Posted 31 January 2010 - 05:36 PM
The worst thing that DST can do is kill the 7" Trek line outright. If they want to take a couple of years off and focus on Tek and Ships, that I could understand. If they can only release five figures a year, that I'd understand as well. The last thing I want to see though is a scale change.
I admittedly wish Paramount would pick one scale and set it in stone in contracts, that way no matter who held the Trek license, we'd have figures in that scale, and if a company wanted to release another scale, it'd be in addition to, not in lieu of the scale required by Paramount. I also wish Paramount would take control of the molds as well as more of the production cost when a licensee drops the license; that way the next licensee would be able to use the same molds as the previous licensee, and we wouldn't have to go through this compatibility debacle. A Trek figure made by Playmates would be in the same scale as a figure made by DST. Likewise, if DST dropped the license and Playmates picked it up, then Playmates could use the same 1701-E mold as DST, if Playmates dropped it again and DST picked it up, DST could use the same mold once again, and so on. This of course would mean that Paramount, not DST, would take on the cost of the molds, which would likely be better in the long run, and take some of the pressure for a risky line like the one from Enterprise off of the toy licensee, and place that risk on Paramount itself.
I do think that the comment about the 7" figures refers to solely to Stargate rather than the whole 7" line of figures. I think the problem with the BSG line is that it hasn't gotten enough publicity outside of toy collectors, I'm admittedly just starting to find out about it and kicking myself for not knowing about it sooner. DST should invest in some toy commercials, and I seriously mean that