I had soooo many of these toys. Planet of the Apes, Action Jackson, Star Trek, Robin, the Batcopter...and I had that Penguin, too! My buddy still has a lot of these figures in MINT condition.
Mego was awesome !! I had Star Trek, Batman, Robin, Joker, Penguin, The Batmobile, Superman and Planet of the Apes figures !!!! These commercials bring back great memories :)
I know I agree! What great figures and what great fun we had imagining Planet of the Apes scenes, bat man and robin against the penguin and joker! Batman got a lead from the batmobile. I had the Spider car too and Dukes of Hazard and KISS rock group figures! Great times!
I had best of worlds! Born in 73 so I was big into Megos and kept collecting them even as in 77/78 I also did all the Kenner star wars figures, vehicles,play sets so it was planet of the Apes, star trek, batman and robin,HULK,Spider-Man right along with my star wars things! Even got in a bit on the Masters of the Universe in the 80's but nothing beat the megos and star wars for me!
this video been up over 2 and a half years and only 1300 views??!!? there were millions of us who were little boys in the 70's. I guess we must be getting up in age now and mass retro vintage interest must be waning. what a shame, this collection of commercials from my youth is priceless. God I wish I could turn back the hand of time.
Bought a vhs copy of this back in the mid 90’s..Now watching this takes me to nostalgia twice..I remember Seeing these as a yougin in the 70’s..And again watching it with my kids(when they were young)in the 90’s..Where does the time go?
The 70's were so unique. The toys were awesome. Us kids didn't have the PS5's X-Box One, but it never mattered. I remember my imagination, my action figures, and my fun was all I needed. So many great times. Hell even the little green army men sets. SST's racers, Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, and my biggest favorite TYCO/AFX slot🏁🏎🏁Racing🏁! These days had heart and true fun. Mego's World's Greatest Superheroes line-up was my other top toy. 🕷🕸Spider-Man🕷🕸, Thing, Human Torch, Hulk, Captain America and the Falcon, Green Goblin, Lizard, Iron-Man, Batman, Robin, Joker🃏, Penguin🐧, Superman, and my rare ones, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wondergirl, Speedy(little Green Arrow, but red), and Green Arrow 🏹. O many more, and so much fun. Add the Planet of the Apes into it. Even Star Trek and you'd have a great time for a Battle Royale. Ah fun days as a kid.
You lost me on all the action figures. GI Joe was all I had. But the Tyco-Pro and I think Aurora slot cars, Cox nitro planes,cars,trike, the SST racers of course, (you forgot the "smash-em Crash-em Derby" cars.). We had toys that taught us to build things too. Erector sets, (very mechanical, worth big bucks today) Lincoln Logs, Leggo's, Chemistry sets, model rockets with solid fuel engines, radio kits, Balsa wood airplanes, Play dough fun factory, all kinds of models. We had toys that inspired solid careers in free enterprise. We were inspired by real science, not political science.
I love them too! The box for the 1978 12 inch Incredible Hulk figure actually read adorable ugliness!!! Lol only the 70's and only those cats at Mego!!
Well he wasn't wrong! I kinda like the Dinah-Mite dolls, until recently she really was more poseable than Barbie, like she can still down & do karate kicks XD it's a shame she didn't dethrone Barbie. Shame that the African American Dinah-Mite didn't get her own name & ad either
Mego was great. I was lucky enough to have been a kid in the 70’s. Mego provided the action figures we provided the imagination. Mego superhero line was inexpensive and the countless hours spent were great.
@@RoyalKnightVIII Joel is about to be executed by the Mads. During a break he and the Bots are dressed like soldiers and they sing "Action Jackson is my name!"
