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Morgan

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In Topic: Prototypes

26 March 2024 - 06:42 AM

Commander William Riker pre-production paint proof (1992)

 

This one is from the Greg Jein collection, and it's Riker from his bodybuilder days. This one is hand-painted, as you can see, and it has a bit of a matte finish, in comparison to the shiny production figures.

 

It doesn't have a holster on the right leg. One of these proof figures, perhaps this one, is on the back of the 1992 figures in the pictures. On the back of the package it is also without a holster as pictured there, even though the production figures have them. 

 

If you look at the figures on the back of the 1992 packaging (and later for that matter) it's clear that they're hand painted, and the paint finish is quite different from the production figures.

 

 

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In Topic: Figure Color Variations

17 March 2024 - 08:57 AM

Here's a good example of the Dark Torso/Light Sleeves Spock. Got this one recently, and was really surprised by how vividly this example illustrates the dark torso aspect. This is definitely not the lilac-colored torso, as you can see, but a darker and spotted torso

 

This one is numbered just north of 12000.

 

 

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In Topic: Hiya Toys

13 March 2024 - 11:49 AM

The sculpt quality is pretty amazing, I have to say. Especially on Scotty.

 

Kirk looks great too, a bit above what PM was able to achieve with their recent sculpts. 

 

I want more characters from Hiya, lots more.


In Topic: Japanese Packaging

13 March 2024 - 11:44 AM

Here's the ol' 1701 in Japanese packaging. These do not come up for sale often, so it's always a treat to see these just appear briefly.

 

I think these were waaay cooler than the single packs the US got, primarily for drug stores I might add, though I can see why the US was not given this particular option: It can't really sit on a peg, and it's also not as flashy.

 

This line did not extend to the later DS9 and Voyager lines, so you won't see, for example, a Defiant or Farragut in one of these boxes. Which is kind of a shame. I wonder if Japan got the later waves at all. 

 

 

 

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Note the individual stickers/print on the front that identify the ship.


In Topic: Figure Values

13 March 2024 - 11:33 AM

In Dec 2023, this Yar figure sold for $200 plus $16.99 shipping.

 

The seller noted that it had some card warping & some other aging issues, but it looked okay.

 

Well bought, I have to say. Of course, there is a good number of these around, and they are not as rare, per se, as some rare international packaging variants. (One of them I don't even have a picture of, and I only saw it once on eBay in 2015).

 

I think this is a pretty realistic price in this day and age, and of course it commanded much more money in the late 1990s, before The Ebays. But it was never in quite as much demand as Tapestry Picard, and of course people who owned one tended to also own the other, cause they were completists or they wanted bragging rights.

 

I've never owned this one, I have to admit (or Tapestry Picard for that matter), and it's still kind of a might want, though there are some other rare packaging variants that I want much more.

 

Congrats to the buyer for getting this one for $200 though! I don't think I've seen one go for less in the past 10 years.

 

 

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