When we were cleaning out the attic at my grandparent's house, there was a box of my dad and uncle's toys. The lid was stuck and when we finally got it free there was all this string covering the contents of the box. First we thought it was some kind of arachnid infestation but up[on closer inspection we saw the threads originating from the Spider-Man doll and a metal tube. Turns out, when Grandpa was packing up all the old toys, he scooped up everything without realizing what it was and the changing climate of that attic caused the fluid inside the Spider- man toy and the tube to expand outward sticking to everything. It was quite a wild sight.
I had one, and I remember they were displayed next to hulk and Spider-Man branded helicopters that you could put the figures into. This was in Kmart in Louisville Kentucky.
your friend did the smart thing selling to you at a reasonable price -- he's going to take a little less now and build a rapport for future sales rather than take a lot less later on as i've heard collectible prices are cooling off and a hard recession is looming after the elections are over. who knows when or even if we'll ever see these over-inflated prices again. one thing is very likely, though, which is if someone keeps that $600 price tag that thing will possibly never sell, at least not for a very, very long time. and, honestly, you're probably one of the few who's showed serious interest. collectors who are going to spend $600 on a toy tend to be pretty savvy. they know the bubble is about to burst, it's just a question of how bad it's going to get. i'm not sure if vintage mego prices are getting more realistic, but just very recently a rocket firing L-slot boba fett went for $136K all told, which is about half of the estimate based on sales of lesser fetts which went for stupid money. of course, there are mitigating factors probably involved -- e.g. a lot of these have been on the market as of late -- but the perception to many will be the market is collapsing. having that low price sets a precedent, and when you deal with a market where only about 100 of them exist i'm sure there's going to be much speculation about where prices are headed. it could just be an anomaly, but if it happens with the next auction i think its price fate for years will be sealed and there'd be a trickle-down effect. but, we know a recession is coming and by most reports it's going to be on a 2008 level, so not good. what happens? people get desperate and sell off collections cheap, and coupled with far fewer people buying toys, prices are probably going to fall quite a bit. my knee-jerk advice to anyone who's planning on selling something is to sell it now. i think there's enough writing on the wall to justify not waiting. you might get a little more if you put it off, but that's just speculation, and collectible markets have collapsed before. i mean, does anyone believe that in a year from now anyone is going to drop $600 on that? i don't, that's why i'm not buying much of anything, because i truly think that in a year or two i'll save thousands picking stuff up at a fair price after the real-life necessities of collectors outweighs paying ridiculous top-dollar prices and endless online fees for what very much are luxury items. i could be 100% wrong as it's all nothing but speculative guesswork, but just some food for thought.
I had one. I lived and still live in Rochester NY and it was mid 70s , don't know if it was us version, probably, but not magnetic and he looked just like yours. Also no accessory, not even web, that I remember. I don't remember the package. His hands are red, his groin is kinda like molded underwear. I think. And he didn't have any string gimmick like superman. I didn't have a lot of big figs. I had Steve Austen and maskatron and this space fighter guy in a blue and gold costume with a sheild that had a lightbulb in it's center. That's pretty much it. Then starwars came out. Most of these were Christmas or birthday and I was pretty young. I'm a 1968 baby.
The 12 inch MEGO SpiderMan figure is one 12 incher I never had them or now. But when the first SpiderMan movie starring Tobey Maguire came out 20 years ago, that plus the Danny Elfman music makes me want to get one. Oh well, maybe someday. As a kid, I had the 12 inch MEGO Wonder Woman and I had the 12 inch MEGO Magnetic Batman and Robin figures. Today, I have reacquired all three. Plus I have the Christopher Reeve Superman figure and the 12 inch MEGO Incredible Hulk. Maybe someday, I'll be able to add the 12 inch Spidey to my collection. :)
They actually did sell web refill tubes. It was made by Chemtoy and was used in the wrist spider web spinners as well (as advertised in comic books). I still have a couple refill bottles I bought as a kid. I bought just the bottles as I couldn't afford the web spinner. I thought it would work straight out of the tube. It didn't. Not sure how well it actually worked out of the web spinner either.
