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After having these and playing with and posing them for a couple of days now here are my thoughts.

Sculpting on both are fantastic. Little details like being able to see the hem in the cuff of Kirks pants and Picards rank pips being sculpted are awesome. There is in a slight texture to the clothing. Kirks face is spot on and Picards is really good in hand. I think the pics online look off because the paint on Picards face is very subtle.

These are a little light on accessories but the ones the come with ar nicely done, with the exception of Kirks phaser. It is way to big. So fish out one of your old DST/AA phasers and you will be all set.

They have actual stands with a peg that fits in the bottom of the right foot. Nothing fancy but they do the trick to keep them upright. However they do stand on their own just fine.

The paint is a lot better than I have seen on a lot of McFarlanes figures in the past. It looks like the heads are actually molded in flesh tone with subtle shading on top. My Picard came out perfect but my Kirk however came with the left eye and eyebrow a little out of place. It wasn't bad but it made him look like he was looking to the left. I fixed it but this is one of those things that will make you probably want to find them in store to look them over first.

Now about the "size/scale" difference. There isn't actually a difference in scale, they just made either Picard to tall or Kirk to short. The hands can be swapped easily and the heads look like they should be able to be swapped easily too. Those are all the same size. After looking them over it looks like they made Picards torso a bit to long. Unfortunately this happens in a lot of different figure lines and has happened in McFarlanes Walking Dead line even between different versions of the same character over the years. You can buy three different versions of Rick Grimes and each one will be a different height. These at least fit together scale wise, unlike DST's version of TOS and TNG. Or even the variations between TNG figures themselves.I'm sure they will eventually do another Picard and he will most like be a different height. Lol.

My biggest concerns are the wrist pegs. They seem a little thin and I'm afraid I might brake one off while swapping hands. So take it easy.

Overall these are great figures. I see them being a huge step up from DST and AA. Kind of like how DST/AA was a huge step above Playmates. I really hope we get many more figures for years to come. I can't wait to see what they do with the aliens of a Trek.

I hope we some progress shots of this build.

Kirk has beamed in.

He looks great in the DST chair.

I just got Picard. The sculpt looks great in person. Lots of detail. The paint is a little on the plain side and his eyebrows are a little dark. Overall though, it is better than both AA and DST.
I should have Kirk tomorrow and then I'll try and ge some good pics up for everyone.
The only bad thing.... I want more characters now. Lol.

And.... it's people like that , that make all Star Trek fans look bad.

Beautiful build. I may need to get one of those.

I got my QMX Khan figure as an early Christmas present today. He looks great on the shelf.

I really want to get the shuttles but I know myself well enough to know I would have to display them all on their own shelf, and I just dont have an extra one right now. Lol.

I'm hoping for Janeway and more Voyager figures. I saw Hopper in target the other day. He looked really good. I also picked up the 7" Negan from Walking Dead. They did a great job on him.
I think they will do great with Star Trek. Although I'm sure there will be a few that will complain about them no matter how they turn out. Lol.

I wouldn't say people are tuning out just yet. Fox jumping nights after a couple of episodes is partially to blame. They are horrible at how they handle shows. People expected it to be on Sundays and it wasn't. The average viewer doesn't always keep close tabs on if a show is being switched to a different night. Especially after only two episodes. Also Neilson ratings are out of date. They don't have a real accurate way of keeping track of DVR and on demand watching. Just estimates.

When someone wishes a show to be cancelled that other people like just because they don't like it, it makes them a dick. Another person added to the ignore list.

I got into one of these "discussions" with a couple of idiot fanboys on Facebook last night on an Eaglemoss post about the show, when I simply posted how much I enjoyed the show and look and feel of the ships and everything. Got the same old crap...canon this, canon that...  klingons don't look right, weapons don't look right, it doesn't look like everything that came before, at this time in canon things should look like this, technology should look like that.... blah blah blah...
it's the same crap from the same small group of so called fans. The only thing these people are fans of are complaining about every version of Star Trek that isn't their favorite.
I'm glad that they chose a new direction and visual aesthetic for the show. It needed freshened up a bit. If they had stuck with the exact same thing that came before then the majority of the people watching would just be the complainers and that's not enough to carry a show.
I deleted my comment on Facebook because I just can't listen to the crap any more. I wasn't even trying to start a discussion and basically got attacked by a group trying to convince me of why it's a bad show... lol.
I was going to stay out of this thread for the same reason but just put the main offends on ignore.
I don't  mind a good discussion but I can't stand small minded people that want to do nothing but complain about change or anything new.

I would agree about Prometheus but I've had the same problems with getting in touch with him.

All I know is that MacFarlane will be getting a lot of my money. These figures are what I've been wanting.