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[Damon1984]

“Based on federal, state and local regulations around replica/toy weapons, McFarlane Toys has decided to cancel pre-orders on the Star Trek Discovery Phaser 2018 release until we can determine a more acceptable way to release it without compromising the integrity of the item.

We are still pursuing options on releasing this item in the future. We apologize for any inconvenience and disappointment this may have caused the fans.”

 

Source: http://trekcore.com/...-cancellations/

[Gothneo]

Thanks Damon1984

 

Well... I guess maybe they need to do a direct to consumer collectible or something.  Disappointing for sure, but also understandable if they have to make it pink or something then I wouldn't want it. 

[Morgan]

Tbh, McFarlane's in-house counsel and licensing dept should not have gotten to the stage of announcing an item, only to announce its cancellation months later. No big changes occurred in the relevant legislation, so they should have steered clear of such items well before that point. It's not like there was some big development that just tilted the whole legislative landscape overnight.  So McFarlane should have seen these issues from a mile away -- it's not like they're a newbie in the toy biz.

 

I still think the demand just isn't there for something like that at big box retail. Unless it's a Star Wars thing and blasters can sell in whatever color, including a Russian flag pattern.

[s8film40]

Tbh, McFarlane's in-house counsel and licensing dept should not have gotten to the stage of announcing an item, only to announce its cancellation months later. No big changes occurred in the relevant legislation, so they should have steered clear of such items well before that point. It's not like there was some big development that just tilted the whole legislative landscape overnight.  So McFarlane should have seen these issues from a mile away -- it's not like they're a newbie in the toy biz.

 

 

I still think there could be a little more to this than their short statement. As you said they knew this going in. It could've been multiple factors including the whole gun issue, retailers and/or CBS worrying about that, TRU closing and losing out on orders from CA is probably pretty big. There also could've been some concern about the number of these that would've inevitably been illegally modified.

 

Perhaps instead of making it a "toy" they could make it a mini flamethrower instead. There's no color restrictions on those.

[Artistix]

I don't buy replicas, but it is always sad to hear about items being cancelled. Fingers crossed they manage to get out a few action figures.

[Damon1984]

New Promo-Pictures:

 

 

 

More here: https://www.thetrekc...and-picard.html

 

 

I must say, they look awesome!

[Morgan]

Good stuff for the 7-inch format, and great articulation engineering too.

 

Hoping to see a smaller, cheaper figure format akin to The Walking Dead.

[JMW326]

Very nice looking.

[Genty]

I'm probably being nitpicky but I don't know if it's an optical illusion but Picard's combadge seems a bit low. The other thing is that he has a Boomerang phaser rather than the Cobra. It's a small thing but it's something that would really bug me.
Other than that the sculpts are good, hope to see more pics soon.

[MisterPL]

For figures that boast "useful articulation," the poses aren't particularly dynamic.

[JMW326]

The poses look like standard poses that would be seen in the show to me. You wouldn't be showing pics of comic book style poses or over dramatic CGI poses to advertise these figures when they didn't really do that in the show.

[MisterPL]

Captain James Tiberius Kirk is one of the most dynamic characters on television ever!

 

And I'd like to see Picard sit. That's all.

[bgiles73]

Dynamic indeed!

https://www.google.c...aptain-kirk/amp

[bgiles73]

http://trekcore.com/...tv-development/

[Damon1984]

Apperantly, amazon has moved the release date back to september. 8[

[Sybeck1]

I really hope this line has a strong showing at SDCC. It could be everything DST wasn't. No rubber. Scale the same between the shows. Better likenesses etc

[Gothneo]

To be fair, the rubber was AA's experimentation... and DST did take the line much further than AA ever did. I'd love to get a deep line of all kinds of characters better than what DST did... but I don't know if the consumer base is there anymore.

[MisterPL]

AA's rubber was poorly marketed. There was nothing on the packaging indicating that the figures had any articulation below the waist, and that was at a time when many collectors were getting fed up with "inaction figures" with limited poseability. They really needed to tout that "space-age polymer" on their trade dress.

 

That said, there were also concerns about the figures going Yoda Furby and dry-rotting before collectors could even get them home.

 

[Gothneo]

Agreed. And maybe the jury is still out, but the rubber.. at least on mine has held up amazingly well. that being said... I don't know that I prefer it... I certainly don't care for the experiment that was the ENT bridge crew rubber pantaloons! 

 

I really want to see the other Captains done. That would be a great into and gauge to see if the line has bigger legs beyond Kirk, Spock, Picard and Data.

[Damon1984]

I vividly remember seeing the Enterprise-Figures in a store many many moons ago. I also vividly remember not buying a single one, because I thought they had no leg-articulation. So, yeah, they really should have made that a lot clearer. (Then again, due to the rubber, the articulation is kinda useless anyway). It was a creative Idea, but... hiding the joints, is, in my mind, unnecessary. I'd rather have a good articulation than an unbroken sculpt. They are action figures. Not statues.