They are on thin ice, I tell you.
Spoilers Variety about the future of Star Trek
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They are on thin ice, I tell you.
On Netflix?
The future of Star Trek is the lack of an acceptable, varied and fairly-priced retail action figure line. I can tell you THAT MUCH without hesitation.
What's out there now is nice and the figures look better than the old ones by a mile, but the selection is paltry. Long gone are the days when most characters in the franchise get figures.
What's out there now is nice and the figures look better than the old ones by a mile, but the selection is paltry. Long gone are the days when most characters in the franchise get figures.
If Playmates can't do it, I have no idea who can at this stage. I'm still reeling from the untimely loss of Mcfarlane from the scene, who seemed to have had big plans from the off. And, I really wanted that Disco phaser, too.
Are Super7 done now? It all feels so hopeless.
Super 7 is still going.
Playmates can do it if they steer in to it like they are doing with TMNT and hitting along the more retro style, as well as collaborating with multiple online outlets like Big Bad Toy Store, and Entertainment Earth.
Over 57 years here. I was 6 when I watched the premiere showing of The Man Trap in 1966.
Oh, if we're going back that far, put me down for 57 too. I watched it in '66 too. It was the reruns when my fandom really took hold.
I was scribbling crude drawings of Spock and the Enterprise in early childhood books when I was about two years old so that's why I estimate 48 years of being a fan.
Allow me to show you the comic I made in grade school that "borrowed" the IP. (Please don't tell Paramount's legal division)
Too late. I already Alec Petersed my own way with mine.
This also applies to well made video games.
Can't argue with that. Hasn't been a Star Trek video game I've wanted to actually play for ages.
Absolutely infuritating that the Star Trek IP has never received any love from the video game industry.
Yeah STOnline is neat but we all want something with more meat on it.
https://twitter.com/StarfleetDesign/status/1772111358487625907
The link above will clear it up
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The 90's was a golden age of Star Trek gaming. So many awesome games were coming out all the time. Starfleet Academy, Klingon Academy, Armada 1 and 2, Elite Force 1 and 2, Birth of the Federation, Starfleet Command, Bridge Commander, Dominion Wars.
More recently it is much more odd. This massive IP ends up in the hands of two-bit studios who either churn out garbage shovel ware mobile games OR make games that are absolute labors of love but lack the budget to be anything truly special.
I would do horrible things for a AAA Star Trek RPG. I don't care what era it's set in. TNGish would be ideal, but i'll settle for DSC or SNW.
Never? There were quite a few good games in the 90s/early 2000s.
Unfortunately, most of it was of “just shoot the bad guy” variety.
Star Trek action figures just don't sell anymore. They appeal to too small a customer base these days, IMO. The Trek toy license has also become something of a cursed license too--McFarlane Toys ran into red tape obstacles with it that made them give up & drop it, and Playmates has now bombed twice with it since the '90s. Hasbro had the license for a short while, but rather than go the Star Wars route, they used it solely to push their Lego-wannabe line which didn't exactly set the world on fire either, causing them to drop it as well.
Unless it's for the high-end (i.e. expensive as hell) collectors' market, I don't think we'll see any Trek action figures in retail stores again unless something changes and Trek starts appealing to more than just aging die-hard Trekkers.
Action figures aside now, it's just my own opinion here, but while there are now more Trek shows in production that there ever has been, it all exists in a vacuum on Paramount+ and really isn't noticed outside the existing fandom. It's definitely still big in geek culture, but It could very well be that to the rest of the world, there really hasn't been a new Star Trek series since "that one with the old bald guy."
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