The correct way to do it. I have a Mego it's a Spiderman.Its dated 1973 and I love it.

The Captain Of The Thunder & the Lighting 😲 I wish I had that figure 🥺 Great job man 👍🏽

Looks great Dave. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.

You've made Captain Marvel look absolutely fantastic! Straight from the ad pages of vintage DC Comics

@superkneppirdk7149

4 жыл бұрын

Which one get it

I enjoyed this video a lot! I read the Captain Marvel comics as a young child (early 1970s). Around that time here in the US, we also had a Saturday morning program with a live-action Billy Batson/Captain Marvel...the comic in those days was still called Captain Marvel, but the TV show was called Shazam! (it was combined with Isis, it was called the Shazam!/Isis Power Hour, IIRC) The white thread/sewing machine repairs make me think the original young owner of this toy had it repaired by a parent...I remember my mother complaining that changing the thread color on her sewing machine was a pain...

@9:10 repairs? what repairs? Don't see any repairs :) GREAT JOB

Nice job.

My brothers had the Mego Shazam and Spiderman. I always played with Shazam, because I loved his cape. Thanks for bringing those memories back.

@paulwalsh2344

4 жыл бұрын

I had the 8" Mego Spiderman, Cpt. Kirk and Mr. Spock and "Planet of the Apes" Cornelius. I used to tie about a foot of thin cotton string with a simple loop knot around Spidey's hand and swing him from couch to chair and all over the house and have him and Kirk and Spock kick poor Cornelius's butt on the regular. Poor Cornelius. Why couldn't it have been Ursus... Or better yet the Goblin ?

Looks as good as new! Getting a really good colour match is key, if the match isn't great you'll soon find that 'close enough' often becomes 'not close enough'.

Not sure how often you will need it, but seam separators work pretty well.

you should replace the lightning bolt with one going in the right direction and repaint some of the missing paint on the head because the repainting part could be easily used on other figures

Love me some Mego figures, harder and harder to find in nice condition, I sold all my collection like a dumb ass 10 years ago & now I am recollecting them all again.

@Steve-wo7gt

4 жыл бұрын

@TNT SK8 the great thing about Megos is that you don't have to buy them intact. The parts can be bought piecemeal and assembled. I'm putting together a vintage MEGO Green Goblin together that way right now. You just need patience.

Great job!

Awesome! well that's super cool~

I'm re-reading Kingdom Come right now. :D

It isn't always as easy as choosing the right color thread for the seam though. I recently re-sewed a Green Goblin bodysuit and had to get magenta thread to match the rest of the seam even though it was on the green area of the body. Iron Man uses yellow thread on the red areas of the bodysuit too.

God always wanted that toy

awesome!

Fantastic work totally enjoyed!👏

Shazam is one of those characters I wish I had more toys of. He's more rare than many Vintage Mego dolls. His Super Powers figure is very expensive, and they cancelled his DC Icons (recent line) figure.

@craigcharlesworth1538

4 жыл бұрын

There are a few nice DC Direct ones and the DC Universe Classics, which is the only one I own, is really good. The Multiverse movie figure looks really good though I've never seen it in hand and no doubt the movie sequel will get a figure from McFarlane.

Great job and lots of patience I restored one of these and just ordered a reproduction suit from figures toy company. Again great job

That's some nice handy work Dave, but Shazam's (Captain Marvel) cape was white with gold trim and flowers wasn't it, but it's still a cool figure my friend!

@toypolloi

4 жыл бұрын

The cape is correct to the Mego figure. May not be correct to the comic, but that's not what I am doing here.

@hondorockz

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I know, but would have been nice if they did it like the comic, have a great weekend Dave!

@Steve-wo7gt

4 жыл бұрын

I think Mego's reasoning for the yellow cape was that they were afraid a white cape would get dirty during playtime. Plus a comic accurate cape would probably cost more and Mego was about pinching pennies.

God I never thought that I would enjoy watching a man undress a toy SEW it back up again and dress the toy, soooooooo much!!!!! 😆 thank you Mr ToyPolloi! 😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👊👊👊👊👊🤘

Nice, I've done that with a Batman Mego. I used a seam ripper for the thread and then the back of the same seam ripper to turn the outfit back to right side out.

Came for a repair on the wizard Shazam, stayed for a repair on Captain Marvel ;)

Oh and his cape is held in place by a yellowish gold rope cord down to his tunic.

1, the lightning bolt is yellowish gold not white. 2, his cape iwhite with yellowish gold trim around it and gold 4-leaved clovers down one side. 3, his boots fold over at the top. And finally 4, he originally belongs to Fawcett Comics, not DC.

The little scissors from your Wife's sewing kit are very good! Having to recently start repairing some of my own clothes and trying to recall when I did Home Economics at Comprehensive School about 40 years ago I have sewed a few things like that. I found a very useful tool in Poundland a couple of years back. It was a small Seam UnPicking tool/Hook and blade. It came in it's own sleeve which also mounted very small sharp scissors with in the box like body structure. Very much like on your penknife! Very useful and only a pound!! Made me wonder about Poundland? Sometimes they do stock very good quality Tat indeed! Always wanted a Mego Shazam. Never ever found one!

@toypolloi

4 жыл бұрын

Mrs TP bought me my own set of small scissors so I stopped using hers 🤗 So these are now in my tool box.

@malcr2325

4 жыл бұрын

@@toypolloi Good stuff!

Excellent, but the lightning bolt is backwards.

Dude your like a legand at this stuff, cudos to you🏆

Amazing job!! I have a Mego Spidey that has that classic over stretched tear from the front of the neck right down beside the spider symbol on the chest. Still have not found any repair options. Have you ever dealt with that problem? As soon as I find a suitable replacement, I can send it to you, if you would like to give it a go. Thanks for another informative lesson on toy Rescue! TOY ON!

@toypolloi

4 жыл бұрын

I have a ripped up Spidey outfit as well. But no figure. When I get that I'll see what I can do to save it.

@dougjames4972

4 жыл бұрын

I will be on the lookout for an extra Spidey to send your way!

He is the Toy Whisperer...

What is the music you used?

Hi, Toy Polloi. Is it worth paying $70 US for one of these if they have like reproduced belts, gloves and chest sticker?

@scottm4969

4 жыл бұрын

Victor Vazquez I. Just bought one on ebay for 29.99 plus shipping.

@toypolloi

4 жыл бұрын

Only pay what you are happy to pay. I'm sure with patience you'll find one cheaper.

Not the original Cape colour .Shaxam's Cape was white with gold trim and flower designs.But stillnot a bad restoration.

@toypolloi

2 жыл бұрын

It's the original Mego cape. so I am not sure what you are referring to?

@robertwilson33

2 жыл бұрын

@@toypolloi I had one of the super powers team Shazam and the Cape was yellow and white.

@robertwilson33

2 жыл бұрын

@@toypolloi I didn't know that the Mego variants differed slightly then the superpower's team Shazam by kenner.🙏

@toypolloi

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, each company made figures their own way. So this is correct to this version of Shazam. Cheers