Age?

[csstuba]

I'm 32. Got a slew of WGSH from 1979-1982. That's where my collecting roots are.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

35 years old here. I think I started getting Mego figures around 1976 when I was 3. My parents were big Star Trek fans so those were, I believe, the first ones I acquired. Spidey, Batman and Robin followed immediately afterwards. Mego-wise I mainly played with WGSH 8" and 12", Micronauts, Star Trek, and later the Dukes Of Hazzard and Eagle Force. I knew kids who had Wizard of Oz, Planet Of The Apes, Mad Monsters, and so on...so I got to play with those a bit too, though I didn't own them. By the start of the 1980s I was pretty heavily into Star Wars, and then the 3-3/4 GI Joes and He-Man figures. But Megos were always the ones I was most attached to.

I think it's pretty awesome that there are younger people who didn't grow up with these, who are now Mego enthusiasts

[monkey tennis]

63...er...I mean 36...I think.

[Brue]

I'm laughing at the ages...like most of you I'm 39 going on 40 in June.

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.

I figured that 14 was the MAX of the target age range. Once in HS most kids swith from little toys to big toys or sports or girls or whatever.

I think the range would be 3-14 - most around 6-12 (elementary school) probably.

[Iron_fox85]

i'm 22 (23 in june) my first megos were the reproducted figures of mad monsters from ctvts, after i got yhem i didnt think of megos much, however i did got two pirates later, after that it was GIJOE SIGMA 6 which were 8inches so i focus on those cus to me they were modern mego-like GIJOES. and then....i it was last year, sure i heard the star trek figures were out, i never thought i find any so i didnt do much---then-BAM! captain kirk was right there in my local hastings when i open him---i fell into with MEGOS and had him join the joe team to stop cobra, all in all after that i ordered spock, then i found romulan, and adroidan and mccoy in hastings again, then a few months later brother got me a klingon from suncoast. my recent buys are the western heroes.

anything 8inch is pretty much what i enjoy. i hope hasbro brings back the 8inch joes again someday.

[RG]

Cool stuff I'm just down the road from your Portland/Vancouver area. I'm in Silverton OR home of Silver Falls State Park and the Oregon Gardens

I'm 31 had a couple Mego items as a kid, but soon found myself wanting to get a Spiderman late 04' and got him in early '05. after that it took about a year but I got a parts lot, and soon after I was hooked. I've been collecting regularly since spring of '06. I'm up to 17 WGSH, 2 Treks and 1 AJ

[Titan4ever]

<sigh> Just turned 40 2 weeks ago, and am also an original Mego player, starting with commandeering my brother's AJ (Still have him!) and Spidey at age 4, and getting my very own Batman and Robin figures the following summer.

I had most of the DC heroes at the peak of my childhood ownership (9 characters) including 3 titans. I never stopped buying them whenever I found decent ones in the wild, but my adventures lessened considerably through high school and college. After years of denial, I finally succumbed to eBay in 2002, and the ranks have continued to swell

[Goblin19]

34-I'm amazed how many younger guys are into Megos. It shows how appealing they are.

[Tyme2tyme]

I'm 44 and still feel like a kid when I find a new "friend" to join my figures. I got the Enterprise bridge for Christmas when I was a young boy and as I grew up and moved out my mom decided to sell off my old toys. The only reason my star trek set was saved was that I had stored it in a locked footlocker in the utility closet. I had some of the heroes (Spidey, Iron man, Conan and Batman) and some of the apes. John

[mego boy CA]

37
i had a few megos and yes they were played with and enjoyed daily. still are now that i think about it.