When I was a kid, I wanted this playset, but my dad thought it was too flimsy and expensive for what it was. My dad was an engineer by training and was pretty handy as I recall, so he built me a replica tree house from some sticks and leftover wood paneling. I remember it looked the same and was made out of actual wood. It was pretty cool. Thanks Dad. RIP.
my neighbor had this and we played with it forever. Of course we mixed other mego figures along with the apes. Star trek and super heroes. It was always a great time!
I really enjoyed this. Thanks! I wanted one of these so much in 1974. My Dad made me a good facsimile out of Masonite and dowels. It was much sturdier than the toy would have been but, being 7, I still wanted all that the official one had to offer.
I had the tree house playset as a kid.I will never forget Christmas 🎄 morning coming downstairs and seeing the tree house all put together under my Christmas tree with all the action figures around the tree house.awwww the best memories as a small child.My mom even got me the Planet Of The Apes coloring book.Today I still have my original Planet Of The Apes comic books that my mom bought for me from our local 7 - Eleven.
Great video!! I really wanted this in 1974! My father looked at it in the store and said “that’s a lot of money for a piece of plastic”. Dad was a model maker. He then said “I’ll build you a real tree house for your apes.” He went out in our wooded back yard hunting fallen sticks. Then cut them to length in our basement so they became scale logs. Then he took white cotton twine he had saved from bakery cardboard boxes (anybody remember those?) and wove the branches together like the apes might have done with heavy rope. After a couple days work he presented me with a HUGE treehouse that resembled the MEGO version but had additional rooms and floors. I loved that thing. Thanks for this video and sparking my memory about this set.
It was my birthday Sept. 1974 and even though I was in 7th grade (yes, junior high school) I had to have the MEGO Apes . I was "too old for toys" and "adult fan geek-dom" did not happen yet . (That would make me a trail blazer). LOL. For my birthday party ; all my friends were assigned to get me one of each of the "first wave" . It worked out PERFECTLY and I had the entire set in one day ! Adding to the EXCITEMENT was the fact that CBS would debut the Apes TV show around the same time as my birthday . That TV season was the most anticipated of my entire life: Kolchak The Night Stalker AND Planet of the Apes both on the same night! Apes was off the air by Christmas and Kolchak lasted till the Spring. For the next few years NO science fiction / fantasy / horror on TV.
One of the things that pissed me off was ; WHY could they have not come out with these in 1972 at the height of Apes Movie Mania (between Escape and Conquest would have been PERFECT!). I would have been age appropriate. NO embarrassments from friends , neighbors, family. I wanted the treehouse and I got it that Christmas . Later my mom found the One Million B.C. cave set up on clearence and gifted it to me for Easter . During that year I transitioned to disaster movies (Towering Infreno , Earthquake , Airport 1975 were "the big 3") . I acted out all the disaster movies with the Apes , with the astronaut taking the lead in many of the starring roles. LOL .
I was just a few years too young to get any Ape stuff, but man, it all looks pretty damn cool. Thank you so much for these great peeks into lines I missed out on!
Another super video, Brian. It's interesting that you mention Dinah-mite, since I bought her Health Spa playset a few days ago. I put my Johnny Action figure in it. Although I don't have the whole Apes Treehouse, I do have some of the parts like the table and jail. I've done that with other playsets that I can't afford, like the Fortress of Solitude, the Six Million Dollar Man OSI Headquarters, and the Charlie's Angels Hideaway House. It's better to have part of it than none at all. It's nice how you inserted an Action Apeman with the Mego Apes. I do that too.
I love the history that you put in these videos!!! I learn so much. This set was too expensive for my family back in the 1970s. I eventually bought one around 1999. I've never built it but the box is beautiful and brings me back mentally to the "Clover" department store where I saw it displayed as a tyke.
