Did you own any Super-Heroines as a kid?

[hizzy]

I didn't I own any female figures from the WGSH line as a kid. I don't even remember seeing them much in stores. The Wonder Woman figure was a bit of an weird looking one, IMO. Batgirl would have been great to have. Also, Sue Storm. I will be getting anything that's part of the 50th Anniversary line. I wonder what the new Wonder Woman will be like and if Batgirl will have a removable cowl.

[palitoy]

I really wanted them but could never stand the peer pressure. I got over it.

Denis Murphie can call me Cissy all he wants, it's like water off a duck's back.

[Z-man 307]

Yeah, it was the late 70's, so with peer & family pressure being super strong in the City of Brotherly Love, I didn't own any. Thinking back, I didn't really want them, but I enjoyed looking at the Supergirl at Kresge's, but she wasn't coming home with me.

[Brown Bear]

Never liked rooted hair so no. Also never wanted a Thor or Conan for same reason.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I had the 12" Wonder Woman, which someone gifted me for my birthday when I was 3 or so. It was a bit too "doll-like". I didn't know what to do with it. I gave the Diana Prince jacket and glasses to my 8" Mego Superman, to make Clark Kent.

Having said that, I probably WOULD have bought Batgirl and Catwoman at least in the 8" line, had I ever saw them in person as a kid. A few years later, I got Teela and Evil-Lynn in the MOTU line, Lady Jaye, Jinx and Zarrana in GI Joe, and of course Wonder Woman in the Super Powers line. So I wasn't opposed to owning female characters. Heck, I bought the first wave of She-Ra dolls, although they too kind of made me feel self-conscious since they were so, pardon the term, "girly". That's what 10 year-old me thought, anyhow.

[Mego-Amigo]

I had every one of them as well as Isis. Even had some of them multiple times. My mom bought them all for us. My dad on the other hand didn't even like us playing with male dolls.

[TRDouble]

Nope. I was lucky to even have the male super-heroes. The closest I came to the Super-Heroines was a Catwoman that I bought for my niece, who is four months younger than me. I did want Batgirl, but never saw her anyway.

[monitor_ep]

Because my brother & I were watching reruns of Batman 66 we got Catwoman, Batgirl and later added in Supergirl & Isis. Later for some reason we had the 12 inch Wonder Woman. Yes we did play with the big WW with or regular Megos. I never found half the Marvel characters like F4 to add to the collection.

[MRP]

No. I think the first female "action figure" I got as a kid was either Princess Leia form Kenner's Star Wars line of Cmdr. Wilma Deering from Mego's Buck Rogers 3 3/4 line. I got them both around the same time but don't remember which was first. I think the fact they were "action figures" not "dolls" is what made it ok for my folks to buy them for me. The female Mego I really wanted, but my parents wouldn't buy because she was female, was Uhura.

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[pmwasson]

My brother and I had several: Wonder Woman, Invisible Woman, Isis, Batgirl, Catwoman and Uhura (with the rest of the ST crew). No Supergirl for some reason.

[ODBJBG]

Not WGSH, no, but that was because I came into the line late. I still don't have any though because I find the rooted hair a poor choice and bad aesthetic. The heads I don't care for in general and the rooted hair just makes them look like bad Dollar Store dolls.

I own a fair number of non-rooted hair female Megos.

I also owned a handful of female character toys as a kid. They were always rare so I was thankful to have them even if they weren't as "manly" as Batman or whatever. Good characters were good characters, gender never much mattered.

That said, I could never see populating my MOTU figs with She-Ra's friends because they just very much seemed like girls toys. Again with the rooted hair. They came with brushes and combs as accessories. Didn't quite fit the aesthetic of my other figures. But I didn't collect a lot of toys that I found goofy even as a kid.

[powersthatbe]

My grandaunts got me the invisible girl as a birthday gift with other megos( I can't remember the others i got with this maybe green goblin). I really would never think of getting a girl mego but I was cool with it as I had the complete fantastic four.

[PNGwynne]

I had Batgirl. (I also had Thor, a couple of years later, and WOz Dorothy & the Witch.) I recall wanting Isis and Wonder Woman. I didn't understand WW's 8-inch absence or Catwoman's design.

I'm ambivalent about rooted hair. If it stays compressed and styled, I'm OK with it. I liked the Gals hair-bands and Batgirl's cowl, accordingly.

[TrekStar]

No I never did have female mego figures, so I never got Lt. Uhura which was kind of a bummer, it would have competed my Star Trek collection.

How does a 9-10 year old tell his old fashion Father he wants an African American female doll?
remember this was the mid 1970’s, as a matter of fact if it wasn’t for my mother and grandmother,
I probably wouldn’t of had any mego’s, my dad frowned on me playing with dolls, and I couldn’t use the action figure boy toy excuse, to him it was a doll.

But….I remember being in Child World with my dad around Christmas time and I finally found a mego Shazam, the only one that I could never find anywhere and he bought it for me.

I think it was because when he was a kid, he liked Captain Marvel and read those comics, and he would sometimes watch Shazam with me on Saturday mornings, so maybe it was just a childhood memory for him (he had a tough life growing up) or just a weak moment during the holidays, regardless I never questioned it and Shazam came home with me that day, miss you Dad.

[knight errant00]

My sister had Wonder Woman. As a fan of the '66 "Batman," I really wanted Batgirl to go with my dynamic duo and Joker and Penguin, but somehow my parents never saw fit to arrange to have one join the bat-adventures I was organizing.