90s Star Trek figures
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general_radixI guess that's a thing I'll be collecting now?
So, it started many years ago (dunno exactly when, but it was within this decade) at a Goodwill when (IIRC) Mom spotted an old figure of Dr. Crusher (the first version of her Playmates made, in fact); I just kinda grabbed it in hopes of selling it later, but that never happened.
Dr. Crusher sat in my room for ages, unopened; after accepting that I would probably never get around to selling the figure, I decided that if I ever got another from that range, I'd open it. And today, I unexpectedly received Mom's Kirk figure from the 30th anniversary line; basically, I asked to take a closer look (it was on a very high shelf that I had little hope of reaching even with a grabby-thing), and after cleaning up some other stuff that fell in the process of taking it and a Kelvin Timeline Kirk down, she asked me if I wanted it, more or less.
Not the same Trek series, but it fit my criteria for opening Dr. Crusher. So now I've got those two and a Riker (battle-damaged version, apparently) I picked up from The Deep on my desk.
I think between then and now I've developed a bit more appreciation for Playmates's Star Trek lines and the sheer range of characters (and versions of characters) they seemed to cover. Apparently these were pretty common back in the day; the listings I saw in my rudimentary search hovered around $10, and Riker was dirt cheap. So, potentially easier to get than what figures I normally collect (much as I love Figmas/Nendos and the like...).
Kinda hoping to get the rest of the core TNG cast someday, and maybe some Voyager and DS9 peeps (particularly Janeway, Seven of Nine, and Sisko). Maybe the other comic con coming up in March will have some?
Bonus tangentially-related twaddle: Dad is not a fan of the Kelvin timeline in part because they skewed the main cast so young it broke his suspension of disbelief (Dad is a retired Air Force engineer and knows a lot about military stuff; for example, one is very unlikely to attain captaincy in their 20s). "Kindergarten in space", he called it. XD;
So, it started many years ago (dunno exactly when, but it was within this decade) at a Goodwill when (IIRC) Mom spotted an old figure of Dr. Crusher (the first version of her Playmates made, in fact); I just kinda grabbed it in hopes of selling it later, but that never happened.
Dr. Crusher sat in my room for ages, unopened; after accepting that I would probably never get around to selling the figure, I decided that if I ever got another from that range, I'd open it. And today, I unexpectedly received Mom's Kirk figure from the 30th anniversary line; basically, I asked to take a closer look (it was on a very high shelf that I had little hope of reaching even with a grabby-thing), and after cleaning up some other stuff that fell in the process of taking it and a Kelvin Timeline Kirk down, she asked me if I wanted it, more or less.
Not the same Trek series, but it fit my criteria for opening Dr. Crusher. So now I've got those two and a Riker (battle-damaged version, apparently) I picked up from The Deep on my desk.
I think between then and now I've developed a bit more appreciation for Playmates's Star Trek lines and the sheer range of characters (and versions of characters) they seemed to cover. Apparently these were pretty common back in the day; the listings I saw in my rudimentary search hovered around $10, and Riker was dirt cheap. So, potentially easier to get than what figures I normally collect (much as I love Figmas/Nendos and the like...).
Kinda hoping to get the rest of the core TNG cast someday, and maybe some Voyager and DS9 peeps (particularly Janeway, Seven of Nine, and Sisko). Maybe the other comic con coming up in March will have some?
Bonus tangentially-related twaddle: Dad is not a fan of the Kelvin timeline in part because they skewed the main cast so young it broke his suspension of disbelief (Dad is a retired Air Force engineer and knows a lot about military stuff; for example, one is very unlikely to attain captaincy in their 20s). "Kindergarten in space", he called it. XD;
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Date: 2019-01-28 11:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-28 02:10 pm (UTC)Anyway, I know I'm not a good storyteller but in my opinion, that could have been included in the finale aside the "Feredation is the best, we're the best, yeah!" speech, at least acknowledging it with something like "we've made Really Bad Things but now we can and will do better!" kind of speech, that would have been a neat closure.
I hope in the second season...
[There's also another not-really-Federation-worth action taken further in the series, but that is more or less placed as a MAD kind of situation, basically came from characters for whom the Federation values mean less to nothing, and anyway, after all the mess of the second part that is among the less egregious plot twists...]