Answer:

Hi, sure I can help! Without any idea of knowing their condition it'd be
impossible for me to quote you an exact value but your best bet is to take
extremely detailed pictures of all sides of the box along with an accurate
description and list them on eBay with maybe a $9.99 reserve. I'm lost about
the "stage" but I have a feeling you mean the Emerald City playset? If if is
a playset, these command decent prices around $100.00 or more depending on
condition. Unfortunately, even high grade boxed Wizard of Oz figures don't
command high prices on eBay due to their high numbers at the time of
production.
My best advice would be for you to perform a "completed auction search" on
eBay under Mego Wizard of Oz. Then you can see what these items are selling
for. Learning the market is the best way of arming yourself but in this
case, seeing as their so common you won't have to dig far. Please feel free
to get back to me if you have any other questions or better yet, let me know
their condition and what you mean by a "stage".

Rob
Megocentral.com MEGO STORE DISPLAYS!
Hey Gang,

Today I'm in the mood to have a little fun and I can think of no better than with Mego store displays. Store displays seldom if ever show up on todays secondary market and I'm lucky to have obtained a few over the years. Today we're going to start off with my latest discovery, the Mego Corporations 2-XL Robot store display.

So many of these were either discarded from overuse, since kids would line up to push its buttons endlessly to hear 2-XL talk or simply due to the retailer seeing no point in keeping it after the product sold. Don't ask me how this specimen survived but when it crossed my path this summer I just knew I had to have it. A boxed 2-XL Robot sold for a whopping $64.00 at retail. Remember, we're talking 1978 here people. That was a lot of dough back then. As a side note, Marty confided in me, claiming that 2-XL was one of his crowning achievements that " made him a boatload of money ". I think even more than the effect of money had to do with how the school teachers thought. They would write him saying how they incorporated 2-XL in to their daily teachings. That had to make him feel good.

Boxed Mego WGSH figures were sold out of these beautiful retail display boxes, keenly at eye level of the little boys who were about to twist the arms of their ever loving parents.

These display boxes feature brilliant artwork, my favorite and one of the most sought after is of both Marvel and DC characters portrayed on the same header. When you think about the fierce competition between these two companies, it's hard not to give Marty Abrams credit for coming up with the idea for a Worlds Greatest Superhero brand.

Just recently, prototype Mego WGSH display boxes, empty mind you, ( one for each of the WGSH lines ) commanded well over the $6000.00 mark on the secondary market.

Finally, while not a Mego product, ( but just as cool ) I think most everybody remembers Kryptonite Rocks from late 1977.

Thanks to a recently discovered warehouse find, a sealed case found its way in to my collection which I just had to set up. I hope everybody reading gets as much a kick out of seeing it as I did. Until next time, remember, Mego lives!

Be sure to check out Robert on Mego Central

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