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TEEN TITANS Mego blurb:
Hot off the pages of your favorite DC Comics, these Teen Titans are
ready to spring to life for hours of fantasy fun. Each figure is fully
poseable, costumed, and six inches tall! Here's AQUALAD, the hero of
the deep blue sea... KID FLASH, the boy with lightning in his Iimbs...
WONDER GIRL, the superherolne of them all... and SPEEDY, the artful
masked archer. An unbeatable assortment of superkids, galactic leaders
of tomorrow!
MEGO SUPERHEROES [1972-1978]
With the loss of interest in the original "GI Joe" and "Action
Jackson" toy lines in the early 1970s, Mego decided to take a shot
doing superheroes. Their success can be summed up by saying they created
the action figure of the '70s. Never before has there been a larger
array of characters from both Marvel and DC. Standing at eight inches
tall, these fully posable figures came with removable clothing, gloves,
boots and their respective weapons.
The action figures of Batman and Robin even featured removable masks
that when removed (with many being lost), revealed their alter egos
of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson! At the request of retailers Mego dropped
its solid box design and introduced a window box design that allowed
children and parents to actually see what the character looked like
before purchasing it. Over the next few years, this new box design introduced
a host of new heroes and villains. Now Batman and Robin (with masks
permanently affixed), could spoil the nefarious plans of the Joker,
Riddler and Penguin.
The Teen Titan figures (Speedy, Kid Flash, Aqualad and Wonder Girl),
however, stand at seven inches to give them a "teen" look.
The Teen Titans were the last series of figures to be released in the
Mego line, and are extremely rare. All of the dolls had joints at the
elbows, knees, wrists and ankles with a pivoting head, arms, legs and
waist.
Unlike toy manufacturers of the past, Mego dolls were surprisingly
exact in costume detail and hair color to their comic hook counterparts.
The Mego dolls in a box carton are considered to be worth slightly more
than the plastic bubble container (or "card," as they were
more commonly known). At first, Mego issued their figures in individual
boxes, but later switched to a cheaper plastic bubble on a card. Many
collectors believe that with the exception of a few, the original boxed
figures are basically worth the same as the carded ones. Other collectors
staunchly disagree and say that the prices, however slight, are different,
with the boxed figures being worth more. We will list the prices of
the carded figures that are drastically different from those in the
box.
information courtesy of Wizard Magazine and MEGO |