Great video & those vintage commercials are pure 70’s gold… Never had any POTA toys thank God. When I was 4 or 5 I caught a bit of the first POTA film at my best friend’s house & it TERRIFIED me. About a year later, my sisters & I were invited over to play with some kids that went to our grade school. We didn’t know them very well but they were nice. However, they brought out the Milton Bradley POTA board game & it creeped me out. At that young age, I didn’t question the game existence, tho I distinctly remember thinking why would anyone want to play with it & the fact that these kids had it spelled nothing but bad news… needless to say, never went back over there to play…lol.
I never got the treehouse but another kid down the block got one and I got to play with it at his house. The great thing about being an adult toy collectors is that you get to buy EVERYTHING you ever wanted!
After seeing Hanging with Dr. Z, I think he'd prefer the Dynamite Beach House to the Apes Tree House. Had it, I think I had the gift set because I remember it coming with figures. It was very fragile. I can't get over how morbid Mego's Apes line was with the implied torture of captives, the amount of jail cells alone they made is odd.
The various jail cells found in so many play sets of the era were a simple and easy play feature. You could catch and cage the bad guy. You could rescue your hero. Stage a jailbreak, etc. this was also a period that saw a huge revival of interest in that Universal Monster style horror properties among the boys toy demographic. So lots of dungeons and evil labs.
The thing I really like about your channel is how much you can pack into it. I thought I knew a bit about toys and toy history but you always manage to show me something new! Thankyou, keep it up!
I think that ad for the Planet of the Apes toys which ends with the Statue of Liberty silhouette might just be more dynamic and action-packed than the movie...
Another great video! I had Cornelius, Zira, and Dr Zaius. I livid in a rural area so finding these as a kid was extremely difficult. I really wanted the guerrillas and the treehouse. I ended up making my own treehouse out of cardboard boxes. Necessity is the mother of....imitation! Lol
Awesome in-depth review video, for the magnificent Mego Planet Of The Apes Treehouse Playset. You certainly delve into the history of your toys, Brian. Sadly, I never owned this Mego Treehouse playset, as I don't believe they ever made it to the UK. :(
The radio was as confusing as the flip bench to reveal some sort of instruments? I thought these came from the forbidden zone & had to be hidden when Dr. Zauis showed up!
@@BrickMantooth I had that kind of imagination! 😆👍 I even made up a reverse story that Cornelius & Zira had bullets removed on life support and stole the Icarus out of a museum, traveled back to The Planet of the Apes, and Prevented the atomic bomb, by pleading with Taylor, Nova is pregnant. This time had to hide Nova's baby because it will grow up to talk, being Taylor's baby & the twist is that it's Brent's baby!!!
Enjoyed your video. I still have the tree house in the original JC Penny mailer box. I have the horse too. Happy memories! Marketing smarts selling the same basic set with different variations. I have the Mattel Big Jim camper and plane that are identical to the Barbie camper and plane except for the branding and accessories.
I had two of these at different points growing up! One my grandparents gave me as a very young child! If I were guessing., my mother probably donated it to a thrift store or church yard sale. A second one I got when my cousin, who got his the same year from the same grandparents, was selling his at a yard sale and I bought it from him! I had forgotten all about it and fell in love with it all over again. It made a great playset for G.I. Joes and Star Wars figures. To them., it was actually big. And all of those accessories were great for the various larger G.I. Joes and Mego figures. I don't know which I like more: This one or the Enterprise bridge. They were both awesome!
It was released one more time in the 90’s ,l had one l think l bought threw a “Fingerhut catalog” w the BATTLE TROLLS the frame was the tree house but the cardboard panels were made to look like rock to look like a castle to find one is rare in tack
Great video, Brian! I had one of these around '81/'82 that I acquired from Treasure Palace in downtown Oshawa (you probably know the place)! They had a stack of them at a good price if I remember correctly, and I was able to talk the parents into getting one, so it must have been a good deal. 🙂 Thanks for sharing good shots of the set and all the promotional material. Cheers!
That's a great set and that commercial for it is amazing. Never heard of Dinah Mite before. I'm a bit disappointed with a name like that, she wasn't a spy or crimefighter of some kind.
