How did you play with your Megos, back in the day?

[ZMOQ]

I'm a little curious about how you all used to play with your Megos, back in the day, like 1974, or 1978, etc.

Did you keep superheroes and supervillains strictly segregated away from non-superheroes/villains? Did you separate Marvel from DC, or were they all one big happy family?

Did your WGSH, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, Dinah-Mites, along with Super Joe, Big Jim, etc. all play together? Were you fussy about the 8" scale, or was it "anything goes" as far as acceptance into the toy community?

Did you keep original character names, or did you change them to your liking?

What did you do when you got duplicates? Like, if you had 2 Superman figures? Did you make one into Clark Kent, or Bizarro Superman, or did you simply have the 2 Superman figs who were BOTH "Superman" and like a tag team?

Were apes shocked and puzzled that "humans could talk" if they were integrated among WGSH, Action Jackson, Star Trek, knights, etc?

Were your superheroes "good guys" all of the time, or did they occasionally go bad, or let their powers go to their heads?

You made up stories involving your toys (c'mon, admit it!). Did you base a lot of your stories on movies, TV shows and comic books?

If Mom and Dad refused to buy Batcaves, or treehouses, or Justice League HQ or vehicles, because they were too expensive, what did you do? Improvise using cardboard beer boxes?

And... what would you do if you still had one of your childhood toys, all beat up and looking like it went though the meat grinder? And then you found an exact NRFB replacement on, say, ebay? Do you buy the NRFB one and then chuck the chewed-up one? Or does the beat-up one hold sentimental value, even though it has no collectable value?

[THE MEGO]

Pretty much played with my brother and mixed the team of Marvel and DC. Mad Monster joined the fun when we played haunted castle. Star Trek join the gang and Flash Gordon was played by itself. Due to the fact they were 10 inch vs 8 inch.
Good times, good times. Thanks mom and dad for those toys.

[HardyGirl]

Wow, so many questions, Q!

But since I'm a girl, I'll answer a little differently.

I only had 2 Megos, Lainie and Action Jackson. With Lainie, I used to play w/ my foster sister and her singing Mimi doll, and we'd play night club w/ a song and dnace act. W/ AJ, I attempted to make a "pursuit car" out of a Kleenex, pencils, and string. And AJ was part of a father/son team. Big Jack (from Big Jim's world) was AJ's dad, and my Sesame Street Ernie finger puppet was his little brother. But playing that was hard for me. I tried to imitate what I saw in commercials, but failed b/c I didn't have the backdrop in the ads, and really didn't do much dramatic play outside "House" or "School", so AJ's family got a mom and sister, and I mostly played "House" w/ them.

[Red Hulk]

My cousin and I played Star Trek with Star Trek ones(On a mission at the alien playground).I had the Hulk Hideaway so my Super Hero one hung out there or under my grandmothers kitchen table in their secret base.I wish I still had them especially my Hulk Hideaway I always wondered why there was no Bruce Banner figure to go with The Hulk just a cardboard guy.

[greensavage2000]

They were segrerated by heros and villains. Not by publisher or line.

I didn't really mix up scales when I played. Sometimes they would fight each other. Justice League against the G.I. Giants kinda thing.

When I had duplicates that pretty much meant one was in sorry shape. I remember putting Star Trek pants on a Batman then taking the wings off of a eagle from a Big Jim pack, rubber banding them to his back and pretending I had a Man-Bat.

I only had Dr. Zaius so he was not suprised because he had discovered a cave in the forbidden zone that clued him in.

Good guys were always good. Well except when they would true to get all kissy face with Batgirl and Uhuru. Reed would never let any of them to get close to Sue. That reminds me, a naked Spock and a pair of Robin panties made me a Namor.

Of course I made up stories. No I didn't base them on movies. Movies have been made about those stories. Sorry that's not true. I was channeling Axe Cop or it just seems funny when I hear that in his voice. sorry

I made vehicles and ,I can't even say playsets maybe I ahould just say rooms, out of Legos.

Let me make this clear enough for everyone to understand: Never Chuck Your Toys!

[Wee67]

It was no holds barred when I delved into my 8-inch world- DC could fight Marvel or team up to take on Monsters or the Neptunian (always a villain), sometimes heroes fought each other (it happened in the comics), dogs cavorted with cats, whatever the adventure needed.

I didn't really have many non-8-inch scale stuff, so I stayed in that world. However, my heroes did invade Barbie's Manhattan apartment on a regular basis (sorry, Sis). I have to admit, some of my Batman stories were structured like the TV show (heroes captured, trap, escape, catch the baddies) but never lifted directly.

One thing I did think about when I red the title of this thread- I usually played with my Megos by myself.

There were a few times me and my best friend George Rafferty took our figures out for adventures in the woods, etc. Usually, however, if other kids were around we rode bikes, played ball or generally explored. A lot of my Mego time was in the hallway of my apartment building or in my room.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

^I was pretty much the same way. Most of my adventures were my private time rather than a group thing. If we were outside, it was an athletic activity or inside something more group oriented like tv or a board game. My friends and i did have some Batman and Robin adventures, but i was also kind of protective of what i owned, too. As for the universe, Marvel, DC all worked together. Star Trek was separate, but the taller figures like Big Jim were usually some sort of alien trying to be a god like the Apollo episode. Gor was also a new type of Gorn.

[HardyGirl]

I have to admit, some of my Batman stories were structured like the TV show (heroes captured, trap, escape, catch the baddies) but never lifted directly.

One thing I did think about when I read the title of this thread- I usually played with my Megos by myself.

When I was a kid, most of my play was alone unless a friend was over, but then it was w/ my bigger dolls, or Barbies. When I babysit boys and we play Batman, we usually follow the same formula as the TV show, right down to the narration. Big spoons became the deadly blade that inched ever closer to the Dynamic Duo, tied to a table. Plastic tabs from those plastic Kool-Aid bottles and yarn became Batarangs, and of course a car chase was needed, and the Batmobile would chase a villain in AJs racer. But I do admit to re-enacting the shark sequence from the 60s Batman movie w/ AJs helicopter!