Wish Lists of Other Properties for Mego to Produce

[Liu Bei]

I'd like to see a pocket super heroes revival with playsets!

Yeah, that’s what I had in mind too. Supposedly FTC was supposed to be reviving that line, but I never heard anything else about it.

[hizzy]

I'd love to see it, but I think the rights for Tiger Mask would be too expensive. Popular Japanese IPs usually have prohibitively exorbitant prices.

I'd like to see Mego get into the 3.75in - 5in figure scale again. Some lines, like wrestling, would work better there.

I'd like to see a pocket super heroes revival with playsets!

[LonnieFisher]

Neca made some really cool Eddie figures from Iron Maiden. I'd like to see Mego make figures from the first three album covers, since Neca didn't make those.

[Liu Bei]

I don't know if Kiss was a good seller for Mego, but I wouldn't mind seeing other musicians. Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, James Brown come to mind. Also, older Wresting promotions like NWA & AWA. A Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express boxed set, Road Warriors boxset, maybe a Japanese wrestler like Tiger Mask?

I would also be down for a Lone Wolf & Cub Mego, a Zatoichi, Gordon Liu in 36 Chambers. Maybe some athletes, too? A Mike Tyson Figure? Some Hockey Legends? A Shaq/Kazzam figure?

I'd love to see it, but I think the rights for Tiger Mask would be too expensive. Popular Japanese IPs usually have prohibitively exorbitant prices.

I'd like to see Mego get into the 3.75in - 5in figure scale again. Some lines, like wrestling, would work better there.

[hizzy]

I don't know if Kiss was a good seller for Mego, but I wouldn't mind seeing other musicians. Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, James Brown come to mind. Also, older Wresting promotions like NWA & AWA. A Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express boxed set, Road Warriors boxset, maybe a Japanese wrestler like Tiger Mask?

I would also be down for a Lone Wolf & Cub Mego, a Zatoichi, Gordon Liu in 36 Chambers. Maybe some athletes, too? A Mike Tyson Figure? Some Hockey Legends? A Shaq/Kazzam figure?

[Liu Bei]

And if they wanted to save on sculpting, they could do Lore, Thomas Riker, and Picard in his season 5 jacket / alternate uniform as options for a two-pack with Troi and Crusher.

[Liu Bei]

I think the odds we would see Dr. Crusher, Wesley, or Troi are low... Yar, Broccoli, Ro, Pulaski, etc. virtually nil. I think TNG aliens would be more likely.

But hey, we got 5... which if you think about it, that is as many that we got back in the '70s of TOS crew.

I think they could still get some of those characters out, but they’d have to get creative. Troi and Crusher could each be a part of a two-pack with stronger characters, preferably an alien. Maybe someone like Gowron, Spock or Sarek from their TNG appearance, Q in captain’s uniform, or some generic alien like the Anticans or the Selay.

[sprytel]

Any chance Mego finishes out the TNG crew, or are they pretty much done with Star Trek? It seems with the relatively strong season 3 of Picard, there aren’t/weren’t going to be many better opportunities to do TNG merchandise.

I think the odds we would see Dr. Crusher, Wesley, or Troi are low... Yar, Broccoli, Ro, Pulaski, etc. virtually nil. I think TNG aliens would be more likely.

But hey, we got 5... which if you think about it, that is as many that we got back in the '70s of TOS crew.

[Liu Bei]

Any chance Mego finishes out the TNG crew, or are they pretty much done with Star Trek? It seems with the relatively strong season 3 of Picard, there aren’t/weren’t going to be many better opportunities to do TNG merchandise.

[ToyBob]

I heard Hanks was associated with it some time back, but never heard anything else about it again. I hope it doesn’t happen. Hanks is too old for the role, for one, and two I just don’t see how they could do it justice. I’d want the sets and costuming to resemble that retro futuristic 60’s space style, and have that same optimism about space and sci-fi that was prevalent in the 60’s.

