Scotty, Beam Starsky up!

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Technological advancement in the 70's made it easy for companies to market once expensive walkie talkies to us kids and wow, they were cool. While I longed for the Mego Star Trek communicators my sister and I ended up with some generic looking ones on the end. My best friend and I spent hours annoying a neighbour with a CB, we'd be playing SWAT and all of a sudden hear "WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP!"

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[Sweep Secondhand]

Wow I can't believe those Star Trek communicators were originally $30! I bought a working set at a show back in January for <$40 so I guess they held their value.

[Marvelmania]

The kid who lived next door to me had the Trek Communicators and I was so jealous!

[Earth 2 Chris]

Can you imagine Starsky and Hutch using walkie talkies with their names on them? The rest of the force must have been jealous. Cool car, cooll walkie-talkies. Cool freeze frame moments at commercial breaks...

Chris

[HardyGirl]

I always wanted a walkie talkie as a kid, and never had one. Now I do have the Star Trek ones, but they need to be repaired. Say, are they the same frequency as the Batman base station?

[toys2cool]

cool! my cousin had the Trek ones I had a GI Joe one

[Mikey]

I always wanted the Trek Communicators back in the day --- but I was always told "they're too expensive"

Now that I look back, THEY WERE really expensive back then.

No wonder I never got them

$29.95 back then was like what ? --- like $100.00 today ?

[Bionic Joe]

I always wanted the Trek Communicators back in the day --- but I was always told "they're too expensive"

Now that I look back, THEY WERE really expensive back then.

No wonder I never got them

same story here

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Has anyone noticed that the Enterprise/Star Fleet medallion sitting in a circle on the lid of the communicator looks like the update of the logo as used in TMP which came out about 5 years after Mego issued them? Hmmmmm.