Vintage Mego 9: Planet of the Apes Forbidden Zone Trap

[@Ecto_Eric]

Glad you let your daughter play with this toy, my son always enjoyed my Big Bolt Construction Set when he was growing up

[@BrickMantooth]

Very cool

[@wee67]

This is my all-around favorite Mego playset. I never had it as a kid but I can only imagine how it would served my Apes, my Heroes and my Trek figures. The fact that net still works so well after all these years makes it that much cooler.

[@BrickMantooth]

Oh yeah this could have had tremendous cross over potential.

[@danriley5848]

I remember having this set and having a blast with it. 👍

[@Nichole-440HP]

that's awesome that you've held on to it all this time and let your daughter enjoy too ! i let my 2 boys play with some of my stuff too . i had a an original optimus prime G1 with trailer from 1984 i let them play with . i recently gave it to my now 35 year old son lol we used to play on my destroy the death star board game when they were young and have since given that to one of my boys lol i've always loved your content , takes me back to a time when i couldn't wait to get into the newest sears christmas catalog in the early 70's and drool over all the cool GI JOE adventure team stuff .

[@RogueTwo]

I really wasn't into Planet of the Apes as a kid, so no, I never had this, but I was definitely aware of Mego's Apes line and this does look pretty darn cool. It wouldn't be into years later, when a local TV network showed the entire movie series, one at a time, on Sunday afternoons, for several months that I finally sat down and watched the Planet of the Apes films. Anyway, good review, very nice playset.

[@matthewjarrett1978]

I'm really surprised that Mego never used the basic frame and design to create a super-villain lair.

[@CaptainArrrgh]

I remember re-arranging storage once and my boy liked to get into my toys when he could. I decided, rather than just keeping it all away or getting mad, to give him some. That got him into Lego.

[@johngeraci3887]

Yes all 3 of my daughters played with my My figures & sets. The forbidden zone is a great set

[@essaywitty]

As a kid in the 70's, I loved Planet of the Apes and the Mego toyline, but was lucky just to get the figures. I remember the commercial for this and really wanted it, but it was beyond what I could pay. So I made one from cutting out a large box and some paint. It came out pretty good and I kept it for years. But I still wanted the actual playset. And it's still out of my price range.

[@Karma-df2gm]

Love your videos but something you said really stood out to me. Pinocchio Toys, it was a small family business in my town at the Midtown Mall. I think you may be near me. Anyway I am just watching this because I just picked up a POTA Peter Burke in great shape only missing his shoes for $30 bucks at a local comic shop. I am getting pulled back into Planet of the Apes. Loved them since I was a kid.

[@BrickMantooth]

Aw Yeah, my dad was friends with Mr. Kruger who owned the company. They went to Toy fair together. I was raised in Whitby.

[@Karma-df2gm]

@@BrickMantooth that's very cool! I'm pretty sure his daughter opened a Pinocchio Toys up in Lindsay for a time as well in the mid 80s. Thanks for mentioning the store, what a great memory.

[@andycabrera8160]

I had this play set in the 80'. Use to love playing with it. The only thing is i didnt have the planet of the apes figures. I used other action figures.

[@justanotherghost62]

I had that and loved it.Got it for my birthday and used it with all my mego's. The net trap was so fun. Got it at TRU in Jan 75

[@ChapMeifan]

I wanted this set so badly when I was a kid. All I had was the Treehouse which got played with daily and was the hub of my superhero vs ape wars. I look back and imagine what kind of nefarious adventures my figures could have had if I had been lucky enough to have this set.

[@billruppert5483]

I had the Village playset, many fond memories. Funny I only had Galen and Urko. I never had a desire to get the astronauts. I did use my other Mego figures, Batman, Spiderman and Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. When my buddy came by he had the Hulk, and the Thing.

[@scottmartin7645]

I would have loved this playset. Saw it in one of the Christmas catalogs but never in person.

