The Megomuseum No Reason Contest

[Hector]

Ok, I already submitted my entry (the mego/amigo connection, lol).

This one is the real reason, but don't submit it for consideration for the contest, I already did the amigo thing, lol.

My late father got me into Megos. I really had no idea about them until my dad and I walked into the no longer existing store chain called Gemco (it was absorbed by Target I believe).

As we were walking through the toy section, I was looking at slot car racing kits. While I was in la la land dreaming that my dad would buy me a slot car racing kit...my dad in turn said to me; Wouldn't you rather have these? My dad directed me to where it was the most amazing sight I've ever seen to that point, racks and racks of carded Megos...I WAS IMMEDIATELY IN LOVE!!!

Forget the slot car racing kit...I WANT A MEGO!!!

There were all kinds, superheroes, apes, trek, everything.

My dad said to pick two...I said...REALLY DAD, ARE YOU SERIOUS???

Yes, pick two, I'll buy them right now.

I picked Captain Kirk and Mr Spock.

I still have those two to this day, they have no clothes (you know kids, lol), but I still have them...I will NEVER sell those two figures.

Bless my dad.

The rest is history.

[csxernie]

For That Little Piece Of Kid In All Of Us. That We Remember And Don't Want To Let Go.as Children We Grew Up In A Better Time, With Better Toys And Better Cartoons. We All Got Hooked On Super Freinds And Comic Books.so What Better Way Than Playing Out Our Heros Roles Than By Getting Megos Back Then To Do It With. These Days It Is The Piece Of Mind In Remembering The Past That Fuels My Obsession.

[almitysufx]

Why I collect mego?

Because he was a great dad and I was spoiled as a kid for having him. He passed away in 76, My mom soon remarried and my step-dad was more the "hunting, fishing" guy who repeatedly said "I was too old for dolls". I let my megos and Joes go in a garage sale because of him. He's a great guy, he just didn't get the action figure thing.
I have replaced nearly all of the megos I had as a kid now, and have a custom mego of my dad.

Sure, there are lots of other reasons, but this is the big one

[The Bat]

I collect Mego's cause it brings back that feeling when I walked into Woolworth's on My 7th Birthday...and stared in AWE at the Mego Display in the front of the Store...a Pyrimid of RC Batman & Robin's in Boxes, 3 times taller than Me!! Mum got Me one of each...the rest is History Folks!

[monkey tennis]

Woolworth's....what a great place....
My Mum and Dad bought all my Mego's (and Action-Men) from there.
It was like going to Toy Heaven.

[wolfie]

I collect Megos but only in card form. As a card collector i find the cards fantastic and get great enjoyment out of them, however this does not stop me from joining in with your enjoyment of the figures and i love to see all the diffrent ones and i enjoy delving into the history of the whole Mego thing.

I said Enjoy 3 times there so i guess that is what it is all about whichever route of the Megocollecting you take.

[monkey tennis]

"Power to the People"


Er...sorry....

[Monsterama2000]

I don't actively collect Mego's. I still have some of my childhood figures like the 8 and 12 inch Hulk, Gene Simmons and a bunch of Micronauts. My brother still has some of his figures also (all superheroes). Our parents spoiled us, we had most of the Mego's back in the day.

I've been thinking about collecting the Planet of the Apes again, I still have the Village playset, the throne and the battering ram, but no complete figures (have lots of pieces of them). But money is kind of tight and I really don't have anyplace to display them.

I love the Mego Museum. I come here everyday just to hear what people are up to. This place is more than just about toys, It's about friends. I don't post a whole lot, but I read most of the discussions . And the cards are a thing of beauty. I really enjoy collecting them and trading with others.

The Mego Museum just brings back happy memories of my childhood.

Here's a photo my brother and I took back in the 70's of our Mego's and other action figures having some kind of brawl--

[Collect 'em all!]

Here's a photo my brother and I took back in the 70's of our Mego's and other action figures having some kind of brawl--
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...00/wha_tha.jpg

Oh, that picture is priceless!

Mego Cornelius is really kicking that Barbie's face in! (He'll probably say he was framed, and blame Galen)

[Monsterama2000]

Oh, that picture is priceless!

Mego Cornelius is really kicking that Barbie's face in! (He'll probably say he was framed, and blame Galen)

We never played with Barbies! We were boys! (I think that's a Charlie's Angels Farrah Fawcet )

[The Bat]

Woolworth's....what a great place....
My Mum and Dad bought all my Mego's (and Action-Men) from there.
It was like going to Toy Heaven.

Me too Man! I have fond memories of going there with Me Mum!

[Raydeen1]

Woolworth's had the best sandwiches ever. Mom would take me for a sandwich then let me go nuts in the toy aisle for a while. The only store I ever saw the 12" mitten gloved Batman and the 9" Robin.

[Collect 'em all!]

"Why do I collect Mego?"

