Spock and the Andorian have arrived

[drmego]

I just got my shipment of Spock and the Andorian at 4pm on Jan. 2nd
and yesterday all the Starlog pre-orders were mailed out.

When I opened the first case, I was stunned. Spock has silver rank
stripes. I contacted my guy in China and gave him an earfull.

These figures have been in stores for about a week, yet no one
has said anything. Am I being too anal about this? Is this just
a cool variant?

[Brue]

Glad to hear they are in and out. Hope all is well with you.

I think the silver stripes are a cool variant assuming subsequent shipments are correct.

A change to spock is great because he is so readily available vintage. Now if the poor Andorian was wrong....Ouch.

[drmego]

The Andorian is perfect

I was worried that the color on the Andorian would be too bright blue or
too gray, but everyone I have looked at compares well to the original.

[kept back]

any chance those andorian bodies will be available seperately?

[Sandlantern]

Great news Paul! Looking forward to getting mine!

[AcroRay]

Congratulations, Paul! Another victory (in spite of the silver piping issue...) and a great way to start the year!

[The Bat]

Wow...I didn't even notice the Silver Stripes! But it's alright I guess.

LOVE MY 4 Andorians...You DID IT Paul! Bravo....GREAT Job!!!

Now...bring on the ROMULANS!!!!!!!

[rikitikitavi]

Silver stripes are Ok, if Gold ones do come out later. I will have to get both, of course. No Romulans with silver helmets, please.

[Hamonrye]

A quick photo comparison:


That's my own childhood Spock on the left, first found under the tree in 1978. He's packing a repaired original tricorder and an old-school Dr. Mego phaser.

I gotta say, EMCE nailed the sculpt and paint on the head. My fig is darker complected but that could just be twenty-nine years of grime. The color of the shirt, however, is distinctly lighter than the Mego version; the difference is more apparent in person than in this pic. I noticed the same thing with EMCE Kirk's canary-yellow jersey-- if this trend continues, and they get to do Scotty, he'll be wearing hot pink.

More seriously, an issue I hope gets addressed on future releases is the hands. On my new Kirk, Spock and Klingon, the thumb is too close to the palm for a phaser to be held upright. Not a problem for the Andorian, of course! Wow, those Mego gloves really send me back...

Okay, that's enough for a first post. Doc, I may nitpick but you and your collaborators have already achieved the impossible. Improving on that would merely be a bonus.

[Wise4671]

Is it just me or are the aliens a little bit taller then they were originally? and so far the only thing (and this is being a bit nit picky) that bothers me a bit is the insignia on the crew members its way bigger then the originals and looks more like a letter A then the curved and smaller original insignias.

[Brue]

A quick photo comparison:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y220/HiLloyd/spox.jpg

The color of the shirt, however, is distinctly lighter than the Mego version; the difference is more apparent in person than in this pic. I noticed the same thing with EMCE Kirk's canary-yellow jersey-- if this trend continues, and they get to do Scotty, he'll be wearing hot pink.
.

Did you know that Mego was actually notorious for changing colors and even material types frequently?
It is most apparent in Green Arrows costume and Batman's cape.

[Hamonrye]

Did you know that Mego was actually notorious for changing colors and even material types frequently?
It is most apparent in Green Arrows costume and Batman's cape.

I would venture that it was always far less apparent in the Star Trek line. I have vintage Klingon tunics with varying levels of texture on the front and different-colored linings on the inside, but I've never seen a sky-blue Spock/Bones shirt.

[drmego]

If Scotty shirt is hot pink, I'm flying to China personally to knock some heads together.

I can live with a tan Kirk, and while I'm not happy about the silver bands on Spock
and McCoy at least they match - but the chief engineer of the Enterprise is not
going to wear a pink shirt (not that there's anything wrong with that).

[rikitikitavi]

While I haven't received mine yet, I do have faith in Paul to do it all right. However, from the pics I noticed they are still in the clam shells. I really hope that they go to carded figures again. Those we want to rip open we rip open; those we want to keep on card, we keep on card. It makes life so much simpler, and the figs so much more Mego.

Riki

[The Bat]

While I haven't received mine yet, I do have faith in Paul to do it all right. However, from the pics I noticed they are still in the clam shells. I really hope that they go to carded figures again. Those we want to rip open we rip open; those we want to keep on card, we keep on card. It makes life so much simpler, and the figs so much more Mego.

Riki

Yes...I agree! And I was really hoping for the Alien Landscape, on the Alien Cards.