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This was a really fun line, and I'm disappointed that the company has moved away from this kind of thing, cut off their primary wholesale channel, and decided to focus almost entirely on Disney owned super heroes.
But, until #mego comes to their senses and starts making Monsters and Sci-Fi stuff again, these Warehouse Finds of some of their more limited releases are as good as it gets.
Here are a few other characters we got online today.
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I grew up with hand me down Mego toys, mostly Star Trek, some Monsters, some Planet of the Apes.
I got into making toys by making Mego-style versions of characters they never made. Old comic book heroes, characters from Space Patrol. This is what got me into making toys.
When Mego came back a few years ago, I was pretty excited about it.
As soon as we were able to get our hands on their wholesale release, we filled our store with them.
These toys are, mostly, really great. The sculpts are excellent, the costumes are usually very good.
When they launched, they retailed at $15, and they were released in batches of a few thousand.
Then the batches got a little bigger and the price got a little higher and the shipping got a little slower.
A couple of the toys had some minor issues. They'd usually get fixed pretty quickly, but it was apparent that the company was out of their weight class.
And then they started doing Exclusives.
They did a collaboration with Topps, one with Hasbro, and then started working with Disney.
The Topps collab produced some neat figures, but they weren't available for sale anywhere outside of the topps website, or at least that's what they said.
Eventually the Topps exclusives started showing up in some stores anyway, and the Hasbro exclusives got a deep markdown.
None of them were made available to the normal wholesale channels, but at least we were able to get them as customers.
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