Let's see...
It all started for me with the 1966 Batman TV show and "67 Spider-man and Marvel Comics cartoons (in early '70's sydication). Like most kids back then, I was superhero crazy!
I loved my TV superheroes way before I had ever seen my first comic book!

My introduction to Mego was the WGSH line, when my Grandma bought me a Mego Superman from Woolworth.

I was in awe! I loved them and wished I could get them all! Over the next few years I was given Batman, Robin, Spiderman, Captain America, The Incredible HULK, and The Thing. My mom also bought me Captain Kirk, because my name is Kirk. (and eventually, the Enterprise playset, all the crew and several aliens) Fonzie, and Starsky & Hutch.

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/KirkJarvinen/Kirk1974.jpg[/img]

(photo: My family circa 1974, Mom, Dad, my twin sisters, my little brother, and I'm the little kid in the grey sweatshirt with the sew-on Batman patch!)

Going back to the time of this photo, when I was 5 years old, thanks to MEGO and the '66 Batman show I was in love with superhero capes! One day, my Dad had a cool surprise for me and my little brother--he brought a couple of large, light blue colored trash bags home from work, which were exact same shade of blue as Mego Batman's nylon cape was! Then, my dad took out a pair of scissors and to our delight, cut-out a pair of Bat-Capes from the bags!!! He even trimmed-out the Bat-wing scallops at the bottom!
("Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, DA-AAAAAD!") You ruled, Dad!

Later, when I was about 10 yrs old., my trusty Mego Spider-man's costume was the model from which me and my best friend, Kevin, drew our very own Spidey T-shirts! (spider-webs, spider-emblems, covering every inch, front and back!)

As my Mom put it: "You took one of your perfectly good white T-shirt and ruined it by coloring it with permanent markers!?!"

To the contrary, we were in our glory!

We called ourselves "The Wall-Crawlers" and met every Saturday (after Land of the Lost and cartoons) up on the roof of a garage in a vacant lot. Then we would don our home-made Spidey shirts and go out and proceed to climb every fence, tree, wall, house, bus stop shelter,

telephone pole, and billboard sign, in our neighborhood! We were fearless!

What we didn't realize, until the first time we took off our Spidey shirts, was that while we were climbing everything in sight, and sweating in the hot summer sunshine, which the red, blue, and black marker ink to bleed out of the T shirt, and onto our bare skin! We looked like we were tattooed!
On what was destined to become our final wall crawler outing, the Detroit Police and Fire Departments had to come and "rescue" us down from the top of our 2nd story School roof, because we got on top of it but couldn't get back down before someone had spotted us up there and called the cops! LOL

"Why I collect Mego?"

"because it's FUN!
--life is too short to waste anymore time being a grown-up!"
(Tried to be one once--it's not for me, Lol)

I close with song lyrics I wrote:


A MEGO TOY
lyrics written by Kirk Jarvinen
(sung to the tune of The Candy Man)

What can make summer, super duper cool
Packaged in a jumpsuit with an oven mitt or two
A Mego Toy, oh A Mego Toy can
A Mego Toy can cause it's given with love and makes the world so FUN

What takes you in a starship, at warp speed as it flies
Phasers set on stun and transporters beam you high
A Mego Toy, oh A Mego Toy can
A Mego Toy can cause it's given with love and makes the world so FUN

A Mego Toy makes every child's play wonderful and adventurous
Now you can talk about your childhood wishes,
they may even bring you riches

Oh, what takes you to a planet, ruled by apes of rage
Separate the humans collect them all and throw them in a cage
A Mego Toy, Oh A Mego Toy can
A Mego Toy can cause it's given with love and makes the world so FUN

A Mego Toy makes every child's play wonderful and adventurous
Now you can talk about your childhood wishes,
they may even bring you riches

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
What can make a birthday, or Christmas super cool
If you've been really good maybe you'll even get two
A Mego Toy, oh A Mego Toy can
A Mego Toy can cause it's given with love and makes the world so FUN

Yes, A Mego Toy can cause it's given with love and makes the world so FUN

a-Mego Toy, a-Mego Toy, a-Mego Toy
Mego Toy, a-Mego Toy, a-Mego Toy
Mego Toy, a-Mego Toy, a-Mego Toy

[blastphemey]

why do i collect mego?

because i have something i love to do just like all the "cool" kids at school except what i love to do is collectng 8" action figures.
and cause they are METAL THRASING MAD!

[Tyme2tyme]

Why do I collect Megos? I can still remember the first megos I ever received. It was Christmas that I got the USS Enterprise playset. I can still feel a bit of what I felt as I looked upon those wonderful figures and pulled that bridge out of the box (I still have that same set). Over the next few years I added many apes (and a treehouse) and superheroes. As I got older and eventually moved out on my own, I lost track of my toys. Years later, I looked through my parents house and found they had gotten rid of everything (or so I thought). A few years ago, as I was looking in a storage closet in a spare bedroom I rediscovered my Enterprise (including the Trek figures). WOW!! It was Christmas again!!!