The True Story Behind Galoob's Failed TNG Toy Line

[Borjis]

^^you didn't get Riker for free with the purchase?

 

[od0_ital]

^

First I ever saw a beareded Riker, it was from the Playmates toy line.

 

[Cyke101]

http://trekcore.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Shuttlecraft.jpg

Heh, if my kiddie self had the shuttle, I would've been very, very confused. Who put that giant opaque sheet in the middle of the windshield?!

Thankfully, the Type-6 shuttlecraft toy made more sense.

 

[Trekker4747]

http://trekcore.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Shuttlecraft.jpg

Heh, if my kiddie self had the shuttle, I would've been very, very confused. Who put that giant opaque sheet in the middle of the windshield?!

Thankfully, the Type-6 shuttlecraft toy made more sense.

That's kind of a neat little shuttle toy! But how does one get from the cockpit to the back of the shuttle in flight?

 

[od0_ital]

^

Site to site transport?

 

[C.E. Evans]

The Galoob TNG toyline remains my favorite Trek toyline to this day. Sure, there have been better toylines since then, but I remember playing with them a lot as a kid and creating my own original stories with borrowed figures and vehicles from the other Star Wars and G.I. Joe toylines back then (imagination is a wonderful thing). I was lucky at the time to get Data and Yar in the initial mail order set I saved up a whole month's allowance to get.


Would have loved to got that shuttle.

 

[WillsBabe]

Great articles! This really takes me back to a great time in my life. We had lots of those figures, and an Ent D, but they've got lost sadly over the years. Nostalgia.

 

[t_smitts]

I still can't believe they interview a Galoob exec and never ONCE discussed the micro machine sets! Were there ship they planned but never built? How did they decide which ones to make as they got into more obscure ships. We may never know!

 

[C.E. Evans]

^^^]
I think there was a different team at Galoob behind the MicroMachine line.

 

[publiusr]

My problem is that there have been too many action figures and not enough ships.

The X-wing miniatures are as detailed as anything I have ever seen.
They don't come with lights, but look good with them:
http://community.fantasyflightgames...07-yt-1300-modification-lights-very-possible/

The heroclix offerings leave a bit to be desired. I just wish Galoob had stayed in the game...

 

[C.E. Evans]

IIRC, Galoob was bought out by Hasbro about 15 years (or so) ago and then was pretty much shut down, although the name was continued to be used for a little bit longer for their line of Titanium ships.

 

[jimbotron]

I only heard of them because of Game Genie.

 

[Saturn0660]

I had one of the little die cast E-D's.. playing with it for a long long time.. I also had a Data like in the first link with the blueish face. My local K-Mart had it. I got it because i thought it looked cool.. Had i known.. I ended up burning him along with other G.I.Joes in my driveway.

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

I can't see any parent buying their kid that Q action figure.

Wow, he kinda looks like a rejected member of the Village People.