The Star Trek Mission To Gamma VI Playset...

[potablog]

...gets the spotlight treatment at my blog today! Check it out if you get a chance!

http://www.apieceoftheaction.net/201...-gamma-vi.html

Thanks!

Potablog

[david_b]

I'm almost thinking this playset was almost better suited for the future TMP 3.75" figures with the size of those silly little aliens..

david_b

[HardyGirl]

Well the little aliens are called Lilliputians (ala Gulliver) in the commercial, so they are supposed to be small.

[palitoy]

I'm almost thinking this playset was almost better suited for the future TMP 3.75" figures with the size of those silly little aliens..

david_b

Mego repainted the set in 1980 and pitched it as the "Draconian Fortress" for Buck Rogers. Sadly, it didn't get made....

[PNGwynne]

It's gorgeous--I wish to heaven Diamond/Emce would repro it!

[Nostalgiabuff]

cool set. I had this as a kid but because of the carboard pieces it did not last long. The mountain and dragon head lasted the longest but the jaw eventually broke too. Wish I could afford a loose one though, it really is a cool display piece. I sold off the last parts I had, a few years back, the little guys and the glove

[justzeg18]

Mego repainted the set in 1980 and pitched it as the "Draconian Fortress" for Buck Rogers. Sadly, it didn't get made....

any pics out there of the recolored pitch?

[Chris]

Around 1979 I saw the Gamma VI playset in a store for $2 and didn't buy it despite my brother's pleadings. In the 1990s (before ebay) I saw it selling for $1200 freaking dollars!

[generic]

...gets the spotlight treatment at my blog today! Check it out if you get a chance!

http://www.apieceoftheaction.net/201...-gamma-vi.html

Thanks!

Potablog

Very cool! It's been a while since I've seen that set in person. I don't think the one that I saw was complete, but I do think the plant trap was working (it seems like there was a rubber band, but I'm not 100% sure - it's been a while).

[MIB41]

Here's one for sale on Ebay...

Mego Star Trek Mission to Gamma six - eBay (item 120656232003 end time Dec-11-10 16:08:41 PST)

[k2]

nice work on your blog!!!

i never knew about all that cool stuff in the back
k.c.

[megoscott]

Great blog post! Well done.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Nice Blog. Thanks. Mission to Gamma is one of the few pieces that I had and played with and then never had a desire to keep. For some reason the little aliens freaked me out a bit as a kid. The man eating plant did use a rubber band. It looped over the hooks on the inside base of the leaves making a big circle and then by pushing the center up it "locked" the leaves out and made the center the trigger. When you pushed down on the center the rubber band pulled the leaves in to itself.

[johnmiic]

any pics out there of the recolored pitch?

1 Pic is in John Bonnavita's MEGO book.

[Mikey]

Another Mego Trek item I never knew existed until the mid 80's when I started collecting