0:01-3:11 Assorted Action Jackson ads 4:19 Dinah-Mite playset 5:57 Beautiful Lainie doll 7:26-9:46 More Action Jackson ads 10:19 & 10:47-53 Footage of the first edition World's Greatest Superheroes action figures 11:21 Woodys toys 13:03 1973 line overview 13:38 1974 Thank you message 14:01-19:48 Assorted Planet of the Apes ads 19:50 The Waltons Country Home playset 21:03 The World's Great Superheroes action figures 23:00-26:44 Assorted Batman ads 26:46 Hall of Justice playset 27:36-37:14 Assorted Star Trek Ads 37:12 Ball buster game 38:10 The Dare Brothers toys 38:55 The Wizard of Oz toys 41:19 The World's Great Superheroes toys 41:55 Hall of Justice playset 42:32 Batman & Robin Bat-coder toys 43:16 Batman Base Station toy 43:58 Batman Bat-recorder toy 44:45 Batman Wayne Foundation Playset 45:18 Wonder Woman Paradise Island playset 46:27 Starsky & Hutch playset 47:33 C.B. McHaul toys 48:40 The Flintstones playset 49:20 Our Gang 49:55 King Kong model kits 50:37 King Kong drinking straw 51:14 King Kong Against the World toy 52:11 Them Bones game 52:48 Mice Hockey game 53:24 Bigfoot game 54:22 Grand Prix game 55:01 Mohammed Ali boxing ring playset 55:39 Batman Batcopter toy 56:18 Comic Action Heroes Fortress of Solitude playset 56:52 Comic Action Heroes Exploding Bridge playset 57:27 Comic Action Heroes Collapsing Tower playset 58:05 Comic Action Heroes Exploding Skyscraper playset 58:48 Happy Days toys
Check out those funkadelic jams in the Starsky & Hutch ad ! Too cool ! Oh wow , they got Huggy Bear , too ?!? Lol Man , I didn't have these (didn't want 'em) but had all the Star Trek figures , a lot of the Planet of the Apes , Action Jackson and between my brother and myself , most of the super hero ones (I still have The Thing's "suit" 48 years later) , and there were A LOT of super hero ones . Not by Mego but we had a lot of original GI Joe stuff too . I think it was '72 when the very first Megos hit adding more every year . I was 6 that year....so yeah . I don't remember that Fonzie one , or I wouldve wanted that (later 70s , I guess) cos I was/am huge fan of The Fonz ! Aaaaaayyy !
Guess they had to say Mr. Fantastic could turn invisible, since they hadn't figured out how to stretch him (should've made him a smaller version of Stretch Armstrong).
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What a Great Toy Company Mego was. They thought of a lot of great figure lines, and the commercials were just as exciting (music and all). I like the Narrators & Presenter too. I wish they would've focused more on the 3 3/4 O-Ring scale figures like Hasbro did with GiJoe. Marty was/is a Genius Man!👍
Great toys! I love the Seventies. I wonder why Dynamite... sorry, I meant Dinah-Mite, didn't become more famous than Barbie. The latter is still going strong now, while Dinah-Mite is totally forgotten.
Right? Maybe she had too many points of articulation for 70s kids to handle? XD it's hard to say why Dinah didn't overtake Barbie, Dinah is smaller but there were plenty of dolls that size... Maybe they didn't get enough fashion? I don't think Dinah-Mite ever had much of a supporting cast. There was an African American Dinah-Mite, literally the same doll but black down to the head sculpt, so she wasn't a supporting character really. Maybe had they sold her pal with a new name... Odd ACTION Jackson was the same.
Is it just me, or does the "Action Jackson" singer sound like Robert Goulet? And why does he keep singing it as a cross between "Waction Jackson" and "Blacktion Jackson" anyway?
The Flintstone play set was amazingly good as was the Fonzie Car shop❤ Incidentally ive got a restored Fonzie on a short on my channel if you'd care to take a look 😀
That guy who introduces the Action Jackson and Dynamite figures -- was that something people actually saw on network TV, or was it one of those films Mego only showed in-house to their employees to help them promote the figures?
My parents were smart. My brother and I had a room for our toys that we called "The play room". It was a collection through the years of the popular stuff of the time (the late 60's- mid 70's), and I have never seen any of this stuff in the USA. Is it Europe?
* where the heck is this original film to get a proper transfer... somebody has the original film somewhere... maybe one day it will surface.... God willing*
I had soooo many of these toys. Planet of the Apes, Action Jackson, Star Trek, Robin, the Batcopter...and I had that Penguin, too! My buddy still has a lot of these figures in MINT condition.
