Star Trek: The Lack of Khan - 1980s Star Trek Toys Review 

King Mojo , they were just trying to mimic the success of Star Wars toys. It was a typical example of corporate minds not understanding WHY something worked. Star Trek is not Star Wars, and vice versa. Another line that tried to copy Star Wars was Disney's The Black Hole. Kids didn't want an action figure of Ernest Borgnine, they wanted the robots and ships. The twelve inch line was all boring human characters. Where was the large robots? Corporate minds did not have a clue how to market their toy lines or build on the strengths of the particular brand. It was always dollar signs in their eyes, let's copy Star Wars.

well that's true. but the enterprise should have made like the falcon was. forget scale. it would have to be big. bigger than the falcon was. but it would have been cool. you could open the dish up and have you figure pile into the ship.

We wanted their gadgets, and we sorta got a few. There were model kits of the tricorder, phaser, and communicator, as well as the ship and shuttle craft for a while. Playmates would later make those toys, starting with 'The Next Generation' ..

Too true and full of saving planets memories!

Maybe there would have been more interest if there was a 1980 onwards Saturday morning cartoon?

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Me too! DEFINITELY saved the best joke for last. I used to really like Decker too- or at least felt bad for him. Now it's tough to watch TMP. I would have killed for that electronic Enterprise when The Wrath of Kahn came out- I must have watched that movie a hundred times on HBO.

Lol...I know right!!! Man I died laughing at that part!!!

What's worse, somehow (being both a Trek and general pop culture fan) I didn't know until now. "A Klingon" "A Pedophile" (quick confused Google search) (couple of minutes shock) "Bwahahahaha". Too soon too laugh?

HAHA

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The hell it is. ST: TMP is awesome.

@@CaptainSpalding72 No, No its not

@@juantanamera7798 yes it is...

@@juantanamera7798 the score alone elevates the film. Its over hated. Not perfect but far from terrible. Get new eyes.

@@juantanamera7798 yes it is

GRex7777 I think you're on to something. As a kid, my imagination was OUT OF CONTROL. I constantly making up my own shit, repurposing action figures; mixing & matching various lines together. But when it came to existing properties, I got very frustrated if certain characters didn't have a figure, or the figure wasn't a good approximation, or the playset was inaccurate, or the vehicle was lame. And in light of my imagination, adults were always puzzled when I said I preferred the movie version to the book in the cases where both exited... I was like, "well, I want to know how it's *supposed* to be. How I would imagine it was fine and good, but not official to my kid brain. My own self-created mythos were one thing; existing franchises another entirely. I think it was like, "why should I do someone else's work for them?" Haha

Back then, I would have given anything to have actual toys of some of the things I loved. It was impossible. I had to use Star Wars and Buck Rogers as stand ins for everything else. I used to make capes and wings out of contruction paper for my figures, and I built ships out of Legos. I had a great imagination and was very creative, but it was so frustrating that only a small handful of things I liked actually got toys.

No. I preferred leading. Not following. Leaders Imagine.

the USS Enterprise was never designed with toy line in mind. for example if MEGO had made a USS Enterprise play set to action figure scale it would have been in insanely expensive when compared to the Millennium Falcon, because a USS Enterprise play-set would have to have not just the bridge it would need to have a transporter room, captains cabin, medical bay, engine room. resulting in a playset that would have been way too expensive to produce and had mego produced such a USS Enterprise play-set it would have ended up shelf warming because it would have been too expensive for the consumer. so it just more cost effective to do a bridge play-set, heck any star terk toyline to date has made a bridge and transporter room as playsets but never the full ship .

Do it!

This needs to happen! NEEDS, I tell you!

Tattooine77 Yes yes... to Obi Wan you listen *****

sonic360 Will do, sonic!

***** Appreciate that Art!

Really liked your tribute to Leonard Nimoy as well. I actually got to meet him once my dad took me to a convention in Indy one year for my birthday at the Westin hotel. Not recognizing him with a mustache and beard I carried his bags to his room for him after he got on to the elevator that my dad and I were on and he tried to give me $5 and I refused politely and went back down the hall to the room my dad and I were in. There's more to the story way too much to type maybe some time I can tell you.

That's amazing! I never met Mr. Nimoy. I did however accidentally rear-end his niece in Los Angeles (less than 5 mph blunder). True story - and it was a week after I'd purchased the Search for Spock Collector's DVD.

Right, but which version? The 2001 DVD version or the recent re-mount with significant changes of its own?

Good ol' Bones...

stu birchall Appreciate the kind words, stu! Our latest feature is a big one and it's going to be posted this week.

Yes - the toy aspect is eroding away from the toy market, which is very weird.

***** Cell phones. It's like you guys pointed out, today's kids would rather be playing Flappy Bird or some other crap game on their cell phones then collect and play with action figures. More sad then weird.

I'm really surprised no one has made a toyline or anything based off of David Drake's *Hammer's Slammers* series. I guess I can always kitbash and convert old G.I. Joe toys to get that would-be action figure line.

Jimmy George Thanks Jimmy!!!! More Star Trek videos are in the future!

You're welcome OIF! Thanks for watching!

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MC Austin Thanks for the compliment, MC! Modern toys? Hmmm...Like what?

TVfanfanatic Yeah - they had some shortcomings.

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Clay Montgomery Thanks Clay! Will do!

Jeff Solo Thanks Jeff!!!

Jedi Council Much appreciated, Jedi Council!

BCibroski Seems to be a theme from back then. ;) Such a shame.

Jimmy George The TNG toys episode is in the scripting phase of development.

That and the fact that Motion Picture and Wrath of Khan had no story connection, so nothing was missed. The episode Space Seed is the precursor to Wrath of Khan, which I rented from the local vid store back in the day.

I remember seeing Ilia figures selling for $0.25 a piece at Children's Palace in the early 90's. Kids just weren't into bald chicks I guess.

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The Queen & toy collector Thanks Queen - Just one thing. Do you have $3,000 or so? (j/k) Those Black Hole figures are scary expensive. And Humanoid is one of the most expensive figures *ever* in the history of toys. If there's a way to get the figures to put on video, we'll definitely do it. Making a video without the toys actually there to showcase is a tough prospect.

I see what you are saying, I don't know what you do or don't have in your collection, nice to dream though, I had all of them as a kid but they fell apart after a lot of play so they got binned, I wish I kept them but never mind, my brother still has the remains of Vince somewhere but his claws fell off, nice toy though.

"V'ger is a child..."

CBunye As you might have seen at the end, it says "To be continued" ;)

***** Oh, I saw it. Just checking. Looking forward to it! ;-)