Urban, Suburban, or Rural: Your Mego Environment

[Cmonster]

I was an outside kid, so most of the mego and Star Wars play, went down outside. I grew up in NY, so the winters usually consisted of lots of Hoth re-enactments, resulting in finding all my lost snowtroopers, taun-tauns, rebel soldiers, etc, in the Spring, after the snow melted.

In the summers, my family spent a lot of time in Montauk, LI at the beach, so my apes always had plenty of killer sand and flora and fauna to lurk in. I was a really creative kid, so I built a lot of environments, too... Ape city, the hall of justice, all kinds of stuff. Some of it was cool and some it fell apart and didn't work that well, but it was all FUN. That's what it was all about back then. Such a great time...

Another thing I remember, is my friends and I making a huge zip-line out of monofilament fishing line (huge fishing family) and sending the megos across to each other's houses. One guy had the end upstairs, out the window, and the other was attached either somewhere on the ground or downstairs, basement window, etc... We broke a lot of figures that way, but when you really think about it, broken figures and lost parts, for me anyway, was the impetus for making the first custom/mish mash figures I ever made... I could sit here and write for hours about this stuff, but I've gotta get to work!

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[Wee67]

Most of my Mego memories are in the dark, wood-paneled hallway of the apartment building we lived in. I could drag my Batcave and whatever else I wanted into the hallway and it seemed more fun than the apt.

But there was this one big tree on a sloping here with its roots sticking out of the hill. That stood in for all kinds of sets- jungles, alien planets, etc.

[Gorn Captain]

I had a pretty large house (well, my parents did), so there was plenty of space to explore. When SW came around, my best friend and I went totally space opera.
All our figures, Star Wars, Action Man, SMDM, Lone Ranger, they all went to live on Tatooine. We made a huge Cantina, where all species (from 3 inch to 12 inch) lived together in one big drunken brawl. Luke was engaged to the bionic woman. Maskatron was painted gold and became C3PO (old Goldenrod never looked so impressive) because we didn't have a 3PO. Oscar Goldman was always chasing those pesky Jawas.
Cheron wore Fighting Furies cowboy duds, and became Han Solo Jr!
We used an Action Man style amphibian car for our Landspeeder.
It was a two-level Cantina, and one day the roof caved in. Man, we spent several days "rescuing" survivors. Luckily, Golden Maskatron took the brunt of the crash with his head. He was a bit wobbly after that.
I remember that Cheron once wore Uhura's clothes, but he was probably still shell-shocked from the big roof crash. Let's not talk about that any further...

We had great adventures!

[Surfsup]

My Megos rarely ventured out of the bedroom or lounge, me and my bro had plenty of fun with them there. Doctor who used to spend time with Galen and Spock in the Tardis and have a jolly good time. My Action Men on the other hand were more urban, they used to tussle with the Intruder in the mud and parachute from the trees. I'm still surprised to this day that they survived many a drop!

I also remember The Mole from Thunderbirds drilling through many a muddy pit in the garden. Thunderbird 2 never fared well flying through the air though unfortunately. Ahhh, good times!

[clemso]

My Mego Superman and Action man took a pounding in my back garden. I used to throw them up in the air as high as I could, i really wanted to believe that my Mego Superman could fly