New Mego Acquisitions? Got any?

[Dan2Dan]

I wonder if the CTVT Apache Chief head will fit on the Type S body? and with the outfit and boots still available, it would be a sweet looking custom. You can always order a repro backer card from the Toyroom.

Thank you so much for this suggestion! I just went to ClassicTV Toys.com and put the Apache Chief head and outfit in my cart, along with a regular Type S body. But I couldn't find his brown boots on the site. Might you be able to point me to them? Thanks so much again!

I take almost all of my figures out of their packaging. So I am totally happy to be able to 'assemble' a loose one this way: perfect for me!

[TrekStar]

Thank you so much for this suggestion! I just went to ClassicTV Toys.com and put the Apache Chief head and outfit in my cart, along with a regular Type S body. But I couldn't find his brown boots on the site. Might you be able to point me to them? Thanks so much again!

I take almost all of my figures out of their packaging. So I am totally happy to be able to 'assemble' a loose one this way: perfect for me!

CTVT sells the complete Apache Chief outfit. If you go to the classic toys website, on the homepage at the top in the search box, type in Apache Chief. The outfits for the figures will come up. Click more info and you will (select outfit) in the drop down box. Scroll down to Superfriends 1 Apache Chief, the outfit and boots will be included, only the head and body is separate.

[Dan2Dan]

CTVT sells the complete Apache Chief outfit. If you go to the classic toys website, on the homepage at the top in the search box, type in Apache Chief. The outfits for the figures will come up. Click more info and you will (select outfit) in the drop down box. Scroll down to Superfriends 1 Apache Chief, the outfit and boots will be included, only the head and body is separate.

Awesome! Thanks so much! (I didn't realize the boots came with the outfit sets.)

May I ask one more question: do I also order the "8 inch male articulated body" to go with that (item 8REG883 -link below)?

https://www.classictvtoys.com/8inchmalearticulatedbody-2.aspx

Looking online at the photo of the FTC Apache Chief figure, that looks like a match. But I'm not totally sure (or if I also need to buy a neck pin or anything else)?

Thanks so much for your help with this! I would never have known to get this figure this way without your help! (Despite having ordered boxed, complete figures directly from FTC several times in the past, I never knew about this other site/store.)

[TrekStar]

Actually I checked CTVT website again and they do still have the boots separately. The 8 inch articulated body is what the figure originally came on, the head has a neck plug. If you were asking if the head would fit on a type S body, I think it will but might be a little loose, it might need a little adjusting.

[Dan2Dan]

Actually I checked CTVT website again and they do still have the boots separately. The 8 inch articulated body is what the figure originally came on, the head has a neck plug. If you were asking if the head would fit on a type S body, I think it will but might be a little loose, it might need a little adjusting.

Thank you so much for this further information! I just placed my order. I must be one of the least knowledgeable participants on this forum about Mego figures in general (and all related topics), so I am super appreciative of this informed advice!

In addition to Apache Chief, I bought several other things (actually 10+). I never would've known about this site/resource otherwise!

As the smallest possible token of appreciation, when I receive my order, I will do something I actually never had the motivation to do before: I will pull out all of my Challenge of the Superfriends/Super Powers Team Galactic Guardians Mego-style figures (from a plastic case in a closet) for a group photo and will post it here.

I am very conscious that my personal collection of Mego (and Mego-adjacent) stuff isn't all that grand/impressive compared to others' collections here. But that doesn't diminish my enthusiasm and gratitude!


While I really loved Challenge of the Super Friends as a 7-8-year-old boy, my enthusiasm for the Super Friends Saturday morning cartoon (in all its subsequent incarnations/titles) diminished thereafter. But it never hit zero. And from 1979-1985, the aspects of that cartoon I loved the most were, in order: (1) the addition of Cyborg, my favorite New Teen Titan, (2) the addition of Firestorm, whose first comic book appearance I somehow bought as a kid on a spinner rack in the 70s and instantly loved, (3) Samurai and Apache Chief - even as a suburban white boy with no connection to the ethnicities,who'd also never left the US at that time, I thought both these characters were cool -even though I simultaneously thought, even then, that no super hero would name himself "Apache Chief," even if he was Apache and a tribal chief, and no Japanese super hero who could turn himself into a tornado would dress as he did in the 1980s. But I still loved how Apache Chief grew when he said (to my kid ear) "alek chock", which I later learned was wrong, as he was actually saying the more linguistically accurate, "inook chook." I must've said that as a child in my backyard 50 times, hoping for a result! Nonetheless, a very fond memory. Soon to be recreated (after a fashion) on my kitchen table.


Dan

[TrekStar]

Trust me, I’m not exactly an Albert Einstein when it comes to all things mego, plus my skills at painting, restringing bodies, sewing, etc etc are minimal at best. I’ve been ordering from CTVT for years, I think my first order was the I Love Lucy set from way back in the day.

I’m considering ordering an Apache Chief with the Type S body, those 8 inch repro bodies are a hit or miss. I’m not sure if they still sell those 18 inch figures? I think they should have made an 18 inch Apache Chief along with the 8 inch version, that might have made a good seller.

[BudgetMego]

Hanna Barbera originally wanted Apache Chief's growing mantra to be Up Chuk... then they thought about it.

[Dan2Dan]

I’m considering ordering an Apache Chief with the Type S body, those 8 inch repro bodies are a hit or miss. I’m not sure if they still sell those 18 inch figures? I think they should have made an 18 inch Apache Chief along with the 8 inch version, that might have made a good seller.

Totally. I take almost all my figures out of their packaging. Some of my FTC figures are great, and others are loose and floppy. In this same way, but even more extreme, some of the Mego-style DC figures produced by Mattel years ago that I own are floppy like a loose marionette, while a few others are totally fine. My primary, recurring issue with some of the modern Mego figures isn't loose-ness, but just that many of them simply won't stand on their own. (So I bought a bunch of inexpensive figure stands on AliExpress.)

I also totally agree about the 18 inch Apache Chief. As a child, I had the 12" Mego Hulk and 8" Mego Spider-Man and thought they went great together. Giganta would be great at 18" as well. But I can also imagine that the potential market for those 18" figures would be extremely limited. Oh well.

[Stormbreaker]

Hanna Barbera originally wanted Apache Chief's growing mantra to be Up Chuk... then they thought about it.

Spare us such pun-ishment.

[Dan2Dan]

Hanna Barbera originally wanted Apache Chief's growing mantra to be Up Chuk... then they thought about it.

Seeing this just now spurred me to Google whether Black Vulcan, whose costume design I didn't really like as a child in the 70s (or understand his name), really was a replacement for DC's Black Lightning character because of some dispute (presumably over money) with Black Lightning's creator, Tony Isabella. And Lo and behold, in less time than it has take me to type these couple of sentences, my search turned up a blog post on exactly this topic by Tony Isabella himself. Here's the link for anyone reading this who might have a passing interest:

https://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2025/03/black-vulcan-probably-likely-close-to.html

(By Tony Isabella's telling, this switch was made without his prior knowledge because neither Hanna-Barbera nor DC Comics wanted to pay him the $20 per episode royalty to which he would be contractually entitled as Black Lightning's creator.)

I am a huge fan of Alex Toth's artwork, including his design work for Hanna-Barbera. So I was a little surprised when this search also brought up Toth's original designs for Black Vulcan. I'd seen these designs before, but had forgotten about them. As a kid, I could not understand why this otherwise cool character with lightning powers would dress himself in what looked to me like a ballet leotard with long sleeves?!? This design was apparently by the great Alex Toth himself.