Should Playmates make a Star Trek: Lower Decks line?
#1
Posted 13 July 2020 - 06:53 PM
#3
Posted 13 July 2020 - 07:02 PM
I'm still waiting for someone to make figures based on the first animated series.
#4
Posted 13 July 2020 - 08:16 PM
#5
Posted 14 July 2020 - 06:55 PM
This series seems perfect for something like mini-mates
#6
Posted 16 July 2020 - 09:46 AM
This series seems perfect for something like mini-mates
Anything that gets DST to produce more than Marvel Minimates is fine with me at this point. I have zero interest in toys based on this cartoon but I won't lie; if they made Lower Decks Minimates, I'd buy them all.
#7
Posted 16 July 2020 - 03:08 PM
#8
Posted 19 July 2020 - 10:36 AM
But is it the hope that kids watch the show and buy the figures? Even in the '90s Playmates said that 7 out of 10 buyers were adult collectors. It would be great to see something very opposite happen in the marketplace.
Lower Decks is such a niche property, and the path of figure production to store retail is so much narrower now, it's very different now to have something get on a shelf in Target, than 25 years ago. Directly online, on the other hand...
I suspect that if there's currently potential for a Trek figure line in the smaller formats to succeed, it's probably the Picard series, simply because of the potential for the old collectors to come out of "retirement" and buy those figures, especially if they were done in the 4.5-inch format.
The way that McFarlane flamed out has been pretty disappointing. Had they started their efforts right now, as the Picard S1 has wrapped up, perhaps they would have been able to do something different.
#9
Posted 19 July 2020 - 04:57 PM
#12
Posted 20 July 2020 - 01:09 PM
#13
Posted 20 July 2020 - 03:08 PM
I was on the fence about the show at first but am coming around to the idea. I'm hoping there are some fun cameos.
That would be so excellent if this show was a way for Playmates to restart the 4.5 line for the entire franchise!
#14
Posted 20 July 2020 - 04:46 PM
I don't really have an issue with smaller scales as much as I once did... time was that the smaller scale meant limited POA and bad paint apps... Obviously companies like Hot Toys raised the bar on 1/6, but hasbro really took things in the 3 3/4 inch scale to new levels. Reto/vintage is certainly fun... but I guess the nostalgia only takes me so far... so I really like the more modern stuff... and I'm sorry but playmates just didn't step up when they had a go at it in 2009... and I can't see that they would step it up any more... which maybe thats what some niche collectors want... and if they can make a go of that then ok.
#15
Posted 20 July 2020 - 05:26 PM
I dunno if Playmates sees a lot of collectors or kids-pestering-parent-buyers out there. Or just store shoppers who watch the shows, for that matter. It's hard to believe, but we now have 3 Star Trek shows on the "air," as it were. The last time that was the case was, uhh, never, not even in the mid-90s when DS9 and VOY were in production and the TNG movies were still going.
But are figure buyers, in any age group, there at all?
#16
Posted 20 July 2020 - 07:08 PM
#17
Posted 20 July 2020 - 07:25 PM
I dunno if Playmates sees a lot of collectors or kids-pestering-parent-buyers out there.
But are figure buyers, in any age group, there at all?
Seems like the super hero genre still has some... but I think much has gone to high end niche.
#18
Posted 20 July 2020 - 08:29 PM
#19
Posted 21 July 2020 - 11:48 AM
That other big space franchise just sold out of a $400 Target exclusive Smuggler's Run Millennium Falcon within minutes of it being announced.
https://www.target.c...un/-/A-79416673
Star Wars enjoys many impressions across different media, from film and television to video games and publishing. Lucasfilm has made a point of aiming it at the young and young at heart, which is why it's such a good fit for Disney. There's still a surprising amount of demand.
Star Trek is on multiple streaming services but the days of newbies discovering it while channel surfing are coming to an end. Syndication isn't what it used to be. There are no new films on the horizon. New content is behind a paywall. Publishing is dead. Is there a game?
All that said, it seems like we're the ones sustaining action figures and it's largely out of habit. Our favorite toys have gone the way of vinyl records. People buy them out of nostalgia or novelty, depending on their age.
#20
Posted 21 July 2020 - 12:05 PM
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