It's their own fault - $20 for a Retro fig and WTF was the choice of Series 3? Regardless of the quality of the actual Elementary figures, where was Pulaski? And I'm pissed they missed the chance to release Tasha - literally ONE more character was necessary for this line to be complete.

Someone mentioned that the cardback character images were from somewhere - does one exist of Tasha? If so, maybe I'll fake one, like I did a DST figure.

I also just bought all the TNG ones, too, because they finally went up for acceptable prices around Black Friday. I actually returned Riker because his cardback came bent the same day I ended up on the same plane as Jonathan Frakes. 🙂 That was pretty exciting.

You met my beard mentor, very cool!  I see them these as expensive MOC fodder.  I don't MOC so I had no interest in them.  You can't do much with them so MOC is kind of the only appeal.  I also collect now because figures are so much better than what I had as a kid.  I want SWBS level of ST toys not stuff I had 40-years ago as a kid!  Reaction is like Pops to me, I'll buy them if it's a franchise I really like.  Like BSG, ideally I want SWBS level product but sometimes Pops or Reaction is all you get.  I think the last Reaction line I bought was Beavis and Butthead because they turned out to be pretty good B&B figures.  Animation accurate and you don't need 50POAs on characters like that so the standard 5POA worked for them.    

 I’m inclined to agree $20 is too expensive for a 5POA figure and $55 is too expensive for Ultimates. Paramount has been really unsupportive of the Star Trek license over the years and really hasn’t given any companies any reasons to want to stick their necks out for a license that despite Paramount executives over inflated expectations of simply isn’t as big of a profit generator as Star Wars. The years of plenty are over, corporate greed, out of control inflation, closing retailers and disinterest from kids are all about to drive this hobby into extinction. I’m not meaning just niche properties either. If Star Wars and Marvel are in trouble you can darn well bet everything else is doomed. 

A retro-inspired line directly based on the Galoob figures would be cool.  I'd buy TOS or movie era characters in that style.  I doubt it would sell but I'd like it!

Both Hasbro and Disney need to sort their houses out.  Hasbro needs to go back to focusing on toy making and well Disney, I won't go into here.  I just hope Hasbro can prioritize the few remaining Marvel comic characters I feel are necessary for my collection (let's finish classic 90s X-Force!).  TF and GI Joe I'm kind of good with if they stop tomorrow, but being in-house brands I imagine they can always pivot back to focusing all-in on them.  Buying the PR brand was dumb considering the low quality of the figures.  I don't think I have a single figure that hasn't had the paint from the weapons fuse molecularly to a hand or holster and pull off.  That should not happen.  That's cheap plastic or improper paint or both.  I expect more from what's technically an in-house brand that's costing as much as a high-end licensed one.  The fact they had to pause that line to sort out the problems speaks volumes.  PR to me is not a huge nostalgia draw so I probably plan to off-load my collection this year.  I guess a lot of people have been having massive problems with TFs in the last few years (missing pieces, accessories, cracked pinned parts, etc.) but so far I've lucked out. 

The cost-cutting and price-hiking needs to stop!  Some have been proposing that was the reason for the "Earth friendly" Hasbro packaging, so you couldn't see the declining quality of the product considering Mattel still uses recyclable window plastic.  In fact the Mattel brands I collect are still chugging along just fine and are actually improving slightly each year.  WWE seems to be all pin-less now for Elites starting with the 2024 waves.  Jurassic lines are doing great.  Paint work seems improved and increased, Hammond Collection saw the addition of thigh cuts in the human figures.  Some dinos have odd articulation choices but on the whole are doing OK.  Mattel was having financial issues too but is slowly turning that around.  I don't want to see Hasbro fail, Disney either, but they need to read the room.  Thanks for listening to my toy TED talk!  

I'm done with Super 7 Trek after Worf and Picard come out. $55 for 2014 Star Wars Black Series quality figures is too much. 

I just got my $55 S7 Snarf, but that to me is worth it.  Thundercats toys based on 1985 animation in 2024?!  Not many companies beating down the doors at WB to make those.  ST should have better mainstream toy support.   

I got my shipment of Locutus, Riker and Data along with Cliff Burton and Lemmy. I thought that everyone of these was fantastic. Locutus’s legs are a little loose and that’s my only concern. I liked these more than any of the Art Asylum/DST or Playmates versions of the same three characters. I thought they really nailed the look of the characters and the articulation was adequate to pose them in great photogenic poses. I agree that pricing could be better for these. If these were $30 per figure I doubt seriously that there would be a problem getting sufficient preorders in. I really wish Paramount, Playmates Toys and Super7 could orchestrate some kind of a collaboration and make a mainline legacy collection out of Ultimates and Reaction/O-Ring. Just scrap that 2022 attempt at figures altogether because it was too much like and unlike that original 90s line to generate any motivation amongst collectors.

