I got this at a factory outlet sale shortly after it was discontinued. Even though I was about ten I thought it was inferior to the other Star Trek toys. It didn't look much like Vaal and the figures that came with it were just generic aliens that weren't even in the same scale. But I HAD to have it anyway because it said Star Trek on the box. (It helped that it was heavily marked down).
This one always felt a bit off. It was more an amalgam of a few Star Trek episodes. What was the episode where a Kirk falls down a trap door, gets amnesia and joins a local tribe? The trapdoor bit always reminded me of that. I’m more amazed Mego didn’t reuse the molds? I mean Mego reused everything.
@@andrewtaylor940 That episode is called "The Paradise Syndrome". I also immediately thought of that episode when I saw the trap door in the commercial in this video. It makes for a neat feature in a toy, but the episode itself wasn't very good. (In my opinion it is worse than "Spock's Brain" because it is just kind of boring.)
@@BrickMantooth Paradise Syndrome did not age well. There's a scene that's interesting because it shows Kirk using the TERRIBLE system medics tried to use for resuscitation before CPR was widely adopted. If the episode had been shot just three or four years later he probably would have used CPR. In the episode's defense... I saw a fan music video where they distilled the whole episode to eight minutes, entirely without dialog. And you could STILL follow the story. I doubt you could say that about most Star Trek episodes from later series, which would be mostly shots of people having conversations in different parts of the ship.
@@BrickMantooth Funny enough, that voice might have served better as Spock's. As you noted, the central aspect of the playset resembles "Vaal", but does anybody else think the dais with its ascending steps looks a bit like the Preservers' asteroid defector from "The Paradise Syndrome" (aka "can we save money for an episode by using Native American props, set pieces and costumes?"). Also, the glove puppet "monster" reminds me of "Gertrude" the articulated alien "plant" from "The Man Trap".
The First Bridge Playset I had was bought at a swap meet in Southern California back in like 1980ish though it was before Empire Strikes Back came out.
I had a childhood friend that outdid me on all toys. He had the second wave of Aliens that I never heard of. But he never had the Mission to Gamma VI. However, at Adventure Land, our local amusement park, had a game room where you won tickets to exchange for cheap prizes. One of the prizes was Mission to Gamma VI. It took my friend and his family about 2 or 3 years to win enough tickets to get the playset. I think it was now 1980 or 1981 and neither of us were playing with Megos by then.
Prior to Star Wars coming out, Mission To Gamma Six and the Bridge playsets were my favorite toys as a kid. I had the Mego Batcave, too, and played with it a lot, but I was disappointed that it didn't look like the one on TV and only had one Batpole. This is one of the things I wish FTC or Mego would re-release. It's one of the best 70's toys.
Stuff like this is imagination gold! Making up your own weird adventures without lights and sounds and batteries to replace. And that the line began something like 4 years or so after the show went off the air!? Fascinating.
2:03 OMG, I totally remember wanting this playset because of this comic book add! The closest I got was MotU Fright Zone, which borrowed a lot of these features.
New subscriber here. I LOVE your channel so much. I’m stuck in the hospital (I’ve got a couple immune disorders and a dash of chronic illness on the side so in and out for surgeries, etc., fairly often) and couldn’t at all sleep last night so I’ve been bingeing through your archives since late last night and it’s kind felt like hanging out with a friend who can show me all the coolest toys. When I get home, I’m sure my hedgehog (Quillemina) will love your channel too. Thanks so much for all the much-needed smiles and entertainment. Also this is my favorite so far of all the play sets you’ve shown. Little he would’ve lost her damn mine over it back in the day and had hours of adventures with it, no doubt. Thanks again! Keep up the great work and great content. 👍🏻🦔
It's a shame I never saw this playset in stores. We did get the Enterprise playset and most of the action figures. I still have my Kirk, Spock, and McCoy from way back then and have since bought all of the other Star Trek figures, except for the Romulan. I also have the console and the Super Phaser II Target Game. They both still work, but the sound on the target set works only occasionally. Usually the lights on these toys work fine, but not the sound. The same with Them Bones and the Buck Rogers Laserscope Fighter. Someone mentioned the Other Worlds figures by Arco. I have three of them, and they do look like they'd fit in with the Mission to Gamma VI playset. I'm sure glad the Lilliputians were friendly!
