Why do we like WGSH Megos so much?

[bgrimm77]

I can't say what it is about these guy's , but it's something. Something that no other toy line has ever done to me. My Mego's simply make me happy. Everything about them. The look , the feel , everything...... I just love em' and alway's have.

[Earth 2 Chris]

For me, it's my love of toys and comics merged. Megos were the first figures I ever had of my beloved Super Heroes from TV and comics. They started the ball rolling with my desire to own almost everything I could get my hands on that had the DC or Marvel characters. And I only had the final 6 figures, so my desire to one day own Green Arrow and Iron Man was still there from childhood.

Plus, there is a naive charm about them. Before everything was so slick, and packaging was so strictly regulated. Captain America has buggy eyes, Aquaman has pointy ears...the little oddities give them character most modern figures just don't have.

Chris

[LadyZod]

For me it's simple... it was the first and only line of figures where Superman could fight the Hulk or team up with Spiderman... and nothing pulled me out of it.

Superpowers and Secret Wars... you could tell they were different figures put out by different companies. GI Joe RAH and Star Wars, the same.

Mego's WGSH reminds me of a world where almost anything was possible. I didn't know a Marvel from a DC back then... to me as a kid they all existed in the same world, and WGSH proved it.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I've always felt that the Mego 8: body is overall the greatest action figure ever made. It splits the dif between real and cartoony quite well, it's exceptionally playable, big enough for a variety of accessories but small enough to make vehicles and playsets viable.

Don C.

[PNGwynne]

It's nostalgia, sure, but also for me the craftsmanship.

Mego was considered notoriously cheap, but compare Lincoln-Ledy-Akrak.

I love the t2 body & costuming/accessories, even the fabrics used. And the packaging graphics are simple, but still impressive.

Haven't seen 'em topped, yet.

And I love other Mego lines as well, not just WGSH, for these reasons.

[PNGwynne]

Hmmmm....

I've always felt that the Mego 8: body is overall the greatest action figure ever made. It splits the dif between real and cartoony quite well, it's exceptionally playable, big enough for a variety of accessories but small enough to make vehicles and playsets viable.

Don C.

Very well-put.

[B-Lister]

I'm a DC Comics fan.

something about the construction of a WGSH Mego really appealed to me, and I felt I had to begin a collection.

can't explain it beyond that.

[VintageMike]

There are a lot of factors, but the biggest just just the nostalgia but the sheer amount of it. It's not just that I had Mego Batman but that I had him with me while I watched 60's reruns. That I had he & Superman to play along with while I watched the Superfriends. Constantly seeing the Heroes World ads and desperately wanting the figures I never saw in stores. The fact that other lines were made the same size so you get really bring some mismatched adventures to life as a child. Hulk invades the Enterprise Bridge. Hulk invades Hazzard County. Of course there is the fanastic packaging forver etched in my head long before I collected. The excitement of visiting a friends house knowing he had Capt America & Shazam to add the adventures. Finally as adult whenever I acquired one of those elusive WGSH I wanted a kid or even something I want as a collector the child inside me still gets excited and comes out.
That just doesn't happen with pieces from other lines.

[Twiki1979]

[QUOTE=nayrbgo;573600]Well, since so many toys just suck after something like 1980 (and likely earlier for some collectors), the playing field is really quite small for recapturing those trapped-in-memory moments . . . .


NO....WAY!!! ONE WORD MY FRIEND

TRANSFORMERS

[Twiki1979]

The reason i love the WGSH is that they look exactly like the character should look like to me....Just like the superfriends!!! I still think the Mego Spidy looks like the Electric Company Spidy and to me,that's the only Spiderman i ever want to see!

Mego Hulk = Hulk Cartoon

Love it!

[B-Lister]

[QUOTE=Twiki1979;573818]

Well, since so many toys just suck after something like 1980 (and likely earlier for some collectors), the playing field is really quite small for recapturing those trapped-in-memory moments . . . .


NO....WAY!!! ONE WORD MY FRIEND

TRANSFORMERS

he's talking about the early 90s. Everything in that era just kinda sucked.

Comics went extreme, and toys went 'extreme sculpt'.

forced poses and very little playability left an entire generation not caring about toys in the slightest.

Todd McFarlane intervened at just the right time, and Marvel Legends just took the formula and ran with it, giving rise to today's toy renaissance.

but those early 90s were dismal. You wouldn't know it now, but there was a time when DC Comics fans would've given ANYTHING for a non-Superbat figure.

[Doc]

MEGOS = CHILDHOOD = HAPPIER TIMES

[JimCem99]

MEGOS = CHILDHOOD = HAPPIER TIMES

Yes and the costume outfits too.

[huedell]

I'm not a comicbook fan really...it was and IS more about DC/MARVEL
superheroes in other media. COMMERCIALISM on a higher level.

Being born in 1971, I was a "WGSH Mego kid" from 1975-1980...
the WGSH gave me an outlet for my love for the SUPERFRIENDS incarnations,
BAKSHI SPIDEY, FILMATION's SUPERMAN/AQUAMAN/BATMAN and
the "Reeves" Superman/"West" Batman/"Bixby" Hulk
and "Carter" Wonder Woman shows.

Not to mention, the big-time "Reeve" SUPES movie and all the odder little 70s
MARVEL and DC miniseries, series and special shows.

That's what it was about for me THEN and that's what equals my love for
the WGSH toys NOW.

[Captain]

MEGOS = CHILDHOOD = HAPPIER TIMES

Simply put, and true as could be!

I kinda of think, at least for me, it may have been a control issue of sorts. In my play world, the good guys always won, and right always prevailed..whether it was Johnny West on the trail of Dangerous Dan and Sam Cobra, or Batman or Captain Kirk saving the day. Everything turned out right in the end, and I was satisfied. As you get older, real life intervenes and fantasy gives way to reality. We cant control some things, and we find there isnt always a happy ending, or one to our own satisfaction. Makes one , at least those who remember, harken back to the simple days of childhood, when everything was right with the world again by bed time!

Plus, they were darn fun to play with!!