Any Australian collectors out there?
As an Aussie, still collecting Playmates Star Trek figures, I have strange memories of being a kid and getting quite frustrated that not all the figures were released.
Wave 1 & 2 of Next Generation came out just fine and could easily be found in Kmart, Target and Toys R Us. But from Wave 3 onwards (The 7th season set) only a handful of figures could be found.
The DS9 and Voyager lines seemed to suffer the same fate – I remember seeing Dax, Bashir, O’brien and Dukat a million times. Often in places where hundreds of figures were displayed!
What’s more – figures were often released with space cap or trading card removed!!
I dragged my poor Mum from store to store, only to find the same old figures. And the stores never looked sold out – I remember a whole shelf of Tarchannen III Geordis in the Myer toy section in Melbourne.
As a kid, I had no idea what was happening – and used to stare at the action figure backing cards. Longingly dreaming of Lt. Barclay and Worf in Rescue Outfit
Does anyone have similar recollections? What happened? Or is it just that Australia is too much of a backwater town to receive the good stuff.
Love to hear your thoughts.
- Jimmy