Lili Ledy Batman, is he the path to WorldMEGO enlightenment or a hurdle?
Each of us ventures into the land of WorldMEGO for our own reasons. For our beloved Heath Smith, the first time he saw Lili Ledy Batman caused his head to spin.
Heath writes: He was so . . .different. That’s the kindest way I can put it. I could imagine him being the odd man out for the Mexican Justice League, like some awkward prepubescent getting passed over for when they made the teams for kickball. Or maybe it goes like this:
Ledy Wonder Woman asks, “Whose day is it to watch Ledy Batman?”
“Not mine,” says Ledy Superman.
“Give him a ball, a stick and some chocolate milk and he’ll be entertained for hours,” she cheekily suggests.
Ledy Superman retorts, “Yeah, all the while he’ll be quietly singing the Batman tune. Da na Na na na na Na na . . .I’m Batman.”
Heath continued his musing on the matter: Poor Lili Ledy Batman. He tries so hard–beckoning each one of us to play with him, to meet his friends and expand our horizons, to think outside of the window box, and just to love him exactly as he is. There comes a moment of pride after the prejudice. I had to jump the hurdles of bias in order to land on the path of WorldMEGO enlightenment and enter a whole new world of MEGO possibilities.
I chose “YES, I will love you as you are, Lili Ledy Bats!” and I’m so glad that I did. The question is, can you?
 Thanks to the huge popularity of the character, Ledy Batman saw many different variations in suit styles over the years. |
 It always pays off to go "first version" with any figure. Just look at those early curves! |
 The thicker eggshaped ovalness makes it more delectable. Notice the yellow yolk color. |
 As the years past, his emblem looked more MEGO USA. Perhaps this was a move to unify the MEGO look across borders. |
 The highly coveted Lili Ledy gloves are based heavily on the MEGO Oven Mitt gloves. Two differences are that the "fins" on this one are visible but uncut. The "fins" also number fewer than the USA MEGO Oven Mitt. |
 Early black Synthetic Velvet shorts came with a sewn-on Synthetic Velvet belt. Velcro in the back has the patented "tearing sound". Later editions of the shorts had no sewn-on belt and were paired with those groovy solid rubber Lili Ledy belts that make Bryan's heart swoon. |
 Time for Ledy Batman to go night night. No drinking before bed or you'll wet your Batman long johns. All joking aside, this represents a Type 2 Ledy Batman suit. The weave isn't nearly as loose as the Type 1 suit, but not quite as tight as the Type 3. Seems like many of the Lili Ledy Type 1 and Type 2 suits have shorter sleeves. |
 You would half expect an "Escape Hatch" in the back. You get a nice look of the typical "Ledy Loop" enclosure, which makes removing the suit quite a bit more difficult compared to its MEGO counterpart with larger enclosure. These Type 2 bodysuits don't appear to be very common. |
 Ledy Batman got the special treatment with belt variations. The top belt is seen the most, and that is to say not often. The ridged styles are as rare as they are awesome, which is to say: the middle and bottom belts are BURNING HUNKS of awesome and DEAFENINGLY RARE in collections (um, yeah, you are looking at the only two known examples as of this writing). |
 Lili Ledy hero boot in blue. These are sometimes seen in variations shades. No top ridges. |
 Batman sports a BatWave cut typical Lili Ledy vinyl cape. One side is smooth while the other is textured (or perhaps matte style). Ledy Capes are Tres cool. MEGO should have stuck with it. |
 Indebted for life with thanks to our Super Amigo Luis Felipe (aka Tarzan), we have our eyes fixed up a wonderfully beautiful boxed Lili Ledy Batman. While MEGO used an enclosed box with a cellophane window, Ledy kept their package open and sealed the whole box in plastic. |
 Lili Ledy used the same stock back panel image as the MEGO Batman box. Well, that's it for this delicious WorldMEGO segment and our very own Heath Smith just wants to say one more thing: Thank you Lili Ledy Batman. Thanks for allowing me to see past your gimp mask and hapless expression. To know you as you truly are. . . the Ambassador of Lili Ledy Super Heroes, even if your name tag is in crayon. Now have some more chocolate milk. |