what will you do If/When DST ends the current Line?
#21
Posted 15 December 2009 - 03:45 PM
Well I for one will just continue with customizing. I now have Playmates old & new, DST and minimates to play around with. I'm way behind as it is.
Take care,
Matty-lad
#22
Posted 15 December 2009 - 05:02 PM
#23
Posted 15 December 2009 - 07:21 PM
#24
Posted 16 December 2009 - 05:19 PM
I for one will be just fine, and enjoying all the excellent quality MOTUC that are coming out!
I never thougth the TNG series were as good as what AA did with the classic crew.
Sure some of them are just fine. And some are just so so. Hardly any of the combadges on these figures look the same and the first two waves of figures had the pip juuuuust barley painted on where you could see them.
I was always upset that none of the comic stores where Im from carry the Star Trek stuff over the last 3 or 4 years. And Toys R US here hardly carries any of the stuff you guys find at your stores. I am kind of sad we wont get any Voyager stuff. TNG and Voyager were some of my favs.
#25
Posted 16 December 2009 - 07:10 PM
#26
Posted 16 December 2009 - 08:07 PM
#27
Posted 16 December 2009 - 08:12 PM
#28
Posted 16 December 2009 - 08:34 PM
For that reason, I'll be a bit sad when DST finally gives up the Star Trek license and no longer makes them, but I think I'll continue to enjoy them for years... I really think that this may be the last time we see any such action figures of 24th century Trek. I just don't see a market w/o any media tie-in. So I'm going to continue to enjoy them, even if I never get a Quark, Jake, Nog or Rom!
EDIT: VF & JMW! You guys beat me to it! I take too long to type!
#29
Posted 16 December 2009 - 08:40 PM
TNG wave 2 = what was up with Picard's crotch? Ever try to seat Troi?
TNG wave 3 = Data's wonky legs last through the TMP release, few accesories, and bad paint
TNG wave 4 = very uninspired, and of course Wesley's melon head. Probably the worst figure in the whole line IMO.
TNG wave 5 = ????, sigh if you could only get the movie Crusher alone. No it came with alot headswaps.
#30
Posted 16 December 2009 - 08:45 PM
#31
Posted 17 December 2009 - 12:05 AM
Granted the O'Brien head swap was wonky and lame...but I think the Ro sculpt...even if it's just her head that's new...was pretty spectacular. Way better than the pics I've seen of their Cain sculpt from BSG (which I find odd being the same actress and all) and though I miss some other characters I am thrilled that they did Ogawa. I always wondered why she never made it into the playmates line with all the variety they had. As far as the other TNG waves...I thought they were great and I love them all...I just want TONS more. Yar, Sela, Guinan, Pulaski, Seaosn 1-2 versions of EVERYONE not to mention a whole mess of Klingons from Duras and K'Mpeck to Lursa and B'Etor. But yeah...SO not happening. And yet I still hope it will somehow...
#32
Posted 17 December 2009 - 12:34 AM
There was a K'Mpeck figure in the old Playmates line???? Since when?
#33
Posted 17 December 2009 - 05:27 AM
I think Weyoun was just saying that he wanted a K'Mpeck figure, not that one was produced, which was not in this prime universe timeline anyway. Maybe in Abrams universe there was though....
#34
Posted 17 December 2009 - 08:03 AM
#35
Posted 17 December 2009 - 12:17 PM
Yeah...sorry...that list was meant to be a hypothetical wish list for DST. Didn't mean to confuse.
#36
Posted 17 December 2009 - 12:52 PM
I just dont think it is a wise idea personally, I think we gripe about them now, but if DST loses the license we will be upset to see them go.
#37
Posted 17 December 2009 - 03:42 PM
Ahh ok , I just went and re-read your post above and I see it now . Some how my eyes passed right over it last night lol
#38
Posted 17 December 2009 - 05:47 PM
The DST Cain head sculpt looked pretty damn awesome to me. God knows how the final figure will look though.
And I very much agree, when DST got the body re-use right, it did look excellent...as was the case with Ro & Jadzia. Then you look at TNG5 O'Brien & Ogawa, along with DS9 2 Sisko, Kira & Bashir & one has to wonder how it was ultimately decided to go with the worst bodies for the actors general heights & physiques. They often only had 2 bodies to choose from, so to choose the wrong one was just bizarre.
Now ofcourse when you say something like that, people forget all the great things you've said in the past about DST's Trek line, so I'd best do that too to save folks getting annoyed & listing me as a complainer:
DST's awesomeness:
*Worf/Riker wave
*Gowron & Martok
*Odo
*Beverly & Troi's bodies (Troi's only when used on Troi herself)
*Classic Aliens
*TWOK
*Retro
Those who didn't work out soo well but are extremely appreciated anyway:
*Ogawa
*Colonel Kira
*Ezri Dax
*Nemesis women
*TNG O'Brien
And ofcourse those that didn't make it, but DST tried dammit!:
*Sisko with Chair
*Classic Movie Klingons
*Borg Wave
*Possibly Chapel & Rand
So, for any problems I may have had with the DST Trek line...I thank whatever Gods are out there that they got the license & will hopefully have it for a while longer - just till I get my 6" & Retro Nurse Chapel figures atleast!
#39
Posted 17 December 2009 - 06:42 PM
I think I'll probably sell some of the duplicates, package up some of the figures, and keep a smaller display out of just the TOS and TNG core cast.
#40
Posted 17 December 2009 - 06:52 PM
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