I hope the quality is better than 2009 version. In this day and age, fuzzy photo calendars should be outlawed.
I disagree. The new one I got for my birthday that year was NOT any better. Love you anyway, teacake.
I have Christopher Pike from that one up right now, over my monitor
The 2009 calendar was 10,000 times better than the dreadful, blurry, up close face, scene-less, repetitive, uncreative, uncaring, unfannish TOS calendars they have been churning out for years.
Playmates lost the license to make Star Trek toys awhile back. Hasbro (the maker of Star Wars and G.I. Joe toys) obtained the license, but the only thing they're producing for Star Trek XII is for their Kre-O (Lego-wannabe) construction line.
Customer dissatisfaction may have been one reason, but it wasn't the only one. Playmates bungled the toyline by putting out too much product all at once and by overestimating the actual demand for Star Trek toys to begin with. They flooded retailers with multiple figures in different scales and customers generally chose just one.
After interest in Star Trek XI had died down, retailers found them stuck with lots of Trek Wave 1 toys that were just collecting dust on the shelves. They weren't interested in Wave 2 as a result. Playmates eventually found themselves having to scrap all future Trek figures, including all of Wave 2.
DST has a license to make only a specific range of Trek toys (the same is true for companies like Gentle Giant, Medicom and Sideshow with specific Star Wars toys). The license that Hasbro has is likely the master toy license, which means that may be possible they could sub-license out to any of the abovementioned companies--including DST--to make certain Trek toys they're not interesting in producing themselves. The only question is what are Hasbro's future plans with Trek?
