I went to a local Tarjay yesterday and they had ZERO STAR TREK toys. Lots of Star Wars toys though. I threw up in my mouth.
Star Trek Toys-Sale and Question
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Target clearanced out their star trek stuff already... sucks. Star Wars toys will never go away. LOL They make too much money.
Now if CBS/Paramount went with Hasbro... then those toys would STILL be on shelves and you'd get 30 different variants of Kirk and Spock.
Now if CBS/Paramount went with Hasbro... then those toys would STILL be on shelves and you'd get 30 different variants of Kirk and Spock.
Hell, you'd have 30 different variants of Cupcake and the Ron Perlman-looking barfly.
And the Enterprise would have at LEAST 3 variants. But all the figures would be so super articulated that Kirk could make any wild pose you can think of, but Uhura would be a salt shaker.
AND ROBAU WOULD STILL BE BADASS! But then he'd probably come with a badass scowl.
AND ROBAU WOULD STILL BE BADASS! But then he'd probably come with a badass scowl.
Not sure. I know the 12" Pike and Sulu figures are already out at Toys R Us, but no new smaller figures.
I had actually been giving Playmates high marks until all this online exclusives crap started. My feelings towards the toyline have really taken a nosedive since then, especially with the idea that you can't buy the exclusives separately but only as part of an assortment.
It's not Playmates' fault. The mass retailers said they didn't want more crew members in uniform since those are already clogging the shelves. They wanted figures that looked different and wouldn't just blend in with the ones already released.
Which basically means Playmates just kind of blew it. Either they released too many figures at once in Wave 1 or they should have simply released all of the "big 7" in uniform in Wave 1 and leave the remaining waves for figures such as Pike, Spock Prime, etc.
Yeah I was just about to give Playmates some real praise, but they really failed with this line. For one thing, far far far too many Wave 1 toys on the pegs. Even if the mass market retailers COULD get Wave 2, they wouldn't order any more because the fuckin' pegs are PACKED. Every goshdamn store I've been in has pegs FULL of Star Trek toys and yet the Star Wars stuff is nearly empty.
I really wish I didn't have to do a headswap to make a Chekov or McCoy in uniform. Even though those 2 academy uniformed figures are identical except for the heads.
My only hope is they release wave 2 at some stores around the time of the DVD, but I know Target has them already on the 50% off clearance shelves.
I really wish I didn't have to do a headswap to make a Chekov or McCoy in uniform. Even though those 2 academy uniformed figures are identical except for the heads.
My only hope is they release wave 2 at some stores around the time of the DVD, but I know Target has them already on the 50% off clearance shelves.
They should have released the "Uniforms" as one wave, the secondary characters as the second wave and left the "Cadet" version on the drafting room floor. And I also don't get doing the three sizes of figures either. The six and twelve inch versions should have been enough. The playsets could have been resized and the "added pieces" jettisoned. The only thing that I really think they did right were the movie props but they were marketed poorly. I also think they were way to late introducing the Mission Utility Belt. It could have been a contender if it had been part of wave one. The toys themselves are decent though. I especially like the way they did the uniform tops on the six-inchers. Most of the head sculpts are decent too... for Playmates that is. The only one that I think is way off is Kirk. I also love the phaser and the rotating barrel. The sound effects are also WAY to loud on everything, which is a parent's worst nightmare.
And when will other toy companies realize that the methodology Hasbro and Lucasfilm uses for the Star Wars toys is the perfect way to go in this day and age? (Just don't go with their poor manufacturing.) One standard action figure size, small (to help with shelf space) but standard packaging (to create a locked Star Wars "look" in the store), cool ships to match and decent roll-playing accessories. They are right on the money with their marketing and it shows. (All the black on the Trek Toys packaging made them disappear into the shelves. Very bad marketing monkeys!)
And when will other toy companies realize that the methodology Hasbro and Lucasfilm uses for the Star Wars toys is the perfect way to go in this day and age? (Just don't go with their poor manufacturing.) One standard action figure size, small (to help with shelf space) but standard packaging (to create a locked Star Wars "look" in the store), cool ships to match and decent roll-playing accessories. They are right on the money with their marketing and it shows. (All the black on the Trek Toys packaging made them disappear into the shelves. Very bad marketing monkeys!)
Nope. The 3.75" line of figures was created especially so that the bridge and transporter playsets would be acceptable to the toy stores. Their huge complaint re the TNG bridge playset of yore was that it was too big - and the stores informed Playmates that they didn't wish to stock Star Trek playsets that were that big.
^ Didn't know that. I still hate the smaller figures though. 
Yeah, pretty much every line of figures that does playset are around the 3.75" size (SW, G.I. Joe, etc.). I think TMNT does playsets with their 5" figures, but I think most of those playsets are on the smaller side or are mainly vehicles.
I just picked up the Playmates Enterprise at Target this afternoon. When I checked the clearance section, there were figures and phasers, but no ship; I thought that I was out of luck, but by coincidence I wandered down the next isle and discovered one that had been ditched by someone and was in the wrong place. I took that as a sign from God and snatched it up.
It is on my desk now; I am quite impressed by the quality, which I find to be better than what it looks like on the box picture. It isn't as toy-like as I first feared.
[EDIT: Just in case somebody finds this info useful, the model is exactly 15" long, and the saucer section is 7" in diameter.]
Wow.. That photo with the globe behind looks really cool!!!
Agreed... I've grown to really like how the toy looks.. It might not be on par with the ones from Art Asylum, but after watching the movie countless of times, it actually looks very accurate to how it looks in the movie....
^ I really do like how that looks!
Yep, and there is now a line of tiny TMNT, too. So the playsets can be smaller.
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