Mego was awesome !! I had Star Trek, Batman, Robin, Joker, Penguin, The Batmobile, Superman and Planet of the Apes figures !!!! These commercials bring back great memories :)
I know I agree! What great figures and what great fun we had imagining Planet of the Apes scenes, bat man and robin against the penguin and joker! Batman got a lead from the batmobile. I had the Spider car too and Dukes of Hazard and KISS rock group figures! Great times!
i wasnt born until the 80's yet I find myself wanting this shit
I had best of worlds! Born in 73 so I was big into Megos and kept collecting them even as in 77/78 I also did all the Kenner star wars figures, vehicles,play sets so it was planet of the Apes, star trek, batman and robin,HULK,Spider-Man right along with my star wars things! Even got in a bit on the Masters of the Universe in the 80's but nothing beat the megos and star wars for me!
You missed out. Mego made the best stuff !!!!!
this video been up over 2 and a half years and only 1300 views??!!? there were millions of us who were little boys in the 70's. I guess we must be getting up in age now and mass retro vintage interest must be waning. what a shame, this collection of commercials from my youth is priceless. God I wish I could turn back the hand of time.
Nobody thinks about "Robot Chicken" having gotten it's inspiration from these.
I did "creative searching" to find this' I typed Mego
Bob Billings Shit man i remember them all. That dude singing Action Jackson all deep and shit! LMAO.
Christopher Sobieniak Absolutely.
I remember them too!! Lived for my Mego toys! Still have some of these great memories and the actual toys!!
I was born in 72. I loved these toys so many memories.
Bought a vhs copy of this back in the mid 90’s..Now watching this takes me to nostalgia twice..I remember Seeing these as a yougin in the 70’s..And again watching it with my kids(when they were young)in the 90’s..Where does the time go?
5:57 what little girl wouldn't love to have "Little Suzie Seizure Doll"?
A hilarious vintage comment that deserves more likes
Everybody in my neighborhood had these, I don't know why this video hasn't gone Viral?
dancing doll is having a seizure lol love these thanks for upload
just plain greatness!! We didn't buy Mego superhero toys. They were expensive for a 10 year old.
I love that the MGM Oz commercial was literally just the movie abridged.
Thanks for a great time back in my childhood!!
50:20 King Kong on top of Twin Towers Drinking Game! The more you drink the HIGHER Kong Gets! Lol!
I had these toys. great memories
A game called "Ball Buster"? "Try and bust your opponent's balls"? Holy smoke.
Now I watch the commercials cause tv sucks today
Ahh The Penguin's nose in the sand my brother and I loved that part
The 70's were so unique. The toys were awesome. Us kids didn't have the PS5's X-Box One, but it never mattered. I remember my imagination, my action figures, and my fun was all I needed. So many great times. Hell even the little green army men sets. SST's racers, Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, and my biggest favorite TYCO/AFX slot🏁🏎🏁Racing🏁! These days had heart and true fun. Mego's World's Greatest Superheroes line-up was my other top toy. 🕷🕸Spider-Man🕷🕸, Thing, Human Torch, Hulk, Captain America and the Falcon, Green Goblin, Lizard, Iron-Man, Batman, Robin, Joker🃏, Penguin🐧, Superman, and my rare ones, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wondergirl, Speedy(little Green Arrow, but red), and Green Arrow 🏹. O many more, and so much fun. Add the Planet of the Apes into it. Even Star Trek and you'd have a great time for a Battle Royale. Ah fun days as a kid.
You lost me on all the action figures. GI Joe was all I had. But the Tyco-Pro and I think Aurora slot cars, Cox nitro planes,cars,trike, the SST racers of course, (you forgot the "smash-em Crash-em Derby" cars.).
We had toys that taught us to build things too. Erector sets, (very mechanical, worth big bucks today) Lincoln Logs, Leggo's, Chemistry sets, model rockets with solid fuel engines, radio kits, Balsa wood airplanes, Play dough fun factory, all kinds of models. We had toys that inspired solid careers in free enterprise. We were inspired by real science, not political science.
Shazam harnessing the great ancient power of the landline!
This wonderful song dovetails with the theme songs of Japanese tokusatsu shows in the early-1970’s.
"The posingist doll ever made" hahahahahaha
I love them too! The box for the 1978 12 inch Incredible Hulk figure actually read adorable ugliness!!! Lol only the 70's and only those cats at Mego!!
Well he wasn't wrong!
I kinda like the Dinah-Mite dolls, until recently she really was more poseable than Barbie, like she can still down & do karate kicks XD it's a shame she didn't dethrone Barbie.
