I'm meeting Pin Pin Toys / Lutece Trading former CEO (Mego France)

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Thanks very much Pin Pin Toys.

[The Toyroom]

Awesome discovery! Amazing that 30+ years later new Mego stuff is still being unearthed!

[Brown Bear]

Looking forward to the Mego Museum adding a Captain Future gallery page. Thanks for sharing!

[Brown Bear]

Hulk body looks awesome.

[PinPinToys]

Hi Guys !

Just got back from my lunch with Mr "Pin Pin Toys".

What a great and loveable guy !

It only lasted an hour, but what a great hour.

Learn quite a few things, but it was more an "fan" discussion than a real interview.

I'll let you know what I learned this evening.

I gave him a printed "prototype" of the double-page (of my book) in which Mego / Pin Pin Toys are being featured.

Regarding the book, the last 20 days have been pretty busy.

I was only able to catch 4 hours of sleep per night since I had to "sketch" 40 pages of the book.

My co-author is a talented story-boarder, but timing was short ...

Book is being completed, deadlines are overdue, a nightmare ...

Anyway, I decided to show you some stuff ...

Please, remember it's a "wide audience" book, not really aimed at collectors. So it's not exhaustive, but rather "complete".

Here's my sketching for the page mentionned earlier :



And here is the first draft ... note that we're not assembling the book like Benjamin did.

That work is being assumed by a company assigned by my editor.

Minor things to change, but it's 80% complete



Many thanks to Scott A for letting me use the Superman / Spiderman art he did.

Thanks also to Tom L for the Superman 12" pic, plus Batman & Robin ... See Tom, I'm using them !

[palitoy]

Wow that looks great, AHI, Corgi and Mego? Pin Pin cornered the superhero toy market.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

That looks great I love it!

[PinPinToys]

Wow that looks great, AHI, Corgi and Mego? Pin Pin cornered the superhero toy market.

Hi. Nope, Corgi was "Fair Play". Lutece Trading had Mego & Ahi. The masks are Festa and Cesar.

Glad you guys like it. It's hard to "infuse" the book-designers with our "pop culture". There are so many good ideas that end up kinda waisted, you have no idea. The book will only ressemble 60% of what we had in mind, but we weren't given the choice.

That looks great I love it!

Thanks mate (can I use the "mate" word with a gal ??) ! Cheers !

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

WOW. . .that looks totally georgous!!!!!

Sounds like you had a blast. . .can't wait to hear more about the interview!!

[Earth 2 Chris]

Whoa, that is awesome. Like my 5-year old brain was just popped open, and all my thoughts blew out!

Chris

[Wee67]

That looks fantastic!

The editing process can always be frustrating for the creators, but its usually necessary. I'm looking forward to buying a copy of this book. I'm also looking forward fore more info from your interview.

[PinPinToys]

Thanks guys, your feedback is pretty encouraging.

Gotta admit we've had many "lows" regarding this book.

Lotsa "frictions" with the editor, tons of tough conversation between my co-author and I (took his time to do his share in matter of writting ... had to write some of "his" subjects ... then I had to sketch pages, which wasn't part of the "deal"), harsh comments from (French) toy collectors ...

Anyway, really glad you like what you see.

More on the interview / lunch later this evening.

EDIT : due to some negociation with a French partner associated to the project (a very important company of the food industry), the book's distribution "in real life" is limited to some european countries.

If you want to get the book, you'll have to order it from the Internet.

[Meule]

Oh wow That page has everything I would've wanted as a kid... or even as a grown up

EDIT : due to some negociation with a French partner associated to the project (a very important company of the food industry), the book's distribution "in real life" is limited to some european countries.

If you want to get the book, you'll have to order it from the Internet.

Or you can check with your local Belgian
Always ready to help out in any way I can, fellas

[PinPinToys]

Oh wow That page has everything I would've wanted as a kid... or even as a grown up

Glad to read this ... this is what I wanted this page to do : bring back memories ... sure, our "nostalgic craving" is pretty fulfilled with toy collecting, but I want someone who hasn't seen his/her toys in 20/30 years go mad by rediscovering them & bringing back memories ...

Or you can check with your local Belgian
Always ready to help out in any way I can, fellas

That's very kind of you ! As the author, I'm not allowed to sell directly my book. Still, my girl could buy some for some for you guys ...

[cjefferys]

I like what I see so far, nice job! I might have to pick up this book.