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Germany? Obletter thad them in the 90s
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Wow, so it was in my country and I still managed to miss out. Google tells me Obletter is something in Munich, West Germany. I should've visited.
I definitely had Innerspace stuff as a kid in 90s Germany as well. I think I ordered almost all of my Trek merch from Andere Welten in Hamburg back then. So yeah, they were definitely available in Germany. 
The Innerspace Borg cube and Tricorder/sickbay sets are probably my favorites. And I have a soft spot for the Cardassian ship, because that was my first one as a kid. Most of them had pretty cool features to play with, like screens where you could turn a dial and it would show a different image.
EDIT: I posted some photos of that a while ago here …
The Innerspace Borg cube and Tricorder/sickbay sets are probably my favorites. And I have a soft spot for the Cardassian ship, because that was my first one as a kid. Most of them had pretty cool features to play with, like screens where you could turn a dial and it would show a different image.
EDIT: I posted some photos of that a while ago here …
Ah, I completely forgot about the Innerspace line! I had (and still have) the Cardassian ship that comes with Odo and Dukat figures. (At least I think it's supposed to be Dukat.) Pretty cool what they were able to do at that tiny scale. And I love that they included little gimmicks in their models, like the viewscreen image that can be rotated with a dial on the underside of the model.
EDIT: Correct me if I'm wrong, but we never did see the actual bridge of a Galor class ship on any of the shows, did we? I mean apart from the limited view in those viewscreen shots.
Now BlueBrixx has the licence. You can buy big starships, Phaser rifles, even a D'k'tagh. And if you speak German, I can really recommend you the Videos of the hero of the Bricks (Held der Steine), he reviews everything "Klemmbaustein"-related. "Klemmbaustein" are bricks that are like Lego or produced by Lego, but Lego said "No, no, 'Lego' is our trademark, that's not a generic term. The Generic Term - at least in German - is "Klemmbaustein"."
Apparently they just lost the license, though.
Yikes. Hmm, then one should better invest in Blue-Brixx-Klemmbaustein-Sets, eh? Maybe they become rare. ^^
The license is running out with the end of the year. It's my understanding that Blue Brixx has a sale with massive discount in their online shop to sell as much of their inventory as possible in the remaining time.
I definitely remember seeing some Innerspace playsets in a Breuninger department store here in Freiburg back in the day (when they still sold toys), so it wasn't just specialty shops like Andere Welten selling them here in Germany.
I definitely remember seeing some Innerspace playsets in a Breuninger department store here in Freiburg back in the day (when they still sold toys), so it wasn't just specialty shops like Andere Welten selling them here in Germany.
You know, I have quite a few Playmates toys.
I have multiple TNG action figures, a small number I have two of (I hated that red dress Troi, got the blue Starfleet uniform version to replace that, for example), two or three Star Trek: First Contact figures (mainly just wanted the Borg, but so much bigger), even had Captain Janeway (I have no idea what I was thinking, but a year or two ago I gave her away to somebody who actually likes Janeway, lord only knows why).
I have some props (type II phaser, type I phaser, original series communicator, TNG comm badge, TNG tricorder, and I think that's it), and the transporter.
I have a number of ships, unfortunately, I was never able to get all the ones I wanted. Pretty sure this is all I have:
Enterprise B (wanted the Excelsior, but this is what there was)
Enterprise D
Enterprise E (sold since; again, no idea what I was thinking when I got that uly ship)
TNG later-season shuttle.
TNG Romulan warbird.
TNG Klingon ship.
First Borg cube.
I'm thinking about selling most of these off, but I don't have a place to sell at and TrekBBS doesn't allow sells. Though I may keep some.
I also have several ships from Micromachines. Pretty sad that that little Borg cue looks better than the larger Playmates one. But hey, I got the Excelsior -- it's just very little.
I have multiple TNG action figures, a small number I have two of (I hated that red dress Troi, got the blue Starfleet uniform version to replace that, for example), two or three Star Trek: First Contact figures (mainly just wanted the Borg, but so much bigger), even had Captain Janeway (I have no idea what I was thinking, but a year or two ago I gave her away to somebody who actually likes Janeway, lord only knows why).
I have some props (type II phaser, type I phaser, original series communicator, TNG comm badge, TNG tricorder, and I think that's it), and the transporter.
I have a number of ships, unfortunately, I was never able to get all the ones I wanted. Pretty sure this is all I have:
Enterprise B (wanted the Excelsior, but this is what there was)
Enterprise D
Enterprise E (sold since; again, no idea what I was thinking when I got that uly ship)
TNG later-season shuttle.
TNG Romulan warbird.
TNG Klingon ship.
First Borg cube.
I'm thinking about selling most of these off, but I don't have a place to sell at and TrekBBS doesn't allow sells. Though I may keep some.
I also have several ships from Micromachines. Pretty sad that that little Borg cue looks better than the larger Playmates one. But hey, I got the Excelsior -- it's just very little.
