Comments on: Toys I Wish I Still Had #1: Mego Superheroes http://spandexjustice.com/2006/03/26/88 Fighting Crime And Looking Good Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:04:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Steve http://spandexjustice.com/2006/03/26/88/comment-page-1#comment-32778 Steve Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:50:14 +0000 http://spandexjustice.com/2006/03/26/88#comment-32778 Mego made some awesome toys! My favorites were the Star Trek series...had all of them and the bridge playset. Had a couple of the super heroes too...:) There were a bunch more of those type action figures back in the day too...remember the SWAT guys, Emergency!, Planet of the Apes, CHIPS...I had a bunch of those too. That was when they made REAL action figures! Mego made some awesome toys! My favorites were the Star Trek series…had all of them and the bridge playset. Had a couple of the super heroes too…:)

There were a bunch more of those type action figures back in the day too…remember the SWAT guys, Emergency!, Planet of the Apes, CHIPS…I had a bunch of those too. That was when they made REAL action figures!

]]> By: RAB http://spandexjustice.com/2006/03/26/88/comment-page-1#comment-275 RAB Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:18:24 +0000 http://spandexjustice.com/2006/03/26/88#comment-275 You never had a Captain Marvel -- or "Shazam!" as the packaging had to call him, for obvious reasons? That was one of my more cherished possessions. Though my favorite from the Mego line was actually Spider-Man. I remember right about the time I got the Spider-Man figure, an issue of Marvel Team-Up had Spidey (teamed with Black Panther, if memory serves) facing a herd of dinosaurs set loose in New York City...so I took my Aurora snap-together dinosaur models and set up a three-dimensional tableau of the Mego Spider-Man versus the Aurora dinosaurs. Since the scale didn't match, one had to assume they were pygmy dinosaurs. Or alternately, that Spider-Man was thirty feet tall...but that would have been silly, and one thing a boy doesn't want when contemplating Spider-Man fighting dinosaurs is for it to be silly. You never had a Captain Marvel — or “Shazam!” as the packaging had to call him, for obvious reasons? That was one of my more cherished possessions.

Though my favorite from the Mego line was actually Spider-Man. I remember right about the time I got the Spider-Man figure, an issue of Marvel Team-Up had Spidey (teamed with Black Panther, if memory serves) facing a herd of dinosaurs set loose in New York City…so I took my Aurora snap-together dinosaur models and set up a three-dimensional tableau of the Mego Spider-Man versus the Aurora dinosaurs. Since the scale didn’t match, one had to assume they were pygmy dinosaurs. Or alternately, that Spider-Man was thirty feet tall…but that would have been silly, and one thing a boy doesn’t want when contemplating Spider-Man fighting dinosaurs is for it to be silly.

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