With Hanks and Michael Chabon at the helm, you’d just as likely get a dark, moody, pretentious and cynical take that has that same garbage tech look you find in Transformers and other modern sci-fi.

Will we ever get anything that looks as iconic as Star Wars or the original Alien again? Because, to me, that was the apex of practical sci-fi sets on celluloid.

Definitely what they do now, dark for dark sake rather than it actually being integral to the story, very superficial take on gloom imo.

Yeah he's getting up there but development hell is a real place that can consume decades of a person's life. For example The Wayans had a film option for The Munsters for 10 years but they couldn't get a greenlight, cut to the present and they hand it to Rob Zombie who's never been a comedian as far as I know. Just watching a video about "bought options", studios will release garbage sequels just to hold onto a license but it doesn't stop them from holding back people actually interested in the property.

It's hard to get the right aesthetics today because so few people have the same attitude or mindshare on how things look. Take for example CGI, I thought that was a gradual transition, but no they basically shut down all the practical effects houses and fired everybody that works there everywhere. A lot of people can't tell the difference between standards which is why it's hard to get anyone to invest in better ones, you have to have somebody like Peter Jackson or Guillermo del Toro at the helm of the ship saying "No, this looks better.".

[Megotastrophe]

The 60s RetroFuturism was what Tomorrowland was supposedly going for. I don’t feel like they hit that mark. If you think back to Apollo 13 and the Gene Cernan role that Ed Harris played as the Capcom would be good for Hanks.

[Liu Bei]

Hasn’t Tom Hanks been talking about a Major Matt Mason Movie for awhile? I even read a thing where it was supposed to be a near future South LunarPole base where everything goes wrong and it’s all about survival. Kind of Shackleton and the Martian combined.

I heard Hanks was associated with it some time back, but never heard anything else about it again. I hope it doesn’t happen. Hanks is too old for the role, for one, and two I just don’t see how they could do it justice. I’d want the sets and costuming to resemble that retro futuristic 60’s space style, and have that same optimism about space and sci-fi that was prevalent in the 60’s.

With Hanks and Michael Chabon at the helm, you’d just as likely get a dark, moody, pretentious and cynical take that has that same garbage tech look you find in Transformers and other modern sci-fi.

Will we ever get anything that looks as iconic as Star Wars or the original Alien again? Because, to me, that was the apex of practical sci-fi sets on celluloid.

[Megotastrophe]

Hasn’t Tom Hanks been talking about a Major Matt Mason Movie for awhile? I even read a thing where it was supposed to be a near future South LunarPole base where everything goes wrong and it’s all about survival. Kind of Shackleton and the Martian combined.

[Liu Bei]

Oh right, I forgot about those. I didn't like them much, a bit plain for my taste especially with Pulsar, but I see your point about the license.

Never say never but the three that came out will probably be one-offs kind of like Stretch Armstrong's rerelease. They've certainly put a lot of skin into MOTU but I bet they don't have a good steward on staff for making new stuff from those three characters.

I didn’t like them either. Very generic, and very 90’s. If they want those lines to succeed, they need to treat them like they are treating MOTU Origins, which is a very faithful adaptation of the lines with modern articulation. Packaging, figures, and playsets should all have the aesthetic of the originals.

[ToyBob]

Mattel just released a new Matt Mason figure, along with Big Jim and Pulsar, last year for their “Back in Action” special. I think they are, or were, looking to revive those brands, so not likely that they are going to license them out at the moment.

If Mattel can do even half of what they’re doing with MOTU Origins for Matt Mason and Big Jim, it’d be beyond awesome.

Oh right, I forgot about those. I didn't like them much, a bit plain for my taste especially with Pulsar, but I see your point about the license.

Never say never but the three that came out will probably be one-offs kind of like Stretch Armstrong's rerelease. They've certainly put a lot of skin into MOTU but I bet they don't have a good steward on staff for making new stuff from those three characters.