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  • TheXFactor
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    Originally posted by Megotastrophe
    Ok thanks for your input
    Sorry, should have worded the previous post differently. I meant the individuals that turned the Bela Lugosi figures into a thing for you and the (lack of) figures being available in Big Lots last December a thing for me. Wouldn't be surprised if if was the same person, honestly.

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  • Megotastrophe
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    Originally posted by TheXFactor

    Very strange how there's always that one guy who turns a simple inquiry, suggestion, or post into a thing...
    Ok thanks for your input

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  • TheXFactor
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    Originally posted by Megotastrophe
    Just my reference in my head. It was a whole thing
    Very strange how there's always that one guy who turns a simple inquiry, suggestion, or post into a thing...

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  • Megotastrophe
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    Just my reference in my head. It was a whole thing

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  • TheXFactor
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    Originally posted by Megotastrophe
    I left the Amblastodors shortly after the Bela Lugosi figures landed
    Is there a specific connection between those two things, or are the Bela Lugosi figures a reference as to the time frame you left?

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  • scott metzger
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    Originally posted by palitoy
    63f98f3c-8c0f-43c6-a0ae-56f078bc32f0_text.gif That Wave 19 is a celebration of bald characters?
    We need more bald Mego heads! There's like 3 usable bald Mego scaled male flesh tone heads out there, and there's only so much you can do with Mattel's Retro Lex and Real Men Boxer, and Knickerbocker's Daddy Warbucks. (And, yeah, there are a couple more shiny domes out there, but they're either badly out of scale or stylistically don't fit with standard Megos)

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  • Jmass
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    What a coincidence! I'm a bald character!

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  • Megotastrophe
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    I left the Amblastodors shortly after the Bela Lugosi figures landed

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  • TheXFactor
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    Originally posted by Megotastrophe
    I don’t have a hate for scalpers anymore. I used to but now I see them as part of the force that drives you manufacturers to make more interesting product. And also they help curb my spending Haha. At this point I’m just buying a few pieces now and then for my own enjoyment.
    In the case of Big Lots though, the scalpers prevented most people from being able to buy them for their own enjoyment in the first place. Plus- at the time when the problem was being discussed on the Mego Ambassador FB page- there was someone actively lambasting anyone and everyone who mentioned having an issue finding them. The guy literally joined a Mego group to post things like "I can't believe the amount of grown men here complaining about not being able to buy toys". Eventually I got sick of reading the (unchecked) verbal abuse over and over and posted something of a... let's call it a creative suggestion with specific instruction on how to accomplish said suggestion. Of course that got zapped ("Muh TOU violation") while the abusive posts continued on one after the other after the other. I think that was the shortest time period (for me, I mean) between joining and leaving a FB group.

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  • Megotastrophe
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    I don’t have a hate for scalpers anymore. I used to but now I see them as part of the force that drives you manufacturers to make more interesting product. And also they help curb my spending Haha.
    At this point I’m just buying a few pieces now and then for my own enjoyment. When the kids were younger I bought them Megos and FTC and CTVT figures of their own. We were frequent eBay and Doc Mego customers. We made our own castle out of rocky shelf paper and laminate sheets for our knights and mad monsters and Breyer horses. The horses also worked for our Ted Witter CTVT sets and Robin Hood. I treated my reproduction and vintage figures like toys. Still do.

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  • TheXFactor
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    Originally posted by Megotastrophe
    Never even saw a whisper of the Big Lots figures. Oh well. I have a boxed Original style Mego set of the Fab Four as well as boxed ftc Mego style comic style and tv style. And I don’t really think of myself as a packaging collector
    Most people didn't, and that because every store only got something like nine of each character and scumbags were going in, purchasing all of them at one shot, and then listing them on eBay for $100 each ("ULTRA RARE!!", "SOLD OUT NATIONWIDE!!") just in time for the holidays.

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  • Megotastrophe
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    Never even saw a whisper of the Big Lots figures. Oh well. I have a boxed Original style Mego set of the Fab Four as well as boxed ftc Mego style comic style and tv style. And I don’t really think of myself as a packaging collector

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  • TheXFactor
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    Actually, what I've noticed with the announcement of Wave 19 is that the original point has- very slowly- gotten lost somewhere along the way. This doesn't feel like the 50th Anniversary of anything, honestly. I understand that licensing the Marvel characters is (likely) cost prohibitive, but there's still a lot of original DC characters missing. All four Teen Titans, all five Super Gals, and yes, even Mxyzptlk​. Plus we've got nothing for POTA, almost nothing for Star Trek (technically, absolutely nothing as far as the original line is concerned), and Mad Monsters seems all but forgotten. In their stead, characters are already getting repeated i.e. the wrap-around cape Batman. I suppose you could technically also include the four Big Lots characters as repeats, but since people had such a hard time finding them it's almost like they didn't even exist to begin with.

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  • CrimsonGhost
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    Originally posted by Werewolf
    Lex looks like the Mattel Retro Action figure.
    The outfit is the same, the head is new.

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  • Werewolf
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    Lex looks like the Mattel Retro Action figure.

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