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TrekCore.com article series covering the inception and development of Galoob's TNG toys! Never-before-seen content!


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#1 Destructor!!!

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Posted 23 October 2013 - 05:46 PM

Sigh, I knew the new forum would let me down in some small way. Click here.
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Click the banner to read this most interesting of articles... part one is up now, part two next week.
 
 

Coming next week: A look at everything that never made it to market, with images of playset prototypes, preliminary sketches, and lots of other things we can guarantee you've never seen!



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Posted 23 October 2013 - 05:57 PM

You'll need to post the link. The only thing you get when you click the banner is a pop-out look at the banner photo. 



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Posted 23 October 2013 - 09:27 PM

Can't wait for part 2 on this.....love the fan made Crusher and Troi.

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Posted 25 October 2013 - 12:56 PM

You'll need to post the link. The only thing you get when you click the banner is a pop-out look at the banner photo.


Sorry about that, I should have tested it. In the old days I could wrap an image tag in a URL tag and make it an image link... not so any more. There really ought to be a condition in the pop-out-picture code where, if there is no resolution advantage to be gained, it doesn't pop it out. I suspect the image link thing would still work then.

/Slow-building rant to follow/ I'm actually not a fan of the pop-outs at all - I much prefer to right click on a squished high-res picture, and middle click on "View Image" to open it in another tab, where I can inspect it, and zoom freely, at my leisure.

But then you come up against rubbish image hosters like TinyPic who redirect you from the raw image to their cruddy page with a tiny postage stamp version of the image, which, if you click on it, becomes a slightly less tiny postage stamp with a near invisible "view raw image" link hidden, Wally(Waldo)-style somewhere on the page. Infuriating... /rant complete/

Anyway, yes next week's article promises to be the real star of the show, where we find out what toys we never knew we didn't get! Donald Rumsfeld will be thrilled.

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Posted 25 October 2013 - 02:48 PM

That was an awesome read and I'm definitely looking forward to the second part!  It's hard looking at all those scattered pieces of the Romulan and Wesley first shots.  It's like... can you just loan the Romulan pieces to someone who can make casts?  That way nobody has to tear open one of those carded samples floating around. :P

 

The whole thing really makes me miss Galoob as a company.  I mostly favored them for their Micro-Machines, but they really made a lot of awesome things.  It's great to have a perspective on their branching out, especially since it's been so easy to look at their Trek offerings and think how meager the line was.  I certainly look at the line with more appreciation now knowing how much of a risk and how much work they had to put into it.



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Posted 28 October 2013 - 12:56 PM

as I took some pictures for the writers of the second part (for the Romulan and Wesley) figure) I'm also looking forward to that :)



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Posted 29 October 2013 - 12:55 PM

Second part is up!

 

Picard: Tactical analysis!

Tactical Officer: It's a TRAP!!!



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Posted 01 November 2013 - 03:27 PM

Second part is up!

 

Picard: Tactical analysis!

Tactical Officer: It's a TRAP!!!

Too funny !!! I just can't repel humor of that magnitude :) .....  Something else that struck me funny..... In the away team shots with the Ferengi..... It looks like the Galoob Ferengi is taking a whiz ..... Nice- right.... that is all I would notice with all that Galoob awesomeness to see LOL.... Thanks for sharing this D !!!



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Posted 01 November 2013 - 10:13 PM

No problem! Glad my humour is not lost on this forum :)

 

The mindset in toy companies that is - I have learned from this article - summed up by the word "Toyetic", makes me rage so hard.

 

Even when I was a kid, when I started to notice that the Playmates bridge playset had major inaccuracies, or the moment the Playmates First Contact Enterprise-E came out of the box, for example, I was so disappointed.

 

Why do things need to be warped and ruined to "look like a toy"? WTF? I want a toy of the thing I love - and most of the fun of the sculpt, for me, comes from its adherence to the source material.

 

It sounds like Jim Fong and I are of like minds on this... this idiotic "toyetic" line of thought turned this awesome thing:

 

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... into this (admittedly still cool) monstrosity:

 

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I remember wishing, as a kid, that someone would make me new turbolift alcoves for the D-bridge, with the correct shape and number of doors... such a pity the original pitch for the Galoob playset wasn't followed.



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Posted 12 November 2013 - 12:34 AM

Part III is up!



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Posted 23 November 2013 - 03:34 AM

 That Galoob retail shelving display makes me come totally undone..... How cool would have it been back in the day to have seen a display at your local store like that !!!!  

 

No to get off track .... but I can remember in 1992 going to Toys R Us after Christmas to return some video games I had received and low and behold there was a HUGE aisle dispaly with all the new Playmates TNG items.... I used every cent in return money to buy all I could.... The figures were just so cool !!!!  The electronic Enterprise made me have to run to the bathroom lol..... It was just such a beautiful sight....and I knew we were in for something special !!!

 

 

Galoob had so much planned ...its sad they never got to it all !!



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Posted 03 January 2014 - 04:42 PM

Great read.






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