I had GI Joe but that was about it...vague memories of having some of the mego monsters and being disappointed how they didn't look like the universal monsters Thank goodness they corrected that ! And I've got all of the newest wave ones! They are the ones I wish my 10 year old self could have had.
I had the 12” Spiderman but only with the fly-away action and the spider web. My original one broke at the knee (which seems to be the most common damage to the 12 inch line). I rebought the same one on eBay, along with the 12” magnetic Batman and 12” 1978 Superman that I also owned as a kid. Personally I think that the 12” Hulk was the best 12” figure in the line. My brother actually had the Remco Spiderman when we were kids and I remember thinking that it was kind of dull compared to the Mego figure because it wasn’t poseable and was mainly a glorified flashlight lol
OMG, I love this. Had 12" Magnetic Batman & Robin, 12" "movie Superman, Hulk, and Spider-Man. Having the newer 14" Megos really takes me back to these. Wonderful!
As a kid I actually preferred the 8" Mego superheros. However, I did get the 12" Hulk because it made sense to me that he'd be so much bigger than the others. It bothered me that The Hulk and The Thing were shorter than everyone else.
The greatest 12” figure was the Hulk because you could use him with you regular 8” heroes that you already had and he was bigger instead of smaller like the 8” Hulk
After Tony's overview over at Analog Toys, I'm in agreement. Now I need to find one of the bloody things after term starts. The regular (no way is he) 8" Hulk has that "I've been sick!" Tex Avery vibe.
@@scottstalcup6980 lol I believe the THING body was the same and it always bothered me as a kid .. why is my Hulk smaller than my Robin .. . When I hit that 12” Hulk it was my favourite for awhile and he could kick Bionic Big Foots Ass lol
I was fortunate enough to own a Mego 12 inch Hulk and a Mego 12 inch Superman, during my childhood. Sadly, both were thrown away in '86 and they are now grail items that I would love to own again, but vintage Mego action figures are extremely difficult to find in the UK. :(
I've had the 12 inch Spider-man since 1978, but I don't remember who gave it to me or what the occasion was. It could have been Santa Claus. I think it was the carded one that came with the spiderweb, but no Fly Away Action. In recent years, I've bought the empty Mego boxes to go with the superheroes, and I managed to get an incomplete Web-Spinning Spider-man with the box for under $40. I was in the right place (Ebay) at the right time.
I always wanted that web spinning spiderman. I think I bought the Energize spiderman when it was on clearance at KB toys. I don't remember liking it that much though. As always an informative and interesting episode!
Very interesting story about Spidey's toy backstory, another great video. I never unfortunately had the 12" version as shown here, but I was fortunate to have the regular 8" version until he got lost somehow. Many decades later, I was lucky to get another Mego 8" Spider-Man, and he now is greatly treasured. Ironically, the tv commercial with the Hulk is pretty play accurate for me when younger, and finally, yup, I can't get that Web-Spinning Spider-Man song out of my mind! 🤣🤣🤣
My biggest memory of this figure was the notorious TV movie where a kid put his brother's 12 inch Spidey in the oven. Had Hulk and Magnetic Batman and ended up with Lex Luthor and Zod on clearance. Always wanted that 12 inch Cap.
I was able to find a boxed example of the 12" Spidey at a toy show in the late '90s! I wondered why it was easy to find. P.S. Has issue 7 of Toy-Ventures shipped yet?
Webs! WEBS!!!!! Maybe they used the image of Mister Fantastic because of the FF cartoon from the time (the one with Herbie)? Possibly it was on TV and they thought it would have some resonance with kids? No magnetic Spiderman... but magnetic Batman and Robin?! I had the Robin with more manly face - I loved that sculpt, but I hated the big clunky magnets in his hands... I had Batman, Robin and Spidey in 12 inch. Didn't get Hulk until adulthood, but I always wanted him...
