[Morgan]

Here's a very rare figure that commanded a lot of money back in the day and is still hard to find: Ambassador Sarek with pog on a Canadian card. About 1,100 copies of this figure are believed to have been produced with pogs, along with Troi with pog and only for Canada, making this one of the true rarities of the day. This one is numbered 001451.

The U.S. got these only on the 1995 cards and only with SkyBox cards. While Troi was also offered in Canada on a 7th season pack with a SkyBox card, there was also a Sarek in Canada with a SkyBox card on a 7th season package (but this figure is rarely seen for sale -- there are barely any photos of it out there). It's not as valuable as the pog version per se, but it's still tough to find. There were a large number of these quirks in Canada, including a slew of 2nd release TNG figures on 7th season cards like Vorgon with pog, Lore with pog, Guinan with pog, and a few others.

Back in the day Sarek and Troi were advertised for about $200 -- that's what the price guides said in the mid-90s and they were often sold as a pair with the Troi figure for $400.

Right now Sarek with pog is between $50 and $80 at the door, if you can find one for sale, and that's a big if. Most collector just have one of these, so it takes some wholesale eBay seller to buy a whole collection and start parting it out to shake one of these loose. So it's not like there is a dozen of these sitting on eBay month after month -- they tend to be snapped up pretty fast.

If you think about it, the initial batch of TNG figures contained quite a lot of TOS characters: Ambassador Spock, Sarek, Scotty, Admiral McCoy. Out of all of these, Scotty and McCoy somehow ended up being underpurchased by consumers or overproduced, and ended up being on shelves for a very long time, all the way through like 1996. Ambassador Spock was far tougher to find, especially with a pog, and Sarek went pretty quickly too when he was released in the U.S. with a SkyBox card on the 1995 packages.