MIGHTOR was actually a Hanna-Barbara cartoon. He was around when Birdman, The Heculoids, and Space Ghost were popular in the late 60's early 70's line.
I've seen a couple of those bendy figures in a local antique consignment shop. I have a few MEGO knight and pirate figures and a few American historical and sports figures like Wyatt Earp, Cochise, Davy Crockett, Joe Namath, etc. Probably the oddest vintage MEGO figure I own is a carded Isaac The Bartender from the TV show The Love Boat. MEGO went down so many rabbit holes in the 70's and early 80's, and it's always interesting to find out what they deemed worthy of making action figures out of.
Yup; they are f&cking with us, and that proves it; we KNOW what we saw at the cinemas, because the audience erupted with laughter at the irony when she smiled
That Powerarm with Lightning Cycle accessory looked like a precursor to the Nintendo Power Glove and Lucas from The Wizard was right, it is SO bad. So bad that it’s almost non-responsive. I feel sorry for anybody who spent actual money on that thing or received it as a gift. On the bright side, it looked cool to wear on your arm though.
Holly Goodhead. How can you forget that name JM? Moonraker was cool in a cartoony version of James Bond. Did not know that Mego made the villian Jaws. The Mego Knights are supposedly the most detailed of the Mego figures, as no license to pay for. I have the Ivanhoe for cheap. Actually impressive for 70's figures. Finally, not sure why some Mego figure heads greyed out, maybe humidity and time.
I had the Zack Power toy. The way it worked was that you put 3 C-cell batteries inside that plastic box mounted on the glove. The index finger and the thumb of the glove both had metal contact points mounted on the fingertips. You touched them to the sides of the headrest of the motorcycle seat. This then transferred a power charge to capacitors in the motorcycle and then it rode off a la Ideal's Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, but without all that tedious cranking. When you think about it, this thing was the original "Power Glove", made years before Nintendo had their thing.
You should do a video on all the funky water toys in the 70s Slipe n Slide that rocket thing with the air pump. Everyone had some type of sprinkler water type toy I think there may have been a few Star Wars ones. Great Job Love your channel
The Catwoman design of the 70s, from when Wonder Woman had lost her powers. Woot. Sadly that Powerarm was crap. You clipped the hands of the figure into the "handlebars", put batteries in the glove, put your thumb and pointer finger onto the figure's backpack which allowed the electricity to flow out of the battery pack, "thru" your fingers into the figure who completed the circuit to the motor in the cycle and made it rev then you'd push a button on the base to launch it and pray you didn't hit anything hard as the upper half of the figure was hard brittle plastic. Legs were bendy wire like Evel Keneivel figures. Glove was stretchy polyester or some crap. Think Evel's stunt cycle only relying on batteries and shoddiness and you're close to what this was.
-Yepper , those "Bendies" were odd lookin , for sure. I had tons of em. That cycle with the "arm launch" effect was nothing more than a spring loaded "launch ramp" that attached to your wrist . Lame. i had one. the temptation to "launch" this baby thru the air was impossible for boys to resist. Broken on the first day. Your too young for the whole "knight thing" . Knights were cool! .... so were soldiers & pirates . man , im old.
Yeah, I remember the Lone Ranger and his sidekick, Toto, and their many battles with the Wicked Witch of the West, as they made their way to Emerald City!
Never give a pump to a Footballer ( sorry, Soccer Player), you don't want to know what they can do with it. Trust us, in the UK we know only too well what FOOTBALLERS can do when they're rich and protected by the club and whoever's bought the club this week... same deal with your American Football players, I suppose. And the Mego James Bond figures always went yellow in the head. Crap plastic. Good video, JM!😁
Real shame Mego went out of business. Always thought Star Wars figures would have been better, made by Mego. More articulation, better detail. The Black Hole figures were in a league of their own. Great video Junkman. U da man!
I remember getting Moonraker toys for the cheap at Lionel Play World. They also had a bunch of mego Invisible Woman and Human Torch dolls. It was somewhere around 83. It was boring for a Bond toy
Nice video. I had the Moonraker Jaws and James Bond. The Jaws was brilliant. The magnet for teeth was quite a strong magnet. The James bond actually looked really brilliant out of the box when dressed up. They must be worth something now.
I noticed that, too, that sir Galahad box, too, it looked weird. I think the packaging looked a little too contemporary. That Jaws figure is the shist Steve Goalgetter needs beat up just for the socks. :)
Mego! Those were the bomb digity in the 70s! Until Star Wars 3.75s hit the stores. I have no idea what we did with all our Migo all I know is they disappeared as soon as Star Wars showed up!
wasn't Mightor part of that Hanna Barbara cartoon where the little dinosaur shot rocks out of its trunk or whatever? i feel like i've seen him on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
The soccer player reminded me of a couple of toys from around that time we had here in the US. One was a football place kicker that came with a football and goal post. I cant remember if you pushed down on his helmet or how you activated it but it would kick the football and you tried to get it through the goal post. the other was a basketball player that came with a basketball goal and basketball. you could set the players arm and try to shoot a basket. again, not sure who made them or exactly when they came out. I want to say late 70s because there was a missel launching toy around the same time that I believe Nerf came out with where you had a plunger you slammed down and the air from it would launch the missel.
I have a commander Zack powerarm and I love it. It just transfers energy from a battery pack on your wrist to a capacitor in the toy and when the power bleeds off you have to do it again.
@That Junkman In 1976 Mego actually made a 9' inch figure of the legendary West German “Soccer'' AKA ''Assoccer” (Association Football) star ''Franz Beckenbauer''. The characters featured in Mego's (Bend 'N Flex) superhero line were the same characters from their 8 Inch ''World's Greatest Superheroes'' line. It's also worth mentioning' that in 1977 Mego put out lines that were produced exclusively for the UK market. Which included a well made ''Dr. Who'' line based on the (Tom Baker episodes). As well as an 8' inch ''Space 1999'' line. Mattel had already obtained the rights for a 'Space 1999'' line in the US. FYI. That idiot ''Matthew Lesko'' first started selling his BS books in the early 1990s. No one knew who the Hell he was back in the 1980s! Too bad it didn't stay that way.
When I first saw the MIGHTOR figure, I thought you somehow got ahold of a picture of me, that one time I was coerced into "role-playing" at summer camp by the head camp counselor who wanted to . . . um . . . I think I've said too much. 😳
Junkman, every time I notice the 8 inch Indiana figure with the cloth hat, I think it's a Mego Jed Clampett figure! Super interesting behind the scenes video earlier!
If it's not too much of a copyright issue, you could use the box art as the shirt design, have the bike coming out of the middle of the shirt. I'd definitely buy that. :) I'm thinking it might be a sensor(?) controling the bike, or radio control(?), either way I'd like to have the the wrist-mount peice. I'm gonna need a Dinah-Mite doll/figure and the Batgirl fig. 🦇 I enjoyed the making of the video video. Thanks for the video
Lone Ranger funfact: They had to sue Clayton Moore long after the show had ended because they wanted him to stop larping as the lone ranger everywhere he went lol
