Super Collector Newsletter Discussion Thread

[MRP]

Another Friday afternoon graced with the Mego Newsletter arriving in my inbox. Great stuff as always folks.

-M

[monitor_ep]

Those Defenders look great!

[Jmass]

Cheese and crackers, so much fantastic stuff this week! Just when I thought it couldn't get any better - Hot Spice! I always enjoy seeing the customs. FTC made some pretty interesting characters. That Batgirl is really neat. The Evel Knievel feature was a fun walk down memory lane. We too did the bicycle jumping although the idea of fire never occurred to us. Probably a good thing. I also enjoy Figure Fiend's features. Thanks so much for the work you do each week on the newsletter!

[palitoy]

Eeyipe! I almost forgot to add the news here.

[Sonneveld]

School picture day vibes...
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[Confessional]

Lost Apes; WFT!… much time has passed without. How have these been overlooked and undervalued for so long!?! Pause slop, make Apes again!

Oh, and Hi Brue!

[Brue]

So I unfortunately, only visit the museum wants a blue moon anymore. Love the Site and this newsletter.
I wish I would have read the post earlier about Richie’s toy show. I just googled it…. “This event has passed”

[warlock664]

Entertaining newsletter as always.
But … what exactly is Roscoe P Coltrane doing ?

[apes3978]

Just echoing the others about the APES prototypes: Too bad they weren't made/sold. "Hopefully" someday they'll make them, but I'm not holding my breath.

[TrekStar]

Fun newsletter this week, I’ll agree about the POTA prototypes and how cool it would have been if released.

[PNGwynne]

Oh, those POTA prototypes. That hurts. I made a Dr. Hasslein; I've wanted an Armando for what seems like forever. They all look good.

[Dan2Dan]

Another fantastic Weekly: thank you all again!

Though I write that through pain, having now seen that Armando (Mantalban) head sculp for a Topps x Mego figure that was never produced. "The Pain! The Pain!"

(An Aldo and a Virgil would've been great as well, and I definitely would've bought those figures and welcomed more "Battle For" figures. But my personal preference from "Battle" would've been for a McDonald and a Kolp. A Zaius figure could be a Virgil, and a Cornelius/Galen could stand in for Caesar, and with MacDonald and Kolp, we would have the exploring party entering the Forbidden Zone, only to be confronted by evil maniac Kolp.)

Also notable/surprising to me in that advertisement for Johnny's Toys that the GI Joe Adventure Team Sky Hawk was $10, while a talking AT commander was only $6...

[palitoy]

Thanks to Steve, the newsletter is here

It's quite a fun one.

[Dan2Dan]

Great Weekly! Thank you again!

Several favorites this week, but first among equals is the very last image of the Canadian superhero customs. I believe I recognized, flying in the background, Northguard? I'm American, so I'm not entirely sure how I got the first few B&W issues of that comic book 40 years ago as a teenager in southern California. But I did. I loved that hero concept then and still do. And that custom figure even has his power armband. So great! Is Northguard still a known/prominent hero character, or is he today as obscure as I think he is? Either way: absolutely great to see.

I also really enjoyed the video by Bruno unboxing all those White Elephant Toyz Atomic Apemen. Jealous! I have watched and enjoyed many of Bruno's other YouTube videos over the years.

(Perhaps not) coincidentally, just a few days ago, YouTube recommended to me that same video of Stan Lee and Roy Thomas discussing the comic adaptation of the Human Fly circa 1976. I still have all those comic books! What's odd is, I remember buying the comic books, but I don't think I ever saw the real Human Fly on TV as a kid.

That Terence Stamp-as-Zod in movie costume custom was/is so great! RIP....

[PNGwynne]

Thanks for sharing that MRP. What a neat newsletter this week! Loved it!

Absolutely. Thank you!