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For our 40th episode we are joined by actor/comedian Chris Tallman (@MrChristallman on twitter) for a celebration of the Interchangeable World of the Micronauts, the classic toy line from Mego that is about to get a major motion picture and new comic book series this year. The discussion begins with the toy line’s Japanese origins, it’s halcyon […]
Today’s update is a fun look at the amazing displays my pal Ray “Acroray” Miller put up at the Kruger Street Toy Museum a few years back. I was lucky enough to see it first hand (luckily we also held Mego Meet there at the time) but for those of you who didn’t, this is […]
This ad is from France where then distributor “Pin Pin Toys” had good fortune with the Micronauts line, it truly was an international affair with the line enjoying good sales in Canada, the UK, German, Greece and especially Italy. This Friday our new podcast is all about the Interchangeable world of the Micronauts.
Today we feature the original toy trade catalog given to buyers when Mego launched the Micronauts in February of 1977. It’s a wonderful and rarely seen piece, more after the jump. Micronauts really was an ambitious and risky gamble for Mego, it’s a sprawling toy line with aggressive TV advertising. Luckily kids were drawn to […]
In honour of this Friday’s new podcast episode (which is about Micronauts in case you were wondering) I plan to theme this week around Mego’s memorable toy line. Above is a Christmas catalog spread from 1979, it’s one of 3 pages that year. ’79 was truly my big year with the line and one where […]
Happy New Year! It’s time for our annual salute to all the things that made us happy in 2015, especially those that harkened back to our childhoods and brother, did we have a lot to smile about. The 2015 Retro Awards salutes the movies, books, magazines and toys we raved about this year and we […]
This ad from Viacom was put out in all the toy trades at the time enticing licensees that Thundarr was a good idea. I wish more of them took it seriously. Heck, I still want the unproduced Mego line.
GI Joe, Action Jackson, Big Jim and Mego Superheroes, pretty close to everything I thought about before Star Wars blew up.
For this year’s last Friday feature, I bring you my favourite of all sections of PlaidStallions another volume of vintage toy store pictures! Celebrating the time when we had unique independent retailers dotting our landscape and came up with colourful and and interesting ways of selling us toys. Volume 18 is our biggest yet and loaded with […]
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