I remember the Christmas I got that playset. I didn't have any planet of the apes figures but it still got a lot of use with other figures I had. Edit: I should mention it was a hand me down from friends of the family whose grandkids had outgrown it. I got it around '78-79.
Had it. Adored it. (thinking on it I lie. My friend had the Apes one. I had the Action Jackson one) I wondered if some of the elements of the short lived Planet of the Ape's Saturday Morning Cartoon were made in consultation with Mego? Because that hidden radio would make sense in context with that show. The actual whole "hidden radio in the jungle treehouse" had some WW2 Pacific overtones that would have been hard for we kids to grasp even back in '74. Tales of the valiant skywatchers hiding on Pacific Islands warning of incoming attacks were growing rarer. Even with Ba Ba Black Sheep on TV.
Yeah the cartoon show came out in '75, so it wasn't an influence. Also, I was just thinking of Ba Ba Black Sheep a minute ago, it's really weird you mentioned it.
It's a sweet playset, love to get one but it looks kind of tough to do in the present in both price and availability. Man that Gift Set version looked really good, lucky kid to get that bitd.
POTA Treehouse "issues" (call the landlord ape to come over) : 1) The pegs that snapped into the vinyl floor would break VERY easily. 2) The "floor" would bend too much , sink down a little , you could not apply "play pressure" on it! 3) Oh that crappy vinyl ladder ! 4) Both the look-out tower , and the "hidden" tv cabinet cover that slided over BOTH needed WD-40 ! 4) Honey they bent the roof again ! 5) Vinyl seam cracks w/ exposed chip board (card board). 6) Lookout tower rungs would break even if Zira would use it . Did I forget anything ?
Funny, the Beach House tv ad says it comes with "everything you see here (shows the inflatable pool set) but the catalog info says the pool set is sold separately. I wonder if they were trying to lower the price point or the fulfillment cost. Perhaps it was a communication issue and the pool was always a separate accessory.
It's a shame most of the POTA tv ads have that warbled audio. I think some of the Star Trek ads are like that too. Surely they weren't originally aired that way?
I think the radio could be used for a story or maybe the apes had found some old records and be came fans of the. Captain and tenel or Maybe the apes liked to listen to Tarzan radio show episodes . That’s probably what I would have done .
Wonderful video I have 2 sets of the tree house I don't know why I have 2 sets but I do I used to play with it all the time and yes I used to The other apes from the other company that were dead nothing to do with planning the apes as you'd have pictured there I used to play with it all the time and I still have many all of the parts and I did know that it was a video of another sad thank you for the information though always informative
I recently found a battering ram and a catapult/wagon. But the little special pony that goes with it is elusive. I guess because it’s either a canadian or uk exclusive? Too bad it doesn’t fit a action stallion. I’d love to have the treehouse but playsets take up so much real estate.
@@BrickMantooth you’re right, I just got it and the wagon is a little bigger than I thought it’d be. I don’t know how I’m going to fasten anything to the stallion because he’s got nothing back there but his tail, but he certainly is in scale.
How many times I had the ape soldiers beat up Cornelius & Zira and take over the tree house! 🤣 Oh....& then the Star Trek crew would claim it. Of course the apes took over the Enterprise bridge, so it's only fair! Lol 😆
@@BrickMantooth That’s a shame, I missed out on quite a lot of those play sets at the time and would love to own a few, my wallet would divorce me if I tried to buy them at eBay prices.
@@ajclements4627 the hardest part would actually be the printed vinyl wrapped panels. Most of the plastic in it is pretty simple, and could be easily managed by a 3d printer. The only real complex tooling would be things like the rope ladder, where the string is cast into the plastic. A hobbyist or garage kit maker could do the plastic parts easily. Heck if the new release Mego line is still doing well I could see them releasing a generic “Mego Action Treehouse” as a display setting for your figures.