Man, I was fascinated by this playset but I never had it. My main toy that Christmas was Mego’s Star Trek Phaser Battle Game. It was torturous not being able to play with it Christmas morning until everyone was up because of the volume.
I really liked this video, I'd never heard of this playset until now, so it was very interesting to learn about it. I have to confess I'd loved to have had this myself, just something about it appeals. Also, being loosely based on TOS Star Trek episode "The Apple", all this lacks is the exploding rocks and a compliment of expendable redshirts!
Looks like a good must have for any Mego Star Trek collector. I bought issue #1 of your Toy Ventures magazine on Ebay and look forward to checking it out.
Never saw this in Canada? I did build the full round Bridge, complete with lights swooshing door etc. when I was a kid for my Star Trek 8" figure. Then I built the Transporter Room, Shuttle Craft, Sick Bay, Kirk's quarters & corridors. I did not build the Engineering Room as I didn't have any room left!! 😆😅🤣
@@BrickMantooth The Bridge & Kirk, Spock & the Klingon were conmon in Canada. Very hard to find Bones, Scott & Uhura. My Mom found them at some obscure dept. store. However, the Alien's collections like Mr. Talos & Mugotu, Andorian .. etc. were easy to find in Canada.
I’ll agree this one always felt better with 3 3/4” figures. It was a much better play environment for a Star Wars or especially Micronauts figures. If I remember correctly the peg holes were around the same size as the Micronauts 5mm port system.
"Can Spock save Sulu from the mountain's deadly grip? YOU decide!" Seeing George Takei stuck in the mountain = hilarious. I don't remember this play-set but if it had monsters and caves, kid me would have loved it. Great review!
Although the creature head was certainly inspired by Vaal, the raised platform beneath it, with the trap door, reminds me more of the Preservers' obelisk on Miramanee's planet in "The Paradise Syndrome."
Only saw this in the Hero's World catalog and wanted it but, again, it was a mail order item and just didn't have money when I was 7 to buy it. Had it come to Canada I'm sure I would have begged for it. Have to admit I do think that it makes a better Draconian Fortress and would love to have seen Draco sitting on the throne while Draconian Guards and Tigerman wandered around. One day I hope I can find and buy this. Great video as always.
I got that for christmas but had no idea it had anything to do with Star Trek. My parents added a bunch of those hard plastic dinosaurs and had it all set up under the tree christmas day. I just thought it was a prehistoric play set. Had a ton of fun with it.
Remember when I was about 12 (musta been around 79) was having one of my obligatory visitation visits with my dad. At a shopping center in his area, I found one of these! (ON CLEARANCE!) Begged him to buy it for me... but he didn't want his son 'playing with dolls!'???
I think it's an amazing toy brought alive by the vivid green of the idol. I saw it online a day or so ago and was wondering what it was- I think the person had some The Other World figures by Arco on the playset so I thought it was for the smaller scale... Thanks for sharing as always, bro!
I remember having mego Spock and Kirk. But I also had mego superman George Washington too lol. I do remember seeing this on TV and thought it was so cool
A neighbor kid had the bridge, I mostly had the POTA Mego stuff, my favorite as a kid was “the forbidden zone trap” I loved that play set. Too bad Star Trek did not get the same amount of play sets as the apes did.
Coolest MEGO playset? maybe. Coolest Playset ever? hmm, idk about it, but i loved the weeble ghost house, the fisher price castle of the same era, Castle Grayskull, The Deathstar playset of late 70s, The Creature Cantina set...oh...wow, there's so many great sets from all over, especially if you count Lego, which gave us the first Robin Hood set they made with the treehouse. so much fun.
