1970's MEGO Worlds Greatest Superheroes line TV Commercial ( Superman Batman Spiderman and more)
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- All your favorite heroes in one commercial. Superman,Batman,Wonder Woman,Fantastic Four, Thor and the villians. For the whole Mego collection visit us at www.VintageTVcommercials.com
The original copy probably read, "The Falcon. This one is black."
Believe it or not, that was them trying NOT to be racist
Lol it was fair for its day. Heck they did release Lt Uhura when they could've been safer & released nurse Chapel
Racism requires malice. This was a selling point
@@mego73 exactly, most modern asswipes are hyper sensitive buffoons that have no clue what real racism looks like
They said he was great
@@mego73 Thank you.
Lol "the famous black superhero the falcon"
That was some stupid shit.
as opposed to the "not so great" super-hero Sammy Davis junior as hong-kong phooey?
Wasn't that (the great) Scatman Crothers?
yes!!
Yes it was.
HAHAHAHA The Falcon that great black superhero hahahahahahahaha!!
hahaha!!!!
HAHAHAHAHA!
That's funny. I thought ALL BLACK PEOPLE WERE SUPERHEROES. AND STILL ARE! AND I'M THE WHITE GUY WHO KNOWS THIS!!!
Falcon's come a long way since! He has his own tv show now at least
"Spider-Man's strange enemy" and "That great BLACK Superhero" are my favorite bits, I also love how the fantastic four get their own segment and then they just move on to Conan.
MEGO is good stuff, even if this commercial is hilarious
"Mr Fantastic and Invisible Girl both have the power of invisibility."
Wait ,what?
The toy couldnt stretch, so they probably advertised him as being invisible so kids wouldnt think he could stretch like Kenner's popular Stretch Armstrong, and pull his arm off.
I often thought that it would be great if they could make a Mr Fantastic who could stretch like Stretch Armstrong
@@krisrhood2127 They did! For the 2005 Tim Story movie, lets hope they give the concept another try in the future.
The Torch with the powers of super speed, Mr. Fantastic with the powers of invisibility, and The Falcon with the powers of jive.
this guy has never read a comic
Aquaman, with the power to gather together some fishies to whip ass!
He has black power
@@ThomasSellers also sharks
"Shazam, now featured on network television".......LOLZ
Is the telephone cord in front of him supposed to symbolize lightning?
Marvel and DC characters side by side in the same toy line? That will almost certainly never happen again.
Lego
I had a bunch of these. These were my absolute favourite toys growing up.
IIRC, the Iron Man figure's head was originally planned for a Doctor Doom figure, but Mego scrapped the idea and did a basic repaint. Also back in the 1970's, Marvel had the comic license to Tarzan and Conan the Barbarian. CBS aired a half hour live action Shazam series on Saturday mornings which for its time was actually pretty good. There were very few or no variants for action figures back then, but we didn't care, because we had something known as imagination.
Captain Marvel/Shazam is my favorite!
OMG!!! my head just exploded!! This was my fav thing to wait to see when i was a kid in the 70's!! thanks for the great memorys!
Aquaman, the underwater crime fighter/ Green Arrow, crime fighter from the forest. Places where all the big time criminals hang out. LOL!
I love the way Mr. Fantastic and Invisible girl both become invisible @1:22 :)) lol
Spiderman the weird wall climber. ..wtf was that
Must've been written by JJ himself
@@RoyalKnightVIII JJ Dumba**on
Green Arrow is from the forest??? Star City must have lots of trees!
Yeah, maybe Queen funds a lot of public parks XD
Damn this brings back sooooooooo many childhood memories...!!! Thanks for posting this!!!
"the falcon, that great black superhero"
also,
Got THING and THOR for x-mas one year....these dolls ruled.
...never thought Tarzan fit in....even as a kid I was like "wtf"?
You can tell Aquaman had the hardest job... you know... fighting all that undersea crime.
Wow, a DC and Marvel universe crossover adventure, with Tarzan and Conan to boot. I'm in!
I had the Invisible Girl as a kid .
But when I got her out of the box
and put her down on the ground, I couldn't find her again😢
😄
Coooool do not delete this video i need this please i am big fan of you and this is greatest video of you
They have all your favorite Superheroes, such as Tarzan and Conan!
It may be hard to believe for you but they did have comics done by DC and Marvel at the time.
The main reason MEGO went under was due to too many licensing deals. They held the gauntlet when it came to popular characters, and they could have done fine on their superhero line. Properties like 'Mork & Mindy', and 'Dallas' among others were their undoing. A side note is that they passed on the license to 'Star Wars', as they thought the movie would be unsuccessful.