I had this and the Batman shown Then the fly away superman (from the original movie) only 12” wgh figures I had. Also I had this crappy game that came w/ that messy web crap😂
Hope you didn't have to shell out $ 200 to $ 300 $$,s for it, just that a comic book store back in '12,'13 was asking $300 for one mint in box for it, that was few years ago wonder how much one,s going for nowadays? 😮 😂 Lol.
When we were cleaning out the attic at my grandparent's house, there was a box of my dad and uncle's toys. The lid was stuck and when we finally got it free there was all this string covering the contents of the box. First we thought it was some kind of arachnid infestation but up[on closer inspection we saw the threads originating from the Spider-Man doll and a metal tube. Turns out, when Grandpa was packing up all the old toys, he scooped up everything without realizing what it was and the changing climate of that attic caused the fluid inside the Spider-
man toy and the tube to expand outward sticking to everything. It was quite a wild sight.
I had one, and I remember they were displayed next to hulk and Spider-Man branded helicopters that you could put the figures into. This was in Kmart in Louisville Kentucky.
your friend did the smart thing selling to you at a reasonable price -- he's going to take a little less now and build a rapport for future sales rather than take a lot less later on as i've heard collectible prices are cooling off and a hard recession is looming after the elections are over. who knows when or even if we'll ever see these over-inflated prices again. one thing is very likely, though, which is if someone keeps that $600 price tag that thing will possibly never sell, at least not for a very, very long time. and, honestly, you're probably one of the few who's showed serious interest.
collectors who are going to spend $600 on a toy tend to be pretty savvy. they know the bubble is about to burst, it's just a question of how bad it's going to get. i'm not sure if vintage mego prices are getting more realistic, but just very recently a rocket firing L-slot boba fett went for $136K all told, which is about half of the estimate based on sales of lesser fetts which went for stupid money. of course, there are mitigating factors probably involved -- e.g. a lot of these have been on the market as of late -- but the perception to many will be the market is collapsing. having that low price sets a precedent, and when you deal with a market where only about 100 of them exist i'm sure there's going to be much speculation about where prices are headed. it could just be an anomaly, but if it happens with the next auction i think its price fate for years will be sealed and there'd be a trickle-down effect.
but, we know a recession is coming and by most reports it's going to be on a 2008 level, so not good. what happens? people get desperate and sell off collections cheap, and coupled with far fewer people buying toys, prices are probably going to fall quite a bit.
my knee-jerk advice to anyone who's planning on selling something is to sell it now. i think there's enough writing on the wall to justify not waiting. you might get a little more if you put it off, but that's just speculation, and collectible markets have collapsed before. i mean, does anyone believe that in a year from now anyone is going to drop $600 on that? i don't, that's why i'm not buying much of anything, because i truly think that in a year or two i'll save thousands picking stuff up at a fair price after the real-life necessities of collectors outweighs paying ridiculous top-dollar prices and endless online fees for what very much are luxury items.
i could be 100% wrong as it's all nothing but speculative guesswork, but just some food for thought.
I had one. I lived and still live in Rochester NY and it was mid 70s , don't know if it was us version, probably, but not magnetic and he looked just like yours. Also no accessory, not even web, that I remember. I don't remember the package. His hands are red, his groin is kinda like molded underwear. I think. And he didn't have any string gimmick like superman. I didn't have a lot of big figs. I had Steve Austen and maskatron and this space fighter guy in a blue and gold costume with a sheild that had a lightbulb in it's center. That's pretty much it. Then starwars came out. Most of these were Christmas or birthday and I was pretty young. I'm a 1968 baby.
they did sell the same version on that card back briefly, which in itself is a mystery.
The 12 inch MEGO SpiderMan figure is one 12 incher I never had them or now. But when the first SpiderMan movie starring Tobey Maguire came out 20 years ago, that plus the Danny Elfman music makes me want to get one. Oh well, maybe someday.
