I went to a local Tarjay yesterday and they had ZERO STAR TREK toys. Lots of Star Wars toys though. I threw up in my mouth.
Target clearanced out their star trek stuff already... sucks. Star Wars toys will never go away. LOL They make too much money.
Now if CBS/Paramount went with Hasbro... then those toys would STILL be on shelves and you'd get 30 different variants of Kirk and Spock.
Does anyone know when the second wave of figures is supposed to come out. the date seems to keep changing. Are they waiting for the DVD to come out to help promote sales, or has Playmates completley cancelled the line?
I had actually been giving Playmates high marks until all this online exclusives crap started. My feelings towards the toyline have really taken a nosedive since then, especially with the idea that you can't buy the exclusives separately but only as part of an assortment.
Which basically means Playmates just kind of blew it. Either they released too many figures at once in Wave 1 or they should have simply released all of the "big 7" in uniform in Wave 1 and leave the remaining waves for figures such as Pike, Spock Prime, etc.I had actually been giving Playmates high marks until all this online exclusives crap started. My feelings towards the toyline have really taken a nosedive since then, especially with the idea that you can't buy the exclusives separately but only as part of an assortment.
It's not Playmates' fault. The mass retailers said they didn't want more crew members in uniform since those are already clogging the shelves. They wanted figures that looked different and wouldn't just blend in with the ones already released.
The playsets could have been resized
The playsets could have been resized
Nope. The 3.75" line of figures was created especially so that the bridge and transporter playsets would be acceptable to the toy stores. Their huge complaint re the TNG bridge playset of yore was that it was too big - and the stores informed Playmates that they didn't wish to stock Star Trek playsets that were that big.
I just picked up the Playmates Enterprise at Target this afternoon. When I checked the clearance section, there were figures and phasers, but no ship; I thought that I was out of luck, but by coincidence I wandered down the next isle and discovered one that had been ditched by someone and was in the wrong place. I took that as a sign from God and snatched it up.
It is on my desk now; I am quite impressed by the quality, which I find to be better than what it looks like on the box picture. It isn't as toy-like as I first feared.
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[EDIT: Just in case somebody finds this info useful, the model is exactly 15" long, and the saucer section is 7" in diameter.]
I think TMNT does playsets with their 5" figures, but I think most of those playsets are on the smaller side or are mainly vehicles.
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