Funny thing, I had a similar dream years ago about going to Target and seeing a 1:18 line on par with SWVC figures on the pegs. The wave was TWOK Kirk, Generations Riker, a Gorn, Kruge, TMP Spock, DS9 movie uniform Sisko and I think Harry Kim. I've had weird dreams like that before. I think in one I found a line of 1:18 Cheers figures at a Big Lots.
I'm into lucid dreaming and followed some papers my professor at CSU gave me to read on quantum psychology when I got my psych degree so I think they're doorways into alternate realities. Whether they are or not that's what I choose to believe!
Unless all those figures had goatees you're just delusional.
@zombief-body In the Mirror Universe Star Trek is the franchise with all the cool toys and Star Wars ain’t got 💩! Lol
Sadly that's what I would do if I could travel into alternate realities. I'd find that world where those darn Galoob Last Starfighter figures actually were released and go get them.
I find quantum speculation fun, it can basically be used to justify the existence of anything you can think of!
@zombief-body None of us can make things a reality from the substrate of the universe but they have some talented people out there who can damn sure do some pretty nice work on a 3D Printer. I used to be pretty good with art and back in school, so many years ago I used to make a few bucks sketching friends of mine’s Dungeons & Dragons characters. I’m really thinking now about rendering the Star Trek characters I want and printing some O-Ring style Star Trek characters if I can’t talk Super7 into doing it for me! Lol They are going to be doing O-Ring 80s style GI Joes starting next year. Maybe you might be able to talk Super7’s head honcho, Brian Flynn into The Last Starfighter figures and the ship! Hell, I’d buy that too!
I did contact them actually! ReAction style Last Starfighter and V figures. Never heard back though.
@zombief-body Did you speak to anyone in particular by direct message?
No, just an email to them.
@zombief-body Do you still use Instagram? I usually post and tag both Super7 and their CEO Brian Flynn on there. Just put the “@“ symbol in front of their names. Brian Flynn loves to chat and answer questions and drop hints too. He’s a really down to Earth guy. I wish every toy maker strived for a similar approach.
@zombief-body Do you still use Instagram? I usually post and tag both Super7 and their CEO Brian Flynn on there. Just put the “@“ symbol in front of their names. Brian Flynn loves to chat and answer questions and drop hints too. He’s a really down to Earth guy. I wish every toy maker strived for a similar approach.
I deleted my personal account because I was interacting with my ex more than I wanted to! I still have the account I made for my dog that I created a few years back so I could interact with NECA CS. Nero.Ezio. Follow him, he needs followers and he's a good boy! Anyway, I'll interact directly with Brian. I think I want some kind of 'V' figure representation more than Last Starfighter but I keep hearing a Last Starfighter sequel is kinda in the early stages of development. I'm not sure I need to see the cast in their 60s doing cool sci-fi stuff but I'd watch it. Not the biggest fan of sequels happening 35-years later. Speaking of, Catherine Mary Stewart has said a sequel to Night of the Comet is also in early planning stages. Another 35-years later sequel but again, I'd watch it, and it'll keep Robert Beltran employed!
And to drag this back into Star Trek, if I had to complain about anything in regards to Picard season 3, I think they could have added more cameos from the other series. Seeing Tuvok again was great but what about Chakotay? Or Kim and still have him an ENS or LTJG with his buddy ADM Paris! All Star Trek needs more Chakotay.
I gave Nero.Ezio a follow. I think Brian is a fan of V too. From what I’ve heard the license is tricky but Brian was able to get a Glen Danzig license so he’s done the impossible before. Funko has done Pops of V pretty recently so hopefully it’ll happen with figures too. If they did a Visitor Mother Ship like that Cobra Mothership I would definitely be getting a second job for some overtime. I don’t know if you are into GI Joe but in case you didn’t know Super7 will be doing 80s O-Ring style figures. I’m kinda hoping they can do some Star Trek in that style but Star Trek is really getting to be a hard sell unfortunately.
Got my Ultimates. Riker, Data, and Locutus came out reasonably close to the renders. My Riker did not come packed with his phaser, which is annoying. I'll see if EE can hook me up with one, without having to pack and send things back. If not he and Data are gonna share.
