The Megomuseum No Reason Contest

[Collect 'em all!]

Raydeen1

I was riveted to my seat when I read your Mego story! You really captured in your words, just how it felt to be a kid growing up in the Mego Generation!!! I hope you win!

I can't believe you never got to see Adam West as BATMAN when you were little...but,
I can relate to the RC Batman eluding you all those years.

I had a parallel situation on a 1:1 scale.

Every kid I knew that was into Batman had one of these--but me. I just wanted to put one on, and never take it off!

[rche]

why do I collect - Because I am obsessive and need to possess every cool toy in existance
megos - because they are simply the finest action figures ever made

- they fit in your pocket
- if you cannot find a character, you can make it yourself fairly easily or find someone who can
- aj looks a lot like me in my 20s
- they drive split window veedubs
- it is amazing fun to play as a child with a child when you pass your toys on to your kids

rche

[Raydeen1]

You win. This pic is just awesome! What a geat feeling it must be for you to see your son like this. I envy you. My boys aren't really into them although my oldest has been bugging me periodically for a Mego Batman and Robin. Oh, and the Batman MUST be a RC version. lol.

....this is my real reason...this was taken an hour ago of my son under our pool table...fell asleep playing with mego's, after talking to IMP...
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/pttrent1.jpg

[Raydeen1]

Why do I collect Megos?

Batman. He is the reason. I adored the character. I would watch Superfriends and be in awe of Batman. Mom would put
Batman comics in my Xmas stocking every year. I never saw the Adam West show. I didn't know anything about it. The Batman
with BatMite show didn't air here until I was 10. Superfriends and comics were my Batman exposure.

I was 5 and I saw a commercial on TV if I remember correctly. I think it was the one with Penguin stealing the Batmobile. That
was it. I saw the Batman Mego and was off. I HAD to have it! So, Mom being the way she is says to meet her at Zellers after
work and she'll get me Batman. Right on! I got out of school at 3:30, Mom got off work a 4:00 so I ran to Zellers which was
about a 5 minute walk from my school and went to the toy aisle and looked. Sure enough, at the top of the aisle, a case of
Megos. Superman, Aquaman, Robin and ONE Batman. I climbed up, picked up the Batman and just looked it over and was in awe at
the big picture of him on the back. The figure was beautiful. The ears were perfect. The boots were perfect. The belt was
perfect. I was beside myself. I didn't want to hold on to the figure because there was a nasty lady who worked there who would
kick you out of the store if you were hanging around so I decided to place him back in the display box at the very back.

I was getting impatient waiting for Mom so I looked around at some GI Joes or something when a kid about my age walked down the aisle
with his mom. I couldn't help but overhear what they were talking about. They were talking about getting him a toy. She was
obviously in a hurry and he was saying no to everything. So, being the way I was, I said to the kid: "Do you like Superheroes"? Then
showed him the Megos. He got excited so his Mom took down Aquaman.
"Aquaman"? She said.
"No, I don't like Aquaman".
She pulled down Superman. "How about Superman"?
"No".
She pulled down Robin. "Look, Robin". "How about Robin"?
"Nope".
She pulls down MY Batman. "Batman"?
"Oh I LOVE Batman"!
And they walked away with MY Batman. I was devastated. I tried to help and my Batman was gone. I was so heartbroken I
just left and went home. I didn't even clue in that Mom was still on her way to meet me.

I was home maybe an hour when Mom walked in an asked where I was. Tears in my eyes, I told her what happend. Then she
handed me a Robin. It made it a little better but I was just sort of numb.

The next day I went to my friend's house to show him my Robin. Well he showed me his Batman and its mask came off!!!!!!!!! I was
trembling as he handed it to me and I pulled off the mask. This was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I HAD to have it! Mom went
to every store within range but never found one.
For Xmas that same year I finally got Batman with Superman and the Batmobile. Followed at Easter with a BatCycle which I
adored. Mego Batman was my companion as I sat in front of the TV on Saturday morning watching cartoons amd eating Honeycomb
cereal. He went everywhere with me.

