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This Chachi was the only damaged card that we bought, and we bought it because it was the only Chachi they had. He's missing his white sneakers and the fountain soda he can presumably drink with Joanie.
We found a large stock of Mego figures at the salvage store. There were seven characters that we don't yet have, so we picked them up. This was a newly arrived stock so the discount was only 40%, meaning we paid $8-$9 each. That's more than we like but we weren't confident these would still be available when the discount increased to 50%.
It was fun to find Norm as well. atjoe1972 has found and featured Cliff.
We found a large stock of Mego figures at the salvage store. There were seven characters that we don't yet have, so we picked them up. This was a newly arrived stock so the discount was only 40%, meaning we paid $8-$9 each. That's more than we like but we weren't confident these would still be available when the discount increased to 50%.
Micronauts by Mego. One of the City sets.
This is incomplete. Plan on keeping the contents. But this box is so big. It has received damage from storage.
It would be nice to have this as a back drop for my loose Micro collection. But doesn't seem realistic at this point.
The top part seen here is a very thin card board. So this has to be stored on top of whatever. Then it gets caked with dust ! It is caving in the center. Due to its own weight and age I guess. Rather then damage it any further. I am going to pass it on to someone who can display it properly . So I take a few pics before it is gone :)
I’m not usually one for collecting lots of sleepwear, (though there was that phase several years ago when I needed to get every Mod era Barbie sleepwear outfit!) but I do find the Sindy ones quite stylish, like the ‘Lullaby Lace’ from 1977, on my brunette Active Ballerina who’s sitting there at her dressing table and especially ‘Pyjama Party’ from 1979 on my new blonde Sweet Dreams Sindy (I LOVE this type of Sindy even though some collectors don’t find her attractive…IMO she is like the equivalent of ‘Miss Barbie’ in the Barbie world, IE: she is unique because of her ‘sleep-eye’ feature and therefore a great addition to any collection… I managed to find one where you can actually see a bit of the whites of her eyes, even though they don’t show up much in these pics …) My brunette Sweet Dreams Sindy sleeping on her bed is actually wearing the Mego ‘Jordache’ pyjama set in cream which I think co-ordinates very nicely with that my blonde’s deep chocolate pyjama set. It is very elegant with its long silky tunic held with a deep chocolate velvet belt with asymmetrical fastening and delicate chocolate and cream lace trim. What a smart, stylish slumber party!
Modern Mego - two versions of Gene Wilder; Willy Wonka and Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced 'Fronkensteen'). I changed Willy's shoes to boots.
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series (1971)... I am a Dizzy Girl ; 6 1/2 " fashion doll with stand . On folding carton . © Mego Corp .; 10 Dec70 ; KK221871 . MELVILLE SHOE CORP .
A Metaluna Mutant transports to the Mirror, Mirror universe :)
I wonder if the Vulcan neck pinch would work on one of them ???
PHOTO TITLE: "Micronauts: They Came From Inner Space"
Digital photography and Photoshopped artwork by me, Alexis Dyer.
Created on Tuesday, 05/18/2010. (additional alterations/enhancements - 02/25/2013)
The Mego Micronauts Time Traveler action figure used for this artwork photo is from my personal collection.
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Finding this Mego Superman doll was a very pleasant surprise! I've been hoping to find a Mattel Superman for a while, but this is equally good! He has a very nice face and he's only missing his boots, which I might make for him myself!
Also, I was initially creeped out by this Michael Jackson doll, but I'm slowly starting to like him. The Mulan doll and Barbie were bought for body swaps! I also found a bag with a little science book inside it!
I especially love the Mego made outfits for Sindy that were around in the early-mid 70’s! They usually have a different paper label which says “MEGO® MADE IN HONG KONG” and sometimes, even the year the outfit was produced. (See pic at top-right.) For those who don’t know about the company, Mego was a huge US/HK toy manufacturer and marketing company. In the 1970s they sold their own product lines in the USA and sometimes through other companies overseas. They were best known for their highly collectible action figures and had particular success with their celebrity fashion dolls like Farrah Fawcett, Lynda Carter/Wonder Woman and their top-selling Cher doll in the mid 70’s. They also had a successful doll toward the end of their existence called Candi and the 11 ½ inch version, Fashion Candi (who interestingly, inherited all of the USA Marx Sindy’s furniture and her 3-level home when Marx went bust!) But in the late 60’s and throughout most of the 70’s, they had their own budget fashion doll called Maddie Mod (for some years it was manufactured by ‘Princess Grace’, a subsidiary of Mego.) Back then, a number of companies including Pedigree used Mego in Hong Kong to manufacture their own doll's outfits, so these outfits can also be seen in old department store wishbooks, usually in inexpensive lots. Many of Sindy’s outfits from that time were originally these Mego ‘Maddie Mod’ outfits and here are two of my favourites; - ‘Blazer Beauty’ from 1974, (I’ve shown it before with its original accessories, but I thought I would style it up a bit to look more ‘70s’. My blonde 1974 1st issue Active Ballerina has borrowed Pretty Pose Sindy’s yellow ribbed turtleneck to wear underneath that very Missoni-ish knit jacket and donned those fabulous white flared linen-look pants from the 1978 Mix n’ Match range, as the original Mego ones were a bit too cheap, nylon-y and skimpy looking for my taste. Her navy tote with the rope handle is also from that range. She also donned a very 70’s red headscarf from a fashion accessory pack.) This was originally shown in the Maddie Mod catalogue for 1973, also named 'Blazer Beauty' and on later Maddie Mod packaging as 'Blazers' In'. There is also a Florido Spanish Sindy outfit called 'Fantasia' which is very similar to this outfit and that came with white Trendy shoes, and pants that were more like the ones here, but the Florido outfit fastens with Velcro and not metal snap fasteners, and the jacket has slightly different colours, with the material more like the one used for the front panel of the top from the 1975/76 Sindy outfit 'Jumper ‘n Jeans', another popular Mego Maddie Mod outfit also used for Sindy, and shown on my auburn haired Pretty Pose at left, with her original headband. (It was also scaled down for Mego’s tiny 8 inch ‘Dinah-Mite’ in 1975!) I love the history of these long-gone toy companies and the cross-pollination that occurred among them … it makes the research all the more fun because of the interesting journey of some of these Sindy outfits! (Credit goes to ‘oursindymuseum.com’ for the Mego label pic and some of the info here!)
