Action Figure Overview: Buck Rogers - Twiki (Mego 1979)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Twiki (Mego, 1979) When the Kenner Star Wars figures first came out in the late 1970s, they sold so well that many other toy companies wanted in on the game. Action figures for a wide variety of movies and TV shows started arriving at toy stores across the country with each manufacturer hoping that they had the "next big thing" on their hands. It seemed like Science Fiction was an especially popular genre to gamble on and in 1979, when the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century movie was in the works, Mego acquired the license to manufacture the accompanying action figures Twiki outside of the city (Mego, 1979) The figures didn't sell terribly well and the single wave that was released only consisted of 9 figures, which actually isn't that bad when you consider how many toy lines had only around 4 characters back then! Regardless, I thought they were pretty cool! They had more points of articulation than Star Wars figures and several coo...