MegoMuseum Interviews Orit former creative director at Mego

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Our first Mego interview of the month is with Orit, the former creative director at Mego. Orit took time out of her schedule to give us her take on working at the world's greatest toy company, toyfair and why she thinks Mego had so much success. Click here to read the Megomuseum Interview.

Look for more interviews all this month, only at Megomuseum.

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[Dave Mc]

Great interview. A different perspective that a lot of the interviews we had. It's amazing when you hear about the creative attitudes and the fun some of these people used to have working there, that they crashed and burned. Sounds like they had quite an interesting group of creative folks.

[DCSTING]

Great read. Good job Brian.

[PCofmisfittoys]

cool ., I would like to get her autograph for my creators collection.

[MegoGeek]

One of my favorite parts of Benjamin's book was the great pics in the Mego offices.

I try not to be a cranky old man who incessantly complains that "back when I was younger, _______ was way better than it is today" and one would also be hopeful that the the present time is always the best time of your life but the fact that we all come here on a daily basis lamenting 30 year old toys, may say otherwise.

Looking at all those old pics of people in the Mego offices, I can't help but feel that I am viewing people at what they would consider to be the best times of their lives.



P.S. the pics of the Mego chicks in Benjamin's book?....OMG, total 70's hotness!

[The Toyroom]

Very intersting read Brian...congrats on landing the interview!

[mikeoz]

I really enjoyed this interview. Her take on the Mego free spirit, family run atmosphere sounds like a great place to work.

[megoat]

Cool. I love these kind of interviews.

Also, I dig her single no-need-for-a-last-name moniker. It's like "Cher" or "Madonna".

[Earth 2 Chris]

Very nice interview Brian! And she designed the Micronauts logo...wow. I've seen that "font" used a lot since then, on a wide variety of things. Sounds like Mego was a stepping stone for a very successful career for her!

Just a quick observation/theory gleamed from this and other interviews at the Museum; I wonder if the loss of Marty Harrison at Mego, and Sol Harrison at DC at around roughly the same time may have added to the lack of interest in WGSH within the company after 1976 or so?

Chris

[starsky]

awesome interview!! very good insight into the company itself, definitely sounded like a great place to work!

brian, how in the world do you manage finding ex mego employees?

great job!

[Hulk]

One of my favorite features is always the behind the scenes look at Mego. This is just another one of those great examples. Orit sounds like a pretty cool, laid back, yet talented individual. I love that picture of her in the cube, its so "Hey, let me get back to you on that decision, I'm going to pick up my cube phone and call my psychic first". Great job Brain!

[palitoy]

brian, how in the world do you manage finding ex mego employees?

I just lucked out in this case, I found an article about Orit and her business. It mentioned Mego so I approached her about an interview and luckily she was very happy to discuss her tenure at Mego.

[Meule]

Great article, thanks for doing this Brian.

[megozilla13]

That was a hot interview, I enjoyed reading it.

Granted its been 30 years, but in all the interviews posted on the museum and even the talks with Marty and Neal at megocon, I don't understand why they don't remember more specifics. Maybe they do and they hold back because they think no one would really be interested.

mikej

[palitoy]

That was a hot interview, I enjoyed reading it.

Granted its been 30 years, but in all the interviews posted on the museum and even the talks with Marty and Neal at megocon, I don't understand why they don't remember more specifics. Maybe they do and they hold back because they think no one would really be interested.

It's hard to say really, I went through my sample room at work and couldn't remember jobs I did ten years ago, so I guess the memory can cheat.

I have an interview coming in two weeks where the person worked on the prototypes themselves and he is definitely more details orientated.