Pics of you in the 70's with your Mego toys

[Nostalgiabuff]

George's thread got me thinking. do you have any cool photos of yourselves with your toys back in the day?

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here is a good one of me, after a hard day of Christmas play with Captain Kirk

[SKotK]

I never managed to get any of the Mego Star Trek I always asked for in the 70s...but here's the closest thing I did get:

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It's a Super8 film still of Christmas 1974 with my first ever Star Trek item. Mom had to put it up out of reach eventually because I kept playing with it and breaking the communications dish off!

Christmas 1975 brought a Star Trek Utility Belt, and 1976 brought the Star Trek James Blish novelization 1-5 box set. But still no Megos. :(

--SKot

[George Khoury]

I never managed to get any of the Mego Star Trek I always asked for in the 70s...but here's the closest thing I did get:

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It's a Super8 film still of Christmas 1974 with my first ever Star Trek item. Mom had to put it up out of reach eventually because I kept playing with it and breaking the communications dish off!

Christmas 1975 brought a Star Trek Utility Belt, and 1976 brought the Star Trek James Blish novelization 1-5 box set. But still no Megos. :(

--SKot

Jackpot!

[George Khoury]

That's great. Until I found my old photo, I didn't realize how hard it was to see old photos of kids actually playing with their toys.

George's thread got me thinking. do you have any cool photos of yourselves with your toys back in the day?

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here is a good one of me, after a hard day of Christmas play with Captain Kirk

[Nostalgiabuff]

after my mom passed away and we cleaned out the house to sell it, I started going through the old slides and even found a huge bag of negatives, many of which there were no photos printed of, I have been slowly having them converted to digital and printed, that is why the photo there of me looks so crisp and clean, even though it was probably in 1976 or so

[George Khoury]

after my mom passed away and we cleaned out the house to sell it, I started going through the old slides and even found a huge bag of negatives, many of which there were no photos printed of, I have been slowly having them converted to digital and printed, that is why the photo there of me looks so crisp and clean, even though it was probably in 1976 or so

That's great. The quality of your pic had me thinking that was taken in the Nineties.

[SKotK]

That's great. The quality of your pic had me thinking that was taken in the Nineties.

Yeah, I thought the same thing, though I knew it was older. It's always great if you can actually locate the original negatives for that stuff, because not only can you have them printed in beautiful modern color, you can also have digital copies of them in ultra high resolution! Far better than scanning in old yellowed 3x5 or 4x6 prints...

Now I need to go through the family photos and try to collect up all the original negatives...

--SKot

[Nostalgiabuff]

yeah, the modern quality is light years better but it is very expensive to have professionally done. I am about a grand in at this point. it ends up being around $2.00 per photo digitally scanned and one print made. I have to look on line and just buy myself a digital converted to save myself on the cost because I have thousands of negatives to still convert. it's worth to me in the end, to have nice modern made prints of these, but still very expensive

[Nostalgiabuff]

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here is another. not sure which is cooler, Iron Man or my snazzy red blazer, LOL

[Nostalgiabuff]

LOL, not sure how that thumbnail picture got in there but that is me again, looks like a GI Joe astronaut in my hands. I don't remember what the deal was with the masks but it was the 70's

[HardyGirl]

My scanner is on the fritz, but Brian put up a pic of me and my Mego Lainie doll when I was 7 years old in the Member's Gallery. Since we have a different format, I don't know where it is now. Brian...?

[daz71]

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here is another. not sure which is cooler, Iron Man or my snazzy red blazer, LOL

you lost the gloves and button already i wonder what happened to all the accessories mine had disappeared within a week usually.

[longscarf72]

Ok, I know this isn't a Mego toy, but here's my 4 year old self with my favorite Christmas present of 1976--Donny Osmond!

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Then, 2 years later, a certain space movie had hit and my tastes changed a little bit. It was a Darth Vader Christmas in 1978! Still not Mego, but anyways...

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[weshightower21]

Ok, I know this isn't a Mego toy, but here's my 4 year old self with my favorite Christmas present of 1976--Donny Osmond!

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Then, 2 years later, a certain space movie had hit and my tastes changed a little bit. It was a Darth Vader Christmas in 1978! Still not Mego, but anyways...

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Very cool. Love the tree.

[Nostalgiabuff]

i think I had those exact same PJ's too,