EMCE's WGSH...exact Replicas?

[Meule]

I would like well-marked but otherwise exact replicas so my son has some WGSH 'Megos' to play with.

Are you saying you'd actually buy repros? Wow, didn't expect that from you

[dumbldor]

I would like well-marked but otherwise exact replicas so my son has some WGSH 'Megos' to play with.

[drakghoulie]

the robin head sculpt is pretty good, but not 60's or 70's bat man was more of a different colored tame 60's cowl. one done in the style of keeping with the robin would be ok, I think the removeable cowl would be a cool way to go, it was always my favorite between the two, more versatile. Superman was supposed to, I guess,
be a re-use of the don head. but superman in the mid- 70's was sporting the longer hair look. so I guess If you want to re-do them you should at least (like the gorn) keep it re-lated to the original material and times. "The 70's" even though the real gorn was a 60's character. Remember the slurpee cups from back then, now they were cool. the way the ff looked in FF 186. or the avengers in 161. All 70's and all cool. Now if they looked like that I'd say ok, that's mego era, cause that's what was out then in the comics. But I still like the originals.

[The Bat]

The RC Batman was always My favorite WGSH...1st Mego I ever bought(with Robin at the same time).

[Action Martin]

I always liked the Batman and Captain America head sculpts. Although Cap's eyes were a little odd to me.

[PNGwynne]

Y'know, I liked the original Gorn: the problem was not that the figure was "crappy'", but that it was so obviously a Klingon uniform.

Ignore the gold pips, and see the brown knit as skin and the vinyl tunic as the singlet. Not that far from the show, certainly not as much as the Talos, Cheron, or esp. Mugatu.

And try dressing a Gorn in a Ursus suit--pretty nice!


Regarding WGSH sculpts: No, molded Batman and Cap A aren't perfect, but they aren't truly terrible---not any more so than other somewhat bland early sculpts. Could Batman be more like Neal Adam's art? Maybe, but, Superman could also look more like Curt Swan's, and few collector's critique it. I'm a big Aquaman fan, and look how he fared! lol. They all have their charm, as is.
Cap's biggest problem is the deco, not the sculpt--many upgraded custom Caps here on the forum illustrate that.

I'll take classic Mego sculpts any day over yelling/constipated FC faces.

Some of the later 12" Mego sculpts were really nice: magnetic Batman, Cap, Hulk. Maybe "shrinks" of these could be included with repros as alternate heads, or varients. Still retro, still Mego.

[Gorn Captain]

It's obvious Doc agrees with this to some extent...which is why We have an ALL NEW Sculpt on the Gorn coming....and not a brown Lizard/Klingon.

Hey, don't knock Brown Klingon Gorn!
He was my best friend during childhood.

Mmm, my only friend actually.
God, this is depressing.....


PS: anyone who no longer wants old Gorn, can send him to me.
I run a sanctuary for unwanted and neglected Gorns.
He'll be well taken care of....

[The Bat]

I under stand why people want updated versions yet, did we all not buy kirk and spock and the rest why?

Ah...but Kirk & Spock aren't good examples...because they were EXCELLENT Sculpts to begin with...some of Mego's BEST, They really captured Their likeness's & Personalities. So...You really can't compare Them to say Captain America or Batman, which You know...SUCKED! Mego did a great Job with real People...but Their SuperHeroes were hit or miss. Sometimes they were great(Green Goblin, Mr.Fantastic)...or they were bad(Cap, Batman...brown Gorn Lizard).
It's obvious Doc agrees with this to some extent...which is why We have an ALL NEW Sculpt on the Gorn coming....and not a brown Lizard/Klingon.

