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According to TrekMovie, Playmates has acquired the rights to make toys for the new trek movie. I used to love Playmate Trek Toys, especially the ships. In fact its one of the very reasons I find the ships of Trek more interesting than any ships from other sci-fi shows/movies. Anyone else used to play with these?
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I did not really get into trek until i was 7( 2000 ish) and i believe they stopped making them then, but i did happen to aquire a playmates "Captain Pikes Laser Pistol" and a TNG Borg drone for christmas off of www.bigbadtoystore.com
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I had -- still have, actually -- much of Playmates' original line. While I for the most part liked the quality of their early products, they quickly went on the cheap, reusing obvious body-molds (i.e., "DS9 uniform Riker" with the TNG Riker head on DS9 O'Brien's body, if memory serves) and going so cheap on the accessories that characters either had bright pink or bright purple tricorders and phasers.
When Playmates could be bothered to put some time into their releases, they came out very well. When they went for the quick buck -- "Hey, let's repaint DS9 Sisko's body and stick LaForge's and Data's head on for post-Generation sales!" -- they sucked.
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I used to have little figurines of Crusher and Geordi in FC/DS9 uniforms. I can't remember when I had them (and didn't know they were "Playmates" until now ;P) but I must've been fairly young, since I enjoyed staging mock phaser battles with Batman and the Ninja Turtles...one of which was a Transformer-style toy that could fold and flip into an actual turtle and back again...another one had a freakin *whistle* in it, the mouthpiece was sticking out of back, what the hell??
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I always liked the large ships. I had the E-D with buttons on the spine to make noise and light up the nacelles. I also had the Klingon Vor'cha-class ship.
As for the action figures... I had a bunch of TNG ones from the early 90s, around 92 I think. No clue what happened to them, or my sets. Had the bridge and I think they had one for the transporter room, but I'm not sure. Was just 11-13 around that time.
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I never even knew they made ships...I'd've *loved* them. I did have a model of Voyager, about 18 inches long, that I put together over about a week, but I was too young and clumsy to paint the thing...thought with the mess I'd made of the glue, I didn't trust myself to try.
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Apparently this all happened (the first time) when I was in college and didn't have any spare cash. You people are making me feel old. Stop it!
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Many of the STAR TREK titles (and JAWS) I got second hand. Some of those others -- nope, that's all me. Sorry man, but broken spines on books are a sign of their value: the books I've only read once or twice are pristine. That copy of HOMICIDE by David Simon is held together with scotch tape, and I've probably read it a dozen times.
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I remember I had the Ente-D, Vor'cha, and Romulan Warbird. I also have the entire Foundation Series on my bookcase. I also like that E-wing toy.
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