These looked fanatstic! I always wished that I could have gotten more of the Mego figures in the 1970's. When I was aboput 6 and all hopped up on Superfriends, I got 4 heroes for Christmas: Batman and Robin, Aquaman, and my favorite Superman. I lost 3 but I still have Superman. I'll be showing it in my next haul video any day now. I bought a replica from Amazon as well from a company called Figures toy company .Did they take over for Mego? Still, it takes me back and I may collect all the ones i wasn't able to get back then.
FTC carries on some licenses that Mego had in their format but they didn't essentially take over. There is also a new version of Mego that is back and available at Wal-Mart. It's kind of a golden age if you like 8" action figures, so much choice.
@@BrickMantooth Target carries most of our Modern Megos here in FL. Still, the same scarcity for certain figures exists. Can't tell you how many Targets I went to to try and find my green tunic Kirk. THEN, someone online told me Target posts them online Tuesday afternoons at 3pm. Sure enough I was able to get one that way. Crazy.
@@BronzeAgeBryon I can't say much but from what I understand the distribution on future Mego waves will be much better. I know the Target thing was really problematic and that's Target's fault. Hopefully, it gets better, we all deserve better.
@@BrickMantooth i had a lot of toys when i was a kid, but that's not to say everything was available, and even had this been on my shelves i would have overlooked it in favour of star wars or micronauts. so, it's fun to see what i missed. :)
Incorporating a puppet into a playset is such a great idea. I wonder if the designers of this happened to be the same designers of "The Fright Zone" and "Sectaurs".
I always assumed that the Star Trek action figures were more connected to the Animated series than the TV show but I could be wrong. I'm not really sure the air dates of the original series. I wish Filmation had made like 4 or 5 seasons of that production run of Star Trek.
Mego was moving towards useing all plastic for thiere playsets more and more. Unfortunately we lost the wounderfull cardboard artwork as the years went on in playsets . I could only imagine if mego was alive in the 80s what wounderfull playsets we would have gotten . Sad to see perfectly little play environments get such coast cutting masseurs now a days and we dont get playsets anymore . Todays playsets are all made out of horrible plastic and have no environments anymore . I remember as a kid studying the art work for hours . Now a days kids dont have what we had . Cant blame kids for not playing with toys these days . And very surprised they dont make cardboard playsets today with all the new mego figures available. I remember in the mid 90s thinking, toys are dead . And sad to see they still are . I cant remember the last time i saw a toy and said .wow ,i want that ! Glad we have the past .
If only they did the Buck Rogers figures in the 6inch scale, or at least gave them Micronaut hands and zap guns I al;ways thought Princess Ardala should of had the ceremonial sword from the movie. I so wanted a Brigadier Gordon (Buster Crabbe) action figure. Need I say it? Why yes I do A War Witch (Julie Newmar) Action figure with a playset of her command center with brig would have been a lot of fun.
Is there any reason for the colour differences between the vintage commercial and the one in your collection? The green is very alien looking and I quite like it.
The only play set I ever wanted was the Planet of the Apes Treehouse. Alas when Christmas came and I didn't get one I was quite upset because it was the only thing I asked for. My parents claimed they couldn't find one so bought me about a dozen Mego Super Heroes to make up for it. I don't know why but I still would have rather had the PotA playset.
@@BrickMantooth I did like getting a lot of Mego figs. but my heart was set on the play set, I had figs. but I didn't have any play sets. Plus I was one of those kids that wouldn't mix my Super Heroes w/ my Star Trek or my Apes. Never did Batman team up w/ Cpt. Kirk and Cornelius.
Some guy in a mall had the phaser toy and tricorder in boxes for $60 and I didn’t get them. When I went back they were gone. I don’t know why. I would’ve killed for them as a kid but for some reason it just felt hollow in a mall as opposed to a yard sale or a very old store. The phaser box had pen marks scribbling on it. Still I should’ve bought them.
