think I took them in the snow once.I don't recall taking my Megos in the pool but I know I took my GIJoe in. I did take baths with some of my Megos but even at an early age I knew not to take the ones with rivets in the water so Zira took a lot of baths. Maybe that's why she got so wiggly? LOL
Rich

This is me exactly. We lived in a rural area after we moved from Sevierville, Tn. I remember having my mom take the costumes from my Joker and Spidey while I'm sitting in the bath tub so they could take baths with me and stuff. I was maybe...five or six years old at the time. Good times.

I really wish I could go back and stop my brother from destroying my things when he got mad at me, because I had SO MUCH cool stuff and I took very good care of it.

[palitoy]

My basement or my neighbour's basement for the majority of mego play. My folks had one of those big conversation pits and it made great buildings/alien planets.

[cjefferys]

Just everywhere: all over the house, in the backyard, in the forest behind our house, in the pool, in the snow, at my friends houses, even at the beach. And of course I took them all with me when we went camping in the summer, because it was always fun finding new outdoor environments to play with them in.

[wayne foundation 07]

The sandbox and the back yard is where my megos roamed.I remember making parachutes out of bread bags pretending they were jumping out of planes.

[Duncan]

I grew up in a row-house in Philly, so lots of concrete outside. We did some Megos out there, but more often GI Joes & Evel Knievel. I did my Megoing inside, and had the BatCave & Enterprise playsets. Bath time was cool - I had a boat about the right size to be a BatBoat.

[Orion]

Fun topic. Mostly indoors - used the fireplace hearth as the Bat-Cave on many occasions. Also I remember we had some built in book cases that my brother and I used as an apartment building where our Superman and Spiderman lived when they weren't on duty. Aquaman made it outside on the porch the most - as I used to fill up buckets of water and let him swim. And unfortunately he was a T1 so it was too good for him to be submerged in water like that.

[Marvelmania]

I used my closet as a batcave but growing up in a subdivision where lots of houses were being built I had most of my mego fun in areas like that. There were always lots of nearby piles of gravel, dirt, lots of extra wooden boards, planks and such with a little imagination it all made great play areas for Megos.

[vulcan2074]

I grew up in Texas. So I played in the desert. It was so cool. I had a few spots that I would hit up. One was a dried up Creek and another was some Hills that we would ride our bikes down. Good times
Sammy

[drmego]

When I was 7 or 8, any armchair in the living room could serve as the Batcave.
For location shots in deserts, my bed worked best on a Saturday morning.

We had chair molding in the dining room which served as ledges for Superman
to fly off or the Dynamic Duo to climb up to.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

This is a great thread! I lived in an apartment growing up, so the Megos were indoor folk. I remember many a time the couch being a mountain and the cushions were usually exploded boulders that Superman had to stop from crushing the rest of the heroes.

[Captain]

I grew up on the farm, so I had a ton of great places for toyland adventures! I mentioned on here before how my Sister, best friend, and I built an APe City in the corner of the orchard using cinder blocks, a large old wood wire spool, and some other scrap wood and stuff. That development ended up being used as everything from skyscrapers when we played with hotwheels (or dinky cars as they were all referred to back then), a western town for Johnny West, an alien city for the Trek gang (and later for 33/4 Trek/Star Wars/ and Buck Rogers adventures), and of course...Ape City.
Beyond that, there was the barn, the shop, and of course, the great wide open!! Our old farm house had these huge (well, when I was a wee gaffer they were huge) cement steps leading up to the front door, complete with these great big wide rails down the sides...just like you see on those big houses in New York in the old movies. I used those for an ancient temple for the Trek guys to investigate. A mountain fortress for GI Joe to explore, and a Rebel base for Star Wars.

Darn I miss the farm!!!!!

[Mikey]

I grew up on a farm but I never took my Megos outside ... Even at an early age I didn't want to get them dirty

Outside was for playing with fun outdoors stuff