4" super-articulated collector line or 6" super-articulated collector line.  That's all these companies should be looking at.  All Trek eras mixed together.  

I see we're getting yet another reboot origin movie coming soon.  If that's the case, it'd dead, Jim!  I don't know why we need to keep redoing the TOS era.  

Rebooting the original series seems kind of antithetical to the messages of progress inherent to Star Trek as a brand. It’s somewhat conservative the first time you do it, and almost regressive to keep rebooting the same story after that. There are other problems in our current world that warrant examination through allegory. What does it say about us as a society that in the 2020’s we need to revisit the same issues from the 1960’s?

If this is dealing with the Kelvin Universe in the decades preceding the time incursion of Nero in which the Prime History was altered is this not also a Prime Story? Maybe this will be entirely a Prime Universe story in which George Kirk was not killed on the Kelvin but instead goes on to be the inspiration for his younger son James T Kirk to go on to captain the Enterprise and we might see some of the conflict between the two Kirk siblings. It would be a great way to maybe see some of the Strange New Worlds cast interact with the JJ Abrams Universe cast.

I don't think we really need a Kelvin prequel movie.  Unless it's a Robert April movie or something with the 1960s aesthetic, not interested.  In the Kelvin movies we know the Enterprise didn't exist for Robert April to command.  Maybe I'm misrembering, but I know in STIII they say the Enterprise is 20-years old and past her prime.  Was it the Filmation series or was it mentioned in TOS that the Enterprise was commissioned in the 2240s?  If it's the animated series I guess you could erase April from the official continuity but now SNW has made him canon.  You could also say that the Kelvin films are more or less correct and the Enterprise was just built sooner due to Nero's incursion.  I don't know, I just know I don't need anymore TOS era prequel material!  

I’m inclined to agree about not needing more prequels to TOS …..BUT.. JJ Abrams along with Paramount were pretty hot on the idea of bringing Chris Hemsworth back for Part 4. Strange New Worlds keeps talking about George Kirk and you have the two Kirk siblings in the series. A couple of the SNW shows have involved jumping around in time. We see an alternate future timeline in which Pike avoids his accident and the “Balance of Terror” episode plays out to tragic effects. We also see Kirk and La’an go back in time to present time and stop an attempt on Khan as a child’s life not 1996 but now. I really think we are going to get a Temporal Cold War resolution in a series of tie in movies. I’m thinking all eras of Star Trek will be pulled into it, because Patrick Stewart is in the loop on a Picard movie that is currently being written. I will not be surprised if remaining TOS actors are not secretly in discussions with Paramount. William Shatner isn’t above misleading us with statements about Paramount writing him out of Star Trek history I would also not be surprised if some how that is the plot of the whole thing! Erasing Kirk from the Star Trek Multiverse.

Except they literally put Kirk's body as an Easter egg in Picard S3.

I keep hoping Michelle Yeoh's rise would put an end to her availability for a Section 31 project and it could finally die like it should. Alas. More time travel, more looking back in a show set in the future. Le sigh.

Just watched Lower Decks S4E1 and wow - that was a LOT of love for Voyager. Like, a whole dang lot. Really surprised Playmates didn't touch these characters last year. Saw the Funko Pops of the main cast and Badgey and was actually a little tempted.

Just seems odd to keep tinkering and complicating the TOS era unnecessarily.  Why can't we just move forward?  I want the Enterprise-G and Jack Crusher/Picard.  I'd gladly watch that series.  Are the writers not confident that they could create an iconic crew to last for 7-years?  I don't get it.  The constant need to reinvent Kirk and Spock, they got it right the first time IMO.  I also don't get the whole "reinvent for a new generation" concept either.  Why not just give them their own crew that adds to the future legacy rather than cram them into the past where they don't fit?  Kirk and Spock are a big part of Trek but the series is much bigger than just them.  They aren't the center of the Trek universe.  I'm old but the TNG crew was "my" crew.  I still love the TOS crew but let's see what we can create for the Zoomers and Alphas to pine for in 30-years.  It's like they want to lure in old fans by using the older characters then admonish us when we say it's not close enough to what we want.  Like getting mixed signals from a woman and it just make want to walk away.  They need to just do their own thing and see if it stands on it's own.  The TOS setting just seems like a crutch.  I get that 60-years of continuity is daunting but just tinkering around with the past to avoid learning it seems lazy.

TOS was "my" Trek, but I agree with everyone that it's time to move on. I really enjoy Strange New Worlds, but that is all the prequel I need in my Trek. In my opinion, everything else should be set after Picard Season 3. Introduce a new cast with Seven of Nine in the Captain's chair. Establish them in a series, then possibly move them into feature films if it is successful. 

Anyway, back to toys! I have to admit I'm tempted by the S7 Ultimates, even though I don't care for several aspects of them. More than anything, I just don't want to buy the first couple of waves, and never wind up with the remaining cast which is what I'm afraid will happen.