Other collector sets featuring silvered and bronzed versions of the ships were also issued. Special ships were also manufactured, available only as parts of three 16-piece "Collector's Edition" box sets, in which all the models were combined, including ships from " All Good Things.", such as the USS Enterprise-A and the USS Enterprise-E. The third and fourth editions featured more ships from TOS, the movies, TNG, DS9, and early seasons of Voyager and were mounted on restyled cards. When the third edition ships were launched in 1994, some new ships were packaged anew with ships from the first editions. The first two editions featured ships and stations from TOS, the movies, TNG, and DS9. Galoob produced vessels from The Original Series, the movies, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. In total, 52 unique molds were created for the Micro Machines Star Trek line and 93 deco variants were released. 66072) was also issued in 1995 to reinforce the kinship between the two product lines.
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And indeed, a pewter-colored collector's series release (no. In size, the miniatures were comparable to the (commonly 1:3900 scale) pewter gaming miniatures made by FASA and Task Force Games. The first releases were three-packs packaged in transparent bubbles attached to printed cardboard cards, known as blister packs. Most of these models were less than three inches long, were pre-painted, and all came with transparent display stands.
Star Trek Micro Machines were plastic miniatures produced by Galoob from 1993 to 1997 as an extension to their pre-existing and wildly popular Micro Machines toy line. Star Trek: The Next Generation releases 3-3/4" action figuresĭenise Crosby poses for Galoob reference photos Series One " It just never really hit its stride at retail," Galoob added, (and) " never was anything like Star Wars, and ultimately we dropped it."ĭavid Galoob's assessment notwithstanding, the wide-ranging and highly lauded Star Trek Micro Machines sub-line from the mid-1990s became very popular among Star Trek collectors for years, despite performing below the company's sales expectations at the times of their release.
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We thought the Star Trek license would sell to the kids", thereby underestimating the vast adult collector fanbase that desired sculpted accuracy, rather than the emulation of Kenner's stylized Star Wars toys.Ĭonsequently, its action figure lines were not only small, but were judged inaccurately-molded and had to endure a number of errors during production and release. In the documentary, former Galoob CEO and son of founders Lewis and Barbara, David Galoob, conceded that his company had, from the outset, made serious judgement errors when they acquired the Star Trek license, admitting, " We did not think Star Trek was a license for adults. The history and development of the Galoob line was featured in the 2018 " Star Trek" episode of the Netflix series, The Toys That Made Us. It produced the first action figures and toys based on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1988, created a line of figures for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier in 1989, and finally released a series of Star Trek "Micro Machines" starship miniatures from 1993 until 1997. 4.2.2 Differences between the third and fourth 3-pack editionsīefore its acquisition by Hasbro, Galoob held three separate Star Trek licenses.4.2.1 Differences between the second and third 3-pack editions.4.2 Additional European Micro Machine 3-pack variants.
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