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So a couple days ago, as I was zoning off at work and pondering toys I had this thought... what the hell is up with type 2 Mego kneepins? They are way over engineered. Why?
Mego is renowned for doing stuff on the cheap. Yet the T2's have a complicated 2 piece fastener. Furthermore, it is a fastener unlike any other action figure from the period. Almost everything I can think of, or check in my own collection, has a one piece plastic pin or a rivet. Some figs (big Jim for example) don't even have that, the lower leg peg attaches via an integral pin inside the thigh.
Even the smaller Lion rock body has a 1 piece pin.
Although history has certainly shown us as collectors that the kneepin is the Achilles heel of the T2 body, I remember many broken Mego legs as a child.
Do any of the hardcore megoheads out there has any insight into this? Are the decisions regarding the t1/t2 transition documented anywhere?
I know this is a boring subject, but it's how my brain works... once I start to wonder about a subject, I HAVE to have answers.
Mego is renowned for doing stuff on the cheap. Yet the T2's have a complicated 2 piece fastener. Furthermore, it is a fastener unlike any other action figure from the period. Almost everything I can think of, or check in my own collection, has a one piece plastic pin or a rivet. Some figs (big Jim for example) don't even have that, the lower leg peg attaches via an integral pin inside the thigh.
Even the smaller Lion rock body has a 1 piece pin.
Although history has certainly shown us as collectors that the kneepin is the Achilles heel of the T2 body, I remember many broken Mego legs as a child.
Do any of the hardcore megoheads out there has any insight into this? Are the decisions regarding the t1/t2 transition documented anywhere?
I know this is a boring subject, but it's how my brain works... once I start to wonder about a subject, I HAVE to have answers.