Star Trek TMP Gallery Updated and Revised

[palitoy]

Those really were boring outfits, weren't they?
Sorry Brian

No that's cool, the movie uniforms are as drab as they come and if Mego made tweaks, it's entirely forgivable.

Both Mattel and Mego did the same with the Space:1999 uniforms and Kenner gave a lot of Star Wars guys some colour as well. They're toys not statues, I love that about them.

[Mikey]

Those really were boring outfits, weren't they?
Sorry Brian

Actually, if I was serving on the Enterprise i'd much rather wear the motion picture outfits then the newer red uniforms -- WOK+++

Those red suits look nice on screen but on that hot ship everybody would stink after a few hours because they're too heavy for regular duty

[Captain]

Note McCoys somewhat altered white med outfit, Spock with no collar, and Kirks captain uniform with epaulets. Luckily, Mego added Spocks collar, but I'm convinced they made Decker, and Kirks uniforms based on this picture (even though they decided to use the admiral coloring for Kirks figure..he is wearing this preproduction captains suit. McCoys white top might have come from his sick bay uniform?

As for Ilea....I like the skimpy blue outfit better than her white dress, but apparently Persis Khambatta thought it was too revealing and requested a different costume. I am glad they dropped the butterfly tattoo on her skull though...that just looks weird!

[Mikey]

As for Ilea....I like the skimpy blue outfit better than her white dress, but apparently Persis Khambatta thought it was too revealing and requested a different costume. I am glad they dropped the butterfly tattoo on her skull though...that just looks weird!

I didn't even notice that ... at first glance I thought it was a hat

[Earth 2 Chris]

I didn't have any of these, but they are nice looking figures. Superior to most of Kenner's Star Wars output at the time as far as sculpting goes.

Chris

[Captain]

When I first saw it, I thought she was wearing that funky headress thing Chapel gave her to wear in the film...but if you blow up the pic you can see its painted on. I read somewhere that Michael eisner was really freaked out about Ilea being bald, and requested (ordered) the producers to come up with alternatives. This was one of them.
Ultimately of course, they went with bald. Makes you wonder about some of the other alternatives though!?

[Captain]

Another question I have about the uniforms...how come Ilea was wearing blue...which was for senior officers only? She should have been in a tan suit like Uhura, Chekov, and Sulu. I guess they thought she would have looked naked in tan, being hairless and all??

[Mikey]

Her being bald never phased me ... I was conscious of it but it didn't bother me ... I think because she's so pretty even bald she still looks very pretty ... Also, I never seen her with hair before (pre motion picture) so I accepted that that was they she should look.

[Captain]

I didn't have any of these, but they are nice looking figures. Superior to most of Kenner's Star Wars output at the time as far as sculpting goes.

Chris

I agree with you there. The Trek line (at least the 3 3/4" line) had some of Megos best likenesses going on. Funny that the 12" line didnt have tighter sculpts. Kirk looked off, and Spock always looked like he smelt something bad. Another one of Scotty's "vapor attacks" in the turbolift !

[Captain]

Her being bald never phased me ... I was conscious of it but it didn't bother me ... I think because she's so pretty even bald she still looks very pretty ... Also, I never seen her with hair before (pre motion picture) so I accepted that that was they she should look.

I always thought she looked better without hair!

[Captain]

That shuttle pic is cool. They did sell these in Canada...or at least they sold one that I know of. Wish I had pics of it now.

I wonder if a second wave of figures was ever in the pipeline?

[Mikey]

When Star Trek TMP came out I was about 15 years old ... already in highschool and not caring about Megos ....
But, I still did occassionally "browse" the toy section -- and I can't remember ever seeing any Mego motion picture stuff.

Most of this stuff (even common stuff like the figures) I found out about a few years later when I started collecting.

I'm wondering if my local stores didn't carry a lot of this.

Back in the day we didn't have Toys R Us and K-B

All we had were department store toy isles.

[Captain]

Exact opposite here in Canada...EVERYBODY carried them. It was like Batmania, there was Trek stuff of all shapes and sizes, not just Mego. I remember bean bag chairs, garbage cans, bop bags, you name it, it had TMP scribbled on it. Grand Toys must have really outdid themselves pushing the Trek line that year!

[palitoy]

I agree with you there. The Trek line (at least the 3 3/4" line) had some of Megos best likenesses going on. Funny that the 12" line didnt have tighter sculpts. Kirk looked off, and Spock always looked like he smelt something bad. Another one of Scotty's "vapor attacks" in the turbolift !

Bill Lemon did the 3 3/4" figures, he did much of the Aurora kits and that's why they sculpts are so tight.

On the 12" figures Ken Sheller did the aliens which bear his touch, I think the rest are done by Ron Shrewby (I might be spelling that wrong) he also did the 12" Black Hole, I find his likenesses more like a caricture.

[MightyMegs]

Thank you for the update. It's exciting, and a little painful, to see what was made... even though I only saw the 3 3/4" figures in the stores. And that bridge playset: I've always wanted one... so ... badly.