New Mego Acquisitions? Got any?

[Frenchy99]

That is very nice ! Congrats on the build.

[apes3978]

^^^^^^ Pretty cool/creative set Dan2Dan. Good job putting it together. ^^^^^^

[Dan2Dan]

So, this isn't new exactly, but it's newly revived.

I built this replica PotA Treehouse 10-12 years ago, because at that time I'd recently rediscovered the PotA Mego figures from my childhood.

I decided to try to build a replica of the PotA Treehouse Playset I'd also had as a kid, and really loved. I'm not a craftsperson. I don't build things like this ever. I set out intending to use only 'found materials,' and to make something cheap and temporary. In the end, I had to buy four wooden dowels and some fastening hardware from my local Ace Hardware to make it sturdy enough for the figures. But other than that (and glue), it is all 'found materials.'

The ground floor is a 'human jail' with a working door on hinges. The flooring on the second floor is made from 9 small square flooring samples from Home Depot. The map hanging on one wall is a screen grab from (I think) the PotA TV show, which at the time had been posted on, if memory serves, Hunter Goatley's awesome PotA website. It's suspended by twist ties from the grocery store produce department. The (removable) roof is an old woven placemat glued to cardboard. Other than the dowels, all the other 'wood' is bamboo, because we had bamboo growing in our back yard years ago. (Candidly, the bamboo aspect was way more impressive when it was first made, and the bamboo was newly cut. Today, more than a decade later, it has dried and shriveled and blanched, and doesn't even really look like bamboo anymore. Originally, the bamboo gave it a more menacing, verdant, jungle look.) It originally also had a bamboo ladder to access the 2nd floor. But I found that ladder today totally unglued, and also broken in half and in 'a million pieces'. The centerpiece of the 2nd floor was originally a Game of Thrones-esque throne-chair, which I made from shells and fossils and other random stuff washed up on our nearby beach. But today, I thought that chair had more of an Aquaman aesthetic than a PotA aesthetic. So I left it in the garage. The capture net is a nod to the Mego Forbidden Zone playset, which I also had as a kid and really loved. I believe the red net itself originally held those fake coin chocolates. (Does anyone actually like or eat those?).

I didn't originally intend to keep it around. But I was so happy with the end result, which dramatically exceeded my original vision, that I kept it (under plastic) in the garage. That is, until today. I pulled it out, cleaned it up, and glued back some of the bamboo that had desiccated and fallen off. And here it is.

Here's a photo of it without any figures, and another photo with the vintage figures it was built for, as well as some modern PotA Mego figures.

[Jorge Galvan]

Inevitable as I'm a huge Spider-Man fan.

That is SWEET!!!

[VintageMike]

Inevitable as I'm a huge Spider-Man fan.

[palitoy]

Picked up a couple of new Gulliver "Super Heroes" figures recently, including Captain Ray (a made-up character who also made into the Gulliver Super Powers line up) and Spider-Man. These figures are based on the Mego Pocket Superheroes design, but they're slightly more complicated and, for the most part, are now impossible to stand.

I've been collecting these for over 20 years, but they're few and far between, and I'm enjoying the easy pace. I still need at least two, but possibly three, as I'm not sure whether Robin exists or not.

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[Dan2Dan]

I just got this local to me. Good condition for a 12 incher from 1978.

I love that 12" Mego Superman! I had one as a kid and have one now and it is one of my favorites. It's in an Ikea display shelf along with many of the similarly scaled figures that I had around the same time as a kid: 12" Spider-Man, 12" Hulk, Kenner Six Million Dollar Man and Maskatron and, a later addition, 12" Kenner Indiana Jones.

Probably because I had loved the 12" GI Joe Adventure Team as a kid, I was maybe one of the rare late '70s kids who preferred the 12" Mego super heroes and 12" Kenner Star Wars figures to the littler, more popular versions/equivalents, even if that meant I got a lot fewer of them because of cost.

12" Mego Hulk and 12" Kenner Boba Fett and 13" Kenner Six Million Dollar Man are on my personal 'Mount Rushmore' of post- GI Joe Adventure Team action figures. (Exception that proves the rule: my 4th would be Mego 8" Dr. Zaius or Mego Micronauts 4" Pharoid.)

[TrekStar]

I just got this local to me. Good condition for a 12 incher from 1978.

Sweet pick up. As a kid I really didn’t get into the 12 inch figures, although I will admit the 12 inch Star Trek motion picture figures interested me, but the gray heads killed it. I also had interest in the Buck Rogers figures, but never did get one, I wanted Tiger Man. I did have the 3-3/4 version, I wish the BR figures were made in the 8 inch size.

[TrekStar]

I picked up this at a time when I couldn't afford it. I'm a sucker for Ninjas and Martial Arts figures in general. The seller had all three sets but I only wanted this one.

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Congrats on that great pick up, the ninja reminds me of Storm Shadow.

[palitoy]

I picked up this at a time when I couldn't afford it. I'm a sucker for Ninjas and Martial Arts figures in general. The seller had all three sets but I only wanted this one.

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[palitoy]

Very nice, the Mego 12" Superheroes are some of the best the company put out.

[shaunaconda]

I just got this local to me. Good condition for a 12 incher from 1978.

Nice, I need to collect more of the 12” line.

[TRDouble]

Nice Superman! I remember when I got that at Kings while visiting my grandparents in New Haven, CT. His left leg did not hold up to my rough play, LOL!

Congrats on the pickup. He looks great!

[apes3978]

I just got this local to me. Good condition for a 12 incher from 1978.

He looks like a solid piece-Good score.

[Frenchy99]

I just got this local to me. Good condition for a 12 incher from 1978.