Well it will never beat the ST: Motion Picture toy "Slow Action Camera Rig", I'd set it up and slowly pan over my spaceship for 3 hours while blowing the provided horn.
Vol Hungers! Love it I rememeber an ad in 78 , At kay bee for 6.99!, I surprise they did not offer base with a obelisk .like in "The Paradise Syndrome"
As a collector and someone who never saw this playset as a kid, I honestly cant see the appeal of it, it just doesnt seem in scale with the 8 inch figs, but as U mentioned at the end rather 3 3/4 ones. I know its retooling , but maybe they should of done something similiar batman cave/ POTA village and added some gimmick on etc. as that being the planet lair or something.
to each their own, I know as a kid, this would have been amazing to play with. My only "alien planet" for my trek figures was our sectional sofa in the "conversation pit".
Is it me or is this playset better suited fot the 3 3/4" figures (Star Trek - The Motion Picture) instead of the 8" figures (Star Trek - The Original Series)?
I had that playset, until my brother took a baseball bat to it. I always figured that the 70s oil embargo was the death of 8" figures and the birth of 3 3/4" figures.
This is by far my favorite Mego Playset!
Had this when I was a kid and played with it all the time,I still have a couple of the characters,
I got this at a factory outlet sale shortly after it was discontinued. Even though I was about ten I thought it was inferior to the other Star Trek toys. It didn't look much like Vaal and the figures that came with it were just generic aliens that weren't even in the same scale. But I HAD to have it anyway because it said Star Trek on the box. (It helped that it was heavily marked down).
This one always felt a bit off. It was more an amalgam of a few Star Trek episodes. What was the episode where a Kirk falls down a trap door, gets amnesia and joins a local tribe? The trapdoor bit always reminded me of that. I’m more amazed Mego didn’t reuse the molds? I mean Mego reused everything.
@@andrewtaylor940 That episode is called "The Paradise Syndrome". I also immediately thought of that episode when I saw the trap door in the commercial in this video. It makes for a neat feature in a toy, but the episode itself wasn't very good. (In my opinion it is worse than "Spock's Brain" because it is just kind of boring.)
I'd have to second that "Paradise Syndrome" isn't very memorable, I even forgot about the obelisk.
@@BrickMantooth When I got the DVDs (before Blu-Ray existed) and watched all the episodes, I fell asleep during that one.
@@BrickMantooth Paradise Syndrome did not age well.
There's a scene that's interesting because it shows Kirk using the TERRIBLE system medics tried to use for resuscitation before CPR was widely adopted. If the episode had been shot just three or four years later he probably would have used CPR.
In the episode's defense... I saw a fan music video where they distilled the whole episode to eight minutes, entirely without dialog. And you could STILL follow the story. I doubt you could say that about most Star Trek episodes from later series, which would be mostly shots of people having conversations in different parts of the ship.
Wtf, Kirk sounded like he was tripping on ludes before he did that voice over lol
it's an old film reel, they do that.
@@BrickMantooth Funny enough, that voice might have served better as Spock's. As you noted, the central aspect of the playset resembles "Vaal", but does anybody else think the dais with its ascending steps looks a bit like the Preservers' asteroid defector from "The Paradise Syndrome" (aka "can we save money for an episode by using Native American props, set pieces and costumes?"). Also, the glove puppet "monster" reminds me of "Gertrude" the articulated alien "plant" from "The Man Trap".
Aww man.
I love this set so much.
I can't believe there's no videos for it already.
Excited to see this.
I was surprised about that too.
I just started collecting the Mego Star Trek figures. The first thing I bought last month was the Bridge playset!!!
that's an awesome toy.
The First Bridge Playset I had was bought at a swap meet in Southern California back in like 1980ish though it was before Empire Strikes Back came out.
Well good luck with collecting all those vintage items. They’ll be worth a lot of money in the years to come.
Even though I am no longer a star trek fan and don't collect 8 inch mego's that commercial made me very nostalgic
2:54: “Oh my”
This playset was the best. Its glove was the genesis of my oldest superhero character as well.
