Preview: The 1980 Pedigree Toys Catalog

[palitoy]

A sneak peak of one of our upcoming updates is the World’s Greatest Superheroes assortment available to the United Kingdom in 1980. If you’re keeping count, that means the WGSH had three distributors in Great Britain starting with Cecil Coleman in 1974 (Coleman also carried “Johnny Jackson“) famously moving to Palitoy in the mid 1970s and settling back to Pedigree (who created the popular GI Joe competitor “Tommy Gun”) in 1980.

Pedigree carried a large variety of Mego items for 1980 including Black Hole, Star Trek:The Motion Picture, 2-XL, Pocket Superheroes, Diecast Superheroes and of course the WGSH. Look for it, this October at the Mego Museum Catalog Library (which already has an exhaustive collection of catalogs).

[scoth70]

great stuff.... keep it rolling

[Mego Milk]

I remember those!

[rchatlin]

Both Supes and Robin look to have the fabric stickers, while Batman still has the paper.

And for my money, that's the most perfectly symmetrical Spiderman suit I've ever seen.

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[jwyblejr]

Any idea what the cards look like?

[palitoy]

Pedigree seemed to just put a label on the box but I've also seen it printed it on. I have never seen an 8" figure with a pedigree sticker or logo. Either the WGSH were released in tiny quantities or they simply didn't release them, I'm not sure.

[Earth 2 Chris]

That's my entire 8" WGSH kid collection right there. Great pic!

Chris

[TrekStar]

Simon says, stand on one foot. Love the pic, thanks for sharing.