Mego Price Stickers: Children’s Palace!
With thanks to Mego-head Don Cassetori, here are two intriguing “Children’s Palace” price stickers to compare and contrast (and this is just plain weird!).
Don sent me a price sticker detail of his 1st Version (”Error”) Lizard box (below left, see page 170 of World’s Greatest Toys), which is strikingly different than the price sticker on my 1st Version “4-digit” Supergirl box (below right, see page 63 of World’s Greatest Toys):
What intrigues me is the fact that (based on prices alone) the $2.77 Lizard box seems to have been available BEFORE the $2.97 Supergirl box. However, Supergirl (in this particular box) was first available around December 1973, while Lizard was not offered until approximately June 1975… a year-and-a-half later!
So, what’s the deal here?
Did Children’s Palace have differing (perhaps regional) pricing?
Was Supergirl such a ‘peg-warmer’ that Children’s Palace was still digging out unsold specimens in 1975?
Did Mego distribute early-edition Gals boxes for several years (remember, Mego subsequently issued the “5-digit” box)?
Did the Children’s Palace toy wholesaler (assuming they didn’t buy directly from Mego) simply dole out Mego toys randomly, rendering my Supergirl box a late-distribution anomaly?
Post your comments below. I’d like to hear your thoughts.
Benjamin
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