@@ajclements4627 as mentioned, it could be 3D printed, albeit the vinyl might have to be a thick cardstock or plastic and the ladder would possibly be easier to just print. if someone has the gear, no doubt a reasonable copy could be made. far more interesting would be to go outside and find some sticks to make the frame out of. the floor could be cardboard, the canopy some cloth. the bits and pieces you could DIY with any number of materials and tools you probably have laying around. if you have some shears that can cut plastic, you're halfway there. :) we should look at the stuff we throw away at home and at work then have the mindset of, 'can i chop that up and make something useful out of it?' no joke, that's how people start small businesses and begin new careers especially where toys and games are concerned.
While I liked the Apes flicks, I skipped most of the toys. May have had a Mego ape figure or 2, but had several Mego superheroes. From 73-75 I was a Big Jim fan, camper, rescue rig, 747, swamp boat. Next door friend also a fan and had se eral sets and vehicles I didn't have for Jim, Josh, jack, and his Dr Steel and others. And the bionic craze, I wanted steve Austin but went for GI Joe Atomic Man Mike Power, to go with the cool Secret Mountain Outpost set. Atomic Man and Big Jim, alo g with Kirk and Spock Megos, had a lot of adventures together
pota toys were rubbish, nothing to do with the movies, Berley related to the tv show, this was just a retool of another toy, very poor, they missed a good chance to make some cool toys from cool movies. All they wanted to do was slap the logo on any old rubbish. Tree house? where is the tree lol. Im so glad mego never got the star wars license, we would have gotten the star trek enterprise set renamed the folcon, chewbacca would have been a gorilla soldier lol
When I was a kid, I wanted this playset, but my dad thought it was too flimsy and expensive for what it was. My dad was an engineer by training and was pretty handy as I recall, so he built me a replica tree house from some sticks and leftover wood paneling. I remember it looked the same and was made out of actual wood. It was pretty cool. Thanks Dad. RIP.
I built one using sticks and instead of wood paneling used cardboard and cut a flap on top just like in the tree house.
Thousands of hours of playability. One of the best diorama sets of all time. The standard of quality😛
I still remember the Christmas when I got the treehouse. Fantastic set.
my neighbor had this and we played with it forever. Of course we mixed other mego figures along with the apes. Star trek and super heroes. It was always a great time!
Yeah that was the fun of Mego.
I got this for Christmas in 1974. I remember my father putting it together for me. I was so excited! Thanks for the memories.
I really enjoyed this. Thanks! I wanted one of these so much in 1974. My Dad made me a good facsimile out of Masonite and dowels. It was much sturdier than the toy would have been but, being 7, I still wanted all that the official one had to offer.
"a beachball too....everythang iz cool..." That's a dope lil set.
I had the tree house playset as a kid.I will never forget Christmas 🎄 morning coming downstairs and seeing the tree house all put together under my Christmas tree with all the action figures around the tree house.awwww the best memories as a small child.My mom even got me the Planet Of The Apes coloring book.Today I still have my original Planet Of The Apes comic books that my mom bought for me from our local 7 - Eleven.
Great video!! I really wanted this in 1974! My father looked at it in the store and said “that’s a lot of money for a piece of plastic”. Dad was a model maker. He then said “I’ll build you a real tree house for your apes.” He went out in our wooded back yard hunting fallen sticks. Then cut them to length in our basement so they became scale logs. Then he took white cotton twine he had saved from bakery cardboard boxes (anybody remember those?) and wove the branches together like the apes might have done with heavy rope. After a couple days work he presented me with a HUGE treehouse that resembled the MEGO version but had additional rooms and floors. I loved that thing. Thanks for this video and sparking my memory about this set.
Wish we could see a picture !
I feel like a picture WAS taken but I’m not certain. If I ever come across one in an old album I will post it. Thanks for the comment!
Perfect! I just finished watching Escape From The Planet Of The Apes on DVD. Strolled over to RUclips to find this awesomeness waiting to be seen!
perfect timing!
Sadly I never knew this existed before now. Nice job. 😎
Thanks!
