Am I the only one here who NEVER owned an 8" MEGO as a kid?

[B-Lister]

I am an 80s kid. The only MEGOs I had as a kid were the 3 3/4th Dukes and General Lee.

I did not own my first 8" MEGO (Spock) until I was a teenager!

[Mikey]

Am I the only one here who NEVER owned an 8" MEGO as a kid?

Yes

[toys2cool]

i'm an 80's kid as well...all I had was Dukes and Chips until I was 9 or 10 that I got my Batman at a doll show

[mikeMc6]

I received only one Mego as a kid. Mr. Myx. Horrible starter piece! Never played with him, didn't try to collect others nor did i see any others as a child. If only I had received ANY other megos besides the achingly bland myx. As a result, I didn't discover mego coolness till my late thirties. So consider me almost like you.

[Figuremod73]

My only Mego 8'' was Bo Duke. I got him for my 10 birthday in '83 ( I think he may have been a peg warmer at a drugstore.) I liked him but he sat for years on my toyshelf with other liked but never played with toys. I did have a stretch hulk that I liked much better.

As a '80s kid I was into MOTU, Transformers, Gijoe, etc.

[B-Lister]

Am I the only one here who NEVER owned an 8" MEGO as a kid?

Yes

Heh, I was afraid of that!

[PNGwynne]

Sometimes just a few years makes a huge difference: I was born October '67, so I was the perfect age to receive the early WGSH and many more Megos as I aged. I even when on to get a few Micronauts & 12-inch Mego figures, but Star Wars kind of derailed my toy interests, to Mego's detriment & now my disdain.

[Relic]

I was born October 4th 1967 so when the WGSH Megos came out in the early 70's I was the target audience for these new fantastic toys. Cartoons were a huge part of Saturday mornings and I can remember watching the Super friends with several friends on my street as my parents owned the first color TV in the neighbourhood. This show helped introduce super heros to me. I still remember Christmas morning 1977 getting Superman, Batman, Robin, Green Arrow, Joker, Penguin, Tarzan, Captain America and Aquaman under the tree. All of them were in boxes that were quickly ripped open and thrown away. If I had just opened the boxes more carefuly and put them aside.

[piecemaker]

I was a 70s kid,but only owned the first wave of POTA figures,The Champ and Force Commander.My friend had a bunch of the other Megos Star Trek,WGSH so i did see and play with those too.I think too, like PNGwynne i really lost interest when THE Star Wars action figures were introduced in the 3 & 3/4 format.Although i did have some,i never really got into them like i would have if they were 8" Megos. Congrats on getting another Spock! Star Trek is another very cool Mego line.You might end up having to collect all of them.

[Falstaff13]

I was born in 1975, and so I missed the Megos at their original peak.

[Bizarro Amy]

I am an 80s kid. The only MEGOs I had as a kid were the 3 3/4th Dukes and General Lee.

I did not own my first 8" MEGO (Spock) until I was a teenager!

I didn't collect Megos until I started reading Toyfare.

[Earth 2 Chris]

You people need to leave. NOW.

But seriously, I was born in December of 1974, and got my Megos REALLY young. My time with Fisher-Price was apparently really short, and my love for super heroes was VERY strong, so I had 8" WGSH figures around age 3 or so.

That being said, I didn't have very many different characters. Only the perennial sellers, Supes, Bats, Robin, Spidey, Cap and Hulk. And only the Batcave, Batmobile and Spider-Car for accessories. I did have a Mego Fonzie and his Jalopy, and an 8" Spock (even though I had no idea who he was at the time), and later on, all the 8" Dukes.

But I love the Pocket lines as well. Had Batman, Robin, Superman, Luthor, Spider-Man and Hulk. And the Batmobile! And the Duke boys and General Lee gift set. So I had nearly as much 3 3/4 stuff as 8".

Oh, and I had the 12" Superman and Spider-Man! So it's not just 8" that means Mego, it's just the unique size they brought to the industry.

Chris

[cjefferys]

Hmmph, some of you youngsters don't know what it's like to grow up with 8" Megos. I got my first one when I was five years old (RC Batman), and throughout my childhood I owned a bunch of WGSH, plus some Star Trek, POTA, Robin Hood, Pirates and Mad Monsters 8 inchers. Megos were my childhood. (well, until Star Wars came along...)

[B-Lister]

I was a 70s kid,but only owned the first wave of POTA figures,The Champ and Force Commander.My friend had a bunch of the other Megos Star Trek,WGSH so i did see and play with those too.I think too, like PNGwynne i really lost interest when THE Star Wars action figures were introduced in the 3 & 3/4 format.Although i did have some,i never really got into them like i would have if they were 8" Megos. Congrats on getting another Spock! Star Trek is another very cool Mego line.You might end up having to collect all of them.

Oh, I still have my original Spock! I also have a bunch of WGSH. I may eventually collect more Trek (I have a MCCoy and a naked Kirk) but I want as much Original as possible.

[MIB41]

I'm the exact opposite. I remember the DAY I saw a spin rack of removable cowl Batmans and Robins hanging out of their solid boxes. It was such a moment to see figures like that. For my generation, Star Wars really ruined all that. After the movie broke big, everything got scaled down to tiny figures that didn't have enough plastic to make one Mego leg. So that was the beginning of the end for my action figure years as a kid. I was in middle school when Star Wars came out anyway, so I was trending into a different phase of my life anyway. But the tiny figures helped get me there faster.