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I guess that means no more figures & replicas coming from DST. Wonder if DST lost the ship license as well?
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Bummer of an announcement. Todd getting his hands on the license does not bode well for the future of Star Trek toys.
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05-22-2017, 06:49 AM | #4 |
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Oh, good, another Star Trek figure line that will pretend the female characters don't exist.
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Well now let's not jump to any conclusions about that, McFarlane has actually been getting female figures out there (Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Attack on Titan...) and while I couldn't give half a rat's butt about those shows or his crummy figures, at least there's female representation in his lines!
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Well now let's not jump to any conclusions about that, McFarlane has actually been getting female figures out there (Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Attack on Titan...) and while I couldn't give half a rat's butt about those shows or his crummy figures, at least there's female representation in his lines!
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The license is fitting though. McFarlane would be great at making figures of people sitting in chairs and standing around looking serious.
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On one hand I'm absolutely excited to see something being done with the Star Trek licensin, especially when it comes to action figures, but on the other... I'm not ecaxtly excited to see that it's going to be Mcfarlane behind the new line. Hopefully they make the figures decently articulated and do plenty of characters. I want more than just TOS and TNG stuff when it comes to past characters and replicas. Give us some DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise stuff.
I'm really curious to see if this deal also somehow got them the licensing to produce stuff from the new movies. Paramount has been very... strict with the licensing for them ever since Playmate's disaster of a toy line for the '09 movie. I doubt they lost the licensing for the ships. Not unless they've lost that to another company and we just haven't heard about it yet. I couldn't really imagine McFarlane doing electronic ships.
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It does. Supposed to include every show/movie including Abrahms Trek and ST: Discovery. Doesn't mean we'll see anything based on the current films, but the license is included.
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Ok, that's awesome. The wording seemed vague to me on that point, so I wasn't sure. I do hope we get at least a couple of Kelvin timeline things. An alternative to Playmate's communicator and tricorder would be great.
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05-22-2017, 03:44 PM | #12 |
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I mean... I'm cautiously optimistic and excited! The last really good line of Trek figures was from Art Asylum and the prices on those are insane now!
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As for McFarlane gettting this license...this doesn't mean DST necessarily LOST it. After all, DC Collectibles, Mattel, and Bandai have all done figures based on the DC movies. I do hope that DST at least retained the rights to ships. If they could get their act together and release more than one ship every five years, they'd be a force to be reckoned with. And I still hold out hope that they'll be someday allowed to produce an Enterprise from the Kelvin Timeline. |
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Chiming in - another disappointed fan. I can understand if Playmates didn't want the rights after the last toy line they made for the first new Trek film performed so badly (at least by appearance), but they only had themselves to blame because the figures and playsets were really poorly sculpted and designed. At least you could play with them though.
Either way, giving McFarlane the license was a huge mistake. I love Spawn, but McFarlane needs to disappear now. He refuses to do anything significant with his own properties anymore, has totally diluted them, and seems to relish in creating statues of other peoples' properties. I groaned at the news he got this license. |
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I'm pretty excited that we're finally getting a new line of Star Trek figures (especially since there's a possibility of getting new DS9 figures ), and I honestly don't mind that McFarlane has the license.
Let's be honest, now. Diamond's offerings over the past few years have been nothing but plastic statues, but with awful paint. I've seen plenty of Worfs, and had really hoped to add him to my collection, but I've yet to find him without glaring paint blemishes. Sure, in a perfect world, NECA would be producing these figures, or Diamond would have collaborated with Art Asylum again to bring us some amazing figures like the ones that they released over a decade ago. But since neither of those scenarios is happening, as long as McFarlane manages to give us decent paint on these figures, along with a diverse selection, IMO, it will be an upgrade from DST's recent offerings.
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I agree for the most part but I think the paint situation varies because Khan turned out great, though he is the latest Trek figure. I ordered one online and only the alternate expression head had any paint issues. One thing Diamond will have done better than McFarlane will is the bases, DST's dio pieces were impressive if for nothing else because they were sizable.
Since I've all but lost interest in most of McFarlane's offerings these days, I'm not sure if they're still releasing dioramas to go along with their figures, but over a decade ago, it wasn't uncommon for them to release some pretty impressive dios. The Matrix Reloaded mansion set was a favorite of mine, at the time, although I sold it a few years ago . And, the piece that came with the Alien Queen, which had the chestburster clawing its way out of the torso of a very Ripley-esque human, was such a great addition to that figure ! Would be nice to see McFarlane release some huge sets, like the bridge or transporter room of the Enterprise, to go along with these new figures, but I'm not going to get my hopes up.
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Not their best work, not their worst. I like that they're doing more articulation in the legs, but compared to the older Diamond Select and last years Mezco One:12, can't see too many people running out to get these Star Trek figures. I'm eager to see box art, if these blister carded and look cool, might get some to put on the wall.
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I think they look pretty good myself. They were never going to compare to Mezco's One:12 Collective figures. At $18 each, that would be an unreasonable expectation. But for the price, I think I'll be picking these up.
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Female figures don't sell.
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I don't get the new hip articulation. Like I can't really see it, it just looks like an old style simple hinge back and forth.
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So, now he screws up Trek like he screwed up Universal Monsters. He better at least do some good playsets for them that we can use with proper scale 4 inch figures.
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That looks great! I don't think OS Trek figures need gymnastic ninja-level articulation anyway but, having said that I would've liked to have seen a couple of more points of articulation. It'd be a shame if you couldn't even get these guys to sit down properly.
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