Serious question: What properties does Mego still own?

[jwyblejr]

^I'm thinking ESPN may have something. Best guess is PTI will bring it up.

[drmego]

Joe Namath at Comic-Con had better get some mention on football sites or Mego's PR company will be in hot water!

[EmergencyIan]

Funny how Namath being at SDCC isn’t mentioned anywhere else on the net, or at least not in conjunction with Mego. Though, I could have missed it.

- Ian

[SAS-KY]

I'm wondering if they have still have some kind of deal with Joe Namath? Why have him tag along to SDCC otherwise?

I am pretty sure at Mego Meet Marty indicated that one of the things they were going to do was a Joe Namath figure in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Jets win in SUper Bowl III. No specifics on size or what it would be though.

[jwyblejr]

I'm wondering if they have still have some kind of deal with Joe Namath? Why have him tag along to SDCC otherwise?

[tmthor]

It doesn't need to be AJ, mego can come up with a new team new, Adventure Corp, Crypto Corp, anything. Have 2-3 different head sculpts and create cool character bio's on the card backs. If these are to survive retail shelves they need to grab kids as well as collectors. Nice thing now is kids want a fair amount of realism just like collectors do.

I think if done right a 3 3/4- 4" "Adventure People" like line would work.....you just expand the popular side branch. That would allow for vehicles which can include everything from Cops and Soldiers to Dinos and Aliens to trucks and race cars . Everybody would win including costomizers and you could work it to work with Licences I think it would work just on how well the Chap-mei lines sell.

[wise guy]

It's too bad they sold Micronauts because that is one of a few properties that could sell
in todays market along with Marvel, and Star Wars. Figures Toys already has original
Action Jackson heads that make nice repros

[Type3Toys]

Cast-a-Way Toys did a modern Action Jackson that was freakin' aces (just like everything they did/do) and it went on hold late last year with "more details soon". I have had that sitting in the back of my mind with all of this. There is NO GI Joe stuff out now. That leaves a pretty big gap in a proven product for boys and Mego started the 8-Inch action figure with AJ. I know that is thin reasoning with huge jumps to fill in the blanks, but......it's no more of a reach than some of the "line of Little Lulu Action Figures" kind of reasoning that others have run with. And Monsters always grab interest.

(I went to Hasbro's site and typed in "GI JOE". I got ONE result and it was "Littlest Pet Shop")

https://www.hasbro.com/en-us/search?q=gi+joe

It doesn't need to be AJ, mego can come up with a new team new, Adventure Corp, Crypto Corp, anything. Have 2-3 different head sculpts and create cool character bio's on the card backs. If these are to survive retail shelves they need to grab kids as well as collectors. Nice thing now is kids want a fair amount of realism just like collectors do.

[Makernaut]

I would think updated, upgraded mad monsters and an AJ type character who could actually hold his accessories would catch kid's eyes.

Cast-a-Way Toys did a modern Action Jackson that was freakin' aces (just like everything they did/do) and it went on hold late last year with "more details soon". I have had that sitting in the back of my mind with all of this. There is NO GI Joe stuff out now. That leaves a pretty big gap in a proven product for boys and Mego started the 8-Inch action figure with AJ. I know that is thin reasoning with huge jumps to fill in the blanks, but......it's no more of a reach than some of the "line of Little Lulu Action Figures" kind of reasoning that others have run with. And Monsters always grab interest.

(I went to Hasbro's site and typed in "GI JOE". I got ONE result and it was "Littlest Pet Shop")

https://www.hasbro.com/en-us/search?q=gi+joe

[Type3Toys]

Marty sold Visionaries and Micronauts to Hasbro a few years ago. He can re-introduce old brands MEGO created, but I don't know if these would
do well at retail. He does still own the Powerglove from the '80s.

I would think updated, upgraded mad monsters and an AJ type character who could actually hold his accessories would catch kid's eyes. Even some cryptozoology monsters and hunters would be eye catching, considering all the shows about them on TV as of late. All of the characters mentioned are not only popular, they wouldn't require a license.

[Bionicfanboy66]

What about CB McHaul?

[MegoMonk]

How about BallBusters?

[tmthor]

Marty sold Visionaries and Micronauts to Hasbro a few years ago. He can re-introduce old brands MEGO created, but I don't know if these would
do well at retail. He does still own the Powerglove from the '80s.

Would'nt most of the old Mego brands be owned by others? Other companies are making Eagle Force and Action Jackson now.

[jwyblejr]

Powerglove? The Nintendo controller?

Yup. There's a channel on YouTube called The Gaming Historian,that's where I found out about it.

[bgiles73]

With PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and Go, and other such Virtual Reality gaming systems, something like the return of the Power Glove for the 21st Century could be a really big hit!