8" Mego Accessories (Hulk, Green Goblin)

 I've augmented my 8" figure collection with a variety of custom/repro accessories over time, these being the first for some Marvel characters I've recently acquired. An 8" Mego Hulk I found on eBay with decent coloring only needed pants. I had this figure as a child, and though they came with purple pants, I opted for this black pair for a little twist...

Here's one of my 12" Mego Hulks with the 8" Hulk- 

the character was a favorite of mine as a child in the '70s ...

Like their larger counterparts, the 8" Mego Spider-Man is taller than the 8" Mego Hulk...

When I got the Disney Store Spider-Man/Arch Enemies 4pk, I found the Green Goblin a little more difficult to pose than the other figures due to the slick texture of his purple boots. Another eBay seller offered an inexpensive glider stand that works quite well for this purpose and greatly enhances Gobby's shelf presence. I also picked up a pack of pumpkin bombs from the seller I bought the 8" Hulk pants.

Below, a Green Goblin mini figure I got over 15 years ago that ride a similar glider...

Visit the Mego Museum's World's Greatest Superheroes Gallery

 to see the figures that started it all back in 1972!

More Later- Make Mine MEGO!

MEGO Spider-Man & Arch Enemies 4-pk (Disney Store Exclusive 2025)

I was bummed out missing the first round of this Mego Spider-Man and Arch Enemies 4-pk on the first drop but lucked out in the second round. While I think these figures will eventually show up individually at some point, and there are surely business advantages to Mego, I still resent having to chase down exclusives from various retailers. Similarly, I missed out on the recent Fantastic Four set, also a Disney Store Exclusive. Complaints aside, I love the inclusion of the gold coin, the box illustrations are authentic, and the figures- classic Mego!

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I didn't have Green Goblin or Lizard back in the '70s, and Electro is new for Mego, but I had Spider-Man- quite possible my favorite Mego figure of all time. Spider-Man was on The Electric Company TV show and had a live action TV show of his own starring Nicholas Hammond in the '70s and was featured in three different ongoing monthly titles during the years Mego sold a Spider-man very much like this one. Peter Parker: Spectacular Spider-Man was probably one of the first comics I pulled off the spinner rack back then. Spider-Man was everything when I was a kid, and he's still hot property. I'm mad for this set!

Below, Mego Spider-Man next to my 9" Hasbro Origins Spider-Man, one of my favorite action figures in the Super-DuperToyBox, and Electro next to my Mego World's Greatest Superheroes 50th Anniversary Flash...

This set may very well be the coolest thing I got my hand on all year, and I hope we see more Mego Marvel in 2026! I loved my 12" Mego Spider-Man and Hulk as a kid and would love to see at least a few larger-sized Marvel Mego! 

Visit the Mego Museum's World's Greatest Superheroes Gallery

 to see the figures that started it all back in 1972!

More Later- Make It FUN!

Make Mine Mini Marvel pt.3

In my last post, we took a closer look at the first five Marvel mini figures I picked up at Toys 'R Us this week- now let's examine the other pack!

Wolverine:
Logan is wearing his blue and yellow X-Men outfit here, his left set adamantium claws engaged, which are actually three separate tiny, thin slivers of plastic. Wow! How did they do that? Some smudging in the paint job, but lots of detail in both the brushwork and the sculpt. He's as tall as IronMan, which he really shouldn't be, but his scale in toys always seems to be taller than his original comic book stature.

Silver Surfer:
The Sentinel of The Spaceways seems much larger that most of the other mortals, mutants, and monsters in the group, but hey- he's an alien. His musculature definitely alien, but I like him. Nice face sculpt on this guy. I was really inspired to find out more about this seminal Marvel character recently, and scored a 10" ToyBiz version on E-Bay the other night, along with Marvel Essentials Silver Surfer Vol.1 from Amazon. It's gettin' crazy over here! J

Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman:

This is one of the coolest in the series, maybe the best. Some genius over at Marvel Toys said "Let's make the legs on the girl translucent, and then we'll fade into her outfit colors for her torso and head". Good idea.

I've never seen this approach on another action figure, and it works great! Both an excellent body sculpt paint job on this tiny cutie! Bravo!

Green Goblin:

Another stand out in this group of mini figures, this bad guy has an excellent sculpt with a lot of detail. One of only two villains in the series, the other being Magneto, Green Goblin shares the a unique distinction of a themed base with Silver Surfer. While Silver Surfer naturally sports a surfboard for his base, Green Goblin rides his bat shaped goblin glider- FUN!

Daredevil:

Matt Murdock is totally stooped over, so at eye level he's useless. His body is also noticeably larger than even Silver Surfer, making him completely out of proportion with the rest of this series, though I knew what to do with the photo opportunity!

...Oh, just a couple more... J

Overall, I was really glad to find these guys, and had a fun time visiting the toy store for the first time to buy TOYS as an adult! I had a lot of fun photographing and writing about them, though at $7.99 a five pack, they really should have thrown another villain or two in each pack. And if this series is said to be suffering from from a glaring design problem, it's inconsistency to my eye. It seems that two or three artists worked on these, painfully evident in the Daredevil figure, but also body sculpt detail across the board. They aren't bad or anything, just styled really differently among one another in the series.

Until we meet again, remember: enjoy yourself, take care of one another, play with TOYS and have FUN with your life! Next Week: Marvel Famous Cover Action Figures by ToyBiz!