Custom Mego Action Jackson of the 1974 Montgomery Wards exclusive “Amigo”. Using the 2018 Mego reboot. This version has jointed arms in place of the original’s bendy arms.
Modern Mego 14 inch Spock and 8 inch Spock. Of course they made the right hand sculpted in the ever-annoying Vulcan salute. But you can switch it out with a fist to recreate all those fights Spock constantly started.
Since the Chachi and Norm sculpts are accurate for the actors, we guess Mego didn't get a license from Jaclyn Smith for her likeness, as this looks nothing like her. At all. Which is a shame as Smith is one of TV's classic beauties.
We found a large stock of Mego figures at the salvage store. There were seven characters that we don't yet have, so we picked them up. This was a newly arrived stock so the discount was only 40%, meaning we paid $8-$9 each. That's more than we like but we weren't confident these would still be available when the discount increased to 50%.
Custom Mego Diana Prince wears one of her authentic fashions from 1978, The outfits were unnamed but the Wonder Woman Museum has dubbed this one Rust Wrangler!
Custom Mego Action Jackson of the 1974 Montgomery Wards exclusive “Amigo”. Using the 2018 Mego reboot. This version has jointed arms in place of the original’s bendy arms.
This came in the box with my Mego Thor and Conan when I bought them in the 1970's. It shows other Mego figures you could buy.
The short-lived Jordache dolls and fashions by Mego from 1981/82 hold a special place in my fashion-loving heart, and not just because they are interesting ‘clones’ that used the popular ‘Fashion Candi’ head mould, but because they represent what was going on in their time in a way that other dolls didn’t, and not just in fashion, but in the entire fashion and licensing industry in particular. For those who are unfamiliar with the name, Jordache was originally a ‘premium’ denim store (decades before such things became commonplace!) in New York that opened in 1969 and stocked European designer labels. It reached its peak when it started licensing its name for its own ‘European’ inspired designer denim jeans, riding the wave of the craze for designer denim jeans that crested in the late 1970s and early 1980s, along with such other famous names as Gloria Vanderbilt and Calvin Klein. I remember back then seeing all their glossy and (at the time) rather risqué ads of shirtless male and female models cavorting around, and their slick, sexy, highly covetable dark denim jeans that were expensive and hard to find in Australia at the time. The brand had a real cachet that unfortunately petered out by the end of the 80’s, due to all their excessive and questionable licensing agreements, which did in a lot of once-influential brands of that time. Jordache as a company is still around today, and even launched a 40th anniversary denim collection back in 2018, but this doll range by Mego was one such licensing agreement that happened in the label’s heyday, when they were up there with Gloria and Calvin! And as for the doll, even though she is essentially a ‘Candi’ with bangs and more natural makeup, she reminds me a tiny bit of the 70’s actress Valerie Perrine… Check out the three different types of packaging used for the fashions you see here. Stay tuned for a de-boxing video on YouTube of all this in the near future! But in the meantime, please enjoy these Mego ads for the doll and her fashions: youtu.be/R_1rCoWsvdw and www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK6Mx8kRxvE
By finding Kelly, we completed the Bundy set. Much to Al's chagrin. 😊
We found a large stock of Mego figures at the salvage store. There were seven characters that we don't yet have, so we picked them up. This was a newly arrived stock so the discount was only 40%, meaning we paid $8-$9 each. That's more than we like but we weren't confident these would still be available when the discount increased to 50%.
12 inch Mego Spock had turned grey. I am in the process of "dying" the head by "painting" women's make-up face powder/blush - and some pastel chalks. It can be hard to get an even tone on the really grey ones but you can get a lot if not all flesh tone back into these.
It takes many applications brushed on over time, but the powder will seep into the head covering up the grey. You can still see some grey here as I work on him.
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