Mego Micronaut Toy Prototype: Salesman’s Sample Lobros

[palitoy]

The RSS for the Museum blog seems to be busted, so I will carry over this amazing discovery by our own Ray Miller. Imagine buying a vintage carded figure and getting a hand painted salesman sample. Just awesome:

http://www.megomuseum.com/mego-micronaut-toy-prototype-salesmans-sample-lobros/

[palitoy]

bumping this to top, it deserves it.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Nice!

Chris

[Starroid Raiders Dagon]

Wow, that is amazing that it went unrecognized until now. That is a great piece to have in a collections. Good for Ray!

[drquest]

Cool stuff! I would have wanted to open the card myself, but probably wouldn't have done it.

[AcroRay]

Honestly, after I had it upright in a display case for a while, the tape's last stickiness eventually gave up and the blister just finally drooped open like... a clam. So it eventually opened itself!

[Wee67]

Just plain wow!!!!

I can't imagine how long this floated around before Ray "discovered" it. Thanks so much for sharing and I can't think a of a better or more appropriate collector to end up with this figure.

[AcroRay]

It didn't float around long. It seems it was stored safely away for a long time with other Mego treasures, offered for auction, flipped a month later, then ended up in my hands.

It's not exactly like it accidentally floated out of China and through Children's Palace and various collections, unnoticed. The people who auctioned it a year ago on behalf of the person who originally got the sample from Mego just didn't do a good job at all of promoting the item, and the re-seller didn't either, although both auctions had extensive, detailed photography.

Or perhaps it says more about the quality craftsmanship of the piece that it effectively convinced more people it actually was a retail Lobros, instead of realizing it was a painted stand-in Scotch-taped to an unfinished backing card.

Either that, or we Micronaut collectors are too jaded by re-carded Micronaut aliens sold for exorbitant prices, to pay much mind to another.

Thanks for letting me share, Brian and all!

[pmwasson]

Thanks for sharing! It is a very cool piece to have in your collection.

[cjefferys]

What a fantastic find, congrats!