I like the whole hand written possibilities sheet - should really be considered when choosing submissions for "1978 imagined" project!
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I just don't see how it can be anything but Man From Atlantis. The webbed hand is too specific.
Anyway, to me this is a clue that lends a lot weight to the idea that the hands were created for an abandoned project. Then maybe someone suggests merging the idea with Aquaman...Or perhaps Search for Atlantis was an abandoned Aquaman playset idea that ended up as GWS...
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Well, as always, Ben, good work. You've uncovered some neat stuff via the trademark office. This and the Creature mention (both have webbed hands....hmmmm....) really got me thinking. That's what makes your book more than a massive collection of pretty pictures, if I may say so.This profile is no longer active.Comment
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The biggest question I've got about the webbed hands is simple - why would Mego expend the extra cost and effort for a figure that wore gloves? I'd suspect that these bodies may have been a trial run for some sort of Atlantis figures - could Roberto's have been one of only a few that escaped the same incinerator that claimed the Logan's Run figures and were reused?Comment
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Originally Posted by stevemoore
I'm thinking Logan's Run here. Perhaps a run of something Atlantis-related was made, and then the plug got pulled when the show died. For whatever reason, it all went in the kiln except for a few stragglers.
I don't know about that. Logan's Run was 9" scale, while the "Webbed-Hands" are definitely 8" scale. Were there aquatic characters on the Logan's Run TV show? I don't remember.
Benjamin
I mean same scenario; not actually part of the line. Sorry I wasn't real clear on that.
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The timing is interesting. Man from Atlantis ran starting in the spring of 77 as TV movies before starting as a series in the fall, which would jive with the trademark date. But it was cancelled pretty quickly. Jaws 2 was coming out in 78...I'd guess their Atlantis plans got scrapped about reworked as the Jaws riff.
The Aquaman pic in the 78 catalog is the only WGSH in the catalog posed in front of a painted background. I wonder if you are seeing a glimpse of the concept art for this Search for Atlantis playset.This profile is no longer active.Comment
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Rather than a short production run of these hands going in a kiln, maybe the hands (or bodies with these hands) were salvaged and combined with Aquaman suits and heads and dumped cheaply ala the red-carded figures or (speculation) the bagged mystery Astronauts. Maybe they ended up in dollar stores or scooted out the back door of the factory. I would not rule out the possibility of a small find of these web-handed figures in baggies someday.Comment
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After reading the blog, would it have not come in the Shark set and they are in MINT/unopened boxed sets ? I mean how many collectors have that set that is still sealed etc. Just hard to believe that there is ONLY ONE in the world that's not prototype form.
Was the figure not gloved in the set ? so if you opened it would be the only way you would know , correct?Comment
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I think since in notes from Mego they have man from Atlantis and Aquaman/Submariner in a chain of thought together there that it has something to do with that TV show.Comment
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Rather than a short production run of these hands going in a kiln, maybe the hands (or bodies with these hands) were salvaged and combined with Aquaman suits and heads and dumped cheaply ala the red-carded figures or (speculation) the bagged mystery Astronauts. Maybe they ended up in dollar stores or scooted out the back door of the factory. I would not rule out the possibility of a small find of these web-handed figures in baggies someday.Comment
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Benjamin
NOTE: Edited because my tone seemed unintentionally rude. Sorry if that's how it sounded! My edited comments are in BOLD.Last edited by imp; Feb 22, '08, 8:47 PM.Comment
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It's an interesting question, but I think it's a stretch to believe those unique hands would have been lying around the factory for four years (produced in 1978, Mego cancelled the line in 1982). That said, I agree Dan posed a valid supposition that more of them may have been salvaged earlier (back in 1978) and will reveal themselves on other products. Let's hope so!
Benjamin
NOTE: Edited because my tone seemed unintentionally rude. Sorry if that's how it sounded! My edited comments are in BOLD.Comment
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Imp I'm looking at the second page at the botton which is highlighted and they seem to be written altogether at the same time? I think it's odd as I don't think I've ever seen a comic in which Aquaman is shown with webbed hands? I have not been a long time comic fan of AM so maybe I missed it but don't think it was in his book and why pointy ears too? AM has a few odd things about him. I guess AM got alot attention at mego, he must of had a big fan who had some pull at mego.Comment
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" So where are the other 300-1,000 specimens surely manufactured?!
The mystery remains".................
They were burned in the incinerators at the Mego Warehouse,..once the proyects were flunked,..just like what they did with the already produced 10" Logan Run figures (set of 4).....
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