This brings back memories, I remember having all of the Planet of the Apes toys including the treehouse and I wish that I held on to them.
It was my birthday Sept. 1974 and even though I was in 7th grade (yes, junior high school) I had to have the MEGO Apes . I was "too old for toys" and "adult fan geek-dom" did not happen yet . (That would make me a trail blazer). LOL. For my birthday party ; all my friends were assigned to get me one of each of the "first wave" . It worked out PERFECTLY and I had the entire set in one day ! Adding to the EXCITEMENT was the fact that CBS would debut the Apes TV show around the same time as my birthday . That TV season was the most anticipated of my entire life: Kolchak The Night Stalker AND Planet of the Apes both on the same night! Apes was off the air by Christmas and Kolchak lasted till the Spring. For the next few years NO science fiction / fantasy / horror on TV.
One of the things that pissed me off was ; WHY could they have not come out with these in 1972 at the height of Apes Movie Mania (between Escape and Conquest would have been PERFECT!). I would have been age appropriate. NO embarrassments from friends , neighbors, family. I wanted the treehouse and I got it that Christmas . Later my mom found the One Million B.C. cave set up on clearence and gifted it to me for Easter . During that year I transitioned to disaster movies (Towering Infreno , Earthquake , Airport 1975 were "the big 3") . I acted out all the disaster movies with the Apes , with the astronaut taking the lead in many of the starring roles. LOL .
When the "second wave" of Apes came out - I was totally over it.
I think you know how I feel about this playset. It started everything for me.
I had this set as kid. I loved the flip weapons table. Great video brings back very fond memories. Keep up the great work
Thank you!
Brian, my fellow Canadian Mego collector, thank you for another amazing video. I would love to own this play set. Keep up the great work my friend.
Every Mego TV commercial sounds like the filmstrips we all watched in fourth grade.
I had the treehouse. Think either I or my brother sat on it by accident. My father had to get the Krazy Glue out and fix it . . .
Another HOMERUN ! Thanks Brian !
My pleasure!
Definitely was sad when I didn't get this for Christmas
I was just a few years too young to get any Ape stuff, but man, it all looks pretty damn cool. Thank you so much for these great peeks into lines I missed out on!
Heh, I was three when this came out, so I also just almost missed the apes.
Another super video, Brian. It's interesting that you mention Dinah-mite, since I bought her Health Spa playset a few days ago. I put my Johnny Action figure in it. Although I don't have the whole Apes Treehouse, I do have some of the parts like the table and jail. I've done that with other playsets that I can't afford, like the Fortress of Solitude, the Six Million Dollar Man OSI Headquarters, and the Charlie's Angels Hideaway House. It's better to have part of it than none at all. It's nice how you inserted an Action Apeman with the Mego Apes. I do that too.
I love the history that you put in these videos!!! I learn so much. This set was too expensive for my family back in the 1970s. I eventually bought one around 1999. I've never built it but the box is beautiful and brings me back mentally to the "Clover" department store where I saw it displayed as a tyke.
Great video & those vintage commercials are pure 70’s gold… Never had any POTA toys thank God. When I was 4 or 5 I caught a bit of the first POTA film at my best friend’s house & it TERRIFIED me. About a year later, my sisters & I were invited over to play with some kids that went to our grade school. We didn’t know them very well but they were nice. However, they brought out the Milton Bradley POTA board game & it creeped me out. At that young age, I didn’t question the game existence, tho I distinctly remember thinking why would anyone want to play with it & the fact that these kids had it spelled nothing but bad news… needless to say, never went back over there to play…lol.
I never got the treehouse but another kid down the block got one and I got to play with it at his house. The great thing about being an adult toy collectors is that you get to buy EVERYTHING you ever wanted!
After seeing Hanging with Dr. Z, I think he'd prefer the Dynamite Beach House to the Apes Tree House. Had it, I think I had the gift set because I remember it coming with figures. It was very fragile. I can't get over how morbid Mego's Apes line was with the implied torture of captives, the amount of jail cells alone they made is odd.