Had this as a kid! Loved it!
I wish i had it as a kid.
I wish Mego it another industrious company or individual would make a reproduction of this. I would love to own one even if not an original.
I had a childhood friend that outdid me on all toys. He had the second wave of Aliens that I never heard of. But he never had the Mission to Gamma VI. However, at Adventure Land, our local amusement park, had a game room where you won tickets to exchange for cheap prizes. One of the prizes was Mission to Gamma VI. It took my friend and his family about 2 or 3 years to win enough tickets to get the playset. I think it was now 1980 or 1981 and neither of us were playing with Megos by then.
Prior to Star Wars coming out, Mission To Gamma Six and the Bridge playsets were my favorite toys as a kid. I had the Mego Batcave, too, and played with it a lot, but I was disappointed that it didn't look like the one on TV and only had one Batpole. This is one of the things I wish FTC or Mego would re-release. It's one of the best 70's toys.
Stuff like this is imagination gold! Making up your own weird adventures without lights and sounds and batteries to replace. And that the line began something like 4 years or so after the show went off the air!? Fascinating.
Totally agree.
2:03 OMG, I totally remember wanting this playset because of this comic book add! The closest I got was MotU Fright Zone, which borrowed a lot of these features.
it totally did.
New subscriber here. I LOVE your channel so much. I’m stuck in the hospital (I’ve got a couple immune disorders and a dash of chronic illness on the side so in and out for surgeries, etc., fairly often) and couldn’t at all sleep last night so I’ve been bingeing through your archives since late last night and it’s kind felt like hanging out with a friend who can show me all the coolest toys. When I get home, I’m sure my hedgehog (Quillemina) will love your channel too. Thanks so much for all the much-needed smiles and entertainment.
Also this is my favorite so far of all the play sets you’ve shown. Little he would’ve lost her damn mine over it back in the day and had hours of adventures with it, no doubt.
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It's a shame I never saw this playset in stores. We did get the Enterprise playset and most of the action figures. I still have my Kirk, Spock, and McCoy from way back then and have since bought all of the other Star Trek figures, except for the Romulan. I also have the console and the Super Phaser II Target Game. They both still work, but the sound on the target set works only occasionally. Usually the lights on these toys work fine, but not the sound. The same with Them Bones and the Buck Rogers Laserscope Fighter.
Someone mentioned the Other Worlds figures by Arco. I have three of them, and they do look like they'd fit in with the Mission to Gamma VI playset.
I'm sure glad the Lilliputians were friendly!
Yeah I never saw it either and would have been all over it.
Man, I was fascinated by this playset but I never had it. My main toy that Christmas was Mego’s Star Trek Phaser Battle Game. It was torturous not being able to play with it Christmas morning until everyone was up because of the volume.
it was pretty loud.
I really liked this video, I'd never heard of this playset until now, so it was very interesting to learn about it. I have to confess I'd loved to have had this myself, just something about it appeals. Also, being loosely based on TOS Star Trek episode "The Apple", all this lacks is the exploding rocks and a compliment of expendable redshirts!
A few foam rocks would have been welcome.
Looks like a good must have for any Mego Star Trek collector. I bought issue #1 of your Toy Ventures magazine on Ebay and look forward to checking it out.
thanks for the support, I hope you enjoy it!
Never saw this in Canada? I did build the full round Bridge, complete with lights swooshing door etc. when I was a kid for my Star Trek 8" figure. Then I built the Transporter Room, Shuttle Craft, Sick Bay, Kirk's quarters & corridors. I did not build the Engineering Room as I didn't have any room left!! 😆😅🤣
Wow, ambitious kid! I don't think this ever came to Canada.
@@BrickMantooth The Bridge & Kirk, Spock & the Klingon were conmon in Canada. Very hard to find Bones, Scott & Uhura. My Mom found them at some obscure dept. store.
