Star Trek TOS Custom 1/6 Action Figures

koloth wrote:I am going to build part of the auxiliary control room (shown in different episodes like The Changeling, Way To Eden, Doomsday Machine).

I need a wallpaper of the wall with instruments behind the grill - see the yellow arrow on the pic.




Anyone know where to find it? Thank you.

DJ wrote:Absolutely incredible! There is a seller on "Shapeways" that sells pretty good 1/6 scale 3D printed phaser 2s (with removeable hand phaser), communicators that open, and tricorders with flip open tops if you need landing party equipment. They are kit form and require assembly and paint.

https://www.shapeways.com/product/4C2ZC39NM/1-6-original-series-flip-radios-x4-fud?optionId=56353936&li=shops



Thank you very much. My Nanjin Tam QMx Star Trek TOS figures are equipped with their landing party stuff, not to be seen on the pic above.













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koloth wrote:Thank you Stryker2011. I think Mudd's women are no big deal to create. The costumes are quite easy to do.

Take a look here (not the best figures, but anyway): you tu  be com/watch?v=AjfozeFLHqE

You like the classic Klingons? Here is another pic of Koloth, this time with commander's sash (although he never wore one in TOS). Just to please you.

Stryker2011 wrote:Man, I hope we get at least one male & one female TOS Klingon from Exo-6 (though you already have them covered, Koloth). Excellent work on the outfit.

Stryker2011 wrote:... but I can’t help but feel the TOS is getting the short end of the stick.

davidd wrote:

Stryker2011 wrote:... but I can’t help but feel the TOS is getting the short end of the stick.

Much as it pains me to suggest this, I think the original Star Trek has "aged out" of the pop-culture consciousness. It's been fifty-two years since the original series went off the air. Yes, it's been running in syndicated reruns ever since, but how many years has it been now since kids would race home from school to watch shows on after-school TV like I did? It's been a decade or more since streaming, DVDs, and video games took over from watching TV; more like twenty or thirty years, if you factor in video games. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone under the age of 50 (I'm being generous; I believe the real number would be closer to 60) who names TOS as their favorite Star Trek franchise or who can name even the three main characters. In fact, it would not surprise me if most people under the age of mid-40s have never even seen an original series episode.

Even the Next Gen fans are getting older, but they're probably still at the tail end of their collecting years, and at the peak of their earnings years. I won't hold my breath when it comes to too many more Next Gen figs, though. Picard has had the most staying power of all those characters, even meriting a spin-off series a few years back. Which other Next Gen character would you release if it were your company? Not which one do you like or would you like to see, but which one do you think would sell enough to be worthwhile? How much of  a market is out there for Dr. Crusher, or Guinan, or Wesley?

Diana wrote: especially with that iconic humanoid lizard.

koloth wrote:Hi DJ! Here is a pic of the buckle (original), one of my 1/6 scale buckle and another one of the 1/6 scale disruptor. Hope that's what you were expecting.

davidd wrote:

Diana wrote: especially with that iconic humanoid lizard.

Okay... Kirk fighting the Gorn - that would be an epic 2-pack figure set for somebody to issue!  

Somehow that name makes it even cooler.

davidd wrote:

Stryker2011 wrote:... but I can’t help but feel the TOS is getting the short end of the stick.

Much as it pains me to suggest this, I think the original Star Trek has "aged out" of the pop-culture consciousness. It's been fifty-two years since the original series went off the air. Yes, it's been running in syndicated reruns ever since, but how many years has it been now since kids would race home from school to watch shows on after-school TV like I did? It's been a decade or more since streaming, DVDs, and video games took over from watching TV; more like twenty or thirty years, if you factor in video games. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone under the age of 50 (I'm being generous; I believe the real number would be closer to 60) who names TOS as their favorite Star Trek franchise or who can name even the three main characters. In fact, it would not surprise me if most people under the age of mid-40s have never even seen an original series episode.

Even the Next Gen fans are getting older, but they're probably still at the tail end of their collecting years, and at the peak of their earnings years. I won't hold my breath when it comes to too many more Next Gen figs, though. Picard has had the most staying power of all those characters, even meriting a spin-off series a few years back. Which other Next Gen character would you release if it were your company? Not which one do you like or would you like to see, but which one do you think would sell enough to be worthwhile? How much of  a market is out there for Dr. Crusher, or Guinan, or Wesley?