I am so making a Mego Doctor Z.
The various jail cells found in so many play sets of the era were a simple and easy play feature. You could catch and cage the bad guy. You could rescue your hero. Stage a jailbreak, etc. this was also a period that saw a huge revival of interest in that Universal Monster style horror properties among the boys toy demographic. So lots of dungeons and evil labs.
The thing I really like about your channel is how much you can pack into it. I thought I knew a bit about toys and toy history but you always manage to show me something new! Thankyou, keep it up!
Aw, thank you, sir.
I think that ad for the Planet of the Apes toys which ends with the Statue of Liberty silhouette might just be more dynamic and action-packed than the movie...
I had this and it was fantastic … used it for years with all types of action figures
I can only imagine.
Another great video! I had Cornelius, Zira, and Dr Zaius. I livid in a rural area so finding these as a kid was extremely difficult. I really wanted the guerrillas and the treehouse. I ended up making my own treehouse out of cardboard boxes. Necessity is the mother of....imitation! Lol
I made a cardboard hall of Justice and Hall of Doom.
@@BrickMantooth haha! Great minds!
Awesome in-depth review video, for the magnificent Mego Planet Of The Apes Treehouse Playset.
You certainly delve into the history of your toys, Brian.
Sadly, I never owned this Mego Treehouse playset, as I don't believe they ever made it to the UK. :(
Yeah they didn't sell them in the UK sadly.
The radio was as confusing as the flip bench to reveal some sort of instruments? I thought these came from the forbidden zone & had to be hidden when Dr. Zauis showed up!
it's a solid way to explain that stuff.
@@BrickMantooth I had that kind of imagination! 😆👍 I even made up a reverse story that Cornelius & Zira had bullets removed on life support and stole the Icarus out of a museum, traveled back to The Planet of the Apes, and Prevented the atomic bomb, by pleading with Taylor, Nova is pregnant. This time had to hide Nova's baby because it will grow up to talk, being Taylor's baby & the twist is that it's Brent's baby!!!
Enjoyed your video. I still have the tree house in the original JC Penny mailer box. I have the horse too. Happy memories!
Marketing smarts selling the same basic set with different variations. I have the Mattel Big Jim camper and plane that are identical to the Barbie camper and plane except for the branding and accessories.
HAD THIS AS A KID, SOOÒÒOO COOOÒOL,! THANK YOU!!!❤😊
My friend got the "gift set" at what was a seasonal store called The Union Toy Co-op where they sold discontinued toys at a discount for Christmas.
I have a theory that the gift set was created to get rid of unsold inventory.
@@BrickMantooth That makes sense. I've only ever seen it at the discount store.
I also got this for Christmas!
pretty awesome playset!
Had it and the Star Trek Bridge Set.
I had two of these at different points growing up! One my grandparents gave me as a very young child! If I were guessing., my mother probably donated it to a thrift store or church yard sale.
A second one I got when my cousin, who got his the same year from the same grandparents, was selling his at a yard sale and I bought it from him! I had forgotten all about it and fell in love with it all over again. It made a great playset for G.I. Joes and Star Wars figures. To them., it was actually big. And all of those accessories were great for the various larger G.I. Joes and Mego figures. I don't know which I like more: This one or the Enterprise bridge. They were both awesome!
My brother had that when we were young . Chrismas 1974
It was released one more time in the 90’s ,l had one l think l bought threw a “Fingerhut catalog” w the BATTLE TROLLS the frame was the tree house but the cardboard panels were made to look like rock to look like a castle to find one is rare in tack
Yeah I woke up this morning thinking I forgot to mention that troll version.
Great video, Brian! I had one of these around '81/'82 that I acquired from Treasure Palace in downtown Oshawa (you probably know the place)! They had a stack of them at a good price if I remember correctly, and I was able to talk the parents into getting one, so it must have been a good deal. 🙂 Thanks for sharing good shots of the set and all the promotional material. Cheers!
That's a great set and that commercial for it is amazing.
