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MEGO Far Far Away...
by Andrew Kardon (Tue 05-21-2002)
... known as Mego. [IMG4R]Before we get to the company’s demise, let’s start at the beginning. Around 1971, a small toy manufacturer named Mego decided to get into the action figure market. The huge success of Hasbro’s big-honkin’ G.I. JOE figures had Meg... Mego 8" Super-Heroes: World's Greatest Toys
by Tim Janson (Tue 12-18-2007)
...came from Mego. The company was founded in 1954 and while they put out a variety of toys it was their figural toys for which they are best remembered.
Mego produced all sorts of figures from movie characters such as Planet of the Ap... My Grandson Was A Robot!
by John Denning (Sat 09-09-2006)
...sh Gordon Mego figures
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Of course, finding a market for your toys through licensing other media is nothing new. Kenner rocketed into the big time with the Star Wars license, and before them, Mego was hitting up everything from Plan... 
Size Matters
by John Denning (Sun 08-06-2006)
...es. While Mego was circumventing the problems of manufacturing costs with partially cloth figures and interchangeable torsos, Takara was building them better, stronger, faster. Driven by their ever-increasing robot obsession, the Japanese added clear c... Legends Live On or Die Trying
by John Denning (Thu 07-27-2006)
...ned. When Mego first developed The World's Greatest Superheroes line, it featured four DC superheroes. Popular toy history has Ken Abrams, son of Mego's chairman, Marty Abrams, asking where Spider-Man was. Few toy company moguls ever profited from igno... 12" SPIDER-MAN COLLECTOR SERIES: SPIDER-MAN
by JEFF BOND (Sat 06-22-2002)
I don't make toys for a living, but even I can tell you that it's pretty damned hard to make an action figure in a little sewn polyester costume look like a superhero in a skintight supersuit. This has been a given ever since Mego launched a line of 8" su... Micro Management
by Andrew Kardon (Wed 04-10-2002)
...-1970s by Mego Corporation, the Micronauts caught on quickly as a toy line consisting of die-cast figures with interchangeable parts. And now thanks to an agreement with Abrams Gentile and Global Icons, Palisades Toys will be unleashing an armada of Mi... Batteries Not Included: Part II
by Carlos Mejia (Mon 02-12-2007)
...ackson by Mego
Although he sounds like a character from a 70s exploitation film, Action Jackson was Mego’s attempt to compete with Hasbro’s very popular G.I. Joe series in the seventies. The theme of the commercial however is similar to... DVD of the APES
by News Editor (Sat 01-21-2006)
...feature · Mego Toy Commercial · One Easter Egg Beneath The Planet Of The Apes: In the acclaimed 1970 sequel to Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston returns as Taylor and James Franciscus is Brent, who crashes through the time barrier searching for the m... STAR TREK ORIGINAL SERIES ACTION FIGURES: WAVE ONE
by SCOTT COLLURA (Mon 09-01-2003)
I still hold a grudge against my mom for what she did with my first STAR TREK toys. Back in the mid-'70s I had acquired a bunch of the Mego dolls, the first real line of action figures based on Gene Roddenberry's then-cancelled show. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, S... MARVEL HEROCLIX: INFINITY CHALLENGE
by ANDREW KARDON (Sat 07-20-2002)
I can remember playing with my 8" Mego superhero figures as a kid. Some hero would be captured (probably SPIDER-MAN) and the good guys (led by CAPTAIN AMERICA of course) would come to the rescue. Of course, somewhere in the middle of it all, a fight would... ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY #15
by Arnold T. Blumberg (Fri 11-09-2001)
... the box" Mego figures and fast-food premiums reign supreme, can life as we know it survive? Evidently not, as Rusty lives that clichéd life of quiet desperation, forever excluded from decent society by his own fetishes and fantasies. He's a pitiable s... Toys R Us, Part 2: Micronautica
by Tony Whitt (Sat 05-04-2002)
...oduced by Mego between 1976 and 1980, Micronauts were some of the coolest toys around, mainly because of their interchangeability - parts from one toy could be attached to a completely different toy. Mego's Micronauts line was a licensed subset of the ... Real American Heroes
by ANDREW KARDON (Tue 07-02-2002)
...iginal 8" Mego!) and bad (Toy Biz's initial powder-blue Avenger with spring-loaded shield). But easily the best Star-Spangled Avenger ever is Toy Biz's most recent Marvel Legends version. From the painting to the sculpting and the articulation to the s... In Defense of Plastic Cleavage
by Dan Cziraky (Sun 12-10-2000)
...nies like Mego produced a slew of 8-inch version of superheros in tights, including `Wonder Woman` and other Spandexed young ladies. In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, during the move to smaller-scale figures (Star Wars, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, S... Toys R Us, Part 4: More Than Meets the Eye
by Tony Whitt (Wed 05-08-2002)
...ountry by Mego as the Micronauts - the earliest Microman figures correspond to the Time Traveler figures in the Micronauts line, for those of you who are interested.) By 1980, Takara had created the New Microman line as the toy market shifted to become... February 3 February 9: ALIAS Rules
by Sonia Mansfield (Mon 02-03-2003)
Go ahead, ask me.Go on.Yes, I thought the Super Bowl edition of ALIAS was totally freakin' awesome too! It kicked ass. It ruled.If that episode didn't bring in new viewers who are dying to watch it every week then I don't know what else the folks at ALIAS... 
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