Playmates Star Trek

[monitor_ep]

Can the Playmates 9" Mego-Like figures be reworked on a Mego body? I am am thinking about expanding my aliens collection with them but I am not to sure how they would work.

[thunderbolt]

The heads could probably be acetoned down to Mego size. You'd have to redo the neck plug as the Playmates have a reverse plug design. If the hands are needed, you'd have to chop them off and work out connecting them to a Mego body, same for the feet. Playmate bodies just flat out sucked and are pretty useless.

[ovenmitt]

Can't believe its been 20 YEARS since Playmates 9" Star Trek figures came out! I liked them (5" and 12", too!) and have most of the 89 9" figures! They were $15 retail and to think I thought that was a LOT for a Mego like figure in in the 1990s! Marvel Famous Covers were $15 but went down to $10. I got DST EMCE Mego Star Trek for $18 each.

[HapSlash]

The costumes are all going to be oversized as well. The female trek clothes are about the right size for a male mego body, but then you have other tailoring issues, (sleeve length, etc....)

[Mego Magyar]

The female head are fine just as is compared to the Mego female heads.

[melkorjunior]

Are you saying the Playmates female heads are the same size as Mego heads without having to shrink or recast them? So if I were to pop off, say, a Marlena Moreau and glue a plug to the bottom of it, it would look good on a Mego body?

[nobody]

I acetone my star trek playmate figures, but the female ones as magyar states seem to convert pretty well.

[madmarva]

Did playmates make a 9" Yeoman Rand?

[melkorjunior]

I don't believe so. As far as I know for original series females we got Uhura, Chapel, and Marlena Moreau from the Mirror Universe. Also, technically, Dax in Original Series garb (red miniskirt) from the DS9 Tribbles episode.

[Capt_Kirk]

someone on the board has a reworked Dax head for Janice rand and I know Marlena Moreau's head is floating around here as well. I would LOVE to get my hand on those. PM me if anyone has them please.