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#96690 New Star Trek Series starring Patrick Stewart
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 05 April 2020 - 11:17 PM
#96527 New Star Trek Series starring Patrick Stewart
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 31 January 2020 - 01:21 PM
#96487 TWO unannounced live action shows coming?
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 13 January 2020 - 03:46 PM
#96459 René Auberjonois Has Died At 79
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 12 December 2019 - 07:41 PM
#96307 McFarlane Toys Gets Entire Star Trek Licence!
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 03 August 2019 - 08:30 PM
#96054 New Star Trek Series starring Patrick Stewart
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 16 May 2019 - 04:44 AM
#95978 The 1701 controversy two decades later
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 19 April 2019 - 03:20 PM
Back in the 90's when I was collecting Playmates Star Trek figures, I don't recall having known about Mail away Sisko figure, it's was only years later that I found out about it. I was a completist with the Playmates line until those impossible to get figures came along.
Yeah, that's the thing: there were plenty of collectors who were not completists, especially those who didn't bother to get the Sisko figure for next to nothing, but who got butthurt when the 1701 figures came out and suddenly acted like they were denied admission into college or something.
Another thing we kinda take for granted now is supply. If the 1701 Picards were released today, in 2019, and bought up by scalpers just like there were back then, there would be like 300 of them for sale on the internet any given day. Then supply would have driven the price down. Back then, if you picked up a copy of Tomart's and Lee's, there were like half a dozen shops offering half a dozen Picards. So it was take it or leave it, effectively -- pay the ransom or go find another. There was no eBay.
There's one other important factor here: It may not have been that the 1701-unit run was small in relation to completist and non-completist collectors, it's that the scalpers got most of these. It was the guys sitting in their Pontiac Grand Ams at 5:59am before the Wal-Mart opened and the guys slipping $50 bills to back room clerks that got to most of these. With them removed, I think it would have been a very different outcome -- each US state would have had an average of 34 Tapestry Picards. Adjusted for population/store number, it would obviously have been skewed to more populous states. It would have still been a Willy Wonka ticket type of thing, but it would have been more palatable.
#95850 Magazine advertisements
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 12 March 2019 - 06:06 PM
#95650 What is the rarest playmates figure?
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 01 February 2019 - 04:08 PM
#95494 Star Trek 4 (14)
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 09 January 2019 - 10:15 AM
#95482 Star Trek 4 (14)
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 08 January 2019 - 05:37 PM
#95481 Star Trek: The OTHER Animated Series announced
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 08 January 2019 - 05:35 PM
#95436 Mego Corporation Revival - Could this mean new Star Trek toys?
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 31 December 2018 - 01:17 PM
#95417 Merry Christmas !!
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 24 December 2018 - 11:59 PM
#95301 Happy Thanksgiving
Posted by VulcanFanatic on 22 November 2018 - 09:27 AM
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