Mego Price Stickers: Two Guys!

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Two Guys (AKA “2 Guys”) was a New Jersey-based chain of discount department stores with locations in PA, NJ, NY, IL, CT, MD and CA. This is one of the few retailers known to have sold Mego-branded “1st Issue” cards; most “1st Issue” cards were Kresge-branded, thus exclusively available through S.S. Kresge and Kmart stores.Here’s [...]

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[Mikey]

That brings back memories ......
We had a 2 Guys about 20 miles away.
Used to go there all the time for clothes and toys ....
It was in Dover NJ

BTW, speaking of 2 Guys, in the 70's the Dover store was in one of the infamous "Blue Law" counties on NJ.
It was against the law for them to sell clothing on Sunday.
On Sunday, when you walked into the store --- the whole clothing section was roped off with movie theatre style ropes.
Weird, thinking about that today .

[Bionic Joe]

Holy bat flash backs, I rember the TWO-GUYS in Lawnside as a kid, i got my very first MEGO there An ACTION JACKSON way back in 72

[imp]

Great memories, guys! Imagine not being able to buy clothes on a Sunday! I lived in Massachusetts for a while, and they still have blue laws. Things like NO ALCOHOL SALES ON SUNDAY. But no clothing?! Bizarre.

We didn't have Two Guys where I grew up (in MI), but it sounds like it was a pretty cool store.

Benjamin

[mego73]

$2.99? I'll take it!

[imp]

$2.99? I'll take it!

No, Mike. Oh, no, no no!

That particular, super-minty Batgirl is the one pictured in the book, and it's in my private collection. It's never leaving my house.

OK, you can have it, but not for $2.99… first ya gotta advance the decimal point three places. Then it's yours.

Seriously, though. Isn't is weird how we look back at original Mego prices and just laugh?! To my recollection, $3-4 for a toy was a stretch for most families in the 1970s. I suppose that's why so many Mego toys are such rarities today.

Still, I am amazed at how Mego prices have increased over the years. In most cases, a collector can expect to advance the original price stickers' decimal points at least two places: $2.99 then = $299.00 today. Yep, that's about right.

Kinda cool.

-b

[mego73]

No, Mike. Oh, no, no no!

That particular, super-minty Batgirl is the one pictured in the book, and it's in my private collection. It's never leaving my house.

OK, you can have it, but not for $2.99… first ya gotta advance the decimal point three places. Then it's yours.

Seriously, though. Isn't is weird how we look back at original Mego prices and just laugh?! To my recollection, $3-4 for a toy was a stretch for most families in the 1970s. I suppose that's why so many Mego toys are such rarities today.

Still, I am amazed at how Mego prices have increased over the years. In most cases, a collector can expect to advance the original price stickers' decimal points at least two places: $2.99 then = $299.00 today. Yep, that's about right.

Kinda cool.

-b

Yeah, I was just dreaming

[Wee67]

First Lionel, now Two Guys... You're hitting all my childhood Mego haunts!

I won't bore you again about how we used to play manhunt in the Levittown (PA) Two Guys. I can still see the Lost World pinball machine we used as base.

[Bionic Joe]

No, Mike. Oh, no, no no!

That particular, super-minty Batgirl is the one pictured in the book, and it's in my private collection. It's never leaving my house.

OK, you can have it, but not for $2.99… first ya gotta advance the decimal point three places. Then it's yours.

Seriously, though. Isn't is weird how we look back at original Mego prices and just laugh?! To my recollection, $3-4 for a toy was a stretch for most families in the 1970s. I suppose that's why so many Mego toys are such rarities today.

Still, I am amazed at how Mego prices have increased over the years. In most cases, a collector can expect to advance the original price stickers' decimal points at least two places: $2.99 then = $299.00 today. Yep, that's about right.

Kinda cool.

-b

I think that's only a small part of the raritie, i feel the biggest part is back then toys were brought for kid to play with and there were no adults buy them to keep unopened, It wasn't till STAR WARS that adults started to collect toys and even for them there numbers were small

[The Phantom]

AW MAN! I didn't think anyone remembered Two Guys! We used to go to the one on Route 18(in Jersey) when I was a little shaver! But, it was at Alexander's where I got my first RM Robin. Anyone else remember that?

[Bionic Joe]

AW MAN! I didn't think anyone remembered Two Guys! We used to go to the one on Route 18(in Jersey) when I was a little shaver! But, it was at Alexander's where I got my first RM Robin. Anyone else remember that?

Rember what? Alexander's or RM ROBIN? sorry couldn't resist bustin your chops but i vagly rember Alexander's, I think there was one near my Aunts house

[imp]

AW MAN! I didn't think anyone remembered Two Guys! We used to go to the one on Route 18(in Jersey) when I was a little shaver! But, it was at Alexander's where I got my first RM Robin. Anyone else remember that?

Actually, I would LOVE to hear about any Alexander's memories you have. All I know is that it was a New York Department store founded in 1967, and that it closed in 1992. If you can share any of your Mego and/or Alexander's memories, I'm all ears.

Benjamin
p.s. Just the fact that you had a RM Robin as a kid makes you cool in my book. Niiiice.

[The Phantom]

Imp!
You wanted to know about Alexander's? Well,here's what I know; Alexander's(in my day)was part of Menlo Park Mall. It was anchored by Bamberger's with like,22 fine stores(all horrible)in between. Now, back then(the early 70's) A mother could leave her son in the toy department, while she looked at clothes,and other nonsense.Forget that, I wanted to see toys! And what a windfall that delivered! I was there when Mego's first came out. Solid boxes(I swear!) I had no idea what they were. I actually thought that they were tapes for the viewfinders(I was six). And the first box that I opened ( so that's why they switched to window boxes and Krege cards)I saw the yellow material of the cape(it was Robin, of course) and there it was, the first removable mask Robin! I remember my mother looking at in the car, and breaking the mask, and then telling my aunt what piece of@#$%^it was. Well, not to me, to me it was something.
Me and my brother never got along, but being that he had an Action Jackson, and he collected comic books, he knew, and we switched the clothes fom Robin to AJ. Needless to say, my still looked cool,his didn't.HA-HA
I didn't mean to digress Imp, I was lost in another time.
I'm not sure about Alexander's After the 70's, but I do know Donald Trump bought the whole kit and kaboodle in the late 80's. What it is now is anybody's guess. Progress, I think they call it.

By the way, love the book.

[imp]

By the way, love the book.

That's excellent. Thank you. And I LOVE your recollections. AJ and RM Robin?! Just fantastic.

I'm working on a new project and I'd appreciate it if you'd PM me. I want to get your name and Email address, as well as continue this conversation about Alexander's.

If you don't use the PM system, you can also Email me at:

benjamin(at)worldsgreatesttoys.com

I look forward to hearing from you!

Benjamin

[Action Martin]

I remember Two Guys commercials on tv but I don't think that I have ever been to one.

Alexander's? I remember them on Long Island. They were pretty much just like Great Eastern and T.S.S. (Times Square Stores).