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Another TWO original Jet Jungles Discovered!!!!

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  • Neutron X
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    Great post!!! I am very happy for you to find this treasure again! Cool story by the way, I think the fishing stories of toy hunting area great part of the fun of collecting!

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  • scoth70
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    great score your a lucky chappy

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  • Jetjungle75
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    Thanks guys for all your kind words.
    Love this community, and the buzz of finding something that I have been after for years.
    You are all right about the story behind it, and it is his dear old gran that makes it.

    As the seller said in one of his e-mails:

    "If my Gran wasn't so strict with keeping JJ and Tarzan in the showcase, i promise you they would both be buried in the red Kalahari sand..or drowned in the Hartswater irrigation canal!!!!"

    So looks like his dear old Gran saved this one!!!
    God bless her soul.

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  • TrekStar
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    Great find and a great story to go with it. I wonder how the sales would have been back in the day, if Jet Jungle was available here in the USA? I know most people wouldn't have been familiar with the radio program or the Jungle Oats
    cereal, but I'm sure it would have been researched and who knows? guessing it would have sold better than Mr. Mxyzptlk.

    I'm sure it would have sold okay, if kids knew he was jungle related, it would have been a nice friend for Tarzan
    to team up with, plus I believe he was niether DC or Marvel related, so he could team up with anyone.

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  • Confessional
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    Great tale, and the loving wisdom the hunt is profound… that which keeps collecting fun. Congrats!

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  • josephcardone
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    So happy for you ! I know you have been looking forever

    The story makes this so much better.

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  • thoriron
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    great!!!Bravo!!!

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  • comicmike
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    Congratz. That's wonderful news!!

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  • ScottA
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    This is awesome. I've wanted one since they were first discovered.

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  • J.B.
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    This is great. Congrats!

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  • Blue Meanie
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    What strikes me about the second set of pictures/2nd Jet is how clean the copyright on the back is. I've never had a Type 1 Mego with as clear a strike/mold as that one in that pic. Makes me think that Mego may have had intentions on doing this figure early on...or after AJ was out they wanted to branch out. Clearer strike/stamp means that that figure was made closer to the original 1st body molds. Sort of like the inner grooves of a record...the closer the numbering is to 1/mother stamper the more pronounced the stamping on the inner groove. Very cool story and congrats on both of them. GREAT find.

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  • Wee67
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    A great enough find on its own, but having the story of Gran to go along with it makes it that much better.

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  • PNGwynne
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    Wonderful stories, congratulations. I love hearing about the provenance of Megos.

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  • TheMegoGuy
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    congratulations! great toy hunting!!!

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  • Jetjungle75
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    Here are the two pictures that I referred to above:
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    1.jpg
    With regards to whether the figure came with the box of Jungle Oats, I recently got this in an email:

    "I vaguely feel mine was boxed and came with the Jungle oats but perhaps it was at a discounted price rather than free but will need to ask my mum when next we chat."

    Still does not explain the "white" boots.

    Good for her though, looking after the figure all these years.
    Last edited by Jetjungle75; Feb 22, '19, 5:16 AM. Reason: Added some text.

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