Quick notes:
- elbows and knees can't hit a 90 degree bend without really pushing the joints.
- waist is a ball joint with ok range.
- Locutus is the most limited due to the sculpt.
- they are a bit stylized in hand but if you see the renders you'd know that going in.
- several hands but the only loose accessories that work with any of them are the phaser and tricorder. And I really had to work to get the tricorder in Data's hand.
- Pleasantly surprised to see that Data and Riker are on different sized bodies. Data is smaller than Riker. I expect that this will be the body used for Picard and Riker's for Worf.
Overall, I feel like they're on the same level as Black Series before the face printing tech and before they figured out how to do good articulation with single joints.
They could be better, but I'm satisfied with them.
One more thing: Since they can't actually hold any of the other stuff, it might not be a bad idea to drop some extras, and lower the price tag on figures going forward. (If there even is a forward after wave 2.)
Looking at Picard, I'd be surprised if he can securely hold anything other than the phaser and sword. Worf is the only one that looks like he comes with stuff he can actually hold, besides that square thing.
@bgiles73 Nero thanks you! I did @bryanflynn for the V stuff. That mothership is awesome and I want one for my 25th era Joes but definitely have no room for one, let alone the bread to pay for it! For V I think I just want a Diana and trooper. Don't even care about the resistance fighters. O-Ring Trek figures as a homage to the STIII Ertl stuff would be pretty cool. I had the Kirk figure and managed to pry the Riker head off my Galoob figure and put Kirks in there. Head-canoned some scenario where he went to the future and took command of the Enterprise-D.
Read Jay C’s commentary on Trek and Playmates possibly giving up in Trek toys. Not sure I agree with the idea that is hard to sell a mass market Star Trek line. I think it’s that Playmates half-assed it (as they do). Most of the lines in recent memory have no longevity, and it seems like they never expect to. I dont expect the Ultimates line to continue for very long either, but that’s mostly because they cost $50 and don’t look or function any better than the $25 Black Series figures.
But Star Trek should be a layup. 6-inch figures with justifiable buck re-use built into the property. Hundreds of characters. Command bridge play set opportunities. Doesn’t seem all that complicated.
Companies need to be willing to go all in. Past companies have been too cautious. We need to know we'll get the crews we want and get them sold at the appropriate locations. I don't see DST figures at Target but as a collector I know where to get them and they still seem to be making them without a major retail presence. Collectors are the market and we usually don't like going into WM or Target unless we have to. Well, I do but I'm weird and have no life. Seems Playmates was phoning this in and didn't really understand the market audience. Lots of collector lines are able to survive on just the standard Amazon, BBTS, or EE methods.
Also for a line based on nostalgia this really didn't mesh at all with the older figures. The scale was slightly off. If they wanted to redo the line with the heavies they should have started out in a new format. They should have gone a Black Series or Legends route with these. Super 7 doing their thing shouldn't have prevented them from doing a 6" collector focused line. However, I have serious doubts that Playmates could handle a product like that. A safer bet would have been to just re-release the older molds on vintage cards and see what the demand was. Then maybe redo some figures in the style of the later DS9 and Voyager figures, add some missing characters, etc. I think that level of articulation, scale and proportion was just about right. They could re-do the whole TNG crew with that basically. A lot of the early TNG stuff was too pre-posed TMNT for my tastes.
I gotta admit, I don't really like any of y'all's ideas. After 60-odd years since the original show, Hiya's the *first* company that looks to be doing things the way the license needs to be treated, imho. Prior Mego?Ertl attempts failed because they didn't try any ship/playsets as 18th needs, and Galoob failed by using that goddamned fake 'Retro' 5poa engineering that was never the original 18th format and only succeeded for Star Wars because STAR WARS.
But Hiya? Fully-articulated 18th with realistic sculpting and a measure of hope for ship/playset/bigger pricepoints based on how they've treated other lines? This may be the Star Trek 'killer app' toyline, imho. Looking at the Dredd Lawmaster bike, it's entirely plausible we could get this TrekCop with Hoverbike:
Kirk with his 'future bike'? Yeah, that's very possible.
If those get made and those sell, is a Shuttle possible?
Imho, the only real issue that might prevent Hiya's success here is that they're starting with the most-hated version of Trek.
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