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Jpatrik

Member Since 14 May 2013
Offline Last Active Nov 07 2023 05:23 AM
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In Topic: Star Trek Playmates Toys Youtube Video

07 November 2023 - 05:23 AM

About the figure numbers - youre right, it is in fact a sizeable black hole.  I tried really hard to track down some sources, found old magazine articles and most sources focused on Red Data, Tom Riker or Esoqq as rare or shortpacked figures.  Sources varied (but not by much) in terms of quantities for those figures.  But for the TNG wave 1 & 2 figures?  No idea.  I resorted to asking various facebook communities for the highest numbered figures they had and it topped out at about 300,000 for some figures (which explains why so many mint in packet samples are still on the market decades later)

 

As for later on, I was able to find magazine interviews with Chris Overley where he stated that the warp factor figures would be produced about 10,000 per figure.  Anecdotally, this sort of tracks with what I see on ebay every day.  The later waves do seem to be under-represented (but of course, as your posts often point out this can be driven by "market forces" like new shows, the return of older characters like Picard, etc)


In Topic: Star Trek Playmates Toys Youtube Video

22 October 2023 - 07:40 PM

Thanks for the kind words!  Yes, this was the result of many hoarded playmates ads scanned (as well as many other fans have generously shared with me).  Plus I have loose samples of every figure, so any time you see a figure against a white background - that's mine! (1701 figures included).

 

Yeah "evil" Picard has been annoying me every since it was issued - had the same reaction.  We were years behind on DS9 here I grew up so I genuinely thought it was an upcoming episode where a "mirror" Picard would show up and do and say evil stuff!

 

Crazy to hear about the Trifolds at the Huntsville convention.  Funny how the collective "memory" of the internet doesnt seem to reach that far back in time to include the 90s and much of the history of the Playmates line.  Thanks for watching :-)


In Topic: Star Trek Playmates Toys Youtube Video

18 October 2023 - 08:05 PM

For anyone who still frequents these parts, here's part 2 (part 3 is being edited now) of our documentary.  All the loose figures (with the white background) are mine!

 

As always, comments and likes really help the algorithm! :-)