There isn't enough Trek products for the very young

[FordSVT]

IDIC said:
they should do a new star trek cartoon. i do agree with the original poster that there is a real lack of products for young people. You look at an intellectual property like Star Wars and you can get some ideas about how to bring younger fans in.

Probably because Lucas designed the franchise from the ground up to sell toys.

There are no new Trek products for children because children do not give a shit about Star Trek. Anything that does get produced has to cater to the older, collecting fan. Making toys for kids will not bring new fans into the fold, only a new movie or show that appeals to kids, followed up by product will.

 

[CaptainStoner]

So maybe that Mr. Spock Science Kit next year? Oh boy! I mean, that's cool. For kids.

 

[T'Cal]

They need to market this next movie much better than the last few. Toys for little kids such as ships, legos, and action figures; video games for adolescents and teens; and collectables for adults such as high-quality props, ship replicas, cast figures, etc.

I've alwayed hoped they would bring Trek back to TV as an animated series that is maturely written, like Gargoyles Batman: TAS, and Superman: TAS. They appealed to boys, teens, and men.

 

[igrokbok]

In the 70's kids wanted to play Star TRek. Because with TOS you had the real key to a child's mind, imagination. They fought greek gods, lizard men, Salt vampires, fought like Roman gladiators one episode, then act like gangsters in the next. The show was wildly imaginative and nothing you made up seemed out of place when you played Star Trek in the backyard. There were toys, models, popsickle holders, bedsheets, band aids, everything under the sun. And it was aimed straight at the kids and the kids ate it up.

THe spin-offs just don't fire up the imagination like the original, mainly because they lack the wild creative storylines that the kids like to emulate. Fighting a lizard man in the backyard is a lot more fun than reworking the sensor array to solve some technobabbling threat.

 

[C.E. Evans]

igrokbok said:
THe spin-offs just don't fire up the imagination like the original, mainly because they lack the wild creative storylines that the kids like to emulate. Fighting a lizard man in the backyard is a lot more fun than reworking the sensor array to solve some technobabbling threat.

To me, that's Trek losing the campy aspect that TOS had in order to become (or be taken as) a more serious action drama. TNG started off with a few notable monsters in the beginning, but they started to disappear as the series continued.

 

[22 Stars]

igrokbok said:
In the 70's kids wanted to play Star TRek. Because with TOS you had the real key to a child's mind, imagination. They fought greek gods, lizard men, Salt vampires, fought like Roman gladiators one episode, then act like gangsters in the next. The show was wildly imaginative and nothing you made up seemed out of place when you played Star Trek in the backyard. There were toys, models, popsickle holders, bedsheets, band aids, everything under the sun. And it was aimed straight at the kids and the kids ate it up.

THe spin-offs just don't fire up the imagination like the original, mainly because they lack the wild creative storylines that the kids like to emulate. Fighting a lizard man in the backyard is a lot more fun than reworking the sensor array to solve some technobabbling threat.

Well put. I remember reading in the original trek bible that above all else, the rule was to keep the show entertaining, and 'action-adventure' or something like that.

 

[JD]

CaptainStoner said:


- Tribbles complete with tribble sound FX !!

They already made these. In fact I just took two or three off the headboard of my bed last night, in order to make room for the John Locke (Lost) action figure I got.