Me too! I got the biggest kick out of that transporter room!! This is back when toys were FUN!!!!!

Yes...I had one of these too and all of the figures. LOL

I had this and would play with it for hours at a time.

Amazing that I could remember this from when I was 4 years old. What has stayed in my brain all these years is "Mr. Spock disappears!". Of course, we had this set.

This would be an absolute gem to get a hold of.

I used to have a Meco Star Trek Tricorder, which was a stylized tape recorder. I was 12 back then. Side A on the tape had clips from the first 3 episodes, and Side B was blank, so I could record my own adventures. So much fun. One can see a Meco Star Trek Communicator (a stylized walkie talkie) in the KZread clip "The Kids From C.A.P.E.R."

classic 70s sales illusion.A giant bolder is used between transporter activities to provide the notion that the plaset is alot bigger than it actually is. Thanks for posting

The commercials were fun to watch. Glad we grew up in this tactile era before smartphones.

After 35 years, I STILL HAVE MINE IN THE BOX!!

@drchoc22

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and after 40?

Wow, a trip down memory lane. I remember seeing that commercial live.

I always wanted this toy. This video surely takes me way back to my childhood!

I wish I still had this.

Would that I still had my bridge playset from back in the day. Thanks for sharing this!

I still own my playset...and the original box!

I had these figures and the Enterprise when I was a kid. Bought another old Spock and Kirk mint in package from a toy dealer back in the 90s and still have them now. Orginal ones not the reproductions.

@Sheri451 I discovered TAS first back in '73, before TOS was syndicated. Imaging the shock of a 6 year, to see a favorite Saturday morning cartoon in TOS live action, lol

For what it's worth, TOS had already in syndication for several years when TAS premiered. It's popularity in syndication was part of the reason the animated series was even made.

The playset was the first thing I got; long before the action figures... I don't know why the playset was available; first and the action figures to awhile later to hit stores... It's funny; now that I'm grown; I'm in awe at how much playset cost; now.... I was watching that Toy Story Christmas Special... And all I could do was tabulate how much that kid's parents spent on four playsets with all those action figures; each sold separately and to top it off that kid also had a video game console for Christmas; too... It would've taken birthdays and Christmases for me to get all of that; many birthdays and Christmases... I don't remember how much the Star Trek playset cost when I was a kid in the 70's... but it was low enough for my parents to let me put it in the shopping cart without it being my birthday or Christmas and then the same much later with the action figures...

There's a comic bookstore that has all those old star wars and star trek guys

I don't recall the commercial, but if some one has this in mint condition with everything .... they are blessed!! That is/was a cool toy!!

True enough. At the time the live-action syndication was not airing in my area. I was exposed to TAS first, The syndication came out later that same year. My Dad, was an Trek fan, got me hooked on the series. Besides, seeing a sci-fi show airing, besides Space:1999 with a multiracial crew, was a rare sight back then. ;-)

This is cool!

I had spoc kirk checkoff and one of the keepers w the big head

@CountryRoadTrip My kids have toys that were broken in a few days...I have old Megos that are over 35 years old and still look great...

Still have the original set with the original box!!!!

@ClarkSavageJr: Guess what-THEY'RE BACK!! A new company has bought the original Mego molds, and is making new Star Trek Mego-type toys for fans to buy and use as they did when they were kids...or to pass along to their kids!

This stuff was big just before Kenner put out its STAR WARS line!

I had this, still have the Kirk and Spock figures although they are filled with BB holes

what!! came with 5 figures! now days they usually says figures are sold separately...good old days are gone..sob

I had one! I was 6 and had no clue what Star Trek was but I sure wore out that spinning transporter

I so badly want a Spock figure. Then my life would be complete.

@zeus5566 Nah- sold separately. I had this set when I was a kid. Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Scotty and the Klingon were easy to find back then. Bones was not. :(

@Neville6000 Yes! They are beautifully done too! They added Sulu and Chekov, 2 figure Mego never produced...and a great Khan figure as well...

The transporter room spun around in a circle

Loved these ads from Mego, which made selling Star Trek sound like real macho kids stuff, but the show was meant to be seen as compelling sci-fi, blah blah blah. But when you're a kid you can't wait for the episode where Kirk gets to kick Klingon butt. So it's kinda fun playing with toys from a TV show that, when you're a grown up, was deeper than it looked. Imagine if Mego did....THE FOUNDATION playset! Featuring poseable Psycho-historians! Hari Seldon, the ultimate hero trying to save the Foundation from certain doom! (Three laws of robotics not included! Your parents put the whole 1000 mile long station together!)

omg same here, i could never bring myself to open it, it would loose it's value right.

Which figures came with it?

My family had this until they sold it at a garage sale way way back in the day. Now ThinkGeek's selling a replica for $60. Guess who feels stupid now?

@rjmdrum boulder*

Is it just me, or does the transporter seem more like the TARDIS from Doctor Who?

poor Klingon... :(

Notice the kids are actually playing with it OUTSIDE. What a concept. Ah, the days befor video games when kids actually used thier bodies for something other than getting fat.