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I had one loved it. Crap material but hours of fun. Still have the figures!

Cheers Brian! That takes me back.🙏

I had one and a friend gave me his spare parts when he got bored of his, so I put two bodies together with a cockpit and engines and made a 5 foot double eagle!

pocket hero Robin was buffer than Batman. had them both and two Batmobiles

Blimey , these are from over here in the UK ? I've never seen them before.

Don't break it

And the tower was SO FRUSTRATING to assemble. I remember the jet wouldn’t open and my dad unsealed the sections so that she could go inside.

I had this set. Got it for Christmas. My brother shattered the invisible plane on Christmas night .

While “Makin’ it with Mattel” rolls of the tongue nicely, it’s a bit dodgy sounding…

I need to go look up Play People now.

Great video Brian. I had the Lincoln mummy as a kid in the 70’s… the bloody wrap was indeed cool but his face was fantastic & it sealed the deal. I am hesitant to go on eBay to see how much it’s going for these days…

acroyear with the skates is the one i got. before star wars figures. so it was all adventure people and Micronauts until 78. there were plenty of megos around with an aisle and endcaps in Toys r us as well as additional ones to impulse buy at the register

i think the old Tim mee Galaxy Laser team wins. plastic with a Buck Rogers, Darth Vader, squarish R2, Wilma/Leia with a computer, a Chewie with antennae and sorta X wing fighters. had two bags of them. all characters came in pink, white, light green and black varieties in one bag. lots of fun scaled for Marx dinosaurs , army men or Noah's ark animals. used to carry them around in a big yellow plastic box. i may still have a pic of the box

A "red" one even existed too!

My favorite is the one in the middle, at the end of the Video. I still have two of it.

Loving these Mego Ninjas ❤

for comic activators i used to blow open the Fortress of solitude until I lost it. it was pretty fun

I wish i had the entire collection, including the wrist communicators. And i nearly have the entire Marvel run from 1970!

i had Frankensteins monster, dracula the phantom of the opera and the creature 3 3/4. they weren't durable and the Creature lost his feet . the phantom of the opera survived and I sold him in 92 without his cape . very nice sculpts.

Shuwatchi ! Ultraman reference

Evel Knievel in the red jump suit… eluded me back in 70’s…

Back in the day, Micronauts were my jam. Brilliant toy line, even the commercials looked like something from another galaxy. Lol… the forced look smile on the Farrah glamour head… yikes!

Wow, I never knew about this illustration of Lawrence Montaigne for the card art on back of this vintage Mego figure meant to depict his Romulan character Decius or at least a generalized Romulan character. I wonder if he ever knew about it. I doubt it. TV actors of his generation rarely ever saw any type of royalties for toys or merchandise using their likeness. And I agree with you that the sculptors likely used the appearance of Mark Lenard for the reasons you gave. The Romulan illustration on the back though is definitely of Lawrence. I recognized him right away in this video's thumbnail as I was searching Star Trek related RUclips videos, which is why I immediately clicked on it. Years ago, during the late 80's, I was fortunate enough to be in the stage production of To Kill a Mockingbird with Lawrence. He played the lead character Atticus Finch and I played Dill Harris the next door neighbor. It was quite a memorable experience working with him. We all rehearsed for a 2 to 3 months and then performed the play about 10 times before an audience. I remember afterwards he invited us all to his house for a cast party which was also memorable. He had expressed that during the early part of shooting the original Star Trek series, he was asked to possibly take over the role of Spock, because Leonard Nimoy was strongly considering the idea of leaving the show. Lawrence described one time when he was invited over to Leonard's house, possibly to discuss this transition, and said that Leonard was a bit moody and was being a bit anti-social that night. He explained his wife sort of came to the rescue and made him feel like a welcomed guest. But as fate would have it, Leonard decided to stay with the show to continue playing Spock. However, Lawrence would later get to reprise his Vulcan character Stonn in the 2008 film, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men. I was happily surprised to see that when I did. He also once called me on the phone, because I just happened to be auditioning for the same agent he had had for years. I didn't know that at the time. It was just a coincidence. He simply called to give me encouragement, which was really nice of him. May Lawrence rest in peace. He was an interesting man who played many roles in life.

i did get space glider, acroyear ( the one pictured at the emd if the video) and time traveler in early 78. star wars not until spring and i used a domino covered with electric tape as my first Darth Vader . we wpuld use items from the kitchen as space vehicles in the late 70s

i only saw Baron Karza once and the magnets worked . nobody had Force Commander. but theure both in the Micronauts comic. including theor centaur forms. thankfully the comic story is not just the white armored guy bs Baron Karza the whole series. Karza is the big bad and often defeated all of the good guys. and had the Aliens (the Micronauts aliens( helping him.

Nice Mego here. Batman beyond now needs his villains.

I always said that it didn't make sense that he wore gloves underwater, when he probably had webbed hands? Even if he didn't, you'd think that the gloves would slow him down.

Count Dante looks very much like Angel Martin from The Rockford Files… “Jimmy, Jimmy, JIMMY!”

Another awesome video Brian! Never had any Big Jim stuff but always thought G.I. Joe w/ Kung Fu grip was pretty boss…

Great video & those vintage commercials are pure 70’s gold… Never had any POTA toys thank God. When I was 4 or 5 I caught a bit of the first POTA film at my best friend’s house & it TERRIFIED me. About a year later, my sisters & I were invited over to play with some kids that went to our grade school. We didn’t know them very well but they were nice. However, they brought out the Milton Bradley POTA board game & it creeped me out. At that young age, I didn’t question the game existence, tho I distinctly remember thinking why would anyone want to play with it & the fact that these kids had it spelled nothing but bad news… needless to say, never went back over there to play…lol.

I wonder if the whole concept of interchangeable parts to create different vehicles was reused for the smaller Battlestar Galactica toys?

Dressed like a Rookie figure.

When I saw the Fisher Price Castle and then ROM Space Knight I nearly tried to jump through my TV to buy them.

Why are American advertisements not selling the dream every toy advertisement is different from Japan?

Dammit, Brian. Stop making me hate you!

I wish more sitcoms got toy lines. Imagine having your very own Jonathan Silverman figure from The Single Guy! Or a Bill Kirchenbauer as Coach Graham T Lubbock from Growing Pains and Just the Ten of Us! Speaking of Coach, how about Craig T Nelson, the titular Coach Hayden Fox? …no? Not even from a more modern version of Kotter, Head of the Class? You could have Mr Moore (Howard “Johnny Fever” Hesseman*) or Dennis (Dan “I like underage girls’ feet” Schneider)! …wait, I see your point. *actually, ngl, I’d seek out the entire WKRP in Cincinnati line if such a thing existed Disclaimer: I’m an Xennial, born in ‘81, and I’ve never even seen Welcome Back Kotter, but I’m half insane and would have dug this dumb crap anyway

Thanks Brian, this was a treat!

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