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Seems to be we have been wanting Mego style before things generally started to go retro. The only other "retro" toy I can really recall that predates us is when Luke, Vader, Han and Chewie were repackaged in a Classic Figure box in the mid 90's....
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I don't think the museum can take credit, but they are doing their part to support it all. EVERYTHING will be new again at some point......
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Yes. We rock. Everyone who enjoys all the retro goodness should send us a dollar each.
Period.
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Nah, Retro came back the moment the 90's were over and kids from the 80's were old enough to want their old toys back. Once there was money to be made there, it started trickling backwards even further, thus Megos.Comment
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There's No I in the Museum ..., there ain't No We Either.
... The Original Knight ..., Often Imitated, However Never Duplicated. The 1st Knight in Customs.
always trading for Hot Toys Figures .
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Hasbro was probably first to the bell back in the nineties with all its GI JOE re-issues and such. One could say bringing back Star Wars figures in 94 or 95 was a retro move for that time as well.
I guess collectors started the demand for retro.....so in a way we all started it."Crayons taste like purple!"Comment
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There's also a lot to be said for our generation being in decision making positions at toy companies.This profile is no longer active.Comment
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You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
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Seriously I think the "retro wave" is a form of despiration by toy companies. The modern audience is totally different than what we were. We had three choices on Saturday morning's. And so all of those beloved properties were gold. Nowadays IMO the old school properties are at best "silver". But with that said the newest properties are at best "bronze" and "copper" with no staying power. Not so much because they suck but because the volume of choices that are avaqilable to children.
So once again IMO I think the big toy companies are going back to the well because the old school properties are so familiar to American pop culture as a whole that even modest sales of those properties will remain on average competitive with the latest fad. So why not go back in time and allow on us that were there be the new marketing tool, to sell the products to our children and grandchildren?Comment
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It's good that we are going retro. Even car companies are making retro cars like Mustang, Charger and Challenger . I was in a comic book store this week in NYC and seen so many different mego like figures some are nice (monsters and twilight zone) and some look pretty bad like Flash Gordon,(Ming wasn't to bad) and all Mattel's DC and Ghost busters stuff look like junk. It brings back memories when I was a kid when you went to a toy store they had GI Joe and very bad Knock off stuff like Fighting Yank and other 12' Gijoe like figures. But the big difference is the Bad retro figures today are the same price as the well made retro figures. Back then the Joes were like double the price of the knock offsComment
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We started the whole retro idea, and I'm confident that in the future, statues will be erected in our honor to commemorate this new era of humanity.
No need to be too humble about it.....
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"When things are at their darkest, it's a brave man that can kick back and party."Comment
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Oh man...I'm rolling here! And I think the pigeons will pick your statue first to do their thing on, GC! 
"Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."
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The retro thing was already in place before the retro Mego figures started coming out. All you have to do is take a look at the Polar Lights Model Kits that started coming out almost 10 years ago....so in answer to your question...no, we didn't start the retro thing that is happening now. It's been in affect for more than 10 years...the biggest difference is now the companies that are making the toys are REALLY trying to take advantage of the fact that people are into it much more than they were 10 years ago."When not too many people can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears,
Their eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Isn't it a pity".
- "Isn't It A Pity"
By George Harrison
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