Great commercial, especially when they advertise that Invisible Girl and Mr. Fantastic both have the power of invisibility (LOL)!
Spiderman's "strange" enemy...but not nearly as strange as that Conan.
outdated equals endearing in my book! long live nostalgia in it's plethora of forms!
gotta love the 70's!
Horrible commercial, but as a 7 year old kid, these action figures were the greatest. Between my brother, my friends and myself, we had all of them. The figures are cheesy compared to today's accurate figures, but these were the only superhero action figures available at the time. I did gripe about how Captain America's sleeves weren't white, how his and "Shazam"s boots weren't right, how short the Hulk was but they were better than nothing. "The Falcon, That Great Black Superhero" was hilarious! Didn't even think about it back in the day.
wow... this is... it is really...it's.... wow
Com'on. You know It makes you want to buy the Toys.
Johnny Storm can fly at great speed, but light speed? Nah!!!
I had the Invisible Girl doll once.
But when I took her out of the box and put her on the ground I couldn't find her again.(=^[
The green goblin doll was even worse! Maligned and disgruntled workers at the Mego factory put tiny chunks cut from an ancient Ouija board in a lot of them. At night they would cause scratches and knocks and shake the kid's bed! - quite nasty.
+Arthur Cabral
Are you serious?
They called Captain Marvel "Shazam", Mr. Fantastic has invisibility, Green Arrow lives in the forest, The Human Torch is faster than light, and Falcon is the "Black" super hero.
To be fair, calling him "Shazam" was for legal reasons. Despite the fact that they also had the Marvel license.
My dad has all of them so he gived them to me for my birthday!
They gave Conan a hair style like Adrienne Barbeau!
Everyone's talking about falcon the great black superhero, but nobody wants to pint out Iron Man's nightmare of a face
Mr. Fantastic has powers of invisibility, eh? Don't you mean he has stretchy powers? Lots of errors in this toy ad.
David Dimalanta true they could've made Mr Fantastic like Strech Armstrong, he'd be more like he is in the comics 👍
ollie's a billionaire not from the forrest
"That great Black Super-hero" WTF?
And going from the comics...mention he was super pimp Snap Wilson!
Human Torch goes the speed of light?
Mister Fantastic turns invisible?
Nice research 70s ad people, wherever you are!
awesome ad, what a flashback...
I had some of these as a kid but never saw the commercials.
Spider man the weird wall climber
Mego is back. Isn' t it amazing. What Mego charges for their current figures, back in the day you could purchase 3 or 4 figures.
I still have them
I have some of these-Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Catwoman, Batgirl, and Sue Storm.
*That great BLACK superhero*
So the fact that the Falcon had the power of flight went unnoticed… lol!!
I still love that Captain Marvel is holding a phone cord.
Love Conan's oversized head and bouffant hair!
And thor using a Pot With Spaguetti inside as a helmet and hair
@Jimmy1tooth As soon as I heard that my eyes bugged out. Theres no way they could even think about saying that line today.
It looked like they just stopped trying on the "new for 1976" figures.
Conan looked like Warren Beatty from Shampoo.
I never has one but i want spiderman
It's too bad the series was discontinued. We would have had Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Black Canary, Atom, Wolverine, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Power Man, Iron Fist, and Spider-Woman as part of the collection.
Tons of superhero info mistakes. And, a surprisingly long commercial.
When the hell did Green Arrow become the crime fighter from the forest?
BTW, the voiceover people and writers weren't exactly fans of the source material, either. It was a job for them.
These were great toys! I don't remember them being too pricey and they were very poseable and movable...not like the "action figures" of today whose parts and accessories are so small and easily lost. The end of Mego was when Kenner made their Star War series toys...then everything went smaller and cheaper.
low quality audio = "...faster than the speed of light!"
I loved these toys back in the day. The one flaw with these is that the parts were held together with a rubber band. One false move, and SNAP - they were useless as action figures. But for some reason, Hulk and Iron Man held up for years.
0:54 hahahahahaha wait whaaaat
I had the Invisible Girl but when I got her out of the box and put her on the ground I couldnt find her again.
SOUL BROTHA SUPER HERO
Used to love these cause they were affordable. I remember having the Falcon and Superman.
falcon that great black super hero ha ha ha ha ha priceless
If I remember right, the villains included: The Joker; The Penguin, Mr. Mxptylk, Dr. Doom, The Green Goblin, Lex Luthor, The Riddler and The Lizard (among others). Mego also had a long forgotten line of horror movie monsters: Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man, I think. For some reason, Mr. Mxptylk was the same size as all the other figures - he was almost a dwarf, unless I'm mistaken.
You forgot the Mummy.
