Mego Invites You On A Journey That Begins Where Everything Ends

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In 1979, Walt Disney sent out a press kit for their upcoming block buster film "The Black Hole" included in this was a specially made Mego Toys Catalog for the event. Full of items that were never produced, we are happy to show case it for the first time.

Check out the 1980 Mego Black Hole Catalog.
One week until Mego Meet, hope to see you there.

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[Mikey]

I'm surprised Mego didn't at least plan a Cygnus TOY, similar to the Canadian Enterprise.

[palitoy]

Actually Mike, they did, this was the first design for the Cygnus. By the time the 1980 Mego catalog came out, the design was exactly like the Canadian Enterprise/Pocket Batcave/Buck Rogers Space Port.

[Mikey]

I ment the Canadian Enterprise toy that depicts the entire ship -- like the Southbend and Playmates Enterprises.
Actually, a little retooling of the Cygnus model kit would have made it easy.

[palitoy]

I ment the Canadian Enterprise toy that depicts the entire ship -- like the Southbend and Playmates Enterprises.
Actually, a little retooling of the Cygnus model kit would have made it easy.

Oh I see, it might have been because MPC already had a kit in the works they decided not to.

[cjefferys]

That's nice to see all what could have been. That playset is cool, but I prefer the one that was later designed. I really wish that was made.

BTW, the link to the page showing the 12" dolls doesn't work. You might want to take the ".jpg" off the end of the url, then it will work fine.

[palitoy]

BTW, the link to the page showing the 12" dolls doesn't work. You might want to take the ".jpg" off the end of the url, then it will work fine.

Thanks, I had some isssues with lack of sleep the day I wrote those pages.

[toys2cool]

cool,you know I had these figures when i was a kid and didn't even know what the hell they were

who's the guy in the red suit again? I remember having him with my Joes and it use to be one of my brothers favorite figures

[palitoy]

That Hans Reinhart, he was the Darth Vader in the movie I guess.

[starsky]

that walking vincent looks awesome!

[jwyblejr]

That Hans Reinhart, he was the Darth Vader in the movie I guess.

I've always thought of him more along the lines of Tarkin myself.

[Mikey]

Besides the blatent ripoff of V.I.N.CENT being a combo of 3PO and R2, I always thought the Black Hole was quite unique and very different from Star Wars.

There really was no Vader character.
There was no princess character.
No Solo, etc.

If anything, I think the Black Hole borrowed more off of Star Trek.

It had a Captain similar to Kirk.
A lead female who was actually smart and even was a scientist.
A nutty bad guy who actually thought he was doing good.
I could go on ......

To me, Black Hole was way more Trek-ish then Star Wars-ish

I think that's why I always loved the Black Hole .. (me, not being a huge Star Wars fan)

I just don't see the connection, not counting Vinny and the top notch effects

[Action Martin]

I never cared for the Black Hole movie. Compared to the other sci-fi films of the day, it was rather boring. I did own some of the figures though. For some reason the only place that I could find them back then was at Woolworth's, Woolco, Kay Bee Toys, Heroes World, and T.S.S. And they all charged the outrageous sum of $3.33 for the figures. I don't recall them being sold at my Toys R Us, Play World, or Child World.