First Collector Mego?

[Wee67]

A T2 Superman in 2000.

I had not thought about superheroes or Star Trek or anything from youth for since about 17 years. Yeah, I saw the Tim Burton Batman movie and I watched some cartoons here and there, but it wasn't until about '99-'00 that I started in again.

I worked with a guy who used to bring modern figures to work all the time. My inner geek had dwindled to a small ember, but those figures stoked it a bit. I mentioned how MY childhood toys had much better articualtion. They were called Megos. He told me about this auction place called eBay...

[Marvelmania]

I had just started rebuilding a comic collection for the 3rd time and found a Mego Captain America. I thought it would be fun to add it to my comic collection. Then I found a Spiderman and it was all over. I had to have the ones I had as a kid then it became more and more.

[Brue]

I ordered a minty Aquaman from an ad in the back of a toy magazine. I always wanted him. But I didn't get obsessed yet.
I moved and finally set up my toys. My wife came home with a Lando C in Skiff guard disguise from a vintage toy store nearby which started the toy buying. The X-men Spider-man and Batman Shows and corresponding toys helped the snowball get rolling.
I started Using ebay and bought a set of 18 incomplete to decent figures that offered parts for mine and some new figures - that is what started me collecting Megos again.

[luey]

I was a broke college student and took my little brother to a local hotel banquet hall Star Trek Convention. One of the "dealers" (I didn't know the term then) had some Megos on his table and I asked "hey, are these worth anything?" He told me yes and as I explained I had a whole closet full of stuff his eyes lit up. I ran home and returned with a bag full and he went through it and pulled Conan, Neptunian, Keeper and Gorn. He offered $50 which I jumped on and got his number so he could buy some more stuff later. As I was leaving I spotted a MOC Kirk for $10, had to have it. It started 2 things, my love for Megos again, and knowing I could make money from my old toys. He came the next week and bought some more stuff including Star Wars, Joes, Johnny West etc for $200, I took that $200 and hit up some friends that I knew had stuff and it blew up from there. 20 years later if I could have afforded to keep all the stuff I have came across, I could have opened the most awesome toy museum of all!! Oh the memories!

Sorry to ramble, but that's how I got my first adult Mego!!

~Luey

[toys2cool]

as an adult it was the blue carded Cheron

[jayihdz]

Superman T2 no boots, no emblem, but whoever had it painted and "S" on his chest with blue ink, suit, cape body and head were in great condition to my surprise. After carefully cleaning the ink with alcohol, finding the original boots on evilbay and a repro emblem it looks like new.....

[jwyblejr]

I got a loose Green Arrow and Dr. McCoy for 15 bucks each at a mall antique show.

[censy]

great stories!

My story involves my then girlfriend as well.

Around 1993, my girlfriend and I saw MOC Spock at a comic book/collectibles store. I commented that I had him and a bunch of other similar action figures as a kid. That Christmas, she gave him to me as a gift. Soon after I saw a Kirk at a different store and bought him. It took a several years for me to start collecting megos though, for a while it was just those two, but they planted the seed.

We eventually broke up, but I still have those two figures and she and I recently reconnected as friends. Next time I see her, I should tell her what she started. Then my current girlfriend will know who to blame : )

Chris

[palitoy]

Cool that you still have him.

[megoscott]

The Superman hanging in this pic was a beat up T1 my girlfriend bought me at an overpriced antique shop in Haight Ashbury. She sewed the emblem on from a kid's shoe. That started it. I later bought a carded Robin, Thing and Torch out of Toyshop and they came the same day we had a terrible breakup. I had to bail and sleep on a friend's couch for a week or so and had these new minty Megos to ease the pain...

[monkey tennis]

I got a Spider-Man MOC and I paid £80...they saw me coming.

Haven't looked back since...Haven't paid that much since.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I ordered a MOC Batman on a 1979 Pin Pin card ("Les Extroidanaires...") from a Toy Shop ad around 89 or 90 or so. I kept him in the package for years. A few years later I picked up a Spider-Man at a con on the same type of card for $20. Then my wife bought me a loose minty Robin from a friend who was selling his non-Star Wars toys. Having that loose Robin made me open that minty Batman, and the rest is history. I had to replace my crumbling, torn-suit childhood Megos!

Chris

[palitoy]

What Mego purchased as an adult started it for you?

It was Captain Zantor for me, I ordered him sight unseen out of a catalog "Captain Zantor figure MOC" is all it said. I guess I was expecting a Star Wars scaled figure. When it arrived and I found out it was a Mego, it was game over.



I tore him off the card before I even got in the door too.