Shame that the African American Dinah-Mite didn't get her own name & ad either
Is it just me, or is that dude sorta kinda incredibly creepy? Like he's not seeing that doll the way everyone else does.
Mego was great. I was lucky enough to have been a kid in the 70’s. Mego provided the action figures we provided the imagination. Mego superhero line was inexpensive and the countless hours spent were great.
I remember that "Action Jackson is my name" line from the "Mitchell" episode of MST3K, and that's the first context I've ever gotten for it.
What was the context?
@@RoyalKnightVIII Joel is about to be executed by the Mads. During a break he and the Bots are dressed like soldiers and they sing "Action Jackson is my name!"
You are correct I remember the same it's a M.E
0:01-3:11 Assorted Action Jackson ads
4:19 Dinah-Mite playset
5:57 Beautiful Lainie doll
7:26-9:46 More Action Jackson ads
10:19 & 10:47-53 Footage of the first edition World's Greatest Superheroes action figures
11:21 Woodys toys
13:03 1973 line overview
13:38 1974 Thank you message
14:01-19:48 Assorted Planet of the Apes ads
19:50 The Waltons Country Home playset
21:03 The World's Great Superheroes action figures
23:00-26:44 Assorted Batman ads
26:46 Hall of Justice playset
27:36-37:14 Assorted Star Trek Ads
37:12 Ball buster game
38:10 The Dare Brothers toys
38:55 The Wizard of Oz toys
41:19 The World's Great Superheroes toys
41:55 Hall of Justice playset
42:32 Batman & Robin Bat-coder toys
43:16 Batman Base Station toy
43:58 Batman Bat-recorder toy
44:45 Batman Wayne Foundation Playset
45:18 Wonder Woman Paradise Island playset
46:27 Starsky & Hutch playset
47:33 C.B. McHaul toys
48:40 The Flintstones playset
49:20 Our Gang
49:55 King Kong model kits
50:37 King Kong drinking straw
51:14 King Kong Against the World toy
52:11 Them Bones game
52:48 Mice Hockey game
53:24 Bigfoot game
54:22 Grand Prix game
55:01 Mohammed Ali boxing ring playset
55:39 Batman Batcopter toy
56:18 Comic Action Heroes Fortress of Solitude playset
56:52 Comic Action Heroes Exploding Bridge playset
57:27 Comic Action Heroes Collapsing Tower playset
58:05 Comic Action Heroes Exploding Skyscraper playset
58:48 Happy Days toys
Nice! Thank you.
No mention of the Kiss action figures from the late 70's.
+6672rock I know that's messed up
Woodies! What a cute name!
Woodies are wonderful and super safe. For your children.
(This commercial will be shown on multiple family shows.)
They had nails that held them together instead of nails and screws. Lawsuit waiting to happen
Anyone else unnerved by the Mission to Gamma VI ad? It feels like a horror story even with the Happy outcome
Wow and I thought the super sentai figures commercials were that weird
Since you mention it there were megos of Kamen Riders & Gatchaman in Japan
Check out those funkadelic jams in the Starsky & Hutch ad !
Too cool ! Oh wow , they got Huggy Bear , too ?!?
Lol Man , I didn't have these (didn't want 'em) but had all the Star Trek figures , a lot of the Planet of the Apes , Action Jackson and between my brother and myself , most of the super hero ones (I still have The Thing's "suit" 48 years later) , and there were A LOT of super hero ones . Not by Mego but we had a lot of original GI Joe stuff too .
I think it was '72 when the very first Megos hit adding more every year . I was 6 that year....so yeah . I don't remember that Fonzie one , or I wouldve wanted that (later 70s , I guess) cos I was/am huge fan of The Fonz ! Aaaaaayyy !
Guess they had to say Mr. Fantastic could turn invisible, since they hadn't figured out how to stretch him (should've made him a smaller version of Stretch Armstrong).
Is it me or does it sound like he's saying "Blaction Jackson"?
ACTION JACKSON IS HIS NAME, MUFF'IN DIVIN' IS HIS GAME! ALL THE MUSTACHE RIDES FOR FREE, JUST CALL ON MEEEEE!
