Nacelle Star Trek action figures

[Astra]

they got some splainin to do!!!

What do you mean?

 

[David cgc]

What do you mean?

It’s a catchphrase from “I Love Lucy.”

 

[drt]

The two-pack is Gene Roddenberry and Lucille Ball.

lol, that’s kind of disappointing.

 

[Astra]

It’s a catchphrase from “I Love Lucy.”

Ah, thank you for the explanation.
I never watched that (I'm from former East Germany)

 

[Ceridwen]

I've mostly abandoned collecting action figures as a hobby, but I think I might have to dive back in for any Original Series figures they produce for this line (the Romulan Commander in Wave 2, the majority of Wave 3, might skip the two-pack, amusing as it is).

Though Bem from the Animated Series is also tempting...

 

[Paul755]

very curious to see the likeness on TOS Kirk. They nailed Generations Kirk (at least on the prototype) but nobody has ever really done a “great” TOS Kirk. The better ones are usually just “less bad” than previous ones.

 

[Ceridwen]

very curious to see the likeness on TOS Kirk. They nailed Generations Kirk (at least on the prototype) but nobody has ever really done a “great” TOS Kirk. The better ones are usually just “less bad” than previous ones.

I saw the "Kirk as Romulan" figure in the package on a YouTube video, but sadly the convention hall reflections made it difficult to make out the likeness.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Who on Earth could have predicted that we’d ever get a Bem figure?

Amazing.

 

[Paul755]

I’d like to think Playmates might have gotten there if the original line hadn’t tanked.

 

[Ceridwen]

I’d like to think Playmates might have gotten there if the original line hadn’t tanked.

The attitude around the Animated Series was very different in the '90s, though. Both Paramount and Roddenberry's office seemed determined to pretend it never happened, and there are notes indicating as much in every official reference book from the period (even if the writers on some of the shows slipped little references in here and there). Things only started to shift with the series' release on DVD in 2006, and even then, not entirely; the fourth edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, released for the 50th anniversary in 2016, still eschews nearly any reference to it.

 

[Tomalak]

Yes, TAS was absolutely verboten back then. No chance Playmates would have made any characters at that time.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Happy that particular tide turned as despite all that, TAS is a really neat show.