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09/08/16 - Honoring Star Trek's 50th with Mego!
September 8th, 1966 was the day that Star Trek first aired (at least in the US) - one week from today. I plan to honor it with Mego!
When I was a kid in the early 70s, Star Trek became the biggest thing in the world to me, and the first thing I really got obsessed with. Right around that time the Mego figures and the Enterprise playset came out, and there was nothing I wanted more. I never got to have those, however, so it became an unrealized dream that I thought I would never fulfill.
In the late 90s I picked up a Mego Kirk on card in new condition, but with the bubble cut so I could actually take him out and play with him. This was the beginning of the collection I knew I was going to build. When the EMCE repros came out about 10 years later, I began picking those up. Once I had them all, it was time to concentrate on completing the original Mego collection. The 50th anniversary of Star Trek was coming up, and I was hoping that maybe I could complete my Mego Trek collection (at least the figures) by that date. So in the next few years I worked on that.
Now the date is upon us, and I've nearly done it. I have a new in box Enterprise set ready to be assembled and to have stickers applied. I have all but Talos hanging on the wall on cards, ready to be pulled from their partially-open bubbles on September 8th for some new adventures. My placeholder Mission to Gamma VI box is ready to be displayed, still waiting for the set that I hope to fill it with someday. My Telescreen Console is ready for action, and with any luck might still work when I put batteries in it. I even have a new-in-box Palitoy transporter, just in case the main transporter on the Enterprise fails and the crew has to resort to the back-up!
On the 8th, it's all coming out...and I'm going to have the time of my life setting up the results of a 40+ year-long dream come true. And that's how I'm going to observe the 50th anniversary of Star Trek.
Anybody who wants to join me in this, feel free to post pictures of you and your Mego (or EMCE!) Star Trek collection on this thread on September 8th. I'll be posting mine.
--SKot
When I was a kid in the early 70s, Star Trek became the biggest thing in the world to me, and the first thing I really got obsessed with. Right around that time the Mego figures and the Enterprise playset came out, and there was nothing I wanted more. I never got to have those, however, so it became an unrealized dream that I thought I would never fulfill.
In the late 90s I picked up a Mego Kirk on card in new condition, but with the bubble cut so I could actually take him out and play with him. This was the beginning of the collection I knew I was going to build. When the EMCE repros came out about 10 years later, I began picking those up. Once I had them all, it was time to concentrate on completing the original Mego collection. The 50th anniversary of Star Trek was coming up, and I was hoping that maybe I could complete my Mego Trek collection (at least the figures) by that date. So in the next few years I worked on that.
Now the date is upon us, and I've nearly done it. I have a new in box Enterprise set ready to be assembled and to have stickers applied. I have all but Talos hanging on the wall on cards, ready to be pulled from their partially-open bubbles on September 8th for some new adventures. My placeholder Mission to Gamma VI box is ready to be displayed, still waiting for the set that I hope to fill it with someday. My Telescreen Console is ready for action, and with any luck might still work when I put batteries in it. I even have a new-in-box Palitoy transporter, just in case the main transporter on the Enterprise fails and the crew has to resort to the back-up!
On the 8th, it's all coming out...and I'm going to have the time of my life setting up the results of a 40+ year-long dream come true. And that's how I'm going to observe the 50th anniversary of Star Trek.
Anybody who wants to join me in this, feel free to post pictures of you and your Mego (or EMCE!) Star Trek collection on this thread on September 8th. I'll be posting mine.
--SKot
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