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Morgan

Member Since 05 Dec 2014
Offline Last Active Apr 26 2024 09:07 AM
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#80013 Review: Mugato by Playmates

Posted by Morgan on 22 March 2015 - 09:01 PM

This is a pretty cool character that the company took a chance on. The TOS lineup had gotten kind of random by the time the Mugato came out, but along with the Gorn is one of those rare characters that grew in popularity decades after the original episode aired. There were a few characters like that throughout TOS, and I think this one did remarkably well as a figure just due to how wild it is.

 

Despite having more than 200 figures back in the day, I never did get around to buying one when they just came out -- I was heavily favoring TNG, DS9, and VOY figures at the time.




#79406 DS9 Figure Wish List

Posted by Morgan on 22 February 2015 - 04:46 PM

Yeah, that's pretty much my list, though personally I'd swap out Vic for Sloan. But proportionally to importance you're dead on. I could totally picture like half of these in their packaging.

 

Once 3D printers get fine/detailed enough, fabricating heads from scratch will be a breeze, a lot of the Starfleet people will be easy to make.




#78997 Review: Vorgon (with a Horgon!)

Posted by Morgan on 07 February 2015 - 03:53 PM

I always had a feeling that Vorgon, along with Dathon, were made in smaller numbers than the rest of this set's lineup.




#78933 Review: DS9 Thomas Riker

Posted by Morgan on 03 February 2015 - 08:26 PM

Ahh yes, I remember those large format figures, they had some cool accessories though the size format change was not the best idea ever. I wish they'd done that with the smaller format with various pieces of the Defiant bridge that you could then lock together

 

"In the Pale Moonlight" is in my top 3 fave DS9 eps, which I'm sure is true for almost everyone here as well.

 

The last four seasons were some of the best Trek, period. A shame we didn't get to have figures from them -- so many great characters could have been made.




#78830 Review: Orbital Skydiving Kirk

Posted by Morgan on 22 January 2015 - 07:26 PM

Great figure, even if not completely articulated, but tons of bonus points for having a helmet, a detailed sculpt (which is more than I can say for the rest of the Generations lineup) and for being too cool to appear in the film in the first place.

 

I couldn't find this one on the shelves back in the day -- it fell into that four-figure grouping of Kirk, Chekov, and Scotty that were cleaned out and were subsequently going for $40 each.




#78829 Review: Engineering playset

Posted by Morgan on 22 January 2015 - 07:19 PM

I had both the Bridge and the Engineering set when they were relatively fresh and relatively expensive -- bought both in 1996 for under a hundred each -- and I honestly liked Engineering better. It seemed better scaled if still somewhat truncated, it was open from all sides, and the figures looked better standing in it.

 

Once again, stores got shortchanged on this item bigtime, I don't think it had a huge production number. I don't remember these ever approaching $100 on the secondary market, but I do remember them listed for $80.

 

If you think about it, Engineering, Soran's Launchpad, and the Enterprise-B bridge were the only things that the company could have made for the movie. The launchpad would have been morbid, and the Enterprise-B bridge perhaps too expensive for stores to plausibly offer, even though we all know it would've been cleaned out in a matter of days.




#78828 Review: Chakotay in Maquis attire

Posted by Morgan on 22 January 2015 - 06:59 PM

I feel the Voyager lineup was stuck for a while, because they could either do crewmembers or the weird aliens of the week. It would have been nice to have Tuvok, Chakotay and Torres in Maquis outfits, but I get how they could not have splurged and done all three.

 

The Chakotay likeness is very good like most VOY figures (most, not all) though it's weird how they decided to make him and Kim and no one else stocky and barrel-chested.

 

Also, I love how the Voyager card backs had at least 10 spelling errors each.