Daily Mego Adoration: Removable Mask Robin!
Here’s our Daily Mego Adoration for Friday, March 28, 2008:
Removable Mask Robin!
Perhaps the finest WGSH Mego I have ever owned — and by that, I mean both the toy and its condition — is a Removable Mask Robin, packaged in the rare “1st Window” box (discussed on page 58 of World’s Greatest Toys!). I acquired the piece during my ‘crunch’ period of preparing the final book for the printer in Hong Kong.
Due to time constraints, I could not include this exquisite specimen in the book. The book does feature a very high-grade Robin in the same box variation, but it is the more common “Painted Mask” version.
I regret not including this particular RM Robin in the book, but at least I can show it to you now.
Pretty cool! Just look at how tightly that mask fits! The whole figure just has the ‘crispness’ you all know and love… the untouched perfection of a “new” Mego. Yum.
I don’t own this piece any more, but it went to a REALLY good home, and that makes me happy. The new owner absolutely adores it.
Benjamin
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