[drakghoulie]

I under stand why people want updated versions yet, did we all not buy kirk and spock and the rest why? because they were supposed be like mego's. EMCE yes, but mego's nonetheless. If you change it it does become something else. As for the original Gorn I'd say we were all pretty unhappy with him. chekov and sulu very mego like. I don't want a re-vamp. I want the x-men the way mego would have done them and all the rest even batman the way the original was yet, with the emce improvements and slight enhancements. If it was something like the gorn, yea, ok change it, but you change batman and superman from the original too much. I'm afraid I'm not going to get them. I would say it's about 50% who want it different, 50% don't. I know many don't want a duplicate figure, but then the line becomes a different toy. Not the one I wanted when I was a kid which is why I'm buying these. I don't buy new toys, other than Action man from Cotswold and Emce toys. I know many of us have a terrific collection of originals while there are just as many who love those toys who don't. For them and for someone like me the repro's are cool. I think Doc mego knows what he's doing and like he say's wait till he gets a license.
He can always re-do it all in a different form once the line is more established. A second re-vamped line (a sister line if you will to the repro's) if there is enough interest and the current line remains successful. Those over muscular bodies have always irritated me and kept me away from the new toys. Now for famous covers, even if they had been 8" (they were updated) they still would have been the same bad product. They weren't mego's or as cool as those old out dated toys (which were still, like the original Gi joe) two of the favorite all time toys loaded with play value, we are thinking that way right? I think despite the way they were, they'd still be cool to a kid. Maybe not to sophisticated collectors, but to a kid yes. I think Emce's repro's are prettttty coooool!

[Mr Mego]

Let me get a license first!

He just need take his time, be Patience.

The next EMCE Retro Megos will be done on by that date:

Chekov & Cheron - available on 10/15/08

Uhura & Mugato - available on 11/5/08

Sulu & Gorn - available on 1/28/09

P.O.T.A EMCE Retro Megos line:

Dr.Zaius & Zira - available on 11/26/08

Cornelius & Soldier available on 10/29/08

The next P.O.T.A line - not known yet but check out on Diamond Select Toys & Collectibles Website will let you know when they're available.

Paul need to be finish 6 more complete EMCE Retro Megos Star Trek and P.O.T.A line then I think will be next to WGSH EMCE Retro Megos line, not custom style yet but I think after this then will be different new EMCE Retro 8" WGSH action figures line.

[thunderbolt]

There is a Project Superpowers line in the works, perhaps it is Mego style?

[The Bat]

I'll have a Lord Hydro custom by the time I get the Commander X figure.

Wow...that's really cool! You're making a Custom of one of Jay's Characters! Just don't go selling it on eBay, or We'll find You.

[JediJaida]

EMCE's WGSH...exact Replicas?

Please, with better hairstyles for the females.

Dinah-mite's hair was okay, as it was straight, but that flip hairdo that BG, SG, and WW had were just, I dunno, ICK!

If you wanna make a female action figure with curly or wavy hair, don't cheat and give her a flip. That doesn't count as curly hair.

[Brown Bear]

If EMCE ever gets the license will all be doing the dance of joy regardless of what way they're done....I think rather than focusing on whether Batman will be exact or be updated for this generation, we should focus on what figures NEED to be done.

I'd like to see Lex Luthor, Dr Doom, Dr Ock and Flash among others before ANY Batman or Spidey are done.

As far as weighing in on my preference, I say take the same approach as the Star Trek; do exact replica's of the existing figures and add some new characters to the line.

If they're gonna be WGSH then PLEASE keep the "mego" look and don't update them too much. I like the cheesy 70's look because that's the Mego I love.

[Action Martin]

Spawn & Savage Dragon? Yechh, everything that's gone wrong with comics. As if McFarlane deserved more licensing $$$ for his masturbatory "art." Besides, he already has his own toy company, let him develop his own Megoesque figs. Would they sell--what's the overlap in interest/market?

I mentioned them because they seem to be very popular indy titles or at least were.

On a kinder note, I'm not going to lie--I'd love to see EMCE do King Feature, REB, Fran Striker creations, & REH figures. Even Conde-Nast's Doc Savage & the Shadow: it strikes me as something Mego might have done anyway, & these licenses still have that "retro" feel. And maybe, too, we'll see some of these from Castaway.

Sadly, outside of a few guys like us, no one would be jumping at a Mego/EmCe Doc Savage and Shadow.

Heck, I'd like to see Doc properly reissue some of the lines CTVT tried--Mad Monsters, with a Sea Creature added; Knights & Merry Men--beautiful lines that deserved more respect. Wishful thinking, probably.

I think that I would like to see them too. Robin Hood and King Arthur would qualify as "World's Greatest Super-Heroes". Even some of the Western characters could fit in. A hero is more than tights and a cape.