News Mego Toys Returns To Trek

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In a press release, Mego Toys and Target announced that toys tied in with hit properties, including Star Trek, would be arriving...

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[fireproof78]

I'm excited as well as disappointed in the limited run.

 

[TrickyDickie]

Wait a minute....only action figures?

My favorite Mego toy based on Star Trek was the communicator walkie-talkie pair:

 

[2takesfrakes]

That's one bulky-ass piece of STAR TREK technology, right there ...

 

[TrickyDickie]

That's one bulky-ass piece of STAR TREK technology, right there ...

It's just dated....Mego needs to ret-con it.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Just trying to imagine when 2takesfrakes was a wee lad, what it might've been like trying to wrap my chubby lil' digits around that MEGO Toy Communicator, with which to convey and express my innermost thoughts and feelings ... no wonder it never took America by storm. But, oh, yes! Ret-Con this bad boy ... and they can start by taking off that ridiculously obvious "Communicator" label.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

Only 10,000 copies of each figure?? So w/ approx. 1,800 Target stores in the USA, there will maybe be 5 copies of each fig per Target (not accounting for on-line sales or SDCC sales)...? I'm guessing these will be impossible to find in the wild, and will command a hefty price on eBay. Since the stated mission of this line is to allow parents to share the same toys they once enjoyed w/ the next generation, I don't think such a limited run will accomplish said goal. For reference, the NES Mini had an original print run of 2 million in the USA across Targets, Best Buys, GameStops, Wal*Marts, and Amazon, and those were extremely difficult to find. Obviously these Mego figs won't have the same massive audience as the NES Mini, but 10,000 is also way less than 2,000,000. I'd love to be wrong... guess we'll see. 10,000 seems a more reasonable amount for some of the figs like I Dream of Jeannie or Brady Bunch, but way too low for DC and Star Trek.

 

[2takesfrakes]

MEGO should bring back TMP action figures, too, whilst they're at it ...

http://www.megomuseum.com/bonavita/files/starf.jpg

 

[FormerLurker]

I've been wanting a MEGO Sulu and Chekov for forty years!

And any TMP figures should, of course, be able to interact with the TOS ones. Playsets, too.

 

[Roundabout]

That's one bulky-ass piece of STAR TREK technology, right there ...

Not only is it bulky, but it is not even the right color.

I still got my vintage communicator. I showed it to the kids. They thought it was quaint and cheap. Once they dropped it on the floor (it was inevitable), the communicator opened up and they could see the old fashioned transistors. They noted that they couldn't do texting, among other things, with those contraptions.

When I was a kid, I never did like the antennae because the tv ones didn't have one. I actually tried removing it on one of the communicators to make it look more authentic, sacrificing function for form.

 

[Kor]

I'm not a big fan of that packaging.

Kor

 

[2takesfrakes]

STAR TREK merchandising has been such a major disappointment to me, personally. But Roddenberry has a few upscale items that -- hopefully -- start pointing the merchandise market, as a whole, in the right direction :

Picard's Desk Crystal (a paperweight he has in his Ready Room)
https://shop.roddenberry.com/collec...desk-crystal-prop-replica?variant=42800701068

Kataan Probe Pendant Prop Replica
https://shop.roddenberry.com/collec...robe-pendant-prop-replica?variant=34380346956

Saurian Brandy Glass Set
https://shop.roddenberry.com/collec.../saurian-brandy-glass-set?variant=43922449100

Horga'hn Prop Replica
https://shop.roddenberry.com/collec...-prop-replica-preorder?variant=12376784502862

 

[mkstewartesq]

Pretty sure there’s a typo on that article.

I think the phrase “Marty Abrams presents Mego, which will be available exclusively at Target this August” was supposed to read “Marty Abrams presents Mego, which will be available exclusively at the eBay accounts of people whose friends work at Target this August.”

M

 

[TrickyDickie]

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I guess Kirk got tired of having a Klingon on the bridge:

 

[2takesfrakes]

MEGO really liked pumping out material to fill dumpsters with, I take it.

 

[fireproof78]

I miss Mego. And Playmates.

 

[Hey Missy]

Wasn't DST making Mego replicas? what happened to that?

 

[mos6507]

MEGO really liked pumping out material to fill dumpsters with, I take it.

That's not entirely fair. People are digging out some of the most obscure stuff (which, I suspect, is also the most valuable on Ebay).

Mego made far more good stuff than crap.

Also, the liberties they took with the look of things were a key part of their charm, although with the Trek figures, the main head-sculpts (except for Uhura) were some of the best ever.

 

[TrickyDickie]

Remco was even worse than Mego. 'Astro' meant Star Trek!!!

The packages say Based on Star Trek, even though a lot of the stuff has NOTHING to do with Trek.

This is just some of their stuff:

 

[starsuperion]

http://trekcore.com/blog/2018/07/classic-star-trek-toy-company-mego-returns-in-2018/

I have always liked the Mego Star Trek Toys, these will be a must for me, as a kid, I found these at Garage sales all the time. I always loved them. Especially since Nickelodeon was running episodes of TAS Trek on their platform. I always wondered if the kids back in the 70s had played with them based on the TAS cartoon. Given the level of detail, but limitations, it makes sense. Throw in a TAS Enterprise and you've got a whole set of awesomeness. I loved the bridge playset too. If they do release these figures, I want to see them do the ones they got wrong, correct. Like the Gorn and the white horned ape. I would also like to see them release a NOMAD and an alien threat set. Klingon, Andorian, and Romulan commander.