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Space the Final Frontier. Join us for a bold conversation
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our prime directive to recap our favorite Star Trek shows,
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both new and old, to engage and debate about all
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things Trek. Prepare to energize with Phasers Set to Stunt.
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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Phasers Set to Stun,
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where we continue to show our love for everything Star
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Trek in this ongoing series from a film by podcast
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which focuses on every quadrant of the expanding Universal Trek
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by covering television, animation, movies, directors, and so much more.
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Plotting the course as always as your core Trek crew,
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I'm David Burns.
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I'm Scoytle Hoffman, and I'm Wayne Whiten.
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On this episode, we are going to do something a
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little different than we have done in other episodes. We're
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going to dive into some of our favorite toys over
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the years from Star Trek. I know a lot of
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us here have some fond memories of collecting and playing
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with the items we're going to discuss today, at least
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I know I do. So let's talk a little bit
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about the history of Star Trek toys. Gentlemen, What was
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the first Star Trek toy release.
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Do you guys know, not a clue, you know, I
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think it was the Star Trek action figures from Migo.
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Yes, okay, my guess, yeah.
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In nineteen seventy four.
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Yep, you are correct, Oh it it was Okay, yep,
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it absolutely is. Does that mean there was there was
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no Star Trek toys back when the show was airing.
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That's kind of surprising.
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Wow, yeah, I agree.
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Yeah.
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I remember seeing something on Netflix has a great documentary series,
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The Toys That Made Us, and I think pre dating
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actual toys, I think there may have been model kits, yes,
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so you could do for the ships, but in terms
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of like playable quality kind of things, it was Migo
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that that broke ground on it.
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They were a monster back in the seventies.
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They act. Yeah, I think this was like one of
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their best selling lines too. Is that decade anyway? Was
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the Star Trek figures because I mean, you didn't have
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any and everybody wanted them because it was a popular
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theories back in the sixties, So that makes sense.
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You know, they look good. They look good.
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Absolutely. So the next one that I want to talk
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about is kind of funny. As we all know, every
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line is Star Trek I mean not start. Every line
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of toys has some kind of thing that just doesn't fit.
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Is this. It's ridiculous. It doesn't go with a movie,
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it doesn't go with this series, and you're scratching your head,
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is what the hell were they thinking when they made this?
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So let's talk a little bit about some of the
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ridiculous Star Trek toys. I have three of them. So
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the first one is clearly the Ahi Star Trek helmet
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with a Spock written on it, which is the Space
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Fun helmet guys produced in nineteen seventy six. When you
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look at this thing, you're like, this has nothing to
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do with Star Trek.
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Why, Yeah, Yeah, there's a lot of They called it
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label slapping yes back in the day, And I think
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because there was that.
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There's that kind of.
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Void of official license figures and things like that, they
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figured they could just put Star Trek on anything. The
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helmet you're talking about is such a big mashup of things.
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It has like a red red like rotating light on
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the top. It just says Spock across the forehead. I
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think it has a Star Trek logo on the side,
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an advisor. It's the kind of thing that I feel
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like if it wasn't on the lower decks, it's bound
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to be in a lower decks movie of like a
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whole planet full of people that just have their names
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on their foreheads and giant flashing lights.
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I can't believe that hasn't happen yet, to be honest
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with you, by now, I know that would be great.
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So the other one which I scratched my head with
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is Star Trek Skydiving Parachutist featuring non posable figures of
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Spock and Kirk, released in nineteen seventy four by this
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same company who did the helmet. Ahi. Did you guys
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see these things? They are horrendous looking.
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Yeah, it's your typical kind of you know, wadd up
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the little celifhane parachute, throw it into the air and
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then it floats down quicker than you wanted to right right?
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Just again really yeah, yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
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when they were doing things. They would just have like
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a you know, there was like a toy rifle. I
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think there's a disc shooter and things like that, and
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nothing that looked like I had anything to do with the series,
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and there was this defunct line that they had called
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Hamilton Invaders. There was a bunch of aliens that would
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you know, bug type aliens, like the Starship.
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Troopers kind of things.
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plastic army men, but they just made them red. So
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you had like Scotti with a bazooka, I guess, and
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rifles and walkie talkies and all this other kind of stuff.
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So it just made no sense. They would just do
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whatever they could to grab some cash.
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Hysterical and speaking of guns, I wrote down one a
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water gun in the shape of the original USS Enterprise,
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again released by a Hi shaped shaped like the Enterprise,
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shaped like the Enterprise.
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I mean, did it come out of a phaser bank?
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I mean, you know, looking up this company, they went
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bankrupt and I can see why. Yeah, not smart decisions
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and some of their toys I can tell you for sure. No, No,
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not at all.
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And definitely not what Star Trek fans would want.
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Well, of course with us talking about toys, we must
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talk about our favorite toy store here in Cincinnati, and
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of course we were talking about the House of Plastic
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Toys and collectibles, and our good friend, the owner, Jerome,
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we asked him a couple a few questions just to
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see what he thought about some of these Star Trek toys.