However, the Alien's collections like Mr. Talos & Mugotu, Andorian .. etc. were easy to find in Canada.
What a beautiful playset! I had no idea that it was so colorful. Thanks for making this viddo!
thanks for watching, appreciate it.
I’ll agree this one always felt better with 3 3/4” figures. It was a much better play environment for a Star Wars or especially Micronauts figures. If I remember correctly the peg holes were around the same size as the Micronauts 5mm port system.
Which it makes it more painful that Mego never went ahead with that Micronaut alien fortress/playset late in the game.
"Can Spock save Sulu from the mountain's deadly grip? YOU decide!" Seeing George Takei stuck in the mountain = hilarious. I don't remember this play-set but if it had monsters and caves, kid me would have loved it. Great review!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The base where a figure can fall through a trap door reminds me of the episode "The Paradise Syndrome".
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Never had this but saw it in the wish book. I know I would have loved it.
yeah me too.
Although the creature head was certainly inspired by Vaal, the raised platform beneath it, with the trap door, reminds me more of the Preservers' obelisk on Miramanee's planet in "The Paradise Syndrome."
Yeah, you're not alone.
I loved “Artistic license” lol 😂 👍🏼
thanks, it's a silly little thing I find funny.
Only saw this in the Hero's World catalog and wanted it but, again, it was a mail order item and just didn't have money when I was 7 to buy it. Had it come to Canada I'm sure I would have begged for it. Have to admit I do think that it makes a better Draconian Fortress and would love to have seen Draco sitting on the throne while Draconian Guards and Tigerman wandered around. One day I hope I can find and buy this. Great video as always.
Yeah i think it would be great for Buck Rogers too, thanks for watching.
Have never seen this! It ‘would’ be great for 3 3/4” figures! Excellent video!
It would. This play set is better scaled for 3.75" figures.
Thanks for watching!
ITS WONDERFULL ANYWAY!!
As usual awesome review. I don't recall ever seeing this out in stores are in the wild.
Thanks for watching!
Awesome and informative review!!!! Glad you own this as well! Wonderful set!!!
thanks buddy!
I got that for christmas but had no idea it had anything to do with Star Trek. My parents added a bunch of those hard plastic dinosaurs and had it all set up under the tree christmas day. I just thought it was a prehistoric play set. Had a ton of fun with it.
Remember when I was about 12 (musta been around 79) was having one of my obligatory visitation visits with my dad. At a shopping center in his area, I found one of these! (ON CLEARANCE!) Begged him to buy it for me... but he didn't want his son 'playing with dolls!'???
I think it's an amazing toy brought alive by the vivid green of the idol. I saw it online a day or so ago and was wondering what it was- I think the person had some The Other World figures by Arco on the playset so I thought it was for the smaller scale... Thanks for sharing as always, bro!
thanks for watching! Appreciate it!
I remember having mego Spock and Kirk. But I also had mego superman George Washington too lol. I do remember seeing this on TV and thought it was so cool
I never saw it on tv as a kid, i would have wanted it as well.
I remember this playset good flashback
thanks for watching!
I'm surprised they didn't repackage the Enterprise playset with new graphics, and market it as an alien bridge.
A neighbor kid had the bridge, I mostly had the POTA Mego stuff, my favorite as a kid was “the forbidden zone trap” I loved that play set. Too bad Star Trek did not get the same amount of play sets as the apes did.
Coolest MEGO playset? maybe. Coolest Playset ever? hmm, idk about it, but i loved the weeble ghost house, the fisher price castle of the same era, Castle Grayskull, The Deathstar playset of late 70s, The Creature Cantina set...oh...wow, there's so many great sets from all over, especially if you count Lego, which gave us the first Robin Hood set they made with the treehouse. so much fun.
