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07-05-2021, 03:43 PM | #51 |
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Here's a Canadian-market Guinan on 7th season card, which is one of several figures that were released in Canada on these later 1994 cards with pogs. This figure has a really good likeness, which is another illustration of how the big stars on TNG were clearly given more attention than some aliens-of-the-week when it came to sculpting, or someone like Vedek Bareil who looks more like Chakotay but without the tattoo. This figure also has really cool accessories, including a 3D chess set and a tray with cups, so the toy designers spent some time thinking about appropriate accessories for this figure. Guinan was a bit fo a mystery on the series, and one of the coolest episodes with her was undoubtedly in "Q Who," where it was revealed that she and Q had some previous dealings, and he actually seemed scared of her. It would have been neat if that was explored a little further, but I don't think Q and Guinan had any other exchanges after that. That episode showed a lot of potential of her character in dealings with the Borg, and she had a role in "Best of Both Worlds" as well. In terms of rarity this figure is about equal with Lore as one of the two that are easiest to find on Canadian cards. At the other end of this spectrum we have Crusher and Ambassador Spock as two of the most difficult. Thanks for continuing to share these.
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07-09-2021, 08:11 AM | #52 |
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Very cool to hear that someone remembers these, and their accessories. Yes, Guinan had a really flat hat in action figure form.
The 3D chess set was a really neat (though certainly bendy) accessory that was included with just a couple of figures -- the other one was the infamous Tapestry Picard figure. So even the Spock figure from the original series didn't get one of these. But you could also get it with the 1701 3-pack too, of which Tapestry Picard was a rerelease. Thanks for commenting! Last edited by Morgan; 07-09-2021 at 08:34 AM.. |
01-25-2022, 02:13 PM | #53 |
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Here's a recent purchase: Ro Laren on 1994 Canadian card. This one I just hadn't seen for sale for years, and it came up quite abruptly. Among the 1994 Canadian carded figures this one is not stupendously rare per se, certainly not compared to other US or Canadian-carded figures on these card backs as there are plenty of rarities among them, but it is a little tough to find today.
The Ro Laren figure itself remains a small miracle, since it was such a rarely seen character on TNG, and I think part of the reason it was made was that it was recurring character from the later seasons like Barclay or Troi in duty uniform, both of which are also part of this 1994 release. Since Season 7 was on the air at the time, you can kind of sense that the manufacturer was getting a little desperate for figure ideas, so we got Worf in rescue outfit from the Birthright two-parter, Hugh from I, Borg (another small miracle), and Ro Laren. One missed opportunity with this figure is that the body could have easily doubled for Commander Shelby, and a Shelby figure had been discussed in an interview with Chris Overley at one point as something the fans wanted in ToyFare magazine. And Overley acknowledged the demand, but was also a little dismissive of it. Obviously, in hindsight, a Shelby figure should have been a modest hit, because female figures tended to be underproduced by the manufacturer, and Laren was as well. But I could see Shelby being a fan favorite to be honest among figure buyers, perhaps to a higher degree than Laren was. The fact that Shelby (and Laren too) did not return in TNG or DS9 seems like a massive missed opportunity too. Curiously enough, Ro Laren is a figure that I never saw on store shelves when it was new. Like, at all. I only got one in 1997 or thereabouts from a collectibles shop in the Nashville area, if I recall correctly, after some of the craze had begun to die down about the 1994 figures. In 1995 or thereabouts I remember calling up a figure collector/scalper in the Seattle area whose number I saw in the back of Star Trek magazine in a classifieds ad about figures, and sent $1 to him to get a list of figures he had for sale. In a phone convo he blew my mind with tales of some of the figures that he had for sale at one point, including a Ro Laren figure from 1994. But even at that point, these figures were listed for like $40 in classifieds in action figure magazines, and being small and impressionable I thought that they would stay like that indefinitely, and that it would be years till I would be able to get one. In reality, it took until 1997 and I paid over $20 for a US-carded one, which was a lot of dough for me at the time. Canadian-carded figures in the US were a rarity at the time, so the one I bought this year remains the only live one I've seen on a Canadian card. |
02-03-2022, 04:09 PM | #54 |
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Here's a duty uniform Dax on seventh-season TNG card, as released in Canada. This is my second one -- just can't get enough of these as they pop up. First figure of 2022 too.
This is one of several second-release DS9 figures that ended up on TNG 7th season cards in Canada, and since they weren't really collected at the time for their packaging rarity, they are now pretty difficult to come by. Now that Playmates is gearing up to produce Trek figures again, I'm hoping to see some rare packaging variants for different foreign markets. |
07-09-2023, 03:17 PM | #55 |
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Bought my second Ambassador Spock on Canadian card this year. It took a few years to get the first one and perhaps another 3 years to get a second one. These pop up at auction very infrequently, but this figure ultimately isn't as rare as the Crusher on 7th season Canadian card.
What's interesting about these is that there aren't a ton of them around, as they weren't saved as much as Sarek with pog or something like Red Data, of which there are still quite a few. So it takes a while to actually see one of these pop up for sale. I wonder if we'll see this card design ever return with another batch of new PM figures. |
11-05-2023, 07:55 AM | #56 |
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Here's something even I don't see every day: a 1993 Borg on Australian card. These Australian (and international) versions lacked a skybox card, and had a different equipment tray. They also had some text blocked out by black corrective stickers on the back. I think this is actually the only one I've seen, and it's easy to confuse for the 1992 Borg US figure, which also lacked a card, but had some different colors and accessories.
It's kind of interesting that both the 1992 and 1993 releases had the same basic Borg figure, but that it was changed a bit for 1993. This basic Borg mold would come back a third time in 1995 for the Interstellar series, with the firing laser arm. For all the popularity of the Borg, there weren't actually that many Borg episodes, not even one per season. The reason, as I found out recently, was that after Best of Both Worlds, head writer Michael Piller didn't think anything could effectively top that episode, so the few that were produced after BoBW (a total of three) didn't really try to go bigger, but rather offered something smaller and different. |
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