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The American West series included Buffalo Bill Cody, Cochise, Davy Crockett, Sitting Bull, Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.
There was also a horse named Shadow and a Dodge City playset. This series included some of the most detailed figures with some of the best accessories produced by Mego and it also included the worst Mego accessory ever: Wyatt Earp's hat. What were they thinking when they made that hat?! He just looks silly with it. Anyway, these guys came in
quite a variety of different packages: Boxed with art on the box, Boxed in a plain brown mailer box,
Carded on a Kresge card (for sale in K-Mart: bubble in the middle), Carded on a
Lion Rock card (made in the UK: bubble on the side) and Carded on a Tim Mee card
(after Mego went under: very similar to the Lion Rock card)! The artwork is almost as good as the artwork on the Mad Monster boxes which means I'll probably end up spending more money than I would like to admit trying to complete the series AND get all of their packaging too :-) Because of the variety in packaging, I have tried to include as many different packages as possible.
There is not an example of a Lion Rock card, but all of the other packaging
variations are represented.
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| Buffalo Bill Cody Card Back |
Cochise Card Back |
Davey Crockett Card Back |
Sitting Bull Card Back |
Wild Bill Hickok Card Back |
Wyatt Earp Card Back |
When Mego went under in the early 1980's, Tim Mee Toys began producing the Western series (which they called "Western
Heroes"). The Tim Mee versions were sold on different cards than the Mego versions and Tim Mee Toys used a slightly different quality of
plastic. Also, the paint job on the heads was slightly different.
The Tim Mee Cochise head looks particularly different than his Mego counterpart. All of the figures were produced on the Type 2 plastic
rivet bodies. The bodies for Cochise and Geronimo (Geronimo was the same as the Mego Sitting Bull) were made of a plastic that is more orange to make them look like
indians. Each figure came with pretty much the same clothes and accessories but some were different colors than their Mego
counterparts and the accessories were made of a different plastic. The
pistols for the Tim Mee figures were a flat grey instead of silver like the Mego
pistols. Also the Tim Mee pistols were made of a very flexible plastic
rather than the hard plastic Mego pistols. Here are pictures of the Tim Mee
Buffalo Bill, Cochise, Geronimo and Wild Bill.
Tim Mee Western Heroes
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Here are some examples of several differences between the Mego Cochise and the Tim Mee Cochise. First, the Mego Cochise had a skin color that was the same as most other Megos while the Tim Mee Cochise had more red in the skin color (both in on the head and the body). You can really tell the difference in plastics if you look at the close up of the two heads. Also, Tim Mee figures had less detail in the head sculpts and the paint on the head. If you take a look at the picture of the backs of the two figures, you will notice that the Mego figures had metal snaps to attach the clothes while the Tim Mee figures had Velcro. Also, you will see that the bodies on the Tim Mee figures have no markings on their backs. |
 Mego vs. Tim Mee |
 Mego vs. Tim Mee |
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