These looked fanatstic! I always wished that I could have gotten more of the Mego figures in the 1970's. When I was aboput 6 and all hopped up on Superfriends, I got 4 heroes for Christmas: Batman and Robin, Aquaman, and my favorite Superman. I lost 3 but I still have Superman. I'll be showing it in my next haul video any day now. I bought a replica from Amazon as well from a company called Figures toy company .Did they take over for Mego? Still, it takes me back and I may collect all the ones i wasn't able to get back then.
FTC carries on some licenses that Mego had in their format but they didn't essentially take over. There is also a new version of Mego that is back and available at Wal-Mart. It's kind of a golden age if you like 8" action figures, so much choice.
@@BrickMantooth Thanks I'll check it out!
@@BrickMantooth Target carries most of our Modern Megos here in FL. Still, the same scarcity for certain figures exists. Can't tell you how many Targets I went to to try and find my green tunic Kirk. THEN, someone online told me Target posts them online Tuesday afternoons at 3pm. Sure enough I was able to get one that way. Crazy.
@@BronzeAgeBryon I can't say much but from what I understand the distribution on future Mego waves will be much better. I know the Target thing was really problematic and that's Target's fault. Hopefully, it gets better, we all deserve better.
wow, i'd never seen that, so cool.
glad you enjoyed it.
@@BrickMantooth i had a lot of toys when i was a kid, but that's not to say everything was available, and even had this been on my shelves i would have overlooked it in favour of star wars or micronauts. so, it's fun to see what i missed. :)
Incorporating a puppet into a playset is such a great idea. I wonder if the designers of this happened to be the same designers of "The Fright Zone" and "Sectaurs".
It had to have some influence.
I do know some former Mego peeps ended up at Coleco.
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I always assumed that the Star Trek action figures were more connected to the Animated series than the TV show but I could be wrong. I'm not really sure the air dates of the original series. I wish Filmation had made like 4 or 5 seasons of that production run of Star Trek.
I really like that cartoon but the folks at Mego I've spoken to never mention it.
The playset is a combination of VAAL from The Apple episode, and also the obelisk from the episode The Paradise Syndrome.
Yeah a lot of people bringing up Paradise Syndrome, I guess the trap door comes from there.
Cool playset and video
thanks!
00:01 Left bottom corner, Is that supposed to be REM from CBS' Logan's Run Short lived TV Series?
yeah it's REM.
Mego was moving towards useing all plastic for thiere playsets more and more. Unfortunately we lost the wounderfull cardboard artwork as the years went on in playsets .
I could only imagine if mego was alive in the 80s what wounderfull playsets we would have gotten .
Sad to see perfectly little play environments get such coast cutting masseurs now a days and we dont get playsets anymore .
Todays playsets are all made out of horrible plastic and have no environments anymore .
I remember as a kid studying the art work for hours .
Now a days kids dont have what we had .
Cant blame kids for not playing with toys these days .
And very surprised they dont make cardboard playsets today with all the new mego figures available.
I remember in the mid 90s thinking, toys are dead .
And sad to see they still are .
I cant remember the last time i saw a toy and said .wow ,i want that !
Glad we have the past .
I'm surprised this mold didn't get re-used for Micronauts. Would've made a nice Repto base.
good point.
If only they did the Buck Rogers figures in the 6inch scale, or at least gave them Micronaut hands and zap guns I al;ways thought Princess Ardala should of had the ceremonial sword from the movie. I so wanted a Brigadier Gordon (Buster Crabbe) action figure. Need I say it? Why yes I do A War Witch (Julie Newmar) Action figure with a playset of her command center with brig would have been a lot of fun.
Had this. But never saw it as Star Trek. Used it for about everything else I could imagine. Including our Micronauts.
Awesome
thanks!
1:59 the Lilliputians were friendly?
Another excellent video.
thank you very much, i had a lot of fun making but not cleaning up.
Is there any reason for the colour differences between the vintage commercial and the one in your collection? The green is very alien looking and I quite like it.
The commercial is actually a toy fair reel and possibly the prototype, so it might vary from the production samples.
Brick Mantooth Fascinating, that never even crossed my mind.
@@Steven_Andreyechen
They vary in colors.
