Integration

Morgan · 12-29-2018, 02:44 PM

Next up is a rare European-carded Soran from "Generations," one of just a handful of foreign-market "Generations" figures that I have. The backer of the card is pretty interesting: it has a large Bandai sticker and one-sentence profiles of all the characters, some with weird word choices and spelling errors. So in Europe the "Generations" figures had a common card.

Unlike some others in this series the likeness is very realistic, though the figure is let down a bit by the bland "villain" costume and an unimaginative pose. Soran wore a different costume earlier in the film, on the Enterprise-D, but it wasn't replicated on the figure. All of this made it somewhat unpopular -- this figure I recall was most plentiful in stores. I remember Generations figures would be sitting on shelves almost a year after the movie came out, and a good half of them would be Sorans. Meanwhile, the TOS Generations crew I never saw on store shelves ever, not even skydiving Kirk. They were just scalped the hell out and going for $40 each whereever you could find them.

The accessories are okay, and I wasn't expecting a whole launchpad with a missile that could be put together, though a torpedo that we see on the observatory would have been nice. It would have been undoable given the size of the accessories... but it would have been nice. His kewl folding disruptor is not one of the accessories, presumably because for this line the available figure art was distributed before production completed, hence the ditched uniforms.

"Generations" gets a disliked reputation at times, but I think that's because its so many different movies in one -- there was a lot that the writers were trying to accomplish there. The "nexus" was always going to be nothing more than a time-travel plot device, one that worked a little too conveniently, and there was arguably a lot happening without a real feel for what was at stake. The plot felt complicated and despite great cinematography it felt very forced, trying to get a lot of plot points done.

Here's something you never think about in Generations: would McDowell have worked as a villain if he had an American accent?

Why would one El-Aurian have a British accent and another, namely Guinan, would not?

12-29-2018, 02:44 PM	#9
Morgan Join Date: Nov 2018 Posts: 60	Next up is a rare European-carded Soran from "Generations," one of just a handful of foreign-market "Generations" figures that I have. The backer of the card is pretty interesting: it has a large Bandai sticker and one-sentence profiles of all the characters, some with weird word choices and spelling errors. So in Europe the "Generations" figures had a common card. Unlike some others in this series the likeness is very realistic, though the figure is let down a bit by the bland "villain" costume and an unimaginative pose. Soran wore a different costume earlier in the film, on the Enterprise-D, but it wasn't replicated on the figure. All of this made it somewhat unpopular -- this figure I recall was most plentiful in stores. I remember Generations figures would be sitting on shelves almost a year after the movie came out, and a good half of them would be Sorans. Meanwhile, the TOS Generations crew I never saw on store shelves ever, not even skydiving Kirk. They were just scalped the hell out and going for $40 each whereever you could find them. The accessories are okay, and I wasn't expecting a whole launchpad with a missile that could be put together, though a torpedo that we see on the observatory would have been nice. It would have been undoable given the size of the accessories... but it would have been nice. His kewl folding disruptor is not one of the accessories, presumably because for this line the available figure art was distributed before production completed, hence the ditched uniforms. "Generations" gets a disliked reputation at times, but I think that's because its so many different movies in one -- there was a lot that the writers were trying to accomplish there. The "nexus" was always going to be nothing more than a time-travel plot device, one that worked a little too conveniently, and there was arguably a lot happening without a real feel for what was at stake. The plot felt complicated and despite great cinematography it felt very forced, trying to get a lot of plot points done. Here's something you never think about in Generations: would McDowell have worked as a villain if he had an American accent? Why would one El-Aurian have a British accent and another, namely Guinan, would not? Last edited by Morgan; 12-29-2018 at 02:47 PM..