What if Hasbro joined in the Mego craze?

[monitor_ep]

With the new found love for the Mego world, what would happen if Hasbro decided to go retro and create Mego-Like Super Joes/Adventure Team. I have seen a few customizers out there with there venture into this and there works have turned out great, but would you support a line that was done by Hasbro?

[Bionicfanboy66]

Would be great to see the main characters of the SW saga finally get the 8" scale treatment. Maybe Hasbro should give it a shot with the release of Episode VII and see where it goes from there. Also wouldn't mind seeing the GI Joe ARAH core characters brought out in this format. Plus the return of Mego Spidey & his buddies.

[Starroid Raiders Dagon]

I never understood why Hasbro never revisited the Super Joes or Adventure Team. I wrote Hasbro as a kid and asked if they were making 3.75 Super Joes/Adventure Team when they had just done the first line of figures for the 3.75 line, but the reply I had (from what I can remember) almost seemed like they didn't know who I was talking about (and I drew pictures to boot!). I would love to see all the above done in Mego style.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

It'd be neat; but I think yopu'd get the same problem that cropped up when Mattel joined in: they're big company, and they'd need to see big returns for it to be worthwhile for them. The Mego-like audience may not be that big.

>I never understood why Hasbro never revisited the Super Joes or Adventure Team.

AT nods seem to crop up here and there; but Super Joe seems to be the odd Joe out. You NEVER see refrence to them. I wonder if they were a poor seller. As a kid I can remember them being EVERYWHERE for a year or so.

Don C.

[MIB41]

Hasbro's experiment with GI Joe in Mego scale was already attempted when they closed down the 12 inch line and introduced Super Joe back in 1977. But the line was a poor seller and took a bow after Kenner released it's Star Wars figures in 1978. I still don't think people realize how sweeping an impact Star Wars had on the Mego scale. Who knows how different the action figure world would have become had Mego purchased the license and everyone started buying Mego Star Wars figures instead of the tiny Kenner versions? The boy toy isles changed in a blink of the eye with that film and has pretty much stayed that way ever since. Also keep in mind Hasbro tried venturing back into that scale with their own version of the WGSH. Except these were broken up into either all DC or all Marvel figures. And unfortunately they used Target as a retailer which was not a good idea. Target does not allow merchandise to find it's customers. Either it's hot out of the gate or they mark it down and get rid of it. So with two bad experiences already logged in their books, I don't see Hasbro venturing back anytime soon...unfortunately.

[Chris]

I still don't think people realize how sweeping an impact Star Wars had on the Mego scale. Who knows how different the action figure world would have become had Mego purchased the license and everyone started buying Mego Star Wars figures instead of the tiny Kenner versions? The boy toy isles changed in a blink of the eye with that film and has pretty much stayed that way ever since.

George Lucas ruined my childhood. It's been 30+ years but I haven't given up on 1:9 SW figures.

[thunderbolt]

Hasbro's experiment with GI Joe in Mego scale was already attempted when they closed down the 12 inch line and introduced Super Joe back in 1977. But the line was a poor seller and took a bow after Kenner released it's Star Wars figures in 1978. I still don't think people realize how sweeping an impact Star Wars had on the Mego scale. Who knows how different the action figure world would have become had Mego purchased the license and everyone started buying Mego Star Wars figures instead of the tiny Kenner versions? The boy toy isles changed in a blink of the eye with that film and has pretty much stayed that way ever since. Also keep in mind Hasbro tried venturing back into that scale with their own version of the WGSH. Except these were broken up into either all DC or all Marvel figures. And unfortunately they used Target as a retailer which was not a good idea. Target does not allow merchandise to find it's customers. Either it's hot out of the gate or they mark it down and get rid of it. So with two bad experiences already logged in their books, I don't see Hasbro venturing back anytime soon...unfortunately.

Target only had a few exclusives, the DC ones were at TRU, too. The marvel ones were at Walmart and TRU. I had no problem find any of the Target exclusive ones, and got the Punisher, Cyclops and Sandman on markdown.

[Starroid Raiders Dagon]

Hasbro went pretty close to the Mego scale with the Sigma line, didnt, they? I didnt like the design but it would have been better if it hadnt been GI Joe. Hasbro does the new Marvel line of 3.75 figures as well. Both my Super Joe and Illuminous (spl?) figures stopped lighting up after the first day.

[Spyweb007]

I think Hasbro should have re-purposed the Super Joe stuff for the Marvel movies, especially Iron Man and Avengers. Imagine an 8" Mego style Iron Man with a light-up Power Armor (Super Joe vest) and different Weapons and accessory packs that plug into the vest and are powered just like the Super Joe line had. I could picture a Power Vest Captain America, Hawkeye or Nick Fury with the Helicopter pack accessory, Jet packs, Light up Weapon Attachments like Shoulder Cannons, all sorts of possibilities. They would seem pretty high-tech compared to most of the Action figures out there today, even though it's based on 30 year old designs. I'm actually in need of a Super Joe vest for my Iron Man custom I'm working on now.

[jds1911a1]

From hasbro's point of view the superjoe line was a terrible failure. add in the lack of durability for collectors and there isn't much going for it. So was the later attempt at the 8 inch scale sigma six which is why both lines were abandoned adter 2 years. superjoe is the unloved stepchild of the Joe lines. The advetnure team lives on via the colletor club (they even created a 3 3/4 inch lin e of AT figures) and At the conventions and collector club the powerhouse in joe collecting is the real american hero line, the peak for classic 12" joe was really in the late 90's when the average age of those who were kids from 64-75 were about 35-40.
But there is a possibility of a nod to superjoe in next years 12" convention set based on the comic story included in this years convention set

[tmthor]

I would love to see even 3 3/4" super Joe fig
I want a darkon

[Joltrider]

I have lots of superjoes. Just have to spend some time and put them back together. And even then they won't be too handy.

Too bad the head snaps onto a peg on the body, otherwise I could easily use some mego or mego reproduction bodies.

[groovedirk]

As someone mentioned Hasbro DID go back to the 8" scale with the Sigma 6 GI JOES from 2006-2009 (or so). They churned out like 70-80 figures with tons of accessories, guns, cloth goods and even a couple of motorcycles and ATVS. You can find a nice checklist here: http://s6c.joebattlelines.com/toys_8inch.htm

FYI. I only collect Sigma 6 figures. I troll around here because I can use some Mego stuff with my Sigma 6 stuff.

[Spyweb007]

I was working at Hasbro when they were starting the Sigma 6 line, I had no idea they had made as many figures in that line as they did. I like the Sigma figures, they had some great accessories, but the sculpting of the figures is a little bit more exaggerated than I like.

[B-Lister]

I would rather Marvel went with Figures Toy Co, or Cast A Way to do Marvel Megos. I would want them done right, instead of the half hearted attempt we got from Mattel/EMCE.