Bif Bang Pow! '70s style MEGO 8-inch pre-orders up for grabs

Pre-orders have started now, check:

’70s style 8-inch action figure up for pre-orders

The Venture Bros.
The Twilight Zone
The Big Lebowski – The Dude
Flash Gordon and Ming
Scott Ian

(Dexter coming...)

Thanks for the heads-up! Not sure if I am going to order on of these yet, though....

You're welcome. I'm still wanting to see some images, there are none yet as I just got the info a while ago.

I'd like to see pics... the Mego style seems pretty appropriate for the Venture Brothers, in particular!

https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71886

Sorry for my lack of cool html skills, but pictures are linked in the Mego Venture brothers thread.


The price isn't bad, though at 37 for a two-pack. If I can get them through my LCS I might get a little bit of a better discount.

Seaward said:

https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71886

Sorry for my lack of cool html skills, but pictures are linked in the Mego Venture brothers thread.


The price isn't bad, though at 37 for a two-pack. If I can get them through my LCS I might get a little bit of a better discount.

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Excellent... figures.com did a great job covering toy fair.

WTF is this?!? I just came across pre orders for Battlestar Galactica and Six Million Dollar Man 8" figures from Gif Bang Pow!






Sucks you have to buy then in pairs. $38 for a set of two is okay I guess, but not so good if one of the figures is not anything you really want. They were smart to put a good one and a not so good one together for each set.

How well do these sell? Will it be possible to just buy one figure at a time eventually, or do they stay as sets and stay the same price?

____ Bif Bang Pow. They dropped a massive ball with the Lost licence. ____ them in their stupid asses.

what happened? They started the Lost line and never finished? Or they came out bad?

They came out bad.

I see. Crap. I guess I have nothing to look forward to with the BSG and SMDM figures, huh? Already that Sasquach figure looks ridiculous, or like the Gremlin in the Twilight Zone episode with Shatner.

I like their figures a fair bit, thinking about it now. I only own the Venture Bros henchmen figures but I'm very happy with them, I can see myself buying a lot more. Others in the VB line I'm planning to pick up, and a few of their Twilight Zone figures look OK to me. The Fembot figure might be something I would be interested in picking up, too.

Mad Old Lu said:

Sucks you have to buy then in pairs. $38 for a set of two is okay I guess, but not so good if one of the figures is not anything you really want. They were smart to put a good one and a not so good one together for each set.

How well do these sell? Will it be possible to just buy one figure at a time eventually, or do they stay as sets and stay the same price?

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I see them often in pairs but I think most places sell them separately. I don't think the 'pairs' are actually in some sort of 2-in-1 box, I think they're just seperate packages that they for whatever reason try to push as a pair.

Also, I don't know about prices in general but on TFAW.com I often see these figures for as low as $10 - 15.

Thanks, Grosby!

There are pictures of these out there now, I see. The Fembot is not so great-looking. Maybe fully-suited, cartoon or non-human characters are when they work best, maybe that's what I like.

Six Million Dollar Man:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulnomad/sets/72157629486407567/with/6942996173/

Battlestar:

https://forum.rebelscum.com/t1078682/

Thanks for posting, Grosby!

Hmmm. The BSG Starbuck and Apollo look kinda crappy. Very little detail in the costumes. The heads look huge but the link says they'll be more in scale in the final product.

So I was at my local comic book store (Jay & Silent Bob's in Red Bank, NJ) and saw the BBP Steve Austin and Sasquach. I only ended up getting Steve, though. And even then, he looks a bit goofy. But I had been keeping my eye on ebay for him and saw that he didn't really go for any less than about $28-$30. They had him here for $24, so I thought, what the hey.



There's something almost creepy looking about him. He kinda looks like a little puppet that could come to life and kill people. Definitely not the greatest looking figure.

However, I did discover a really cool feature about him: the arms and legs have bionic designs over transparent plastic! Pretty cool, I'd say!





Here he is compared to his ancestor:



But before I stumbled across Steve, I saw the coolest damn thing I have ever seen!





That's right! An Oscar Goldman briefcase metal lunchbox! How freaking awesome is that? I didn't even know they were making this!

I'd say, forget the figure, get the lunchbox!

This thread is proof why Mego went out of business!

Hey, I loved Mego figures when I was a kid!



I forgot to mention the figure also came with a keychain that plays the bionic sounds of his eye, and of his arms and legs, "...we can rebuild him, we have the technology" and "better, stronger, faster".

I was also at Forbidden Planet in Manhattan over the weekend and saw the BSG figures. The human figures looked terrible, but the cylons were not bad.

Not much of a Mego fan, but I might be tempted by a Dexter.