As a kid, I had the 12 inch MEGO Wonder Woman and I had the 12 inch MEGO Magnetic Batman and Robin figures. Today, I have reacquired all three. Plus I have the Christopher Reeve Superman figure and the 12 inch MEGO Incredible Hulk. Maybe someday, I'll be able to add the 12 inch Spidey to my collection. :)
They actually did sell web refill tubes. It was made by Chemtoy and was used in the wrist spider web spinners as well (as advertised in comic books). I still have a couple refill bottles I bought as a kid. I bought just the bottles as I couldn't afford the web spinner. I thought it would work straight out of the tube. It didn't. Not sure how well it actually worked out of the web spinner either.
I had GI Joe but that was about it...vague memories of having some of the mego monsters and being disappointed how they didn't look like the universal monsters
Thank goodness they corrected that ! And I've got all of the newest wave ones! They are the ones I wish my 10 year old self could have had.
I remember seeing web spinning spiderman being sold at my local pathmark supermarket of all places (along with pocket heroes).
I had the 12” Spiderman but only with the fly-away action and the spider web. My original one broke at the knee (which seems to be the most common damage to the 12 inch line). I rebought the same one on eBay, along with the 12” magnetic Batman and 12” 1978 Superman that I also owned as a kid. Personally I think that the 12” Hulk was the best 12” figure in the line. My brother actually had the Remco Spiderman when we were kids and I remember thinking that it was kind of dull compared to the Mego figure because it wasn’t poseable and was mainly a glorified flashlight lol
OMG, I love this. Had 12" Magnetic Batman & Robin, 12" "movie Superman, Hulk, and Spider-Man. Having the newer 14" Megos really takes me back to these. Wonderful!
Growing up a friend had this. That was late 70’s in New England USA. Was awesome. Very nice.
Great video this gave me nostalgia of those good days
Still have mine but I have to restring him. I am not good with that sort of stuff so he sits in pieces. That web-spinning one looks very cool.
Watching it again Brian I love this video hope one day I can find another 8 in or 12 in Spider-Man
Gotta again say, how in the world did they not have a Mister Fantastic stretching toy, like Stretch Armstrong?
As a kid I actually preferred the 8" Mego superheros. However, I did get the 12" Hulk because it made sense to me that he'd be so much bigger than the others. It bothered me that The Hulk and The Thing were shorter than everyone else.
I had so many of those... I still have my magnetic Batman.
Ironic i had this and the energized Spidey i got it for Christmas by my Grandma
That's a cool version of spiderman
I had spiderman and the hulk as a kid. Still wish I had them. Had the helicopter and van for spiderman as well.
Oh, the Empire toys stuff!
@@BrickMantooth yes!!
I had this one Spidi my favorite hero figure hours of play
The greatest 12” figure was the Hulk because you could use him with you regular 8” heroes that you already had and he was bigger instead of smaller like the 8” Hulk
Exactly what I did !!!
After Tony's overview over at Analog Toys, I'm in agreement. Now I need to find one of the bloody things after term starts. The regular (no way is he) 8" Hulk has that "I've been sick!" Tex Avery vibe.
@@scottstalcup6980 lol I believe the THING body was the same and it always bothered me as a kid .. why is my Hulk smaller than my Robin .. . When I hit that 12” Hulk it was my favourite for awhile and he could kick Bionic Big Foots Ass lol
@@bobbyhulll8737 Yep. My Teen Titans beat both of them up for their lunch money.
I was fortunate enough to own a Mego 12 inch Hulk and a Mego 12 inch Superman, during my childhood. Sadly, both were thrown away in '86 and they are now grail items that I would love to own again, but vintage Mego action figures are extremely difficult to find in the UK. :(
Great video! Can't beat Mego!👍
Had a few as a kid in the 70's! Great video😎👍
I have a Spider-Man remote control car. Because he always drove around...
when he wasn't boating.
I've had the 12 inch Spider-man since 1978, but I don't remember who gave it to me or what the occasion was. It could have been Santa Claus. I think it was the carded one that came with the spiderweb, but no Fly Away Action. In recent years, I've bought the empty Mego boxes to go with the superheroes, and I managed to get an incomplete Web-Spinning Spider-man with the box for under $40. I was in the right place (Ebay) at the right time.
