"Star Trek" movie toy report from Toy Fair Germany...
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I think you must have missed a key element.
"Playmates" has been awarded the rights to product toys for the upcoming Trek movie. As for "toys" they seem to have exclusive rights. Art Asylum retains rights for some other articles, not specifically related to this film, and I believe Master Replicas is going to be doing a few items as well, as well as there being some die-cast replicas from... anybody remember who? But for the "playable" stuff based upon this movie, it's Playmates who've been awarded the contract.
That was big news not long ago. It seems you missed the memo, Gastrof?
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Cary L. Brown said:
Well, there's also the fact that most men look a lot better with more clothes on them... women (at least women who are physically fit) are, generally speaking, just more aesthetically pleasing. The majority of people I've spoken to about this... heterosexual or homosexual (or "shades of grey")... of either gender all seem to agree on that.PKTrekGirl said:
Tralah said:
I'm all for equal opportunity when it comes to revealing clothes! Starfleet should make shirt wearing optional for the men.
As a female science fiction fan, that's my main complaint about some shows. They NEVER forget to give men their eye candy but sometimes forget that we female fans (or gay male fans!) enjoy having our own eye candy too.
Agree 100%.
Not surprising, however, given that most of the writers on these shows are men.
They care about their own eye candy...but apparently we are not nearly as important.
The only show that has done a reasonable job with this has been Battlestar Galactica.
All the other ones are very sexist in how they do this stuff, and offer nowhere NEAR equal time...or skin.
We men do tend to look sorta goofy unclothed...
Says you.
However, most straight females and gay men would beg to differ.
WE would say that looking at women's boobs doesn't float our canoe in the slightest (and actually kind of nauseates us)...but Jamie Bamber in a towel???? WHOA BABY!!!
I wanna get me some of that. Which is exactly my point. Straight men just assume that they deserve to get their T&A fix, like they are the only ones on the planet interested in such things...but they rarely afford us the same consideration.
Instead, they normally give us some lame line similar to what you just said. Which, by the way, is pretty sexist.
And frankly, I don't care who you have 'spoken with'. Unless you can tell me that you did a statistically sound polling of all relevant demographic groups, then fergetaboutit. It would be little more than hearsay.
Otherwise, what's fair is fair. You get your fix...and we should get ours.
Okay, then... where would you like me to send the nude picture of myself? You need but ask...PKTrekGirl said:
Cary L. Brown said:
Well, there's also the fact that most men look a lot better with more clothes on them... women (at least women who are physically fit) are, generally speaking, just more aesthetically pleasing. The majority of people I've spoken to about this... heterosexual or homosexual (or "shades of grey")... of either gender all seem to agree on that.PKTrekGirl said:
Tralah said:
I'm all for equal opportunity when it comes to revealing clothes! Starfleet should make shirt wearing optional for the men.
As a female science fiction fan, that's my main complaint about some shows. They NEVER forget to give men their eye candy but sometimes forget that we female fans (or gay male fans!) enjoy having our own eye candy too.
Agree 100%.
Not surprising, however, given that most of the writers on these shows are men.
They care about their own eye candy...but apparently we are not nearly as important.
The only show that has done a reasonable job with this has been Battlestar Galactica.
All the other ones are very sexist in how they do this stuff, and offer nowhere NEAR equal time...or skin.
We men do tend to look sorta goofy unclothed...
Says you.
However, most straight females and gay men would beg to differ.
WE would say that looking at women's boobs doesn't float our canoe in the slightest (and actually kind of nauseates us)...but Jamie Bamber in a towel???? WHOA BABY!!!
Which is exactly my point. Straight men just assume that they deserve to get their T&A fix, like they are the only ones on the planet interested in such things...but they rarely afford us the same consideration.
Instead, they normally give us some lame line similar to what you just said. Which, by the way, is pretty sexist.
And frankly, I don't care who you have 'spoken with'. Unless you can tell me that you did a statistically sound polling of all relevant demographic groups, then fergetaboutit. It would be little more than hearsay.
Otherwise, what's fair is fair. You get your fix...and we should get ours.
Ok, have all the good looking crew members wearing the revealing stuff, both sexes.
Problem solved.
Problem solved.
Superman said:
Kinnison said:
Superman said:
THE BIG SPOILER DETAIL INVOLVES SPOCK AND HIS RING:
Couldn't resist.
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Where did you find that?
It is actually from an old GL comic from the eighties.
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Green Lantern/Green Arrow #90 August 1976 - the first issue of Dennis O'Neil's and Mike Grell's revival of that title.
I realize this is probably going too far here... but what are the chances that the action figure prototypes seen at this Toy Fair are decoys? Or, at least, not completely accurate to the final product? Could JJ Abrams have that much control? We know that he's trying to keep everything under-wraps as much as possible. We also know that Playmates is not new to Trek - they held the toy license for most of the '90s and produced TOS figures and ships before. Are these old figures with new heads, to throw people off? Are these inaccurately-painted figures?
I'm just wondering if JJ and co. might be trying to throw us off with false information (which would be awesome - I'd love it if all the information that gets passed around the web was planted on purpose, and the real info is completely different and way cooler).
I'm just wondering if JJ and co. might be trying to throw us off with false information (which would be awesome - I'd love it if all the information that gets passed around the web was planted on purpose, and the real info is completely different and way cooler).
If Playmates or Paramount didn't want buyers to know what the product looked like, they wouldn't produce decoys. They'd just have a booth with no mock ups. Lots of companies do this when product isn't yet in the sculpting stage, though I think it's a harder sell. Showing decoys to buyers... might not be the best business practice.
And as far as tacking new heads on old bodies, that doesn't jive with reports that the figures are very detailed (the 90s figures would be a joke in this day and age), and that the figures are at 4 inch, and 6 inch scale which Playmates never used to produce Classic Trek figures, and that the figure had yet to be tooled for articulation. They're new. The probably so new they still smell like RTV mold rubber.
And as far as tacking new heads on old bodies, that doesn't jive with reports that the figures are very detailed (the 90s figures would be a joke in this day and age), and that the figures are at 4 inch, and 6 inch scale which Playmates never used to produce Classic Trek figures, and that the figure had yet to be tooled for articulation. They're new. The probably so new they still smell like RTV mold rubber.
137th Gebirg said:
Damn! You'd think he was a Freemason or something...
I was hoping someone would pick up the Venture Bros. quote, but that's cool too.
I honestly think it's deliberate because it would be a waste for JJ to have spent all the money and resources necessary to keep the internet (where secrets are as important as servers.) leak-free, and then for some schmuck to leak the uniforms, accessories, and the ship all at once, possibly in HD.
JJ kept a damn tight lid on Cloverfield till it's release, with his ARGs feeding only enough information to frustrate people into invoking his name more often than "fucking shitcock!"
Like others have said, we had NEM's script at this point.
For this, we barely know anything other than what the teaser showed us (which was sufficiently dark so that any HD pictures wouldn't show us more than we saw at first glance.)
He seriously needs to work for the CIA. He country needs him.
Well, we know how accurate the "Generations" actions figures were.
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