Mego “Trouble with Tribbles” Wave Announced

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An interesting Pre-Order just popped up on the License-2-Play website this afternoon and reveals the details of the next Star Trek assortment from Mego:   Pre-order Mego Scifi Assortment Wave 6! 8-inch licensed Star Trek characters – this assortment is based on the Original Series episode “The Trouble with Tribbles”. Includes: Stark Trek Captain Kirk…

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[Brown Bear]

I totally get that Kirk and Spock are the big sellers but I got plenty of them already.

As for Gorn, an EMCE and a Mego are plenty as well. But totally counting the days for the 14” Gorn!

Would be far more siked to see a screen accurate Koloth from tribbles than reissues of the same guys but I get the business logic behind it.

[ODBJBG]

Why no Scotty still? He has the most potential for reuse. Very strange.

[PNGwynne]

Yes. This would have been a perfect opportunity to introduce Scotty and a Klingon.

[Treadwell]

A way for the company to reuse Target exclusives for wide distribution, and good for them, I don't blame them. But speaking for myself, they're not different enough to bother adding to my own collection.

[Mego-Amigo]

I'll buy Kirk again if they fix the head this time.

[Spectator]

*sigh*

I get that they have to... ahem... "reduce, re-use, recycle" to keep some profit margin in the line, so hopefully these will be successful... but I'm REALLY ready for some new Star Trek characters.

[phil]

I also get why these figures were chosen but the addition of Tribbles is hard to get excited about. A Gorn with glow in the dark features sounds fun but I don't think I need one.

[Wee67]

One of the things that stopped me collecting new lines (Marvel Legends, Minimates) was the endless variations of the same character. At one point, I think I had 13 different Minimate Wolverines. At first it was fun to get one or two variants, AND those lines were going deep into line-ups to turn out secondary and tertiary characters. But when variants started to reach double digits, the collecting fun became more of a burden.

I'm happy if others love the variants. They're just not for me.

[Mego Newbie14]

Wave 4 is the wave with dress uniform Kirk and Spock. The announcement for this says wave 6. So who's in wave 5?

[Falstaff13]

So no Cyrano Jones either? I know he shouldn't come ahead of the likes of Scotty, but I'd love Cyrano Jones and/or Harcourt Fenton Mudd.

[EMCE Hammer]

These are reportedly intended to catch up international sellers so they can offer the main characters before moving deeper into the selection. Makes sense.

[LonnieFisher]

Getting kind of tired of Kirk and Spock in every wave. That will lead to character burn-out, for sure.

[Treadwell]

Makes sense.

Yeah it does. I don't mind there being a catch up wave for those who couldn't get those figs the first time. I only saw Spock on the pegs one time, and had to get green Kirk and Gorn from another collector, so I came very close to needing a wave like this myself.

[TrekStar]

Well we already have for federation characters, Kirk-Spock-Sulu-Chekov-Uhura and by accident or not so by accident
you may want to count Lt. Leslie too.

So I think it's time we get to see Dr. McCoy and Scotty, and I wouldn't mind a variant Scotty in dress Kilt uniform.

I pretty sure new Mego will not leave them out, just a matter of when will see these? maybe one or both in the
next wave, along with a Klingon and Harry Mudd.