[@JAbell1966]

Some family member got me this as a gift. I used it for a villain lair. As much as I disparage Mego products these days I gotta day that this thing was quite sturdy for being primarily cardboard and the net was well made and worked like a charm.

[@ghostbustersquickresponseu5159]

I had this set but never had any Planet of the Apes figures. It still was the foil of Micronauts and Star Wars figures for a year or so before I played it to death.

[@BlytheWorld1972]

super video love seeing the close up shots i have this set of course and adore it in fact i have mine out on display .

[@DougPalumbo]

What a great playset! Why companies still don’t make cool playsets like this I’ll never know.

[@BrickMantooth]

There is a lot of imagination and love in this set. I know at least of one of the designers, Vinny Baiera, was a huge fan of the Planet of the Apes movies and I think it shows.

[@DougPalumbo]

Brick Mantooth, even for 3 3/4 figures, playsets like this would be cheap to produce. I know ReadySetz is doing something like this but way bigger. A folding travel playset like this or even the Mego Batcave scaled for 3 3/4 would be great! I think if kids played with action figures like we did in the 70’s/80’s, we might still have cool playsets!

[@TheWeirdKidShow]

I never owned this as a kid but got a loose, mint and, complete set as an adult and, for a very low price. I kick myself for selling it. The prices on this set are crazy and they do not seem to come up on Ebay very much. One of the best playsets Mego ever made in my opinion.

[@destinycaptain247]

These were all gone from the market by the time I started getting Trek and Superhero figures in or around 77’. I only ran into one kid that had an Ape figure. I knew what the show was but could never find these things in stores. They would have been great with Trek figures.

[@BrickMantooth]

I had a lot of trouble finding apes as a kid.

[@Gerry1of1]

I'm 62.... I'm still an apes obsessed kid. But now I've got the money to buy the toys.

[@carlosescobar6973]

beautyfull!!!

[@vintagetoykid9682]

Did you ever find the part that went missing?

[@hamletstragedy8988]

I remember begging my dad for this or at least a similar set in the same genre. He walked into a Canadian store called Consumers Distributing and out with a telescope for my brother. "They didn't have it..." he told me. To this day I doubt the truth behind that. Don't know what would have done with it anyway as I only had a Spock and Mcoy to use in it!

[@BrickMantooth]

I LOVED Consumer's Distributing as a kid.

[@alastairgreen1709]

I remember consumer distributing in the mid 70s there was one near where I lived. Thanks for the memory forget all about it

[@robertgriffiths1724]

That's awesome

[@robertgriffiths1724]

Why didn't they do that trap for the ewok village?

[@BlytheWorld1972]

What is the backdrop you used it looks sensational .?

[@BrickMantooth]

I bought it on Ebay for $15, it came from China. It didn't look exactly as promised but I actually love it.

[@BlytheWorld1972]

@@BrickMantooth its fab

[@WildSide_Est2024]

Why do all of these videos have one dislike? Who could dislike this?

[@BrickMantooth]

It's some weird dude that is a little obsessed with me. I don't care.

[@IlluminovaNibiru]

My friends found this Forbidden ZoneTrap at a garage sale for 2 dollars, they bought me the board game instead for a dollar. I hope I never cheap out in the future.

[@terrydrums]

I had this and the play set that was repurposed from the Batcave.

[@manofmainstreet1503]

Wow an Ape giftset! Much like the fabled Emerald City giftset, which is real?

[@BrickMantooth]

There is a documented (and expensive) Tree-House gift set but no sightings of a Forbidden Zone Trap version.

[@BanthaPooDoo64]

early 1970's I received the tree house for christmas w 3 ape figures and a mego horse over the yrs little by little I lost a piece at a time but the 2 items I was able to hold on to was the horse and zira ,so early 90's I started re building an apes collection and I managed to get all 4 playlets in the box mostly complete boxes in fine shape almost all the figures good part of them on cards and the new ones released about 10 yrs ago so Im very happy with my achievement ,Ive made video you might want to check it out

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Poor guy just called "astronaut".