[Morgan]

Here's a rare Canadian-market Lwaxana Troi with card, a figure that is easier to find now with a card than with a pog. The pog-optioned figures were chase figures from day one, so a lot of them were preserved, but the Canadian-carded SkyBox figures were not as rare back in the day. So at this point, an unopened Canadian-carded Troi is not as easy find with a card or pog, even though values still differ greatly.

Interestingly enough, this figure is labeled as Ambassador Lwaxana, as opposed to Lwaxana Troi or Ambassador Troi. She really was a Federation ambassador, but the US-market figures didn't really bill this title.

Until a couple of years ago I had no idea that this variant with the SkyBox card existed, but it is one of the 1994 figures that Canada received on 7th season cards, whether the characters were from the 7th season or not. (Lwaxana Troi was not; her last appearance was actually in the 4th season, which is rather early).

Troi appeared on TNG 6 times and on DS9 3 times, though it feels like there were many many more episodes with her. In DS9 she appeared only very early on. Majel Barrett passed away in 2008.

I remember back in the day the comic book shops advertising this figure along with Sarek were asking just stupid money for the pog-optioned figures, $180 in one case. Whether people were paying that is another matter, but in the Trek figure bubble days values like that were thought of as normal.