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So we asked him what is the rare Star Trek
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toy that has come across his counter. He only had
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a couple examples. One of them wasn't a toy, but
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he said he got some cool vintage forty five's of
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Star Trek that had come across his counter. But he
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said he got a vintage of seventies Phaser that came
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across that went for a pretty good amount of money.
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He said he doesn't remember exactly what style, but he
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says it was I'm assuming it's the same phase of
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those in the sixties TV series, but he said it
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sold quite well. I asked him what he thought the
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most popular Star Trek toys he sells, and he immediately said,
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and you guys, I'm sure gonna agree with this, the
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playmates line, because they're cheap and legitimately made just about
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every damn character in every episode. So he said those
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flight off the show pretty good for me. And then
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I asked him what his favorite Star Trek toy was,
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and he said it was the nineteen ninety three Playmates
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Bridge of Enterprise D. I don't know if I'm sure
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you guys are aware of this toy. It includes like sounds,
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hailing frequency, photo on torpedoes, warp drive, tractor being red
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alert sounds, It's got some light features, a computer and
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eliminated view screen with phaser hits, and of course it
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has all the seeding for OPS, con, Command and AFT
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stations tactical standing with the working tactical. I do remember this.
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I never owned this. I don't know about you, guys.
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I thought it was.
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Pretty cool, but I never I don't remember buying this.
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I've never owned it, but I do want it. Yeah,
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it's cool. It's a cool set.
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not incredible, but you're gonna pay a couple hundred bucks
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for it.
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Yeah, well, it looks pretty cool. I looked it up, like,
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holy crap, Why did I not own this?
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But all right, well, guys, I know we're going to
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talk about our top ten favorite Star Trek toys. But
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before we do that, let's take a brief break and
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then we come back. We will star our accountdown. Welcome
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back everybody to our discussion here at Phaser set's done.
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We are talking about our ten favorite Star Trek toys.
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Now these are not in any order. We're not saying
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that these are you know, ten ninety subsix, fo four
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three two one in that word of being the best.
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But we are talking about what we think our favorite
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Star Trek toys that we've owned or that we know
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about over the years. Scott, I'm going to let you
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start us off with number ten.
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So at number ten, we're talking about something that people
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have probably seen in an episode of Big Bang Theory.
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It's the Mego scale Star Trek Transporter Room. So this
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one specifically, it just has this clever mechanism to it.
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characters and stand them up in what looks like a
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transporter pad, and you spin a knob at the top,
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and when you press a button, it stops, and then
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the figure has magically disappeared. It's kind of a variation
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on I think it's a Magician's Cabinet. It's kind of
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a magic trip that is based on It was part
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of the Enterprise Bridge, which is interesting because it had,
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you know, the bridge itself kind of doubled as a
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carrying case apparently for the figures A mega Mego knew
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what they were doing. Something I found that was interesting
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about this is apparently so after this was really released
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in seventy six, a company called Palletoy used that and
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repurposed it as a modified version of a tartiscross it.
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It's funny. I never made that connection, but you're right, yep.
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So it's a it's a cool effect.
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The design of it has a lot of those kind
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of you know, uh, wavy lines like a.
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Steve did is it? Steve did Go that did all?
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Who did all those agents of shield covers where it
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had all that trippy.
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Kind of wavy lines.
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kind of pattern that it had to it.
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I think it was a clever idea.
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Did, or just don't open it.
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no good good way.
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All right? Number nine Wayne, That would be the Migo
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Star Trek the motion picture action figures that were released
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in nineteen seventy nine. They were three and three fourth
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quarter figures of the same size as g I. Joe,
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and they released figures of Kirk Spock, McCoy, Ileiah Decker,
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and Scottie, along with assortment of aliens including the klingon
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the right, Jellian, Octurian, the Beetle Juician, zin Zara Knight,
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and the Meghar. Well, you know, they didn't make kids.
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It is easy for the kids to pronounce games.
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The third one, can you go back then?
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That would have been I heard Beetlejuice somewhere.
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Yeah there were well, yeah I was Mega Wright was
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the last one I was trying to pronounce.
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But you know the thing is is these figures, many
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of them were not available here in the US. These
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aliens that I just tried to mention were only available
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either from Canada or Italy, or you could buy him
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in a three pack from the JC Pennies Christmas catalog.
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But you're going to pay a pretty penny for him.
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It's a pity because these are really actually nice figures.
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introduced that year by Migo, which we would be very
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familiar with with the G I. Joe line that a
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few years later. And plus it had playsets. You know,
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they had the Motion Picture Bridge play set which was
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made out of a Vacuu form plastic. It's really really
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hard to find this in good shape because it became
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over what forty some years now. It's very brittle and
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has a fragile plastic. Plus they did some twelve inch
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figures Kirk Spock, Iliah Decker and Klingon. Those also are