I have the Deanna-Troi-Action-Figure in the... well, I think, it's lavender... dress. And I have lots of those ships and action figures. Ahh, back in the 90s I bought them and those were the times for a collector. ^^ By the way - do you have the TNG-communicator that is roughly 10 centimeters thick and strangely enough lights up, although the original communicator from TNG never did that?
It's thick and large and crappy in that regard. I don't recall if it lights up.
It does.
I have it but couldn't speak to if it works now.
I have it but couldn't speak to if it works now.
It also goes dee-dl-deet, a sound I've never heard in Trek
The PM Excelsior was the same as the B, IIRC, just with different stickers. Which E did you have? The FC one was an unused design (did show up on displays though), the INS was more accurate.
I've been checking the FC rifle price many times, hoping for a big sale at some point, but it's still too expensive. I'm getting the hypospray as my one thing from them before the license expires.
Starbase 8 and Filmwelt have a lot of Trek stuff. I got some EM ships there, IIRC. There was a sci-fi store in Munich, Subkutan, that I went to once or twice when I was in the city, but it closed years ago.I definitely had Innerspace stuff as a kid in 90s Germany as well. I think I ordered almost all of my Trek merch from Andere Welten in Hamburg back then. So yeah, they were definitely available in Germany.
The Innerspace Borg cube and Tricorder/sickbay sets are probably my favorites. And I have a soft spot for the Cardassian ship, because that was my first one as a kid. Most of them had pretty cool features to play with, like screens where you could turn a dial and it would show a different image.
EDIT: I posted some photos of that a while ago here …
Cube and sickbay are the ones I've been looking for in the last few years. Back then I got the amazing D, the BoP, and the Apollo CSM and LEM. Those are the most accurate and still cheap Apollo models I've seen at the time.
Most Obletter stores don't exist anymore, but there were quite a few in the 90s. We didn't go often, but I saw most if not all the early PM figures (didn't get any), the big electronic D (got it for xmas), Goddard, vor'cha, BoP (didn't get any because I got the D), both TNG phasers (got the type 2 myself), the TNG tricorder (another xmas I think), and the Innerspace ships from above (also xmas/easter). I don't remember them having the warbird though, and none of the big playsets or later ships and figures.Wow, so it was in my country and I still managed to miss out. Google tells me Obletter is something in Munich, West Germany. I should've visited.
In dee-dl-dee-t, it dee-dl-deet.It also goes dee-dl-deet, a sound I've never heard in Trek
But doesn't the B have these two "finns" next to the deflector dish, while the Excelsior didn't have them?
Yepp, the FC-rifle is extremely expensive. But I'm glad, that the licence at least went to Bluebrixx, instead of Lego. I mean, look at what they did with the Star Wars Licence.
I got both TNG-Phasers, the TNG Tricorder and the Medical Tricorder, got the Classic-Phaser, the classic communicator and the classic tricorder, got the Bridge and Engineering, and ships. Lots and lots of ships. And action figures. I think, my last buy was Picard as Locutus.
Got the second one because it promoted better design, which the first was lacking -- which I think I had, too.
Oh, lord, really? MAn, I had to look it up -- surely Playmates didn't think we were stupid enough to think the Excelsior refit is the same as ... nope, they did. Man alive!
Oh, lord, really? MAn, I had to look it up -- surely Playmates didn't think we were stupid enough to think the Excelsior refit is the same as ... nope, they did. Man alive!
Yep, but the Playmates toy just reused the E-B Generations molds, even though it wasn't accurate.
I don't think it was generally distributed, I think I only ever saw it in the catalog section of the fan club magazine, The Communicator.
Nice. I was just unpacking some things and found my Assault Phaser, TMP Phaser, TNG Phaser, TNG communicator, and TOS Tricorder. I have the TOS communicator somewhere.
Oh, yes, the assault-phaser that could double as Phaser from Star Trek 5 and 6 - and I have the TWOK-Phaser, where you can take off the Type 1 phaser. Ahh, good old times. The things, you can buy at conventions.
I used a black perminent marker to color in all the "holes" in the TOS communicator, to make it look like it had holes. OF course, if I had had a drill bit and tool, I'd just drilled holes.
The B also had two big extra impulse engines, and a different nacelle cap with blue bussard strips
But PM only made one model and just changed stickers. That model was actually used to make the golden model in FC, so it's a copy of an indirect prop replica
After the stores didn't have any Trek anymore (or closed completely), I found some things on eBay, at flea markets, and conventions: The glorious Goddard, the 90s TOS phaser (and the newer one from AA/DST), TNG type 1, WoK (and the TMP from AA/DST), TFF/TUC, INS, and 09 phasers; TOS tricorder, TOS and TMP communicators (and the STTE one), the Daqtagh and the DST TNG disruptor. And about 50 figures
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