The New Playmates Star Trek Figures… Now with Less Ass
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009Playmates released images and details on their new Star Trek figures and I’ve got to admit, amazingly some of them don’t look like total crap!
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The Toy Aisle that Time Forgot! The Contest!
Friday, May 8th, 2009This is a post in two parts. The first part can be found on Poe Ghostal’s awesome blog “Poe Ghostal’s Points of Articulation” and it details the amazing toy aisle in the Northwoods of Wisconsin that contains toys that are now at least a decade old. This post is the one where you can win your very own piece of insane toy history!
That’s right, I’m giving away a Playmates Star Trek:The Next Generation Dr. Beverly Crusher figure that had been sitting on a store peg hook for a grand total of sixteen years. Now she’s not exactly mint, I mean she’s been in a store for longer than most Twilight fans have been alive, but this is a rare opportunity to own your very own piece of toy history. How many other people can say they owned a vintage Next Gen figure that was bought brand new at retail in 2009? Nobody else, that’s who!
All you have to do to get your hands on this figure is to leave a comment below letting me know who your favorite Star Trek character is and why. The winner will be randomly selected. Be sure to leave your real email address so I can contact you to let you know that you’re the winner kid. Otherwise someone else will be selected. Thems the breaks!
So now get to it, kids. Who is your favorite Star Trek character? Mine is T’Pol. I’ll give you one guess why.
TAtTF: Christmas with Picard
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Today’s Star Trek themed toy commercial is from the rather successful Playmates Star Trek run. This time it’s from the Next Generation line of figures:
The computer voice is annoying, but if this commercial does one thing well it’s make the figures look friggen awesome. I never cared for the Playmates Star Trek figures at the time. I guess I was turned off by their unrealistic proportions. Now after watching this commercial, I kind of wish I would have at least gotten that bridge set and a few of the core bridge crew. Curse my metal hide!
I love the little thing at the end with Patrick Stewart asking us to come and see the Christmas Carol with him. If he was in my town asking me personally to attend his showing, I’d be a damned bloody fool if I didn’t go.
The Star Trek Movie Toys Are Still Ugly
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009I was checking out Raving Toy Maniac and I saw some pictures of Star Trek figures I hadn’t for some reason seen yet. First let’s watch some crazy extreme Star Trek action before we look at the crap:
To Boldly Kind of Go
Saturday, January 24th, 2009There’s been a lot of buzz about the upcoming lines of Star Trek toys, hell USA Today had a story on them. Freaking USA Today! Unfortunatly not all of the buzz is good. In fact, the stuff from Playmates has been getting slammed for looking not so hot:
It was feared that Playmates wouldn’t have the experience to put out a product of the kind of caliber seen in other toy companies that are used to making toys for collectors with high standards. So far those fears look to be correct. The Terminator Salvation figures revealed by the company looked decent, but weren’t up to the current toy standards collectors expect and get from many other toy companies.
A Real Life Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008When animals come into contact with radioactive material, the results usually aren’t so good. That’s why it takes kind of a leap of logic to accept that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wouldn’t look like hideous freaks. This statue (or action figure with old school McFarlane articulation) is an attempt to show how disgusting a Mutant Ninja Turtle might look like:
Yeah, that’s pretty friggen gross and certainly a far cry from the super cute versions of the turtles found in the original cartoons and action figures by Playmates.
By the way, is anyone here a big Ninja Turtle fan? I know that a lot of people are hot for the NECA figures, but are any of you buying the regular line of figures? I thought about buying Shedder’s daughter after seeing TMNT, then I didn’t. Yeah I know, great story.
Thanks to: Slashfilm
Playmates Gets Terminator and Star Trek
Friday, October 17th, 2008
Playmates announced this week that they acquired the toy rights to the upcoming Star Trek film due out in May of 2009. This shouldn’t be all that big of a surprise considering Playmates had the licenses for years before Star Trek pretty much ran out of steam with the general public.
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