News McFarlane Toys To Create Star Trek: Discovery Toy Lines

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A new news article has been published at TrekToday:

CBS Consumer Products has chosen McFarlane Toys to create toy lines for the entire Star Trek universe, including the forthcoming Star Trek:...

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[jaime]

Just let them be affordable, decent, and not fall apart, and we will buy them in this house. Especially if we get existing Trek and not just DSC. And phasers and Tricorders. My five year old needs away team kit, stat.

Edit: and having read the news article, I just need to see a cheap and plentiful supply, as toys, not limited collectors things. Woohoo. The little Admiral will be pleased next year.

 

[Markonian]

Wouldn't mind if we got some decent ship models to play with rather than another bobble head.

 

[Kor]

Oh joy, big detailed action figures that aren't in scale with anything else I have.

Kor

 

[JD]

Most of the McFalane Toys stuff is really nice, so I look forward to seeing what we get for Star Trek.

 

[C.E. Evans]

McFarlane will do it justice, and they may even be stuff that can be bought in retail stores, albeit probably still aimed at older collectors.

 

[The Wormhole]

I haven't been in the toy collecting game in a while, but from what I remember, McFarlane did some great stuff when they first started, but as time went on their "action figures" were becoming less action figures and more statues, to the point that they were even molded in poses at times. So if they actually genuine action figures, these could be all kinds of awesome. But if they are just statues, my enthusiasm wanes.

What am I talking about? As I say, I haven't been into toy collecting for a while now. Easily a decade, probably.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Yeah, if McFarlane Toys is aiming for older collectors, it's almost a certainty these figures will have limited articulation (you might be able to raise & lower the arms, and short-haired figures could have heads that can turn a bit, but that's about it). They'll probably look great, but likely meant to be just displayed more than anything else, IMO.

 

[Trek Survivor]

Very excited! I miss having decent Trek figures... hope they have a decent, regular release schedule, and haven't got a slow, lethargic, staggered release planned. I want regular figures filling up the shelf!

 

[Sibyl]

I'm afraid of them being limited articulation, too.

When the trend is toward super-articulated, I don't know why McFarlane went backward.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I think McFarlane Toys places higher priority on likenesses and details for their figures. They may have done some market research that older collectors prefer that over articulation.

 

[juventuz]

I collect a lot of statues, McFarlane figures, etc. I never play with them, they get unboxed and put on display, that's why I've never bought any ST figures before, because for me they never looked good enough. McFarlane makes some great looking figures and I for one am happy about this, can't wait to see what they do.

 

[Kevman7987]

I read somewhere that McFarlane will offer the super-articulated pose-able figures.

EDIT:
Found it in the story on StarTrek.com:

The initial line will highlight two of Trek's most-iconic characters, Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who will be represented by fully articulated 7-inch figures. These figures will debut in window-box collector packaging and feature such familiar accessories as phasers and communicators. Various characters from the highly anticipated Discovery and other Trek adaptations will follow.

http://www.startrek.com/article/mcfarlane-to-create-discovery-toys#sthash.AR2pAmNK.dpuf

 

[fireproof78]

Yeah, if McFarlane Toys is aiming for older collectors, it's almost a certainty these figures will have limited articulation (you might be able to raise & lower the arms, and short-haired figures could have heads that can turn a bit, but that's about it). They'll probably look great, but likely meant to be just displayed more than anything else, IMO.

What about their Halo line? Hardly lack of articulation there.

 

[C.E. Evans]

What about their Halo line? Hardly lack of articulation there.

I have a number of those Halo figures, but a lot of that has to do that most of them wearing modular armor of some kind. Other McFarlane toylines like Assassin's Creed and The Walking Dead have "fully articulated" figures with maybe one or two moveable/changeable parts. Some are even basically statues locked in permanent poses.

 

[Sibyl]

UPDATE: For those wondering if Diamond Select Toys will be continuing their line of Star Trek based products, the answer is yes. We reached out to Zach Oat at DST, and he tells us not only will they continue to make Star Trek products, but they will also be expanding to new areas of the Trek universe as well.

http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=14&itemid=28968

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Starships, action figures, phasers, tricorders, badges... I'll buy them ALL! Erm... for the kids of course.

 

[fireproof78]

Starships, action figures, phasers, tricorders, badges... I'll buy them ALL! Erm... for the kids of course.

That's the only reason I buy them, right? I mean, what else could it be?