I AGREE WHITH YOU ..ALWAYS
The only play set I ever wanted was the Planet of the Apes Treehouse. Alas when Christmas came and I didn't get one I was quite upset because it was the only thing I asked for. My parents claimed they couldn't find one so bought me about a dozen Mego Super Heroes to make up for it. I don't know why but I still would have rather had the PotA playset.
I get it although that's a killer trade off to me.
@@BrickMantooth I did like getting a lot of Mego figs. but my heart was set on the play set, I had figs. but I didn't have any play sets. Plus I was one of those kids that wouldn't mix my Super Heroes w/ my Star Trek or my Apes. Never did Batman team up w/ Cpt. Kirk and Cornelius.
Is that set based on the Star Trek episode the Apple?
somewhat, yes.
@@BrickMantooth they should have made one of those native planet people to sacrifice to Val, lol
That actually looks cool
Some guy in a mall had the phaser toy and tricorder in boxes for $60 and I didn’t get them. When I went back they were gone. I don’t know why. I would’ve killed for them as a kid but for some reason it just felt hollow in a mall as opposed to a yard sale or a very old store. The phaser box had pen marks scribbling on it. Still I should’ve bought them.
I've bought Mego in the mall before, it's kind of weird, you're right.
Well it will never beat the ST: Motion Picture toy "Slow Action Camera Rig", I'd set it up and slowly pan over my spaceship for 3 hours while blowing the provided horn.
Vol Hungers! Love it I rememeber an ad in 78 , At kay bee for 6.99!, I surprise they did not offer base with a obelisk .like in "The Paradise Syndrome"
Wow, $7 I'd buy two.
@@BrickMantooth I only had 5.00 dollars of birthday money! it always be the one that got away!
Looks nice.
It is!
As a collector and someone who never saw this playset as a kid, I honestly cant see the appeal of it, it just doesnt seem in scale with the 8 inch figs, but as U mentioned at the end rather 3 3/4 ones. I know its retooling , but maybe they should of done something similiar batman cave/ POTA village and added some gimmick on etc. as that being the planet lair or something.
to each their own, I know as a kid, this would have been amazing to play with. My only "alien planet" for my trek figures was our sectional sofa in the "conversation pit".
I agree with me, oh I mean you.
Ha, thanks!
Is it me or is this playset better suited fot the 3 3/4" figures (Star Trek - The Motion Picture) instead of the 8" figures (Star Trek - The Original Series)?
I had that playset, until my brother took a baseball bat to it.
I always figured that the 70s oil embargo was the death of 8" figures and the birth of 3 3/4" figures.
It was my grail for a long time. Still need to "upgrade" my plant though, it's missing parts
Mine is missing one leaf as I discovered
@@BrickMantooth Mine has just one. If I find a complete one, I'll send you the leaf!
I'm curious on what aliens Mego had planned for 1978.
Mission to Gamma VI seems to have influenced the new Fisher-Price Imaginext DC Super Friends, Batman Ooze Pit 😂😂😂
I'll have to see that.
Yeah I seem to remember the Wizard of Oz one was pretty boss too
yeah they're pretty cool too.
Is BRICK MANTOOTH your real name?
Nah, it's just the channel name.
Brick Mantooth you _should_ have replied:
“No... it’s Meat McLargenhuge”
Or just Reb Brown (for you SPACE MUTINY fans) 😉😁
@@TheRealNormanBates Ha! I'm facebook friends with Reb Brown, he's a good sport.
You could easily turn the play set into a MOTU toy. I would
Isaac would be right at home with the aliens.
I forgot to sneak him in, my bad.
At ebay prices for original cib, I'd rather have a repro with 3d printed and or vacuformed plastic parts and color laser printed cardbiard and artwork
Kirk and crew attacked by monkeys in a barrel.
kinda.
I don’t feel the same about the new MEGO toys because the boxes are generic and lame.
I agree. The vintage box art is amazing
i dont know