Evan Ratliff
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, absolutely.
All right, that makes much more sense.
I thought they had a Montgomery Ward play set.
So they knew they had to have almost like a trick to get their foot in the door.
That's what I thought at first, too.
Bruce Wayne worked there or something, which, of course, he didn't even work.
And they came up with one.
And they found this – is Gaming Historian – I know it had a YouTube channel, but is it also just a full website?
I don't know what I'm thinking.
No, he just gave orders.
They were making tons and tons of money.
In 1973, they moved into movies with their Planet of the Apes line, which was some plastic primates and then the astronaut that was taller, and that was a huge hit.
I don't know.
All I know is the YouTube channel where they make really high-quality YouTube videos that are really interesting.
It's good stuff.
But someone, a gaming historian, came up with this very apt metaphor about a Trojan horse.
Yeah, and the other thing about Mego too was that all action figures had been like 12 inches tall up to that point, and Mego's line was eight inches, so action figures are starting to shrink a little bit now.
And that's kind of what they were looking for was a way to get these things in the home by almost tricking parents into thinking it wasn't a gaming system and it was more just sort of like a toy because kids still got and bought or received toys and stuff.
That's right.
And the one I actually had, even though I have no idea why, I had the Star Trek Enterprise bridge.