Star Trek

[smonte00]

I always wanted to see a Romulan Kirk. They could've paired him up with that lady Romulan commander with the whiny voice. I also would've liked to have seen the different Klingons from the series.

[Scousebadger]

I always wanted Wrath of Khan movie figures.

The main crew (including Saavik), Khan and Captain Terrell

[smonte00]

I always liked those red uniforms from wrath of khan. I have one from a 9" Kirk that I'm going to modify to fit the mego one day. (Future project)

[Gorn Captain]

I honestly don't see the line continuing, so I've stopped dreaming of new figures.

If we do get some new ones, I'll be twice as happy.

[Mego-Amigo]

I agree with Gorn Captain about the current line but I think we will get new figures at some point but from a different company.

[PNGwynne]

I can dream:

Talosian (corrected), Tellerite, Trelane, Harry Mudd

Chapel, Rand, Sarak, Vina/Marta

You know darn well that these would sell & would have capped off the ST: TOS set nicely.

[thunderbolt]

seems like the giant headed Pike along with Picard have managed to kill the line. Poor choices and/or poor execution did it.

[Mego-Amigo]

Along with the poor decision to cancel Vina and Chapel. I love Next Generation but my guess is they would have sold better than Picard and Borg.

[Mego-Amigo]

The giant heads seem to be plaguing a lot of our favorite Re Mego lines.

[zeedox]

It's frustrating since I just bought the Kirk and Spock Toys R US exclusives from Diamond. Poses harkening back to figures in the late 1990s. Im surprised they weren't stowed on board the Botany Bay. :-) Seriously why make those silly things over a nice set of figures that will stand the test of time at antique shows rather than krap that gets discarded.

[Gorn Captain]

Along with the poor decision to cancel Vina and Chapel. I love Next Generation but my guess is they would have sold better than Picard and Borg.

I doubt that. I think it was "two female non-action oriented figures" that didn't spark interest.

Personally, I like Borg and Picard a lot.

[MIB41]

I think when EMCE finished making that last line of original Mego Star Trek characters, that pretty much sealed the deal. I was telling Emeraldknight the other day I think even the new Trek franchise is on it's last legs. This license has a branding problem. The Trek fans are out there. But they all seem to be fractured into different eras, rather than banding together and supporting all the various incarnations. And because of this, I think Paramount is at a loss on what to do with the license. I think the lackluster sales of merchandise is indicative of that confusion. Personally I think the Trek franchise got milked to death in the 80's and 90's with all of the different television series, movies, and endless array of product on shelves. I think the residuals from that saturation are still in existence. There is SO MUCH old Trek merchandise in existence, making new Mego-like figures is like getting to the party after everyone is already passed out on the couch. I just don't think there is any market for them now. EMCE made what I personally wanted and I can't think of a single character I want outside of that offering.

[ctc]

>There is SO MUCH old Trek merchandise in existence, making new Mego-like figures is like getting to the party after everyone is already passed out

Hmmmm.... yeah; I think that's kinda true. I think there IS still a market for stuff like new Mego-esque figures, but the trick is; that market is kinda small, at least compared to what you'd need for most companies to consider the returns worth the cost of the licensing. If someone could produce them in small runs and distribute themselves it'd probably go over well enough, but I suspect the fees are high for something like Trek.

>The Trek fans are out there. But they all seem to be fractured into different eras

....and age groups. That's a problem right there. So, the people watching the new Trek just want to watch the films; they're not into the whole collectible thing. If you could produce a film with low enough overhead that the marketing doesn't matter; great. ('Course, I think we all know the likelihood of that....) The REALLY old fans have amassed just about every Kirk/Spock geegaw you can imagine, so there's not a lot you can add. The Next Gen fans came about after the Mego era.... hence lackluster sales for TNG figures maybe?.... and the later fans came about during the 90's collector boom, so THEY'RE probably pretty burned out on the whole marketing thing.

>I think Paramount is at a loss on what to do

Definitely. There's a tendency for companies to see established franchaises as smartbombs: put 'em out there and they do their thing on their own. Once that doesn't work they're stuck. And big corps don't make decisions very adroitly; so they usually slap the name on whatever the current trend is.

Don C.

[PNGwynne]

I think it was "two female non-action oriented figures" that didn't spark interest.

I don't agree at all--partnered correctly, these would've sold.

[Mego-Amigo]

I agree.