Web spinning Spider-Man
Once heard can never be unheard 😀
They simply don’t make em like they used to
Never had the 12’ figures. I had Star Trek mego stuff.
Spiderman, Batman, and the Spiderman Mobile Crimelab
Hi, still çan not find those old Starlogs, and Have the original Spiderman from my Childhood, it's awesome! R
Ahh yeah! Still have mine! My 4 year old son plays with him.
my kids had my Hulk.
Still have mine but they left leg right below the knee is broke. Anyone know where I can get a replacement?
dr. mego
I always wanted that web spinning spiderman. I think I bought the Energize spiderman when it was on clearance at KB toys. I don't remember liking it that much though. As always an informative and interesting episode!
Is bad Mego never did the magnetic version i would ask my mom or dad to get it for back in the day
Very interesting story about Spidey's toy backstory, another great video. I never unfortunately had the 12" version as shown here, but I was fortunate to have the regular 8" version until he got lost somehow. Many decades later, I was lucky to get another Mego 8" Spider-Man, and he now is greatly treasured. Ironically, the tv commercial with the Hulk is pretty play accurate for me when younger, and finally, yup, I can't get that Web-Spinning Spider-Man song out of my mind! 🤣🤣🤣
My biggest memory of this figure was the notorious TV movie where a kid put his brother's 12 inch Spidey in the oven. Had Hulk and Magnetic Batman and ended up with Lex Luthor and Zod on clearance. Always wanted that 12 inch Cap.
I applause this figure & am proud to have it in my collection, although I have a loose version.
As always cool
thanks!
@@BrickMantooth truth ✊
I've always wanted this figure.
I scored a 1978 figure yesterday at my local thrift store...🤘🏼🕷💯✔️
I was able to find a boxed example of the 12" Spidey at a toy show in the late '90s! I wondered why it was easy to find. P.S. Has issue 7 of Toy-Ventures shipped yet?
Hey, all copies of issue 7 left on Monday.
@@BrickMantooth awesome! I assume there's no tracking, so I'll eagerly await it.
@@Kane429 there's tracking for US and European orders, I just had to look it up.
@@BrickMantooth Ah! Can you let me know where to find tracking? I don't see it on the PayPal receipt.
@@Kane429 last name? State?
I also have two Batman, with out the mask?
Actually my fav was the Web Spinning Spidey…..
Enjoyed it!!
thank you!
Webs! WEBS!!!!! Maybe they used the image of Mister Fantastic because of the FF cartoon from the time (the one with Herbie)? Possibly it was on TV and they thought it would have some resonance with kids?
No magnetic Spiderman... but magnetic Batman and Robin?! I had the Robin with more manly face - I loved that sculpt, but I hated the big clunky magnets in his hands...
I had Batman, Robin and Spidey in 12 inch. Didn't get Hulk until adulthood, but I always wanted him...
Lo mejor de lo mejor
Great video. Only had the 12" Mr Spock. He still has a broken leg. Not sure if anyone makes replacement 12" Mego bodies but I need one.
To let you know this figure arrive in Puerto Rico we're i lived and my mom got me this because I am super Spiderman fan
I had one from a kids menu in a local diner… this was a brand new toy in 2004 or so…
His head was squishy 😂 that’s all I remember
I made a web out of kite string and elmers glue
Thanks for removing the intro music, it was always too loud compared to your mild speaking voice. Great vid as usual
Now that I know that, I wish I had a DC version.
I sooooo need a 12 inch Spidey
you do!
My 78 12inch Mego Spidey has loose arms and legs. How can I repair it?
I had this and the Batman shown
Then the fly away superman (from the original movie) only 12” wgh figures I had. Also I had this crappy game that came w/ that messy web crap😂
Hope you didn't have to shell out $ 200 to $ 300 $$,s for it, just that a comic book store back in '12,'13 was asking $300 for one mint in box for it, that was few years ago wonder how much one,s going for nowadays? 😮 😂 Lol.