EMCE vs CTVTs

[ROBE]

I have bought 19 EMCE figures (all Trek and Apes) with no serious problems. I however bought one CTVT figure and his leg was broken, I was amazed at how cheap the plastic was.

[Cosmicman]

I have a bunch of the CTVT bodies, I can't find a use for them?

Send them to me. I need parts and cannon fodder. Offline me if you want a place to send them. I can fix them and use them. My daugther and I uses what we can and adjust them and make them into lesser known customs.

[livnxxxl]

I have a bunch of the CTVT bodies, I can't find a use for them?

If you have any serious interest in getting rid of all of those CTVT bodies you may want to try and place a listing for them here in the market place. There may be people here wanting to pick up a bunch of these for inexpensive customs so long as the price is right of course. I seen an ad the other day that someone was actually requesting to trade for some. Just a thought.

[callistofreak]

I have a bunch of the CTVT bodies, I can't find a use for them?

[The Bat]

The only way I was going to risk capital would be on a property
that had a dedicated fan base besides mego fans.

That's a very "logical" assumption. I think a Star Trek Collector would buy an EMCE Figure...even if he wasn't into Mego collecting.

[drmego]

I actually had a friend with money ready to back me in 2002 to go
into production with the knights, pirates, robin hood, and the monsters,
but I could not in good conscience take his money knowing that there
was just not enough mego fans out there to make back his money.

I was very excited about CTV until I saw the actual product. I
contacted them to offer my help but they declined. I found out
a lot of the details that made me realize the venture was doomed.

I was right in the first place - the numbers just weren't there.

The only way I was going to risk capital would be on a property
that had a dedicated fan base besides mego fans.

[mightyquinn]

I like the emce much better also. My son plays with the ctvt knights and has already managed to break the hands while trying to use weapons. I wish emce would have remade those along with the monsters.

[60'schild]

Thats an interesting point, so the bodies were crap, but what about the rest, costume and head, U can pickup the whole range of space 1999 figures for a $100, would it be worth investing, and then getting emce bodies?

Absolutely... that's what I did... and if you need the extra arm articulation for certain figures (that EMCE doesn't provide), you can always go the Castaway route for those...

[Mikey]

The bodies were crap ...

Heads are slighty too small for a Mego body (slightly) -- So you can't even upgrade to Mego bodies without the figure looking a little weird.

I tried to put my Tony head on a Mego body ...
The head flopped around and just looked too small and funny.

[alex]

Thats an interesting point, so the bodies were crap, but what about the rest, costume and head, U can pickup the whole range of space 1999 figures for a $100, would it be worth investing, and then getting emce bodies?

[Brue]

Taking a poll of what you like better EMCE or CTVT in a forum called EMCE is like asking people if they like the Whopper or the Bic Mac better while in a Burger King.

[The Bat]

Also, doing the line and not making Martin Landau and Barbara Bain was just foolish.

That's the reason I didn't collect them! It's like Star Trek without Kirk!?

[Mikey]

I think the worst thing about doing the Space 1999 revival and extention was there really isn't all that much of a market for them.

Yes, we collectors and sci fi fans like the show --- but in the general population, it's a relatively unknown 70's show that is probably best know for it's season-1 theme song more then anything else.

Also, doing the line and not making Martin Landau and Barbara Bain was just foolish.
It would be like doing a Happy Days line and not making Fonzie and Ritchie.

[jds1911a1]

I think if they would have researched the market they would have found little demand for the Happy Days line.

Being a Happy Days fan I guess I have to be thankfull for the crappy figures they made. I guess.

at least Happy days got attention from Happy days fans and it was an original Mego line. Married with children seems like an odd toy choice even now
Space 1999 was probably the smartest foray (ok it's technically a uk palitoy line not mego who lost to mattel in the us).

[Mr Mego]

EMCE rules!!

EMCE!!!!

That's BETTER than all CTVT bodies crap!

Mike were right about EMCE and CTVT in his Thread information.

The CTVT bodies still ran too tight, can't spread the legs normal...... That in very poor shape of the bodies and in very poor paint job on the rubber heads - too soft and peeling off the paint in few months later.....

The CTVT costumes and accessories are good to very good overall.

Also, good for the customs and Dr.Mego repro Mego bodies.