@@queenglamazona8789 Shame on me. How dare I! Thanks for reminding me I posted that comment 12 years ago.
CZcams Is Forever.
No Dr Doom or Luthor
Shazam......able to stretch your phone cord to ruin because you know its suppose to resemble a lightning flash
This guy needs to read a comic
We all know the Hulk is green...why does the announcer have to tell us?
And Mr. Fantastic has the power of invisibility?
Gene Popa The announcer obviously never read a Fantastic Four comic.
Perhaps we had to be told Falcon is black and Hulk is green to make sure we didn't get the two confused. Lol!
@Amazing Spiderman Fan 2002 Not back then, she was "Invisible Girl"
Because he said falcon was black, so he had to point out that hulk was green to avoid a lawsuit
Just ordered Batman, Robin, Joker, Penguin, Catwoman and Riddler reissues. Me and my kid is gonna act out Batman 66 flick first thing! Still need a shark though.
aahh man i just turned 7 again best time ever
You've got a point too. These were practically the prototypes of super hero action figures. I had Hulk in about ever size, but this. I used to use the bigger scale Hulk with the "regular" sized super heroes.
Why does the thing have shingles and a sweater on??
ALL toys have the power of invisibility - if you don't have them!
Well if a guy who can speak with fishes is a superhero I don't see why a guy who can speak to apes can't be one.
People bothered by the mention of Falcon being Black.
I'm bothered because Wonder Woman has no tiara.
@redskinStu If it's any consolation he calls Hulk green
The Lizard is pretty much just the Gorn figure from the Star Trek toys.
@WildmanWoodie I know, I was about 13 when these toys came out. I just meant that it seemed strange that they would single out his "blackness" as a selling point instead of him being a super hero. "Come on kiddies, buy the Falcon - he's BLACK, you know!" He was actually Captain America's sidekick in the comics back then. He was pretty cool, but he wasn't the star of their comics back then and like all of Cap's other sidekicks he got killed off as well.
OMG who wrote the type for this? My inner nerd is foaming at the mouth.
nice post
Im so glad they said Falcan is Black...otherwise we wouldnt know! LOL...Love Mego though!
Oh lord .... THAT GREAT BLACK SUPER HERO ...... did they really SAY that?!?! Good grief....
I want all of those for my birthday
The Torch can travel at the speed of light? Nice fact checking back in the day...
"That fantastic green giant superheroe the Hulk, who for some reason is an inch shorter than the other heroes'! ....and Conan needs to hit the gym....
Yeah! That's crazy! I can't help but laugh at that one...Lol
FALCON WAS BLACK???
what rock have you been under ?
it was sarcasm in relation to the commercial having to tell us he was black......#overyourhead
He was the token hero of the time. It's amazing to watch commercials from back then to see how blatantly obvious everything was. Have been watching the '69 series Spider Man cartoons, and there are a lot of comments towards women that Spider Man makes that would be taken as totally offensive today. In one episode he states "She's only a woman, she wouldn't understand". And then there is this great black superhero.... Hahaha. Oh, the Seventies.
Apparently so and he's pretty great
"The Torch, faster than the speed of light" Were the writers of the commercial on some kind of drugs or something? And why did they pronounce Aquaman's name so weird "Ackuaman"
that great BLACK super hero!
I love the line about "Invisible Girl and Mr. Fantastic both have the power of invisibility". How ridiculous! The commercial sucks, but the product was actually very cool. These figures have to be the inspiration for "Robot Chicken". They even use mock-ups of these figures in that show. Also - why did they put Green Arrow in with the women heroes? The villains were a fantastic idea. But the Falcon? "That great black super hero"?? Where was the NAACP on that one? They let THAT slide?
im gonna sample that part and put it in a beat
0:52 wait what the fuck did he just say!?
Essentially, it goes like this: Marvel had Captain Marvel, and as long as they had a Captain Marvel title DC couldn't. So, when they bought the character Captain Marvel, they had to call the comic Shazaam, even though he was called Captain Marvel inside the comic. I know, it doesn't really make sense.
I still call him Captain Marvel
@@brennanshane146 Me too
Copyright infringement...? They HAD all the rights secured!! The Falcon was one of the first black heores NOT to have black in his name...I mean they didn't call Spiderman "The White Spiderman" did they?? Great toys from a by-gone era!!
“Thor: using his Viking power against…” Thor was a Norse god, not a Viking.
And who did the Vikings worship??
The writers probably figured he was just like Robin Hood
@7DARKHELLS Im very sorry for your loss! That must have been dreadful to a small child? Oh, my that is quite an injustice
RE: 'Star Wars' - in the words of Homer Simson: DOH!
*face palm*
@felixjazzage Good grief! Who wrote this commercial?