Some time after that I had a Big Brother from Big Brothers/Big Sisters and he drove me around for hours until I found Joker and
Penguin at Kresge. I loved these 2 and now Bats had someone to battle. I got a Heroes World comic from a comic shop and sent
them a letter asking if they Batgirl. They wrote back saying yes so I put in my order. I got another letter back saying they were
sold out. So I had to pick an alternate from a list they gave me. It took forever but I decided on Falcon. I just liked the look of
him. Imagine now, this took weeks of back and forth writing letters! It took about 2 or 3 months but I finally got him. It
cost $13.00 all told in 1979. lol.

Around this time, I found a bag of a couple Megos and some pieces and parts at a flea market. In the bag were a beat up Batman
and Superman. Still obsessed with RC Bats, 5 years later, I carved up the Baman head into a mask and used Supes as Bruce.
I still have the mask I made. I have to say, I did a fine job cutting the eyes out and trimming the inside of the nose. I had
little interest in any of the other Superhero figures. I was after all the Batman related stuff.

Fast forward 2 years. I'm now 12 and getting more into music and such. My cousin and I were big into exploring so we went to a
hardware store to pick up some rope to go rock climbing. My cousin went in one direction, I went in another. My cousin calls
out to me:"Come here, you have to see this"! I turn the corner and there's a WALL of Megos in boxes. I was in awe. I spent probably
close to an hour looking over all these figures I'd never seen. Green Arrow, Iron Man, those 2 stand out. I had enough to buy one
and finally decided on Greem Arrow. I still have him. When I got home, I told Mom all about it and she gave me enough to get 2 more.
I went back and agonized over who to buy. I thought IronMan's gloves were molded like the Thing's arms and didn't like that.
My Megos need removable gear. It's what made them so cool to me. I finally decided on Aquaman and Catwoman.
Had Batgirl been there, she would have been the first on the list!

I was obsessed with Megos. I had Apes for a short time and I loved them dearly. I never stopped collecting. I'd pick things up
here and there. I'd go to every Flea Market or yard sale I could get to looking and ever hoping to find a removable mask Batman. I
met a kid in grade 6 who had one. I tried to get him to sell it to me many times. I had a pretty good collection by the time I
was 25. But....still no RC Bats.

I was at college one day when I get a message to call my bass player. I call him at lunch and he tells me to call the collectible shop,
they had something for me. I was there right after class. I could feel my face getting hot as he handed me a RC Bats. I quickly pulled
off the mask to discover Superman's head but I didn't care, I had to have it. When I got home, I sat for at least 15 minutes going:
Mask on, mask off, mask on, mask off........I did finally get a head for him months later. RC Batman was an obsession for most of my
life and he is one big reason I collect Megos. They are just so fun, so charming... You can customize them, dress them in other
outfits, just marvel at their simple, yet perfect design. Feel the texture of their boots. I'll still take out a Mego Bats while falling
asleep watching Superfriends just like I did when I was 5 and I truly believe RC Bats is the single coolest action figue ever made.

[livnxxxl]

My reason for why I collect Mego's is mainly because they are just t-totally friggin awesome for one thing. I will stand toe to toe and face to face with anyone who would try and dispute other wise. When I look at a Mego body I look back and think how advanced Mego was for their time. Such fine detail that went into creating such a neat toy. The thought that went into creating them is amazing to me for their time. It also makes me think back to my child hood when I used to tote my favorite Mego's with me all the time which was the P.O.T.A's. I even managed to save some of the old Polaroid's (long ago of course before digital cameras were even dreamed of) taken of my child hood with me and my Mego's. The pictures are around here some where in my massive collection of pictures. (make note to self to find pictures instead of just typing about them) Collecting Mego's certainly reminds me of some of the fun times in my child hood. Where time seemed like it stood still and my imagination ran wild. The simple things that were used back in the days to create scenes of my Mego's battling one another on the bed with the covers made into caves and etc. Humming the tunes of my favorite TV show Batman and Robin. They serve as memories that remind me of the countless hours spent posing and playing with the original figures and playsets that I had as a kid. Collecting Mego's especially reminds me of when going to my Grandparent's (who are long deceased) I always knew what I could expect to find in their hall way closet. I used to could not wait to get to my Grandparent's house I can remember going to my Grandparents house on numerous occasions. Especially at or around the holidays when the new store catalogs came out. My Grandparents had a haul closet full of all of the latest store catalogs from Sears, JC Penney, Service Merchandise, Dolgin's and those stores were just to name a few. I would pull them out and go straight to the toy sections of those catalogs. It was there of course I would find all of the cool pictures of the neat Mego action figures and play sets that I dreamed of owning some day. My Grandmother would look through the catalogs with me at the kitchen table and I would tell her which figures that I would like to have for Christmas. Those were indeed great times. I am most happy to know that there is still guys and gals out there like me that collect these awesome figures. While my short time on eBay I was asked the same question a lot by other eBay members (Museum members). The question being are you a member of the Mego Museum? And of course my reply each time would be: "Heck no.. that place is the lamest place on Earth. They are all a bunch of Millionaire's that know absolutely nothing about Mego's.....haha gotch ya!!....that of course was not my real reply BTW. After being asked that same question over and over I decided to head on over to the "place" called The Mego Museum to see what all of the hype was about. I am sure glad that I did. There is definitely some real cool and talented people here to interactive with whether they be Millionaire's or not. I have not even been here quite a year yet and I have already learned so much from The Mego Museum and it's cool members. I cannot help but think that in another 10 years or so a lot of us will be reading and remorsing about this thread as well as other history threads right here at the ever growing Mego Musuem. It has definitely been a fun experience and I am glad that I finally decided to get my booty on over here to see what I had been missing out on. A big thanks to all of those that kept asking me the question. I would and do encourage others to do the same. The Mego Museum is now my new home away from home. Ohh BTW...Did I mention that I am a Megoholic and that I love Mego's?

