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I have exactly one figure (unopened) of B'Elanna Torres as a full Klingon from the Star Trek: Voyager line.
They're beyond great. I'll border on "awesome".
I have nearly the entire line, save for a few of the rather expensive ones. Which led me to my thread. I thought that surely one other member of the board would be as fanatical to go to the lengths of customizing their own Trek figures for characters and costumes that weren't in the line.
I have nearly the entire line, save for a few of the rather expensive ones. Which led me to my thread. I thought that surely one other member of the board would be as fanatical to go to the lengths of customizing their own Trek figures for characters and costumes that weren't in the line.
I have essentially all of the main crewmembers from TOS, TNG, DS9, & VOY plus some assorted aliens from each series.
As far as ships go, I've got the original Enterprise, the Enterprise-D, the DS9 station, & the Voyager. I've also got the Galileo-7 shuttlecraft with the exclusive Kirk figure.
Accessories: TOS communicator, phaser, & tricorder; TNG phaser and tricorder; TMP/TWOK phaser; and the First Contact phaser.
I had other stuff like the Star Trek VI phaser, the Bajoran phaser, the medical TNG tricorder; the laser pistol from "The Cage," the TMP wrist communicator, and the USS Defiant, but I tossed them when I had to move house and didn't have room to carry them, much less store them anymore.
As far as ships go, I've got the original Enterprise, the Enterprise-D, the DS9 station, & the Voyager. I've also got the Galileo-7 shuttlecraft with the exclusive Kirk figure.
Accessories: TOS communicator, phaser, & tricorder; TNG phaser and tricorder; TMP/TWOK phaser; and the First Contact phaser.
I had other stuff like the Star Trek VI phaser, the Bajoran phaser, the medical TNG tricorder; the laser pistol from "The Cage," the TMP wrist communicator, and the USS Defiant, but I tossed them when I had to move house and didn't have room to carry them, much less store them anymore.
doubleohfive
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Holy crap. I have a whole liquor box of them that I was very passionate about collecting for a while. I even started getting doubles so I could make custom figures. I wasn't very good at it though, and after a while lost interest. They've been in that box for almost seven years now.
Depending on how lazy I am, I'll probably just hock them all on ebay.
Depending on how lazy I am, I'll probably just hock them all on ebay.
And depending on how crazy I am, I'll probably buy them. I want very badly to customize some, but I'll probably just destroy the figure. Hahaha.
doubleohfive
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The customizing was not fun. You had to boil water to get the plastic of the figures to be malleable, then pop them open. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Mainly what I did was head and arm swaps, followed by (what turned out to be sloppy) repaints. The downside to all of it? The figures ceased to be very poseable, if at all once the customizing was done.
I've pictures someplace. I'll upload them if anyone is interested.
I've pictures someplace. I'll upload them if anyone is interested.
Sure! Me!
http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2009/11/it-figures-trek-it-yourself-customising.html
Plenty of recipes there.
http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2010/01/scrapbook-customs.html
I set myself a rule on the regular releases. I didn't buy every costume variation, but only if it was a much younger, older, disguised or holodeck version of a character. So there were quite a few Picards I didn't need to buy.
doubleohfive
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^Wow, Therin ... that's fantastic work! Much better than what I was doing!
A whole drawer ful of them, though I eventually gave up after realizing the only unreleased Picard variant they could possibly come up with was 'Captain Picard with hot chocolate stain on his uniform, as seen in Q Who'.
Pity that the range ended before they could do a 'proper' Seven of Nine (there was only a full Borg version). The only major-ish character from the first four series who didn't get covered, one way or another (well, apart from Number One and the rest of the Cage/WNMHGB bridge one-offs).
Pity that the range ended before they could do a 'proper' Seven of Nine (there was only a full Borg version). The only major-ish character from the first four series who didn't get covered, one way or another (well, apart from Number One and the rest of the Cage/WNMHGB bridge one-offs).
doubleohfive
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^
There were actually three Seven of Nine figures. The Borg drone, another of her in the purple catsuit, and then a repaint of that of her in the silver catsuit. I *think* I had the drone and the purple catsuit one, but the silver catsuit version was a Walmart/Target exclusive and as such very difficult to find.
EDIT: Here are two photos of my collection, from back in 2002, just before I stopped collecting.
--doubleoh, geek
There were actually three Seven of Nine figures. The Borg drone, another of her in the purple catsuit, and then a repaint of that of her in the silver catsuit. I *think* I had the drone and the purple catsuit one, but the silver catsuit version was a Walmart/Target exclusive and as such very difficult to find.
EDIT: Here are two photos of my collection, from back in 2002, just before I stopped collecting.
--doubleoh, geek
Yeah, I think I still got these things kicking around. I sure had a lot of them.
doubleohfive
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^ A lot of balding, overweight nerds with bad goatees?
You must have missed them! They did Seven from "The Gift", yes, but also three humanised Sevens - in her silver, blue and plum variant bodysuits!
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Playma...dition.2C_4.5_inch_figures.2C_Asst._No._65800
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Yeah, I remember getting the Seven in the original silver catsuit at a Target store (those more human Sevens weren't available everywhere).
IIRC, those were among a small number of figures--along with the Borg Queen with the detachable head and shoulders--that were sculpted for Playmates by (ironically) Art Asylum...
Awesome! I can't wait to look at these!
I used to have most of the line when I was a kid (keep in mind that I'm 22, so that wasn't that long ago!) and they were probably sold/lost/given away years ago. I decided to start re-colleting them sometime last year before Star Trek XI came out.
Long story short, I have several "extra" figures that I can spare with which to play around, so I'm sure your recipies will come in handy.
Wow, when you think about it, all of the 90s figures look ten times better than the XI ones.
Yep, I either missed them, or they never reached the UK for some reason...
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