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What a Great Toy Company Mego was. They thought of a lot of great figure lines, and the commercials were just as exciting (music and all). I like the Narrators & Presenter too. I wish they would've focused more on the 3 3/4 O-Ring scale figures like Hasbro did with GiJoe. Marty was/is a Genius Man!👍
Great toys! I love the Seventies. I wonder why Dynamite... sorry, I meant Dinah-Mite, didn't become more famous than Barbie. The latter is still going strong now, while Dinah-Mite is totally forgotten.
Dynamite was Mego's answer to Barbie
Right? Maybe she had too many points of articulation for 70s kids to handle? XD it's hard to say why Dinah didn't overtake Barbie, Dinah is smaller but there were plenty of dolls that size... Maybe they didn't get enough fashion? I don't think Dinah-Mite ever had much of a supporting cast.
There was an African American Dinah-Mite, literally the same doll but black down to the head sculpt, so she wasn't a supporting character really.
Maybe had they sold her pal with a new name... Odd ACTION Jackson was the same.
Could be the name, while fun... It is a bit too much of a pun XD whole Barbie is just a somewhat uncommon person name.
"I smell an astronaut!" LMAO
Is it just me, or does the "Action Jackson" singer sound like Robert Goulet? And why does he keep singing it as a cross between "Waction Jackson" and "Blacktion Jackson" anyway?
+Glenn Iverson All I keep hearing is "Blackson Jackson" and "the Falcon" that great BLACK superhero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When the black boys says he wants to be a firefighter, the singer says, Blackson Jackson!
I thought he sounded more like Tom Jones.
CB McCall is my favorite superhero
I DID HAD ONE IN 1976,,
And......from the same people who brought you "Woodies" comes BALL BUSTER!!! Uhhhhhhhhhhh..............OOOOO-KAAAAAYYY!!!!.......
26:00 joker Mobile Rocks, a hippie van. Lol
44:33 - "You sound like a Shmuck!"
Interesting ,this ain’t commercials, this is marketing for retailers,video presentations for retailers
Someone clearly didn't do their research on Mister Fantastic's powers.
WOW I HAVE ONE THEM IN COLLECTION,,
No Micronaughts? No 2xl?
CB the inspiration for the Dukes of Hazzard line? (small one)
Sick
I smell an astronaut!
Yesssssss
The Star Trekulator should have been called the Ball Buster, that thing must have been a couple hundred dollars?
Toy rebranding. Hilarious.
I didn't know The Waltons had a playset!
John-Boy and Ellen? They didn't even get her name right.
testodude it'd be funny if it came with a little outhouse!
The Flintstone play set was amazingly good as was the Fonzie Car shop❤
Incidentally ive got a restored Fonzie on a short on my channel if you'd care to take a look 😀
8:00 Action Jackson seems to have stolen Dynamite's beach house.
Did that just say, Blackson Jackson?????
Rip 🪦 Mego Corporation
How long did it take for your Phaser Two too break? (mine a weekend)
That guy who introduces the Action Jackson and Dynamite figures -- was that something people actually saw on network TV, or was it one of those films Mego only showed in-house to their employees to help them promote the figures?
It's for retailers of the time (Kresge, Wards) to get the details of the new mego stuff.
.......Woodies for little kids.............uhhhhhhhh.......GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY!!
57:30 **Shows airplane** “IT’S THE COLLAPSING TOWER” there’s a couple things wrong with that…
Bwlakshun Jackson is my name!
did you know mego build doctor who figures
They were UK only I think. Never saw much release in the states
38:00 wink! Lol
K
and blake fnaf plush
Pause it at 13:41. Between the G and the O. Is that Dracula? It looks like it could be made into one.
My parents were smart. My brother and I had a room for our toys that we called "The play room". It was a collection through the years of the popular stuff of the time (the late 60's- mid 70's), and I have never seen any of this stuff in the USA. Is it Europe?
48:10 BEAR MASHER CATAPAULT!
* where the heck is this original film to get a proper transfer... somebody has the original film somewhere... maybe one day it will surface.... God willing*
Is he singing blacktion jackson?
57:38 invisible Airplane, collapsing Tower.....
Blacktion Jackson!!
Sadly he didn't look like Carl Weathers
No comments about the kids jumping off the roof?????
Well it was the seventies XD
A they saying Blacktion Jackson.? And fucking bronco. 😳
wtf? the waltons?
The best the 70s
Wow 28:50
Fly Glyder might get some body killed today. Lol