[kingdom warrior]

Because of my beautiful Mom who bought me every mego I ever wanted and her memory Lives in them......plus I can still here her saying What? How much is that Stupid Shark worth now...

[livnxxxl]

....this is my real reason...this was taken an hour ago of my son under our pool table...fell asleep playing with mego's, after talking to IMP...
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/pttrent1.jpg

Ok, Fess up! When you gonna tell everyone the real truth here? The evidence from the C.S.I. lab will soon show that you put knock out drops in his Kool aid and surrounded him by some cool Mego's. Man, Some people will do anything to win a contest these days. hahaha Seriously, That is a cool picture. Your picture is really what collecting and having fun with Mego's is all about. Best of luck to you.

[mitchedwards]

I collect Meos, because its the one toyline I miss from my childhood. When I started all I wanted was a RC Batman and Robin.

The RC Batman is what led me to the museum. I had some questions on how to remove the marker from his face. So many great people offered their help, and made me feel at home.

My humble Mego quest for 2 Megos has bloomed into a hobby that has no end, and a ton of great friends I have made at the museum.

[GreenLantern9999]

Why I collect Mego....


to explain my pictures... I collect Mego because I have always loved toys and when I was younger I collected toys randomly what ever caught me at the moment and I also collected comics and when collecting comics I kept running into "first appearance" and I thought how come people don't make a big deal out of the first appearance of a character in toy form and so I started looking into it and I got the super powers and secret wars lines and then I looked back further and found Mego and it was love at first sight. my first Mego was Spider-Man Followed Quickly by Hulk then I was like what about DC? then Superman and Batman ended up on my shelf then I needed robin then I needed villains then I needed everything! As of just this morning with the addition of an Isis head from "Captact", a member here, I now have (in some state of being built) every one of the WGSH (save for the titans) That picture is just one of my favorite adds and I am going to attempt a recreation in honer of it this Halloween at my comic book shop as our window display but I will use the Mego monsters since I don't have the others.

[Wee67]

This summer I was sent to live with my Grammy Kuscewski in upstate Pennsylvannia. Just let me say, milking the cows is one thing, but when you ask me to...



Oh gosh, sorry. I meant to post this under what I did with my summer vacation.

[steelcouch]

Why I collect mego? I collect mego because as a kid growing up on the farm never really had a chance to get all those cool toys the other kids were getting when I was young. Summer vacation was basically work duty and the weekends were spraying days out on the farm. My older brothers had the remnants of the kiss dolls in there rooms on display and were handed down to me to do with as I please. What little time I could get to play with them I did and mom handed down her expertise in sewing skills so I could make the clothes to the kiss dolls that they were missing. So in short as an kid didnt have time really for toys and making up for it as a adult and mego offered the best toys with real cloth outfits that I could add to with my sewing abilities.

