Mego Corporation, EMCE and Mattel Retro-Action head sculpt comparisons

[comicmike]

Mego and Mattel Retro-Action / EMCE prototype head sculpts:

Supergirl / Wonder Woman, Mattel Retro-Action


Nurse Chapel


Vina


When I look at the comparisons, I am curious whether the Facts of Life Jo headsculpt could be repainted for a Vina.

[noelani72]

very interesting...I knew about wonder woman, but not the rest.

[pickermall]

If I could get a couple Star Trek female costumes, I could do some custom figures...

[TrekStar]

I think new mego did a nice job on the Endora sculpt. I think the Bewitched series is better than the other female
figures so far, Charlies Angels, Facts of Life, even a little better than the Uhura sculpt.

[callistofreak]

Star Trek uniforms

you can get the Big Bang girls in their Star Trek uniformss-l1600.jpgs-l1600 (1).jpg

[palitoy]

this is terrific. I had no idea.

[Capt_Kirk]

time to start casting some heads. Pretty amazing what a paint job can do.

[B-Lister]

Anybody have a comparison between all three generations of Romulan?

[comicmike]

*Update, re: EMCE / DST Nurse Chapel, new thoughts:

There were 2 prototype heads for Nurse Chapel. I recall reading online that the first one looked a lot like Majel Barrett, but the Paramount / DST decision-makers wanted a more high-styled sculpt from EMCE; thus, a second prototype for Christine Chapel was created (if I am remembering the account correctly, I think that was the one photographed with the large curl of rooted hair on the forehead).

I do not have an actual Charmed "Phoebe Halliwell" in hand to compare the sculpts, so I scanned the internet for more pics of Phoebe. Moreover, my gut nagged me to look at some more of the other neo-Mego head sculpts from 2018. I think I may have been on to something with my original post, but with an error.

I have the new Charlie's Angels series, and I just opened one of the blister packs: If I am not mistaken, I am guessing that the Charlie's Angels "Sabrina Duncan" is the original Nurse Chapel; and Phoebe is the 2nd sculpt. I took turnaround angles of the Sabrina head, and chose the stills that compared closest to the original online resources. I cropped the faces to align the eye lines, noses, mouths and ears for my analysis. The following are the breakdowns that I would like to share with the community.
In my opinion, the sculpts are both valid, beautifully done, and hold their own uniqueness for what could have been the figure heads of our long lost Nurse.

...Pretty amazing what a paint job can do.

I agree with Capt_Kirk. I'm always amazed at what paint details --and particularly hair colour-- can do to adapt a toy head to look like someone completely different.

PS: And as I was writing this, something occured to me in the moment: Hey, haven't I seen that narrower face sculpt somewhere else? ...Isn't that Jeannie?! Could it be?

[PNGwynne]

I love this thread and you have a good eye, but Jeannie and Phoebe are dissimilar.

[scott metzger]

Amazing what the paint can do. Mattel's WW has an expression that chills your bones (how many bodies are buried in her back yard?), but the same basic head with a good paint job is gorgeous. And that point is really made here: Mego is killing it on the paint jobs for their female figures.

This is a really interesting observation, one that had completely escaped me. It also means that Mego already has the base head for some more female Trek figures, which bodes well for the possibility of their release.

[danadoll]

I love this thread and you have a good eye, but Jeannie and Phoebe are dissimilar.

Yeah, Jeannie's nose is very different, as well as the face/cheek and lip shape.

Dana