{"id":21908,"date":"2023-04-24T16:34:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T20:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/?p=21908"},"modified":"2023-04-24T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T20:46:15","slug":"the-wildly-off-model-mego-comic-action-heroes-board-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/the-wildly-off-model-mego-comic-action-heroes-board-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wildly Off-Model Mego Comic Action Heroes Board Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mego Comic Action Heroes Board Game<\/h3>\n
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Mego Comic Action Heroes Board Game<\/p><\/div>\n

When I was putting together issue 10 of Toy-Ventures magazine’s Mego<\/a> Comic Action Heroes guide, I almost forgot to add this fantastic oddity from the United Kingdom. What’s worse is I’ve owned a copy for over 25 years, finding it in a London (Ontario) thrift shop and it was less than ten feet away from me. I wanted to show more images than I did but the space wasn’t available, so I thought I’d follow up with a post.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mego Comic Action Heroes Board Game<\/p><\/div>\n

Denys Fisher (then owned by Palitoy) released this board game to coincide with the Mego Comic Action Heroes toys to launch in the UK. It’s a curiousity as it features some odd and off-model DC characters. The artist didn’t have reliable reference material for Shazam and may have been drawing him based on the Mego figure, which was hardly faithful either.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mego Comic Action Heroes Board Game<\/p><\/div>\n

It also features characters like the Riddler (who was excluded in the Comic Action Heroes) and Mr. Freeze in his only appearance in Mego-related products.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mego Comic Action Heroes Board Game<\/p><\/div>\n

The game has your heroes trying to get to Gotham City Hall to have a showdown with…The Penguin. Yup, he’s the boss level in this, it seems kind of cruel sending Superman to beat up Oswald Cobblepot, but here we are.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mego Comic Action Heroes Board Game<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve taken some shots of the board, to showcase some of the artwork; some of it I’ve seen in merchandising before, but others, yeah, I’ve never seen them used like this.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mego Comic Action Heroes Board Game<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Wildly Off-Model Mego Comic Action Heroes Board Game<\/a><\/blockquote>