New! Captain America with Fly Away Action

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New to the Mego Museum Ad Archive is this 1980 Toy Fair Flier for the Mego 12" Captain America figure. No mention of the giant head though....

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[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Now that's how I remember the Captain from my childhood comics!

[toys2cool]

Very cool,he's still one of the coolest 12" figures..and I'm still surprised they actually chose him for a 12" man could you imagine if they would've made the whole 8" line in 12" a 12" Ironman now that would've been bad!!

[palitoy]

I really like the 12" line and wish it would have gone further as well. At least we got a decent Lex Luthor finally.

[Marvelmania]

Would have loved a Cap w/ the Fly away action. Still would have loved to have seen a 12" Mr. Fantastic as advertised and a few villians to boot. Can you imagine a 12" Joker or Green Goblin? What could have been.

[Werewolf]

No mention of the giant head though...

Yeah, seriously, what was up with huge nogging of his? Not to mention they finally got his outfit correct down to the red glove cuffs but then give him flesh hands and ruin it. I mean it's not like they didn't have loads of 12 inch Spidey bodies they could have used.

[palitoy]

Yeah, seriously, what was up with huge nogging of his? Not to mention they finally got his outfit correct down to the red glove cuffs but then give him flesh hands and ruin it. I mean it's not like they didn't have loads of 12 inch Spidey bodies they could have used.

The popular theory is that someone at Mego got their wires crossed. If you take the 12" Spider-Man body they were using at the time (which is actually bulkier than Cap) and put Cap's head on it, it looks a lot better and has the correct coloured hands.

I'd still say the factory screwed up scaling the head however.

[sauce]

he's been showing up a bit more frequently on ebay these days.....i'm saving up to nab one! really quite cool! even with the freako head!