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Star Trek: The Next Generation Waves 5 & 6 (1994-95)

Star Trek: The Next GenerationFollowing the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s sensationally successful final year on the air, Playmates began making plans to draw that toy line to a close, after which a new “generic” range of Star Trek toys would include characters from Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and even the movies.

The fifth wave was a very minor supplement to the fourth wave, adding the long-awaited Tasha Yar figure (as she appeared in her first season uniform; an incredibly rare Yesterday’s Enterprise uniform variation was released a year or so later), and the only toy ever created of the late Mark Lenard’s trademark Vulcan character Sarek. … Read more

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Star Trek: First Contact Action Figures (1996)

Welcome to our look at the Star Trek: First Contact toys, or “how Playmates killed the Star Trek action figures.”

I admit to being frequently critical of Playmates Toys’ for its handling of the Star Trek line from 1996 onward, and here is where I think they went wrong.

With the eighth Star Trek film on the horizon, Playmates liaised much more closely with Paramount this time around, trying to avoid a costly fiasco like the incorrectly-costumed toys from Star Trek: Generations. … Read more

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Star Trek: Generations Action Figures (1994)

Star Trek action figures - photo copyright 2006 Earl Green / theLogBook.comHere’s an entire series of toys fraught with bloopers.

In pre-production for Star Trek: Generations, which premiered over the Thanksgiving 1994 holidays, a new costume design – rather a spiffy one, I always thought – was conceived for the crew of the Enterprise-D in their first film. But at the last moment, despite the fact that a lot of money had been spent actually creating these new costumes, the powers that be decided to reduce the number of “new” and unfamiliar elements, opting instead to outfit the Enterprise’s crew in a random mix of their original Next Generation uniforms and DS9-style jumpsuits.

There’s just one problem. Playmates had gotten to work on their new line of Generations toys before the movie ever got in front of the cameras …and as far as they knew, the new uniforms would be in use. … Read more

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Wave One (1992)

Star Trek: The Next GenerationFrom the time that the original Galoob figures went out of production in 1988 (just a few months after they’d first hit the shelves) until summer 1992, there were no Star Trek: The Next Generation toys. And in that time, the series went from an uncertainty to a major hit.

As more and more manufacturers were climbing over each other to try to snag a license to produce Next Generation merchandise, it seemed almost unavoidable that a new line of Star Trek toys would arrive. … Read more