Cool and Collected - collecting pop culture memories and memorabilia
A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
The other day I teased you with some pictures of Todd Sheffer’s incredible collection. Now prepare yourself to be truly amazed. Knowing that I was a Bond fan, Todd had set out a few choice James Bond items on his dining room table. Here is the site that greeted me… I was in awe. We [...]
I was browsing eBay the other night (shocker!) and I came across this neat old toy from Mego. I had no idea what a “Supervator” was, but it looked kind of cool. The auction was ending soon and it was $.99 with no bids, which I found strange since the toy was from the 70′s [...]
Christopher Noon runs the Big Toy Auction, and is a long-time friend of Cool & Collected. He recently attended the Mego Meet in Wheeling, WV and here are his thoughts on the event… Founded in the mid 50′s by Dave Abrams and expanded by his son Martin beginning in 1971, The Mego corporation came to dominate toy [...]
Holy Vanagon Batman! Check out this amazing Mego Mobile Bat Lab up for auction on eBay. This is a complete Mobile Bat Lab scaled to fit 8” action figures (not included). It includes the Front End Foe Catcher, a Rear Winch with Bat-Grappling Hook and a Revolving Bat Platform for Outside Spying. The vehicle looks [...]
Wait until you hear Batman’s voice at the end of this commercial. He sounds like Buffalo Bill from the Silence of the Lambs. Mego really knew how to sell some toys!
Is Christmas coming? There’s one of these MIB Mego King Kong models on eBay now with a starting price of $49.00. MUST REFRAIN! If I got that thing, the shrinkwrap would be torn off in 0.2 seconds and I’d be flying high on airplane glue for days.
“Holy crap. Holy crap. Holy crap.” That’s what I will be whispering to myself while cowering under the covers once these figures are in my house. Bif Bang Pow! is going to produce these figures in the vintage Mego-style, but you can bet there will be some YouTube videos recreating scenes from Child’s Play. You can [...]
Some mega Mego goodness for this fine Friday… Some good stuff here. I especially liked: Spiderman, the weird wall climber…the Falcon, that great BLACK superhero… The Green Goblin, Spiderman’s strange enemy… Those Fantastic Four figures make this commercial even better. The Thing figure is so awful it’s awesome. I’ll be heading to eBay now to [...]
