How well did Mego's 12" super heroes line sell?

[DavidCoppola]

I don't see too much talk about them. I remember in the late 70s seeing them, but never got them, nor knew anyone that had them.
What about their posability? I see the 12" Captain America sometimes on Ebay and have been tempted to bid on one. The only problem is his head seems pretty big compared to the rest of his body.
Does anyone have any loose pix of him for reference?

[Trappy Trek Freak]

I dont have Cap 12in but I have a few others and my favorite is 12in Hulk. I have a superman, James Bond, Black Hole Durant, Buck Rogers, Killer Kane, Wonder Woman, Robin with magetic hands, Black Hole Kate, Kirk, Spock, Decker, and Farrah Fawcett. The Durant has the biggest head of all of them and most of them are gray headed except Kane and Supes. I really like the 12in figures and wish I had more. I put the 12in Hulk with all the 8in megos cause he is supposed to be bigger 8in Hulk is too small IMO.

[samurainoir]

I understand that the 12" line showed up in Canada first?

I know I totally flipped out when I saw them and to this day my 12" skinny Megos are still among my favourites. Plus you had a Boy Wonder that was to scale with Batman (and with the cooler side part that Burt Ward had). To me the 12" line is as synonymous with Mego as the 8" line. I just wish there had made more Superhero characters, and I'm still deadly curious about Mr Fantastic.

[Wee67]

I don't think I even knew they existed as a kid, but I was moving away from action figures by '78.

[MIB41]

Here's a shot of my Mego Cap out of his box.

[timb]

I love the 12" Cap because of his huge cranium: )

[ScottA]

I remember seeing the 12" Magnetic Batman and Robin in Circus World at the mall and REALLY wanting them. But at the time I had "out grown" kids toys. If I knew then what I know now....

[Mikey]

I don't think I even knew they existed as a kid, but I was moving away from action figures by '78.

Same here.

The first time I ever seen or even heard of a 12" Mego Super Hero action figure was seeing a loose Spiderman in a comic shop in the mid to late 80's

[Trappy Trek Freak]

I had the Magnetic Batman and Robin as a kid they are very cool. The Cap head is huge if I had it I would shrink it down some or cut the eyes ears and mouth out and add another head to make a removable cowl, but thats just me I do crazy stuff like that to my toys cause I don't plan on selling them I try to make them better.

[drmego]

The 12 inch figures usually sold better than the 8 inch, but the others
(except for Superman, Batman, Spider-Man) probably did not sell as well
since by 1978 GI Joe was gone and the other 12 inchers were all girl
focused like Barbie and the celebrities. KISS was probably the only
boy 12 inchers that sold well.

[EmergencyIan]

I think the 12 inch line is great. I'm mostly a fan of the WGSH line in this scale.


- Ian

[generic]

I don't see too much talk about them. I remember in the late 70s seeing them, but never got them, nor knew anyone that had them.
What about their posability? I see the 12" Captain America sometimes on Ebay and have been tempted to bid on one. The only problem is his head seems pretty big compared to the rest of his body.
Does anyone have any loose pix of him for reference?

I had Spock, Spiderman and Superman as a kid. Over the years I've had all of the 12" KISS, Buck Rogers and Superheroes except Steve Trevor and Queen Hippolyte. The posability is ok. It's not as good as a GI Joe, but it's not bad.

12" Captain America's head is way too big for me, but at least they got the sleeves and boots right! Here's a photo of mine next to my 8" Captain America:

[drmego]

I still want to find what happened to that head! I know that MEGO was
using larger heads for the celebrities since the likeness was everything,
but how did that melon get past the pre-Toy Fair product review?

[Marvelmania]

Like others I had moved on from action figures when the 12" figures came out. I think it was on the old yahoo Mego group or somewhere like that when I first heard about them. I've only got about 4-6 of them. They just don't appeal to me much since it was the 8" figures I had as a kid.

[cjefferys]

I love the Mego 12 inchers, I'm slowly trying to put together a collection of most of them.

I think that the Superheroes and KISS sold reasonably well, but the SF/movie lines (Black Hole, Buck Rogers, Star Trek, Moonraker) probably didn't. It seems the vast majority of figures from those lines are found MIB these days rather than loose and played with. Maybe due to two things: many examples are old store stock because they didn't sell, and the majority of people who actually did buy them were likely adult doll, movie memorbilia or SF collectors (these types of collectors predated us action figure collectors). Just my theory.

I remember seeing some of the 12" heroes in stores when I was a kid, mostly the Canadian Parkdale ones, but I was getting a bit old to play with them by then. The only Mego 12 inchers I bought at the time were the KISS ones, I couldn't pass those ones up.