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[mars396]

Dual Bat'leth Attack !!

 

 

 

 

[robster]

Ooooh,looks REALLY good! And I'm not even a Worf,or Klingon,fan,lol! But that's some great pics mars,thanks!

J-R!

[mars396]

 

 

 

[tuvok47]

Is that a custom Borg? Second from the right.

[Gothneo]

Worf and Picard look great together. 

[mars396]

Is that a custom Borg? Second from the right.

There's a long and boring story about that Borg.

When Art Asylum released Borg Assimilation, I wanted a Locutus.
So I bought an extra Nemesis Picard and an extra Cardassian Borg, and combined them. Years later, we got an actual (and vastly superior) Locutus. At that point, I took one of my extra Captain Archers and put his head on my Locutus. A shame we never got any more Borg figures. I really wanted Seven, the Queen, and assimilated humans.

[tuvok47]

I'd love to see a series of Borg themed Select figures. They've already got the prototypes. Just release the various figures with complete alcove dioramas and price at 24.99. Could eventually do a 7 or even a Janeway.

[DSTZach]

To be fair, Picard can do more than one pose, both shoulders are ball-jointed. Aside from not having any alternate hands (Kirk's and Spock's both work for him), I'd say he's almost as variable as Worf. And like I said, we may do some in the future.

Troi is that old Troi, I found a few in the archive. All of the new Selects work with the old figures from their respective eras.

[DSTZach]

And Kirk and Spock were given a more deluxe treatment to start the line off with a bang, as I've said here before, but they definitely gave an unreasonable expectation for the rest of the line.

[Qcjoe]

And Kirk and Spock were given a more deluxe treatment to start the line off with a bang, as I've said here before, but they definitely gave an unreasonable expectation for the rest of the line.

This almost reminds me of how Hasbro handled the Star Wars 6 inch line.  They had all kinds of accessories and great paint and sculpts.  Then the ones to follow were not as good and had way less accessories.

[Sybeck1]

Good pics, but I miss ACTION figures

[Commodore Kor'Tar]

Man, I'm really looking forward to my Worf. Come on DST processing!!! Take my money and send my Worf!!

[tuvok47]

Good pics, but I miss ACTION figures

What's more ACTION than Worf slicing with a batleth, or shoving his phaser rifle in a Borg's face?!

[Gothneo]

Zach, you should take more picts with the select figures and some of the AA/DST action figures. They show how nicely the two lines mix!

[DSTZach]

I'll be honest -- I don't have mine any more! I used to have a small collection, back in my ToyFare days, but sometime between ToyFare and DST they got passed along.

 

I can show you Work menacing a Horta, or Picard stunning Khan, but I'll have to leave the older figure pics to those with better collections. Great shots, by the way, Mars! I couldn't see them before.

 

One aside - the "whatever happened to action figures" comments are so strange to me. McFarlane Toys was the leading collector-targeted action figure manufacturer for years, and their figures varied in articulation down to absolute zero. There was the occasional blowback from fans, but mostly it was when the chosen pose was not what people wanted -- the Lost line comes to mind. Meanwhile, figures like Snake Plissken got zero criticism. Sometimes people say "well, the industry/fandom has changed," but when people are gushing over ReAction figures, which channel the early 1980s, they must not have changed that much.

 

We made fully poseable action figures for years, including this outfit for Worf. Expanding that line with obscure characters, even as part of mixed assortments with more popular characters, is not really in the cards right now, not for Trek. So we're offering something that is DIFFERENT from what has come before. Even without the five interchangeable parts, Worf still has six points of articulation, which is more than most Playmates figures. And as much as I dug the old AA/DST figures, it's not like most of them could pull off an action pose like this one. I think they all had T-crotches, even if the arms were fully articulated.

[robster]

What he said! Basically. While I do like some of the ReAction stuff,mainly things we haven't seen before as action figs much or at all,I just LOVE my Marvel Select and now this ST Select! Wish DST could do DC Select as well,would LOVE to see their take on Superman and Flash,amongst others. But if people really do love all this retro stuff,why not just buy all that old stuff from when it actually came out? And no,not all of it is expensive,or are even collectibles,so that's no excuse. lol!

 

J-R!

[reverie]

Did I miss if there was an answer about the missing robe/sash? I'll be honest, differences like that are what attract me more to yet another Star Trek line (not to mention that's how I'd have displayed mine ).

[JMW326]

Mine should be at home waiting tonight. I will try and take some pics of him and Picard together.

[Gothneo]

Thanks Zach! Bummer about misplacing your Trek figures, but I understand! I just thought it'd be cool to see some more shots like the one done with Troi!

 

I completely understand that Select is doing something different. Never even an issue with me. I really do like that the line looks so good with existing figures, and that alone might just get my off the fence and into the line as I've been kinda waiting for the line to do something from VOY though I recognize thats probably an outside chance.

[JMW326]

Well my package has been delayed.