I guess that I`m lucky to have missed those hassles. Being in Canada, they would have been X10 so I guess I would have been very frustrated.
Well, I`m frustrated still...lol
I still would love to know the production run on each figures. That would be very interesting.
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I’m not sure production numbers have anything to do with it but maybe?
When these figures were released they all cost the same, maybe yes, more Batman-Robin and Superman figures were produced than Shazam and Green Arrow or even Flash for that matter, but the cost for each figure was the same in store.
If you were lucky enough to get to Walmart the first day they were stocked, I’m guessing you probably would’ve seen more selection of Batman, Robin and Superman on the pegs, than say Aquaman or Shazam.
I remember when the 50th anniversary WGSH were released, I searched my local Walmarts and couldn’t find them, either in the toy section or electronic section, I really wanted a Shazam. I couldn’t understand why my local Walmarts didn’t have any?
They sold fast on line, but each figure to my memory cost the same, unfortunately for me, I wasn’t able to pick up a Shazam, I think what was left were a few Superman and Robin’s, I’m guessing RC Batman was the first to sell out.
It’s because of the greedy sellers on ebay some probably warehouse workers, grabbing what they could and sell them on ebay for double to triple the price, knowing online websites were selling out fast. Also store shoppers who sleep out in the parking lots in their cars, hit the stores first thing and grab bunches of these figures and then maybe wait a month or until the websites and stores are sold out of them, and sell on ebay.
Green Arrow came out later just like he did back in the day, I really don’t even know if he was ever available in stores?
selling out fast on website stores, and selling on ebay for absolutely ridiculous prices, the sellers don’t care, there hoping you want it bad enough to buy it at triple or even 4 times the price, just like scalping a ticket to a game or concert.
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Thanks,
Yeah, I bought a few small collection when avaible to make a base. Batman is a must. Was lucky to find most local and online at decent prices. Its just the usual suspect that are harder to find. I dont understand why these demand so much money, do they not have the same production quantity ?
I havent read up on everything yet as to understand was so scarce, someone has to know ?
Once I find Dr. Fate, i`ll feel better knowing I`m up to date on the super hero side of things. I`m catching up on the others lines also...
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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.Leave a comment:
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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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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.)Last edited by Dan2Dan; Jun 4, '25, 7:56 PM.Leave a comment:
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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.Leave a comment:
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