So, Marty Abrams, the son of the founder of Mego, has been churning out New Mego figures for a few years now. I have all the bridge crew but Scotty; so Sulu, Checkov, Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and also Pike. In addition I have a salt vampire, a Gorn captain, and this month I might pre-order Kang!, based on Michael Ansara's klingon character! Sadly I missed the diamond select re-release of the bridge Playset, which has gone from 100 dollars to 500 ish.
a new, still in the box MEGO toy!? Wow. If it was unpacked ever, it was put back in the box perfectly... this would have made someone's Christmas Morning memorable.
Modiphius' new Star Trek RPG is a big glossy expensive hardback book set. It is also pretty popular. I don't care about the rules though, I think Starships and Spacemen is an ideal offering for the genre. But I AM intrigued by these boxed sets of TOS figures in classic "armymen" 54mm size. This works well with 1/48, 1/35, and 1/32 scale models. The full line concenrates heavily on Next Generation era, but these two sets of TOS figures are good.
“I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let’s say 100,000 miles, their outlook would be fundamentally changed. The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument suddenly silenced.”
Michael Collins
Fly Safe, and Godspeed into the greatest unknown of all sir.
circa 1978, Heritage brought out the first Star Trek RPG, under a strange license arrangement involving Lou Zocchi and Franz Joseph and not directly from Paramount, with the Motion Picture coming to,screens lawyers for Paramount smelled money in the wind and decided to tighten up the licenses for the previously haphazard and baroque property, Heritage-Custom Cast had just tooled the miniature line and entered production, causing a legal mess and financial disaster for the garage sized company.
Germany pioneered "German" Composition, a non-toxic material formed from wood flour (finely ground wood or cork) mixed with oleo resins, pressed into a mold, and baked. This produced a cellulose based plastic like material that takes paint well. It was linked with both celluloid development and the origins of linoleum (the real incredible super durable miracle floor, not the modern vinyl imitation) in German chemical industry, and so was a way station on the way to modern plastics and chemical industries.
