Playmates Toys Q?

[NIUPonyBoy]

Did the Romulan Warbird and Klingon Battlecrusier come with display bases and stands and I have just misplaced them or were they sold as just 'toys?'

If they were has anyone fabbed a base for them? I think I may try to.

 

[Chris3123]

I thought this was going to be about one of the Q figures.

Anyway, no, neither of those ships came with a display stand. None of the early Playmates ships did.

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

So the Ent-D was made after those? weird. lol

 

[FalTorPan]

The first Playmates 1701-D was released before the Klingon Attack Cruiser and Romulan Warbird, and like the two alien ships, the first 1701-D did not include a stand.

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

Ah gotcha.

 

[Yug]

The Playmates Romulan Warbird was a huge piece of shit. No paint, no decals, they just stressed the plastic for some kind of failed detail. I don't even think the fucker lit up or made sounds... and I chased that bitch at three different stores, found it at Service Merchindise... bleek.

 

[RapidNadion]

I recall buying the Playmates Enterprise D in about 1992/93 (for $40.00 - my 10-year-old self got a little help from my stepbrother on that one), and I seem to remember it coming with two battery doors - one with an attached display stand, and one without.

Unless this was added to later batches of the model and I somehow acquired it, I'd say the early Playmates "D" did, in fact, have a display stand.

Regarding the Romulan Warbird: I had that one too, and I agree: the details were light. There was a single included "decal," the Romulan Empire symbol that went on the upper portion of the "beak." And it did do the lights and sounds thing: the engines' inner grills lit up blue and the available sounds were impulse, cloak, and, IIRC, two disruptor sounds.

 

[Broccoli]

^ I still have the first Playmates Ent-D and the box it came in. There was no stand.

I think the first Ent-D with a stand was the Generations Ent-D in 1994.

 

[RapidNadion]

Innnteresting. I'm now genuinely curious where I picked up the stand, then. Maybe from a fellow fan's Generations model.

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

My Ent-D came with a stand and I got it long before Generations hit.

 

[Broccoli]

My Ent-D came with a stand and I got it long before Generations hit.

Was it the one at the top of this page? Or was the one you had "battle damaged"?

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

I don't have any battle damaged ships. It was just an Ent-D.

 

[nx1701g]

Um I have a Romulan Warbird that came with a stand (and no I don't mean the Bird of Prey). It's the Romulan logo as the base.

 

[RapidNadion]

Sounds like different batches released at different points in the production process did / did not have stands, folks. Interesting stuff.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I got:

Enterprise D (regular)
Enterprise E (came with a Generations communicator badge stand)
Voyager (same stand)
TNG Shuttle craft (no stand)
Romulan Warbird (came with a stand as I recall)
TNG Klingon cruiser (came with a Klingong symbol stand as I recall)
Borg Cube (came with a Borg symbol stand; the symbol used for Hue's group. OR was it Lore's Borg group?)

I've kpet them all, except the E which I think I sold on eBay.

I recall my pre-Generations Enterprise D coming with a stand. It was cnnected to the battery compartment, and there were two battery compartment covers; with with a hole to insert the stand, and one without.

 

[MvRojo]

There were 3 Pre-Generations Enterprise-D

Original version from 1992 w/o display stand
Space Talk version from 1993 w/ display stand
7th Anniversary Gold Enterprise from w/ display stand

 

[tharpdevenport]

I got the original Playmates 1992 one, with the regualr soudn effects. Best thing one could buy, short of having to assemble and paint a model.

 

[The Wormhole]

Borg Cube (came with a Borg symbol stand; the symbol used for Hue's group. OR was it Lore's Borg group?)

The symbol used by Hugh and Lore's group is the same as the symbol used by the Borg Collective. You can see it at random spots in the corridors of the cube in Q Who.

 

[Broccoli]

Um I have a Romulan Warbird that came with a stand (and no I don't mean the Bird of Prey). It's the Romulan logo as the base.

Interesting...I also had a Romulan Warbird, but no stand, nor was there one listed in the booklet that came with the toy.

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

I bent up some ire hangers for a 'stand for the warbird, it looks like crap but it works for the moment. I put the battlecrusier on an old glass candle.