Mego Aquaman Podcast

[palitoy]

Hey all, I was a guest at the Fire & Water podcast, where me, our own Earth2Chris and Rob talk about one of my favourite subjects, Mego Aquaman Toys, it was a lot fun and i hope you enjoy it !

http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fire-water-183/

[Earth 2 Chris]

I for one, had a blast! We should talk Rob into doing that for every Mego WGSH figure.

Chris

[PNGwynne]

That was such fun!

[Mr.Marion]

Gave it a listen , loved it.
I think I have an answer on why Shazam wasn't reissued as a pocket hero. The CAH come out when The Filmation live action show was on, but Shazam was as popular as crotch rot in 1979/80.

[MIB41]

That was a fun podcast. Great work guys! Aquaman has always had a unique appeal to me simply because of his costume color scheme. As a kid I always saw my heroes with some combination of blue, red, green, and gray. But seeing this one hero with a orange shirt against green gloves and green leggings with fins, made him stand out as a very striking figure. Add he never had a chest emblazed with an insignia really gave him a very unique quality. Sure he had his ‘A” on his belt, but once again, that was the nice difference he held for himself.

I look at Aquaman’s ears, like I do allot of the anomalies of 60’s and 70’s toys. It was that wonderful discovery one had with product lines where the person designing it probably grew up watching something like the Searchers so they had that kind of stranger in a strange land sensibility about this modern look for a hero. But it’s those removed qualities from the license that really gave so many of these figures and toys their charm.

Of course we didn’t have men in their 40’s and 50’s collecting these either, so the industry certainly played to a different audience. These were toys made specifically for children from adults who grew up in a different era. That type of perspective is long gone today with action figures having such a lucrative license base (and consumer base) to work from.

But even though I was in that original demographic Mego marketed to with these figures, I can honestly say I have not one vivid memory of the Great White Shark play set. Not one. Back in those days, I was using the rubber shark from my GI Joe Dangers of the Depths play set to terrorize my AHI Batboat in the tub as a make shift Orka.

But you know Aquaman will always be a hero I hold near and dear to my heart. He is as unique today as he was back then. My only regret is I doubt I will ever get to see him in that costume which made me love him so much. It remains one of those great outfits that I guess modern studios see as retro cheese. Not me. I think it remains just as synonymous with Aquaman as the outfit on Spiderman. Again, great show guys. That was a fun listen.