Never heard of Dinah Mite before. I'm a bit disappointed with a name like that, she wasn't a spy or crimefighter of some kind.
Yeah that would have been cool.
@@BrickMantooth With a name like that, she should have been teaming up with Action Jackson.
Instead, she is bragging that she owns a beachball.
I remember seeing it at Kmart on the shelf. I was exactly 1 year old. But it was cool. 👍😉👍
Awesome video, except for the fact that the Dinah-Mite song is now stuck in my head
Oh you're welcome ;)
That’s an awesome advert😎
I think so!
@@BrickMantooth so much imagination. Just so you know I tried to order your books and magazine on Amazon and they won’t ship to the uk☹️
very flexible manufacturing processes. cool
I remember the Christmas I got that playset. I didn't have any planet of the apes figures but it still got a lot of use with other figures I had.
Edit: I should mention it was a hand me down from friends of the family whose grandkids had outgrown it. I got it around '78-79.
Really wish there was a 1/18 version of this.
Had it. Adored it. (thinking on it I lie. My friend had the Apes one. I had the Action Jackson one) I wondered if some of the elements of the short lived Planet of the Ape's Saturday Morning Cartoon were made in consultation with Mego? Because that hidden radio would make sense in context with that show. The actual whole "hidden radio in the jungle treehouse" had some WW2 Pacific overtones that would have been hard for we kids to grasp even back in '74. Tales of the valiant skywatchers hiding on Pacific Islands warning of incoming attacks were growing rarer. Even with Ba Ba Black Sheep on TV.
Yeah the cartoon show came out in '75, so it wasn't an influence. Also, I was just thinking of Ba Ba Black Sheep a minute ago, it's really weird you mentioned it.
It's a sweet playset, love to get one but it looks kind of tough to do in the present in both price and availability. Man that Gift Set version looked really good, lucky kid to get that bitd.
POTA Treehouse "issues" (call the landlord ape to come over) : 1) The pegs that snapped into the vinyl floor would break VERY easily. 2) The "floor" would bend too much , sink down a little , you could not apply "play pressure" on it! 3) Oh that crappy vinyl ladder ! 4) Both the look-out tower , and the "hidden" tv cabinet cover that slided over BOTH needed WD-40 ! 4) Honey they bent the roof again ! 5) Vinyl seam cracks w/ exposed chip board (card board). 6) Lookout tower rungs would break even if Zira would use it . Did I forget anything ?
Would they make a doll... that TALKS?!?
And in 1973 Pink Floyd covered the Dinah Myte theme song on their next album
What an earwig of a song lol
Funny, the Beach House tv ad says it comes with "everything you see here (shows the inflatable pool set) but the catalog info says the pool set is sold separately. I wonder if they were trying to lower the price point or the fulfillment cost. Perhaps it was a communication issue and the pool was always a separate accessory.
Mego did insert the inflatables into the house. The separate set is very rare.
Cool commercial with Rick Flair's ring music
I wasn't aware.
If you are interested it is called "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss. It makes anything sound important. lol
@@josephgioielli It was also used in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which opened with a scene with apes in it.
Ah ha maybe that's why they used that piece of music for the commercial. 🐵
It's a shame most of the POTA tv ads have that warbled audio. I think some of the Star Trek ads are like that too. Surely they weren't originally aired that way?
Nah, the films just got knackered.
I think the radio could be used for a story or maybe the apes had found some old records and be came fans of the. Captain and tenel or Maybe the apes liked to listen to Tarzan radio show episodes . That’s probably what I would have done .
Wonderful video I have 2 sets of the tree house I don't know why I have 2 sets but I do I used to play with it all the time and yes I used to The other apes from the other company that were dead nothing to do with planning the apes as you'd have pictured there I used to play with it all the time and I still have many all of the parts and I did know that it was a video of another sad thank you for the information though always informative
Yeah, I'd say top 2, the TV Enterprise Bridge being #1.
It's hard to say which sold better.
