The Two 1/9 Scale Worlds

[Megotu]

I know that most of us are familiar with Breyer, the horses and the dolls. We know they are pretty much Mego scale. We talk about using parts and such in customs and so on. What we have never really publicly considered the people on the other side of the 1/9 planet. There are people who collect Breyer pieces and use Mego parts for customs. These people hold competitions, in person and photo competitions of staged scenes. They have judges wandering the tables scoring. How big is this Bizarro world to MegoMuseum? Is there a BreyerBureau? It just seems weird to me that we two collecting groups occupy a relatively small niche but have never had cross-pollination that I have seen.

[samurainoir]

I just did a quick google search... It appears that the Breyer custom community might be more interested in the horses than the figures. We're generally more interested in the figures and pop culture characters. Which probably explains why there isn't a lot of crossover. Although the resin horses and sculpts available look like they would be very cool resources. I think there was discussion in the customs forum a while ago about Pegasus type horses for characters like Valkyrie, Terra Man and Clash of the Titans Persius.

I just posted a thread recently pointing over to the Cher forum as a resource for Mego Cher stuff, but I think it's got "doll cooties" the majority of folks here. On the other side of that, Cher fans are only interested in Cher and probably not so interested in the "boys action figure" and 8" scale that is the predominant focus here.

I think there is probably a huge gender divide that is difficult to overcome despite the commonality of Mego or scale. Same reason why Barbi and GI Joe 12" collectors don't mingle too often. It's programmed in at a fairly early age as well given how separate the girls and boys section of toy stores are to each other.

[Hulk]

I know I sold more than a couple sets of CTVT Western figures to Breyer collectors, and possibly a couple of return orders for Knights and Merry Men, but they probably didn't all self identify.