There are more image galleries to come from Toy Fair 2008, so please stay tuned!

If you've looked at Toy Fair coverage this year, you may have noticed that Mezco's Family Guy and South Park displays were a little bare. With no new announcements for either of these successful lines in the last few months, many collectors were speculating the future of these action figures based on cartoons aimed at adults.

Right now, no new figures are planned in either line for 2008. However, there are going to be Family Guy and South Park action figures on shelves. They're offering up the main characters again both as carded figures and as boxed sets. For Family Guy, this means the entire Griffin family in their basic outfits (not any episode-themed designs) is coming back, long after the first series of figures came and went years ago. For South Park, the four boys Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman will reappear in their traditional outfits as well.

While this may not be exciting news for long-time collectors of these lines, Mezco's intention is to bring these core characters back to new collectors. Both shows are still performing extremely well both with new episodes and expanded syndication. Family Guy is shown on multiple networks since it went into syndication, and even South Park is shown on stations beyond Comedy Central. Based on the response to these re-offerings of the core characters, Mezco will decide whether or not to create new figures for these lines. So if you have these figures already and want these lines to continue, I suggest picking them up for friends and family as gifts and create new collectors in the process!