The Megomuseum No Reason Contest

[Hector]

I collect Megos because it rymes with amigos.

[Werewolf]

I collects Mego because I thinks they are kewl.

I'm in my nerdy happy place when I is here.

[BlackKnight]

"Why do I collect Mego ?"

Because ,..

They are the Greatest Action Figure Dollies Ever.

[jwyblejr]

Why do I collect Megos? Because doing so reminds you of Christmas past. We all remember that feeling we'd get come Christmas Day and collecting Megos is like that everyday.

[megoscott]

I collect Megos because Ben Holcomb told me to.

[Bionic Joe]

Why i collect MEGOS? Put simply they remind me of a simpler time growing up in the mid 70s, When ever i feel down i look up by my computer and i see a type1 MR SPOCK which i have owned since Christmas 75, I rember all the good times in my backyard the adventures i had playing MR SPOCK as he explored my back yard aka an alien planet where he'd meet up with my friend Steves MEGOS live a ticked off alien DREADFUL MUMMY or a mean little brute of an alien who would only say Hulk SMASH!!!! He even had a run in on the planet of the apes. Yes good times So here i am today in my 40s regrowing my MEGO collection not only have i replaced all the MEGOS i had as a kid plus the ones my friends had that i didn't i have MEGOS i never saw as a kid like ROBIN HOOD,SUPER KNIGHTS,DR WHO, SPACE1999, when i look at the shelves of reboxed figures it's like a time machine and i'm 8 years old in the toy department at J.M FIELDS a much simpler time a good time

[justzeg18]

Why?

probably single handedly because of a newsprint magazine I got years ago whilst "up-north" visiting my grandparents for x-mas.

I don't know that I ever remembered the name of said mag' but I think I still have it's remains in my parents basement.

It had an article about megos, and some low res. black and white pictures of probably incomplete megos. I was instantly taken with them. and they stayed in my mind until I slowly up'ed my collecting game by working my way through 90's toys to 80's toys to Megos.

that same magazine had an article about captain action, and the small Ideal superheroes. an oddly wonderous combination of vintage toy info for a grade school kid sometime in the late 80's/early 90's.

And I'm here because there's nowhere else I'd rather be.

-Justin Z-

[mikeoz]

Why I collect Megos is to satisfy an obsession to collect that I've had since I was a kid. I started with Megos when I was about six and then moved on to Star Wars figures (my biggest collection). Later I began to collect baseball cards and even had a stamp collection. Even though I took a hiatus from collecting to get married and have kids, I could never bring myself to get rid of any of my favorite collections - Mego being one of them. One day I was showing my daughter some of my Mego figures in the attic and realized how much fun it was to show her. I started looking on ebay to find some missing parts for the figures and that was all it took - I'm obsessed with collecting Megos again!

[sauce]

Why I collect Mego becomes obvious to those who get inside my brain and cuddle under some of my igneous rock and roll nuttiness, for it is there that I have left a little trail of breadcrumbs back to my own Hansel and Gretel land of edible homes and scary witchy women (with apologies to The Eagles) and many other things that frighten, titillate, bewilder and mostly cause me to laugh in order to smooth it all over with a nice coat of polyurethane.

It kinda goes like this:
My family comes from WWII, Jews on the run. My grandpa told me hundreds of stories of his heroics and all the insanity of what he witnessed. History and its relevance to the present moment was a sensibility I developed early on. Just as I collected my grandpa's stories and wisdom, I began to collect other things in childhood--heroes, baseball, comics and weird things from 1960s and 1970s, oh yeah! them's was good days!

Add to this my mother (daughter of the Holocaust) with her neuroses and constant reorganization of my stuff, she would put me and my brother's toys out at garage sales and hope we wouldn't notice! Many mornings were spent frantically grabbing my collection back from grubby yard salers' hands.

Keep going: my own propensity to retreat to inner worlds and make up new places and ideas was fueled by the toys I had or wanted or made. I got further and further into a place that only I could go with my toys and my abstract nonsense and joy.

Then, it just looked so darned cool to see all my things together, that I spend hours every night in my room as a kid playing with and reorganizing my collection to reflect my latest acqusitions or changes in taste.

And from there, I just really never stopped. Megos were a smaller part of it back then, and are a HUUUUUGE part of it now. I also have long-term obsessions with Wacky Packs, Toy Trains, Whitman Paper Dolls, Los Angeles Dodgers trading cards, Little People, old comics, and the list goes on.

[ScottA]

Why I collect Mego:

I've often thought about why I spend so much time and energy on these plastic pieces of history. I never had many as a kid, only 14 (11 WGSH and 3 Apes)and the Batmobile. No other accessories or playsets. So why do I love them so? Because like most of us they take you back to a time when I didn't have a care in the world.

As most people know my Dad was in the Air Force when I was growing up, so of course we moved a LOT. Seems we'd get settled somewhere and then, bang, I'd move away, leaving friends behind. I envied people who had classmates they knew since first grade. Anyway, when I would arrive at our new Air Base I'd take my megos and go sit outside and start playing. Sure enough, some kid would walk by and ask "What'ch doing?". He'd see what I had and get excited and say "Hey, I've got Superman and Aquaman. Let me go get them". Then we'd start playing and become the best of friends. Until I moved again...

In it's simplist form the same thing happended here. I had Megos and met someone who had them, who knew someone else who had them. We started talking and bang - you've all become my new friends.

[starsky]

why i collect mego? like many of you, it makes me happy. reminds me of the good old days when things were just simpler and easier. i, too, am passing this joy on to my kids and they seem to enjoy mego as well!! it's all about creating happy memories!!

[toys2cool]

Why I collect megos? Cause these guys kick ***!!
YouTube - KISS Mego Doll Commercial

[SUP-Ronin]

Why??
Because I would race home after school, just to play with them.
Because I would take one to bed to protect me from evil things.
Now I have still have them even though it's juvenile.
Because they remind me of being a kid, with not a care in the world, and plenty of time.
Because they kick ***!!
Because I can't say anything that Newforces picture of his kid doesn't sum up by itself.

Because I really want that bowl of Tomato soup, boy am I hungry.

Oh, and because a couple years ago when I started up again with my old original megos, I lived in Rock Springs Wyoming, which is officially the Anus of the Universe, and I needed something to keep me Sane.

[NewForce]

....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...

[Marvelmania]

Because Megos are cool



What else is there than the Mego Museum and an 8" plastic action figure like a Mego could act as a time machine and take you back to a time when you were just a kid having fun with no real worries in the world. Parents were superheroes for having bought you one and then you too could play like a superhero!