you arent supposed to take advantage of the fact that they have removable clothes, unless you want to check out their...
The advantage of removable clothes is that they hide those nasty points of articulation. Also, if you put all plastic figures in a position with their hands in the air ("we surrender", excellent position for a Picard figure) the colors of the uniform on the arms do not match with the colors on the body.
I guess they have to make it look like the clothes are not too baggy, nor the figure is too skinny. They also didnt make each person of differing heights/stockiness.
Look at the SildeShow figures (I have 2 of their James Bonds), they have a normal body.
Which movie was he likely to be out of, wasnt TrekIII coming out at the time, why wouldnt they have released the TMP version, or better yet, start out with the TOS version?
Excuse me? The Playmates 12" figures were made in the early 1990's. That means a TUC Kirk was what I thought I would get.
Since Picard was released in his TV costume, then it made sence to have Kirk in His.
That's not how I saw it. At that time Picard didn't even have a movie uniform. We saw him only in his season 1-2 TNG uniform, his season 3-7 TNG uniform, his "Captain's Jacket", his DS9 jumpsuit (Generations) and a few garments he only wore in one episode. So it was logical to assume they would make him in his season 3-7 TNG uniform. Kirk at that time was a movie icon, seen in a regular red jacket, a bomber jacket, a landing jacket, 2 different vests and some civilian clothes. The logical choice would have been the regular red jacket. I saw no logic in them making an outdated version of a character that was at that time still a character of the 'present'. Today it's a different matter. Indeed, today Kirk is no longer a character of the present. And there are 79 episodes of a TV series and only 6 movies of him in the red jacket (worse, in TSFS and TVH he is out of uniform most of the time!) So today it would be a logical choice to make a Kirk figure in his TOS TV uniform. I don't like that, but I understand it. Back in the early to middle 1990's, when Kirk was still a character of the present, it never crossed my mind that someone would actually make a 'past' Kirk instead of a then 'present' one. And I still believe it was wrong.
If you want to give him away, or Trade someone for a TWOK one, I am sure you would get a few yes's. I realize shipping is a bugger, I would trade you evenly for my Kirk/Spock TWOK, but I only have the one right now.
The figure is loose and the box is thrown away. No, I'll keep it and I'll try to find a 12" TWOK Kirk and 2 TWOK Spocks (so I have a Captain's uniform for Kirk!) Come to think of it, I will try to find a 12" TMP Kirk as well, so I can put the TOS Kirk next to the TMP Kirk, next to the TWOK Kirk.
VF, I dont know if you have the Kirk that Berns is refering to, nor the Sulu/Chekov, but they also have differing colours in their uniforms. Plus Kirk has a two piece ensemble, as opposed to everyone else's "jumpsuits". That differs, plus the way that they didnt put a black outline around JTK's insignia.
Yes, now that I see these pictures, the later versions do seem to be an improvement. It looks like the shirt is also a bit longer on the Checkov pictured. On Kirk, the yellow shirt looks like it shrank, but they had that in some episodes too. How's the color of the shirt on the checkov?
