Megos at Target Experience

[Klosterheim]

Congratulations, Klosterheim! I just picked up Dracula today too. He is really, really cool indeed!

Thanks!

And, there is something very special about the new Mego card package.

It is a nice feeling to have such a good toy in the collection.

[callistofreak]

Do we know when? or who will be in wave 2 yet???

[Hedji]

I thought I bought all the ones I wanted.

Then Fonzie called to me. They have that power, you know.

[Cornelius POTA]

so a 40 plus year investment of a buck ninty-seven returned what? Not really a sound investment.

anywhere from $225.00 - $650.00 for me. can't speak for everyone. certain figures are hot and some are not, like the Waltons, Happy Days, etc.

Green Goblins, POTA, WGSH always get top dollar MINT.

[PNGwynne]

Well-said.

No one said it was an investment, and I certainly don't think anyone here was treating them that way.

Only a scalper or a speculator would treat these like a money-making opportunity. I have very little respect for either. These are toys. I'm glad that you returned them, and hope they'll find their way into the hands of someone who can truly appreciate thrm.

[cjefferys]

That's what everyone said back in the day with Mego 1974 - 84. Who buys this stuff ? Nobody new to collect. I can remember $1.97 Mego figures on clearance as well to $1.00 at Woolworths.

Have the sticker and clam shell. Now their worth hundreds.


Nobody can really tell what the future investment will be on new 2018 Mego. In 2058, who knows ?? Just sayin....

Apples and oranges, there was almost no toy collecting culture back then. How many people were buying Megos back in the 70's to pack away until they were worth money in the future? Almost no one, except for a very few doll/movie collectors buying WOZ or early SF/Trek fans buying Trek figures. But those numbers are very tiny compared to all the people buying the new Megos for "investment". It's not the same thing at all.

[generic]

I now have a Dracula figure from the end cap of Target.

Mego Dracula is really, really cool!

Congratulations, Klosterheim! I just picked up Dracula today too. He is really, really cool indeed!

[Klosterheim]

I now have a Dracula figure from the end cap of Target.

Mego Dracula is really, really cool!

[generic]

To be fair, those Spider-man 2099 comics are a pretty good read as I recall. So at least there's that!

Yeah, Spider-Man 2099 started off great! Plus, I was really tired of all the crossovers by the early 90s. I thought, "This book takes place 100 years in the future. This will be awesome because it can't cross over with anything!" Then we got Doom 2099, Hulk 2099, X-Men 2099, Ravage 2099, etc. and it was the same mess -Haha!

[ODBJBG]

That is true. No one can know for certain. However, we can make an educated guess based on what items from the past have become valuable today.

I don't think there is much of a cross over between toy collectors and fans of The Facts of Life or The Brady Bunch, so even though there may be people today buying them because of the 70s and 80s nostalgia, I don't see those figures being highly collectible in the future by people looking back fondly on 2018. No one knows for certain, but I have a short box of mint condition Spider-Man 2099 comic books from the early 1990s that isn't going to put anyone's kids through college

To be fair, those Spider-man 2099 comics are a pretty good read as I recall. So at least there's that!

[thunderbolt]

That's what everyone said back in the day with Mego 1974 - 84. Who buys this stuff ? Nobody new to collect. I can remember $1.97 Mego figures on clearance as well to $1.00 at Woolworths.

Have the sticker and clam shell. Now their worth hundreds.


Nobody can really tell what the future investment will be on new 2018 Mego. In 2058, who knows ?? Just sayin....

so a 40 plus year investment of a buck ninty-seven returned what? Not really a sound investment.

[thunderbolt]

^^^why did you return them?

sounds to me like he was planning on scalping them.

[Teemu]

Now their worth hundreds.....

Yeah, because kids opened their toys and played with them.Nobody thought to keep things in the packages back in the 70's and 80's which is why packaged vintage things of that era are expensive today...now some people's mindset of today think they can do the same thing and get a return like that again in 20 years not happening!

[toothaction]

^ The ENDORSED stickers, as I understand it, were from the stock sold at SDCC, whereas the numbered stickers are on the general release pretties. SDCC stock being what it was, limited, I don't imagine that it throws the totals off by more than a fraction, if at all.

[generic]

Update: I said a few posts back that it would have made no sense for Mego to number the figures if they were going to make more than 10,000. Well, I just learned that some of the stickers don't have a number, but instead have 'ENDORSED' where the "#### / 10000" would have been. So maybe stubbylong was right about the numbers being more than 10,000?