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Hec, you old fart !!!!!
I thought you was younger then me
I thought you was younger then me
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42 and still buying some figures. Bought the easy Mego Trek figures as a kid, still have them. Also a lot of the other toys and playsets. Have some Buck Rogers stuff and a GAH Bug set from back then as well. Didn't really discover comic books and those heros until it was too late to get the Mego figures. :(Comment
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Hey,
266 in dog years.
Chris DVM"The more I get to know people, the better I like my dog." - Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by Type3Toys
You Sure still even know how old you are,..?
... The Original Knight ..., Often Imitated, However Never Duplicated. The 1st Knight in Customs.
always trading for Hot Toys Figures .
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I'm 33 and had the "Big 6" 8-inch WGSH as a kid (Supes, Bats, Robin, Spidey, Cap, Hulk). I had some of the other formats and 8" from other lines too.
Started "collecting" them again by picking up a carded Batman in the early 90s while in high school.
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I'm laughing at the ages...like most of you I'm 39 going on 40 in June.
That must have been the Golden Age. I can't imagine the target age was 14. I started playing with them when I was 7 and probably stopped with them when I was about 10 or 11. It was a relatively short period of time but I lived and breathed those figures for those few years but I did continue reading comic books until the I was a teenager and even have an original comic I drew when I was about 10 or so. My best friend and I would play with Megos (I preferred his house, he had everything), we would read his extensive comic collection, and came up with zany ideas of creating our own comic company....his superhero was Green Hornet (real original) and he must have written about 200-300 issues and mine was Double X (also really lame since I designed him to look a bit like Racer X from Speed Racer)....I only got through a few issues because I was a more talented artist while my friend wasn't so good but had a lot of great ideas...we should have collaborated lol.
Anyway, I talked to him in the last year after not having spoken with him for at least 10 years. We were best friends in Elementary School, very good friends in Jr. High, and we had different friends in High School so we were friends but didn't hang around together much.
It was a total blast to talk to him. He definitely remembered all the Megos and said his mom sold them all at a yard sale (I wish I had been there for that), he financed a good portion of his college education with his comic book collection (he had a stellar collection. It was in the thousands and it was Silver Age early issues of Amazing-Spiderman, as well as Batman, Superman, X-Men and others from the '60's and '70's and he was very meticulous about reading them carefully as well as keeping them minty condition. He is now a lawyer, I'm an Accountant living in two seperate states, go figure but he did laugh at our money making schemes including our comic book business. The way he put it, my drawings were excellent, his stunk but he had good story lines but went on to talk about a 3rd friend that gave it a try and couldn't draw or write...had tears coming out of my eyes when we were done talking but those are the types of memories that will last a lifetime and obviously he remembered them vividly as well."The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith."
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33. My older brother and I had all the CAH figures, Pocket Superman , Lex and Jor-El, half the WGSH figures, Batmobile, Spider-Car, Supervator, Bend n Flex Robin & Spider-Man, some Micronauts, all the Buck Rogers 3 3/4" figures, all the 3 3/4" Black Hole humans, all the ST:TMP 3 3/4" crew & Enterprise, ST:TOS Kirk,Spock, McCoy, Klingon & Enterprise, POTA Burke Verdon,Zira & Cornelius,12" Hulk, some CHiPS 3 3/4" & 8", some Dukes Of Hazard 3 3/4" & 8", most of the Eagle Force figures, Eagle Island & some vehicles and a Clown Around Frankenstein. I wanted the ST:TMP and Buck Rogers 12" figures, but was told they were too expensive (I have some with price tags of $14.99 @ on the box now). I had so many good memories that led me to collecting them as an adult. I get a kick out of my dad when he comes over my house saying "I remember buying you that!" He got me into WGSH Marvel figures and ST:TOS because he was a fan of them. I'm still p i s s ed mom wouldn't buy me KISS figures because she thought they were satanic!
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I'm 39.
I happily still have my Joker, Romulan, Talos and partial Alan Verdon (half his face was eaten off by mice!) along with tons of Micronauts from when I was a kid. But my Action Jackson and AHI Frankenstein are MIA.
I think all of my 8-inch Megos were given to me by my older sister for various birthdays and such, because she saw how frustrated I was that my parents wouldn't buy them for me or let me get them for myself. They had no problem with Micronauts, Gi Joe, Big Jim or Star Wars figures -- just the Megos for some reason. Maybe it was the "dolls in tights" thing... Who knows?
I miss that Frankenstein...Comment
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I am so happy so see how long this thread has gone. I love reading the stories about your childhood. I am so glad I asked?Comment
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Senile ??? !!!
Senile ??? !!!!!!
Uhh,
What were we talking about ?
Oh yea,
Never mind........
Now I remember ...
I like both Neil Diamond AND Tom Jones......
A hard decision to pick one of them as the best.Comment
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I'm 25, and like GreenLantern9999 I also first learned of megos in ToyFare magazine.
My first 8" mego type toy I got was the ToyBIZ Famous covers Spider-Man. Now I've been picking up the CTVT repros, Got all the monsters, and all the clowns.
Later
CKD
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