I was recently lucky enough to have my Pack of Heroes action figures awarded Custom of the Week over on the Mego Museum website and message board.


 EMCE Hammer, Board Moderator wrote:
"There has been a ton of great stuff posted in the past three weeks or so. The Pack of Heroes set by John D-C really jumped out at me, both for creativity involved as well as the execution. These figures just have a neat vibe to the. I'd probably buy them on sight on appearance alone."

As a long time Mego fan and collector, its safe to say I was pretty chuffed by this recognition of my work!

For those of you that don’t know, The Mego Corporation was a toy company that dominated the action figure toy market during most of the 1970s. The Mego Corporation was founded in the early 1950s and was mostly known prior to 1971 as a producer of dime store toys. Starting in 1971, Mego began purchasing license rights to a variety of successful motion pictures, television programs, and  comic books, and started producing lines for Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, and the Wizard of Oz. Mego used various licensed Marvel and DC superhero characters to create their World’s Greatest Superhero line, which became their most successful toy line. They also produced an original character, Action Jackson, an unsuccessful competitor of Hasbro’s G.I. Joe. The secret of Mego’s success was that their action figures were constructed with interchangeable heads. Generic bodies could be mass produced and different figures created by interposing different heads and costumes on them. Mego also constructed their figures primarily in an 8-inch (200mm) scale - setting an industry standard in the 1970s.

I prefer to customise using the Mego’s 8-inch figures for a few reasons, firstly I love them as a base because you can really go crazy with the cloth costuming secondly they have a very classic look to them, and thirdly there is a really established community around customizing Mego Action Figures and it is pretty easy to purchase reproduction parts and accessories.