Posted 21 November 2009 - 03:09 PM
OK, I know I have said it before in the forum, and I will try not to say it again, but...
DST is having troubles finding buyers for the current offerings of Trek, they have lost faith in anything beyond TOS. The latest/last wave of figures is not hitting their targeted sales, they may have to give up on TOS. DST is unimpressed with TREK!
Playmates has sold a first wave of movie Trek figures in stores everywhere. They released three scales of them, one of which was of interest to many collectors, due to their compatibility in size with other companies figures, ie Star Wars. Playmates did not release the bridge sets with the non US offerings and were apparently going to make a booster pack for the next wave, to fix that error. Playmates offered a second wave of some interesting characters to be released in November. These figures appear to be cancelled. PM seems to feel that Trek does NOT sell.
Before the cancellation of the Movie Trek series 2, Playmates announces they are going to offer TOS figures in the smaller scale. It turns out that they might be pairing with DST to do these figures, everyone gets interested in the thought (me included). Well Playmates is not selling a second wave, due to poor sales and interest; DST is not selling the last hurrah wave, due to lack of interest. WHO is going to buy these figures now??
Everyone is complaining when there is a new variation of Kirk or Spock, as in Kirk in this or that uniform. Several people are not interested in Paramount's desire to release everything in new formats so, "I have to start all over with what I already have". It would appear that, due to the wide open number of characters that DST/AA have already released, they can woo us enough that new figures can be created. IS this going to happen?
I have not collected the PM figures so far, I did not want the 12" because they are too big, and I no longer display my current large figures. I did not collect the 6" figures, as they are not in any scale that I have (Trek always seems to have a unique scale, since the Mego years even). I did not collect the 3 3/4 figures, although I was thinking of it, because the headsculpts looked lame. When the figures went down in price, I was very close to getting them all, but stalled when realizing I would be missing Pike and later the uniformed McCoy, etc.
When I heard of the "merger" between PM and DST, I became interested again. I was going to buy up some figures to customize between the two, and also merging the TMP bridge figures too...
I would probably get these smaller figures, because lets face it they display better. I might even replace my display with everything Playmates, but what if they do not sell? Will I get my hopes up, only to get a repeat of an incomplete crew, AGAIN? Couldn't this basically be, Just Another Kirk and Spock??
I DO hope that this plan will help to "flesh out" the second wave of PM figures AND the latest/Last wave of TOS figures. But lets face it, if neither of these are getting "enough interest" now, how is the interest going to hold out for the "hybrid" Trek idea.
Are you still there, I am finished now. I will endevour to keep up a positive spin on the idea and buy them if I can. And I will stop being a naysayer for a great merging of these two concepts. AND if wave two becomes an (alternate?) reality", I will buy them up at full retail as well as every first wave I can find!
Done ranting now...