The Lost Mego Star Trek Playset

[rche]

very nice. I really dig that sickbay bed. Imagine trying to find one now without the little display panels broken off. awesome!!

[MegoScott]

This was so exciting to see. I like that it's a more "accurate" bridge, but it still retains some of the candy coloring of the original. The elevator is very cool, but the red plastic basket (fried chicken with fries, extra crispy, please) sickbay is a little awkward. They'd have to do something else to make it stable I think. Great sickbay bed! Looks like they made a test of it, it's plastic while the rest is a matte-board model.

It would be incredible to see some CAH Trek figures. Ever notice we don't we have any CAH customizers?

[ScottA]

This is just so very cool.

[EMCE Hammer]

I wonder if there was a particular strategy behind having so much red. I like the sick bay table, but it seems really out of place there. I would have gone back to the drawing board, and made that balcony section engineering-themed. They could have put a cool replica of the warpcore there maybe. I like the play value of the sick table, but it just doesn't quite fit.


Sooooo cool. Thanks Brian and Vinnie

[palitoy]

(fried chicken with fries, extra crispy, please)

THANK YOU, I've been wanting to make the dairy queen joke all day.

It would be incredible to see some CAH Trek figures. Ever notice we don't we have any CAH customizers?

Oh yeah........none here. Excuse me I have to go running down the hall crying and flailing my arms.

[Captain]

THAT IS THE MOST AMAZING THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!

You guys made my year with this one. Phenomenal. I would have killed for this one...even with the crows nest/french fry basket sick bay. Amazing.....Stupendous...Colossal.........cool even!!

What I find most interesting is all this Trek stuff was discussed in 1977. During the summer/fall of 77', Paramount had green lit the soon to be aborted Phase II tv series. Mego obviously would know about this, and I'm betting a lot of the product discussion may have been generated by an attempt to build the Trek license up to capitalize on the "sure thing" sales a newly announced Trek series would have brought at the time.

Does anyone know the EXACT timing on the presentation of these? If it was late enough in 77 that they missed the 78 toy fair, its very probable that lack of retailer interest didnt quash them, but rather the switch from a tv show to a film caused Mego to stick them on the backburner for a year. When the movie line fizzled, so did this stuff.

I'm also intrigued by the Comic Action Hero comment. We need to follow up on that somehow!? Were there prototypes made? or by the time the talking turned into action, was the movie far enough along that the TMP figures were the only 3 3/4" figures done. I know I have brought this up before, and I've pestered everyone I can think of who has ties to old Mego staff to inquire further on the matter (sorry guys!)....Back when Star Trek II came out, Entertainment Tonight did a retrospective on Star Trek, along with a sneak peek of the movie, and a story on merchandising. During the merchandising story, they had a splash pic of Trek merchandise, and ...I will never forget this...in the bottom right hand corner was a carded 3 3/4" Scotty figure in a red tunic and pants. I've always assumed (although been told it was not the case) that Mego had a planned Trek II line of figures coming out, but in light of this revelation, its entirely possible that figure was a carded CAH original series/Phase II prototype!!??

Man, I'm wired now!!!!!

[mego73]

Wonderful!!

It's still got the off model Mego charm while being more like what what seen in the show.

Scotty in Sick Bay is actually a disguised Klingon who wants to try to knock off Spock while McCoy has one of his Mint Jullipes in his office (real Scotty is on the bridge)

[bgrimm77]

My inner geek is all warm and fuzzy!!!! Thank you

[EMCE Hammer]

Oh yeah........none here. Excuse me I have to go running down the hall crying and flailing my arms.

You're the only one that comes to mind - you expanded the Love Boat universe, right? Space Gopher rocks.

[spamn]

Soooo... pretty.

Although I'm irritated that you have to go UP to get to sickbay when clearly the bridge was top floor of the elevator.