Your Mego play: Straight from the comics, or your own imagination?

[HardyGirl]

Hi guys,

A comment on the FTC page got me thinking...the new 2-packs were being discussed, and I mentioned that I would have packaged Riddler and Joker together, to which Toyroom replied, "The Joker would NEVER team up w/ the Riddler. He views him as an inferior copy". (Please don't think I'm picking on you, Anthony.) Which brings me to the question...when you played Megos as a kid, did your storyline follow the comics? Or did you just make stuff up, and let your imagination run wild? Did you like crossing universes, or even action figure lines? Would Steve Austin team up w/ your 12' Magnetic Batman? Didja ever make Superman a baddie? Would Mr. Spock and General Urko ride around in the Batmobile? Would your mini Pocket heroes have to battle the combined forces of your little green army men?

Discuss.

[enyawd72]

Interesting question...I always tended to keep my toys confined to their individual universes, but that was mostly because the sizes were all incompatible.

My Kenner Steve Austin did fight my 12" Mego Hulk though...he was my stand in for Bigfoot.

[PNGwynne]

Hmmm. Straight from Batman66 mostly, but the heroes fought the monsters, too. Oz & Trek were in their own universes for me.

[madmarva]

Early on, I made no distinction with the heroes, but As I read more comics and saw more cartoons, I played either DC or Marvel. However, I would use the other "team's" figures for other characters. Hulk would be Solomon Grundy or Captain Marvel with Batman's cape and boots would be Magneto. Invisible Girl for Black Canary or Batgirl for Jean Grey/Phoenix.

I also remember taping toothpicks on batman with Thor boots and no cape to playe Wolverine.

After seeing the Elvis movie Roustabout, I played Elvis with an Action Jackson and an Evel Knievel motorcycle.

[VintageMike]

Made it all up! Some scenarios included The Hulk invading the USS Enterprise and a unified Marvel-DC Superhero team featuring Captain America, Spider-Man, The Hulk, Superman, Batman & Shazam.

[D!n0-M@n]

What I played NEVER adhered to any universe outside of my own imagination. The characters I played with from Star Wars, Star Trek, GI Joe, or whatever never found themselves in the universe from which they originated. It always would end up some crazy Sci-Fi realm that my best friend John and I would dream up for ourselves. We always found that much more fun.

[samurainoir]

The brilliance of Mego was that DC and Marvel can interact together... even before they started crossing over with Superman vs Spider-man in the later 70's. Heck, The Duke boys, Treks, Apes, Wizard of Oz and Superheroes co-mingled at playtime.

As we see in the new Lego Movie, where all the Lego characters exist in one Lego-verse, thus should be playtime with Megos. Why put restrictions on play and imagination?

in general joker and riddler don't get along, but there have been so many incarnations that they have teamed up on occasion. Most famously, the Batman 66 movie, where most folks our age would pair them together in our minds.

[kisstour03]

I used to use figures from all different lines to make up my own characters. I used 8" Mego Hulk with my Star Wars figures as a creature for Luke and Han to fight since I didn't have a Wampa. So Hulk was some swamp world creature. I used my 3 3/4" Mego Duke boys as undercover agents for my GI Joes. 12" Hulk was used as a beast for Voltron to fight. My Pocket Action Hero Superman and Batman and Spiderman figures often swooped in to save the day for GI Joe. 8" Batman often fought He-Man. By the time I got He-Man, Batman was naked and well worn and was used as some sort of masked wizard or something. 12" Hulk also was great to use with my Transformers as a big green monster to battle.

[David Lee]

The Lee universe was always better...I went my own direction for sure. Megos were early for me, I didn't hit my stride until the late 70's, by then it was all 3&3/4"... But that universe was anything goes...

Dave

[Earth 2 Chris]

I was all over the place. Sometimes it was just DC, and just Marvel, but then there would be crossovers. I usually used other Megos as the secret IDs and other characters. Luke Duke got quite a bit of side work as Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker, etc.

My Pocket Heroes got a LOT of crossover action, across many lines.

Chris

[Wee67]

Since heroes outnumbered villians, I was always involved in cross-overs. I think Neptunian was my go-to hero villian. He was the first Star Trek figure I re-collected as an adult.

I did, however, use Batman66 as a guide for a lot of Batman adventures. Ididn't follow the exact script. more the structure- chase the villain, caught in a trap, escape from the trap, capture the baddies.

[houseofdracula]

Copied the Batman TV show for the most part.
However, I never owned a Bruce Wayne so I had to improvise with Captain Kirk playing the part.

[LadyZod]

I usually played from my imagination, but stuff like the news (cold war stuff), movies, and books I've read influenced my storylines.

I recall one rather intricate storyline that came about when I got a Secret Wars Captain America & Black suit Spider-man, and the Kenner Superpowers Superman actually had to fly around the sun to slingshot himself into the Marvel Universe to help Capt and Spidey defeat a robot invasion from space. (spoilers: the Robots had kryptonite)

This story played out in my room, in my yard, and in my garage over the course of the summer.

[D!n0-M@n]

I usually played from my imagination, but stuff like the news (cold war stuff), movies, and books I've read influenced my storylines.

I recall one rather intricate storyline that came about when I got a Secret Wars Captain America & Black suit Spider-man, and the Kenner Superpowers Superman actually had to fly around the sun to slingshot himself into the Marvel Universe to help Capt and Spidey defeat a robot invasion from space. (spoilers: the Robots had kryptonite)

This story played out in my room, in my yard, and in my garage over the course of the summer.

I like that story, that's awesome!

[batmanmc]

My play was imagination with crossover from many lines . Me and Ric played together .