If you saved your Happy Meal toys over the years, you may find that some collectors will pay top dollar for these particular ...

Even when we played with these toys in the way their creators intended, they sure didn’t work like in the commercials.

Some of the most amazing commercials Mego ever did, however, weren’t even for those famous figures. Take this 1975 ad for one of Mego’s bizarre board games.

The ad features Toys R Us’ giraffe mascot Geoffrey and his family traveling to and then exploring the wonders of a 1970s Toys R Us store, complete with brown-shingled mansard roof.

For people who were kids in the 1970s, the Big Wheel was the only three-wheel, pedal-powered vehicle that was considered cool -- until the Green Machine came along.