[draconianguard]

because the Mego Corp. covered so many genres with there great toys. Super Heroes, movie properties (i.e Moonraker, Wizard Of Oz,ST:TMP), TV shows (i.e. CHiPS, Love Boat, Buck Rogers, Star Trek, The Little Racals, The Waltons(okay, bad example ), music (i.e. Cher, KISS, Captain & Tennile), classic chracters (Western, Robin Hood, Knights) as well as there own creations (Clown Around, Action Jackson, Eagle Force). They made great toys for boys and girls. Board games and educational toys. It's really hard to top the Mego Corp. when you consider all of those things. Of all the toys my dad bought me as a kid, the only ones that sticks out in his head are the WGSH toys when he sees my collection. That speaks volumes to me!

[Brue]

Sometimes I wonder why I collect Megos.

Originally (In the 70's) it was because I loved the characters and wanted to have some to relive stories and create new ones. There wasn't really any choice as to which figures I would collect - It was 8" mego or nothing until the 12 and 3 3/4 guys came out. Then 12 inchers were too expensive and even though I bought a few little guys, the 8 inchers were way cooler and I already had a start on a collection.
It was the reruns of Batman with Adam West, Superfriends, Wonder Woman, SHAZAM and Isis and Electric Co. Spidey that caught my attention most on TV and in the Comics I read Justice League, Aquaman, Daredevil, Batman and Spider-man (and many others). I wanted to get characters I knew well - I never did find Daredevil or Wonder Woman. Of course I learned later there never was a DD and 8 inch WW was discontinued about the same time I started collecting. I managed to grab 13 of 'em.

I am having a hard time locating my Childhood Mego pics. I'll upload if I find one.

Why did I stop collecting? By 7th grade most guys were either quitting superheroes/action figures or denying their love (my case). I turned to other interests for the next decade. I improperly stored my comics and figures (though they made the time trip fairly well anyway).

Why do I collect now? In 89 Batman (movie) made Superheros OK for the masses again. I went opening week at the promping of friends who did not know my hidden love for the Genre. My Mego collection came out of storage and placed on a shelf in my rented college house. A vintage toy store opened near me and my wife bought a lando calrissian skiff guard. So the Star Wars stuff came out too. Both were modest displays.
At a college party my Mego Joker was destroyed and Conan stolen. I bought a new Joker at the vintage toy store. I was still in GEEK DENIAL. The collections remained small and discretely displayed.


It was when I went to the opening of Star Trek VI on opening night and noted out loud the number of Geeks in line to see this movie when it dawned on me...I was getting in line. I came home, announced my geekhood to my girlfriend (now wife) and the world and to the day I embrace the fact that -yes, I am a geek. A functional geek - but a geek nonetheless.

In 92 the Batman series started on TV and X-Men followed and Spider-man and Toy Biz was putting out tons of figures. I bought a few things. Then a few more, then I joined ebay and started buying more. Then I bought a house and displayed stuff in every room. When I got married the collection was mostly consolidated to one room in which I built shelves from floor to ceiling all the way around the room. It house all but my 10 inch toy biz marvel who had a massive display in the basement. Many more things were in boxes. I displayed loose but retained all packaging making for a lot of junk.
One corner (not even a 10th of my collection):


Why did that happen? I LOVE TOYS! But it was out of controll and I thingk I liked collecting more than the toys themselves. In 2000 the weeding out process began. From the beginning it was clear tha Mego would NOT be pared down. It was the only line allowed to grow. In the past 8 years I went from 3000 action figures including 25 Megos to Less than 200 action figures on display including over 150 megos / megolike. I still have 100s in tubs in the basement - but they are still getting thinned out.

Me and my daughter playing "Guys"


Why do I love the Megos - in the 70s I had no choice - now with plenty of choices these are the coolest action figures ever made. The are playable (holdable and poseable). They look great. The have a uniqueness, the are nostalgic. I still love superheroes - and the longer I have been out of the Geek closet the more I find out about the Geek in everyone I meet. Believe me when I say this that I mean it with all the affection in the world..Never will you find a more awesome hive of Geeks and Dorks than here in the Mego Museum - so of course that has helped fuel my Mego lust.

Currrent Mego Display

[Tommyboy]

[palitoy]

This is better than I expected, marvelous stuff guys!

(no I don't count as an entry)