Beyond figures coming!

[Khan 2.0]

http://trekmovie.com/2017/03/02/qmx...ond-16-figures-more-updates-from-toyfair-2017
(wonder if its just kirk or more to come?)

edit - also from a few months back

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[BillJ]

As much as I love Star Trek, I can't see paying $180-$200 for an action figure.

 

[Kor]

Very impressive. But these are frou-frou collectible figures. I like ones that are... toys, you know. I love Hasbro's Star Wars black series. I wish there was something like that for Trek.

Kor

 

[od0_ital]

^

They came out with six inch figures for the characters from the '09 reboot.

 

[Kor]

^

They came out with six inch figures for the characters from the '09 reboot.

Yeah, but I prefer 3.75" figures. I only get Star Wars figures in that scale.

My dream would be for a new Trek action figure line to be in that odd 4.5" scale so that they would go with all the figures I have from the nineties!

Kor

 

[od0_ital]

That would be kind of awesome. I have so many TOS, TNG, DS9 & VOY figures that Playmates put out!

Plus the Enterprise-D bridge & GEN engineering playsets.

 

[jamestyler]

Amazing! Just in time for the film coming out!

No.... wait....

Very impressive. But these are frou-frou collectible figures. I like ones that are... toys, you know. I love Hasbro's Star Wars black series. I wish there was something like that for Trek.

That'd be the ideal. They really need to figure out their merchandising before a film is released.

 

[publiusr]

Now to go back in time to 1982 and sell them then--when it mattered.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Trek's pretty much exclusively in the adult collector's market these days. It seems that they've conceded mass retail to Star Wars, Marvel, & DC.

 

[publiusr]

They know we're a dying demographic--and don't bother.

 

[jamestyler]

It's circular logic. You can't sell toys to kids if you dont sell toys for kids.

 

[BillJ]

It's circular logic. You can't sell toys to kids if you dont sell toys for kids.

Animation and video games are where Trek needs to become more relevant if it wants to live long and prosper.

 

[Khan 2.0]

TMP and TSFS had some cool kiddie toys, wonder how those sold?

edit - https://www.megomuseum.com/startrek/sttmp.html
http://www.thelogbook.com/toybox/star-trek-iii

 

[jamestyler]

Animation and video games are where Trek needs to become more relevant if it wants to live long and prosper.

I hate to agree on that front (film can, and has stood up on it's own in that regard), but games I'd say would be more vital - the one they had for 2009 was just utterly dreadful :/

TMP and TSFS had some cool kiddie toys, wonder how those sold?

edit - https://www.megomuseum.com/startrek/sttmp.html
http://www.thelogbook.com/toybox/star-trek-iii

Kids generally buy what they think is cool.

No one walked out of that theatre thinking Kirk of Illia were cool

Honestly, I think of all the films, Beyond has the best chance of gaining cool factor - Kirk in his survival suit was a great look, Jaylah (and Uhura to a lesser degree) were great action women, Bones/Spock had a fun vibe to their pairing.... maybe it wouldn't have worked, but for all the movies- it was the best shot to try.

 

[BillJ]

I hate to agree on that front (film can, and has stood up on it's own in that regard), but games I'd say would be more vital - the one they had for 2009 was just utterly dreadful :/

I just think animation is where you can hook younger folks and make them lifetime fans.

Maybe they should pull Final Frontier out of mothballs and make it as a web series, as it was originally envisioned.

 

[Dukhat]

It's circular logic. You can't sell toys to kids if you dont sell toys for kids.

Unless you're a Transformers Masterpiece collector like I am.

 

[publiusr]

TMP and TSFS had some cool kiddie toys, wonder how those sold?

edit - https://www.megomuseum.com/startrek/sttmp.html
i

One of the things I'd like to do--had I the money--would be to do a line of Trek ships that look like the art on some packages, novels..etc.

The way the refit looks there is unique

 

[ALF]

As much as I love Star Trek, I can't see paying $180-$200 for an action figure.

I'm with Kor and od0_ital, totally miss the old Playmates line from the 90s... great stuff. I only wish they'd done the Enterprise crew in the same scale. The quality was good - lots of accessories - and only ten bucks per figure. Selection was crazy, too. They had a figure for just about everyone.

 

[gerbil]

I'm with Kor and od0_ital, totally miss the old Playmates line from the 90s... great stuff. I only wish they'd done the Enterprise crew in the same scale. The quality was good - lots of accessories - and only ten bucks per figure. Selection was crazy, too. They had a figure for just about everyone.

Yeah but then Playmates totally screwed the pooch on the 2009 movie line by simultaneously releasing two figure lines of different sizes, incomplete play sets, and not having a villain ship prepared to compliment the hero ship.

Edit: Which was a shame because the role play toys were great and the Enterprise, itself, is absolutely fabulous.

 

[publiusr]

It was a little short--the ship. Art Asylum should have made it. ISasser was working on a version before he died.