Ladies and Gentlemen, The World's Greatest Superheroes

[Caelonfox]

Mego Scott,
Your me hero! I just saw your website (Dida Displays) for the first time and I am floored!!!!!!!!! Unbelievable!!!! It's one thing to make a great repro of something but to "Out do" the original is brilliant!! The deluxe playsets are the coolest thing I have EVER seen. Forgive me, to those who have known about these for however long.

These should be, if they are not planning to already, bought out by Mattel and used/sold for the new character releases this Fall and next year. They are brilliant!

[Caelonfox]

Hey Paul.
Speaking of heads, are the heads going to be solid like some of your earlier custom repros or are they going to be flexible (squishy) like the originals and your later repros. I'm sure it's the later, I was just looking for reassurance.
After giving a lot of thought, I tend to agree that the "Mr Fantastic" style gloves seems more fitting with the whole Original Mego feel as MOST (not all - Green Arrow) had "removable" oven mits or hard plastic gloves. Just a thought.

[Mego Milk]

CONGRATS EMCE!!!!!!!

I saw em! They look great!
AW YEAH NEW MEGOS!!!!
AW YEAH LUTHOR!!!!

[Raydeen1]

I am so loving this. The opinions are awesome. I'd personally LOVE to see a Superfriends Batman. My son says Batman MUST have a removable mask. I tend to agree. I'm all about removable masks.

I gotta say one thing: Those gauntlets are not doing it for me. I know they're prototypes but the concept in itself turns me off. I'd much rather see gloves like Mr.Fantastic or at the very least, make the gauntlets like the magnetic Batman and Robin.

[EMCEtoys]

Okay, here's an update.

It's been asked whether or not we're making any improvements to the capes, be it material or some kind of hemming to prevent the classic "fraying" problem of vintage MEGOs.

We can reveal that the material is still nylon in keeping with MEGO, because we believe that changing the material of something with as much area as a cape is leaning a bit too far out of the "MEGOverse".

However, the Mattel factory is going to apply a process that seals the edges so fraying won't be a problem.

Hopefully that will be seen as an improvement without straying too far away from what we're intending to so with the line.

As always, more info as it comes in.

I'm gonna post this up in "MEGO Buzz", as I just discovered there seems to be a mirror thread up there as well.

[drmego]

He is a prototype - usually you can expect about a 6% shrinkage
(Tell her about the shrinkage Jerry!!!) when you send the factory
a resin head.

Then again Superman is the greatest hero of them all, so he may
just keep that swelled head.

[Brue]

is the proto head for supes the final mold? I like it but It seems different than the others -maybe a little larger in proportion compared to the others.

[drmego]

Green Arrow will be available this fall on mattycollector.com - so Fall is the way
to go.

[The Bat]

AWESOME Job Scott...GREAT Idea!!

[Flynne]

I am adding this to the Museum front page, anticipating that we will get more newbie visitors in search of info about these. I grabbed the graphic from the 1973 Catalog announcement.

And five minutes later, it's my new desktop background. You rock, Scott!

[megoscott]

I am adding this to the Museum front page, anticipating that we will get more newbie visitors in search of info about these. I grabbed the graphic from the 1973 Catalog announcement...The Green Arrow is coming in the fall, right? If not, I have a version that says Spring.

[Brue]

I got home from China on July 9th - the sample bodies arrived from Mattel
on July 11th - I had to have them out to San Diego by the 14th to be
on display by the 23rd.

Most of the work was already done, but the devil is in the last minute
details.

This figures were assembled in full jet lag mode will my wife and I
were dealing with a jealous 7 year old and a throughly confused 2 year old.

I'm just glad Luthor didn't end up with GL's boots on!

Tell the 2 year old I'm glad to hear they are n the US with you.

[mego73]

I got home from China on July 9th - the sample bodies arrived from Mattel
on July 11th - I had to have them out to San Diego by the 14th to be
on display by the 23rd.

Most of the work was already done, but the devil is in the last minute
details.

This figures were assembled in full jet lag mode will my wife and I
were dealing with a jealous 7 year old and a throughly confused 2 year old.

I'm just glad Luthor didn't end up with GL's boots on!

One wonders if some of the original Mego prototypes were made under the same circumstances

[drmego]

I got home from China on July 9th - the sample bodies arrived from Mattel
on July 11th - I had to have them out to San Diego by the 14th to be
on display by the 23rd.

Most of the work was already done, but the devil is in the last minute
details.

This figures were assembled in full jet lag mode will my wife and I
were dealing with a jealous 7 year old and a throughly confused 2 year old.

I'm just glad Luthor didn't end up with GL's boots on!

[60'schild]

Actually, they did use sticky putty. Check Ben's pics in his blog

Oh no... you're right!! LOL! And they were painted too!!