Looks great, Ben! Jesus, I still haven't picked up my K't'inga and Defiant at the shop yet! The weather here has been grisly! Like I've said countless times, Mother Nature is a skank.
DD,how do you know your unreleased fig is the ONLY one in existence? I always have a hard time believing claims like that,lol,since it can't be proven as such. Wish they did release wave two though,if only to complete that bloody bridge,lol!
Rob, I know it's not the only Spock Academy Instructor figure in existence; I was told that it's the only packaged one in existence. It was sent to me by someone VERY, VERY high up at Playmates who said it's the only one that they made before the line was cancelled. He said that it was a "one-of-a-kind sample", his words, not mine. He asked me not to sell it for a couple of years and I have complied for over 4 years so far.
I suspect that his words are true as I've never seen another packaged fig from the wave and a few serious fig collectors have told me that these kind of mockups are exceedingly rare. I'm not a fig collector at all so I can only go by what others have said: I'd never pretend to be a fig expert. I do know enough about rare toys to know it could be worth a bundle... and sadly, I'm not wealthy enough to give it away cheap to a collector pal. I wish I could find out what similar items have gone for. I saw a packaged Action Fleet mockup of a Mon Calamari ship go for $565 recently and I know the shooting 3-3/4" Boba Fett goes for thousands but I have no idea if these are even in the ballpark. If anyone can help with solid numbers, I'd love to hear from you.
Originally, he said that he'd send me at least one starship from the unreleased Playmates 4" starship line.... but he came back from China and they'd all gone AWOL, apparently. I doubt I'd have been able to resist opening it if it had been a ship! Yep, I'm real stupid that way.
Unfortunately, it has a slight ding in it because he threw it in a bubble envelope and shipped it via USPS from California. Probably won't affect its value by much due to its rarity. I kept the envelope as some sort of proof of its provenance.
I will flog it on eBay someday... or I'd trade it for a ship of equivalent rarity in a heartbeat. That Mon Cal would do!