The Lost Archive Opens

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Now that San Diego Comic Con has filled us with the sights of Mego like items to come, it's time to take a look back to the company that made it all happen in the first place with this new series of discoveries.

First, let's give credit where it's due, the next three weeks are all courtesy of former Mego designer Vincent Baiera. Over the past few years Mr. Baiera has been wealth of information and a good friend to the Mego collecting Community.

He contacted us recently saying he'd uncovered some documents and was more than happy to share them with the Megomuseum.

You can read our interview with Mr. Baiera here.


What we received was a series of photographs, including early test shots of produced items, prototypes of rumoured offerings and never before heard of toys and playsets from the golden age of the World's Greatest Toy Company.

To begin, we unveil the new Lost Archive Gallery at the MegoMuseum, which will be updated every day for the next 3 weeks or so, each we promise to bring you something you've never seen before.

Todays Update: Sample Shots of the Mego Batman Bat Coders and Bat Console Toys.


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[vulcan2074]

Those are Super Cool photos. I'm so eager to see what else you have in store for us.
Sammy

[sauce]

Oh, this is already so fun!

[rche]

awesome.
Looks like a fun month of August coming up.
Thanks crew and thank you Mr. Baiera.

[ScottA]

Wow, that Batconsole didn't turn out quite like the one shown. How cool is that!!

Man, 3 weeks of mego goodness coming. Gonna be great.

[jwyblejr]

That was weird. I was looking at the pics and Firefox crashed on me. I hope it's not some strange omen trying to keep me from looking.

[Meule]

Ooooh, sweet. Thank you very much Mr Baiera

[Bruce Banner]

Cool!!!

[wilbs518]

Awesome stuff! Can't wait to see more.

[EMCE Hammer]

So amazing that there are still new discoveries.

[MIB41]

Incredible story. Thanks for sharing your love of the craft with us Mr. Baiera. Without your enthusiasm and creativity in this industry, we would not have the childhood memories we have today. We are deeply indebted.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Thank so much Mr Baiera. This is a great gift to us Mego-heads, on top of all the other great toys you brought us!

I don't have the Bat-coders, but the images of Batman and Robin appear to be different than the produced versions, yes?

Chris

[megoscott]

So cool. With vintage Mego staples and everything!

[Wee67]

Very cool. Are these test shots or prototypes? Or both?

There are some slight differences I can see, but I don't see a lot. Maybe someone with more familiarity can point out the differences. I see the Console looks like it ended up wth a picture on the left side rather than a morse code key. The walkie talkies have silver switches rather than red and the Alarm/Danger stickers became red and green rather than blue and yellow.

The gallery has a brown and yellow Robin walkie talkie, but I think mine is red and yellow, like this test shot.

Anything else?

[palitoy]

I don't have the Bat-coders, but the images of Batman and Robin appear to be different than the produced versions, yes?

No, I think they're right but they're reversed. The Robin Communicator should have a picture of Batman on it and vise versa.