I recently found a battering ram and a catapult/wagon. But the little special pony that goes with it is elusive. I guess because it’s either a canadian or uk exclusive? Too bad it doesn’t fit a action stallion. I’d love to have the treehouse but playsets take up so much real estate.
The wagon should fit the action stallion, that's what they did in the states. The horse was only sold in Canada and Mexico.
@@BrickMantooth you’re right, I just got it and the wagon is a little bigger than I thought it’d be. I don’t know how I’m going to fasten anything to the stallion because he’s got nothing back there but his tail, but he certainly is in scale.
I did and I still do have it. I loved my mego's
Brian,any chance mego can do the batcave playset,since figure toy company retired it.maybe they can tweak it out a little.?.
I am not sure if Mego has much retailer interest in playsets but hope springs eternal.
Apes are the best 👌
How many times I had the ape soldiers beat up Cornelius & Zira and take over the tree house! 🤣 Oh....& then the Star Trek crew would claim it. Of course the apes took over the Enterprise bridge, so it's only fair! Lol 😆
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Any chance of these play sets being reissued like the Enterprise bridge play set was? Or any fan/collector repro?
I can't say that'll ever happen, the tooling alone would kill it.
@@BrickMantooth That’s a shame, I missed out on quite a lot of those play sets at the time and would love to own a few, my wallet would divorce me if I tried to buy them at eBay prices.
@@ajclements4627 the hardest part would actually be the printed vinyl wrapped panels. Most of the plastic in it is pretty simple, and could be easily managed by a 3d printer. The only real complex tooling would be things like the rope ladder, where the string is cast into the plastic. A hobbyist or garage kit maker could do the plastic parts easily. Heck if the new release Mego line is still doing well I could see them releasing a generic “Mego Action Treehouse” as a display setting for your figures.
@@andrewtaylor940 I wouldn’t even mind a few cosmetic changes, like the “rope ladder” being a diy sort of item, etc.
@@ajclements4627 as mentioned, it could be 3D printed, albeit the vinyl might have to be a thick cardstock or plastic and the ladder would possibly be easier to just print. if someone has the gear, no doubt a reasonable copy could be made.
far more interesting would be to go outside and find some sticks to make the frame out of. the floor could be cardboard, the canopy some cloth. the bits and pieces you could DIY with any number of materials and tools you probably have laying around.
if you have some shears that can cut plastic, you're halfway there. :) we should look at the stuff we throw away at home and at work then have the mindset of, 'can i chop that up and make something useful out of it?' no joke, that's how people start small businesses and begin new careers especially where toys and games are concerned.
Mego were probably wise not to tell their young male audience they’d just repurposed their sister’s doll house.
Yeah, gotta keep that on the DL.
Is there any story as to why the Astronaut figure looks exactly like the drawing of Action Jackson that appears on their packaging.?
No tools for dissecting the captured mutant humanoids? No skeleton remains of a mutant humanoid?
Where in canada
While I liked the Apes flicks, I skipped most of the toys. May have had a Mego ape figure or 2, but had several Mego superheroes.
From 73-75 I was a Big Jim fan, camper, rescue rig, 747, swamp boat. Next door friend also a fan and had se eral sets and vehicles I didn't have for Jim, Josh, jack, and his Dr Steel and others.
And the bionic craze, I wanted steve Austin but went for GI Joe Atomic Man Mike Power, to go with the cool Secret Mountain Outpost set.
Atomic Man and Big Jim, alo g with Kirk and Spock Megos, had a lot of adventures together
I had transformers 😊
Dude, time to work on your Spanish. LOL
pota toys were rubbish, nothing to do with the movies, Berley related to the tv show, this was just a retool of another toy, very poor, they missed a good chance to make some cool toys from cool movies. All they wanted to do was slap the logo on any old rubbish. Tree house? where is the tree lol. Im so glad mego never got the star wars license, we would have gotten the star trek enterprise set renamed the folcon, chewbacca would have been a gorilla soldier lol
Had it.