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The Story of Star Trek toys is a long and complicated one. Unlike other mainstream franchises, Star Trek toys were cranked out by many different toy companies along the way, but it all began with Mego. By 1974, Mego Toys was quickly becoming a global name in the toy industry. With the World’s Greatest Heroes line already proving to be a huge success, Mego turned their sights on other licenses from the the big and small screen, and thus, the Star Trek toy line was born. The original Star Trek television series ran from 1966 to 1969 and spanned 79 episodes. Star Trek began running old episodes in syndication in late 1969 in over 200 markets, which sparked a revival of interest in the show from old and new fans alike. This renewed interest took off like wildfire and spawned conventions and even a new animated series. Mego took notice and signed a licensing deal for a Star Trek toy line. Mego had high hopes for the line from the very beginning and put a lot of attention to detail into Star Trek, which really showed with the first series of figures and accessories released in 1974. It did well enough that a second and third series of figures were released in following years. By 1979, Star Wars had taken the toy industry by storm and all the other toy companies across the globe were just trying to catch up by finding the next big thing. Mego toys had famously passed up the opportunity to make toys based on the Star Wars movie, so they were desperate to find their own powerhouse science fiction franchise. After already snatching up licensing deals with Logan’s Run, Space 1999 and Disney’s The Black Hole, Mego now decided to produce toys based on the new Star Trek movie being released in 1979. Star Trek the Motion Picture turned out to be mildly successful at box office, but met with mixed reviews that left many fans scratching their heads. This translated over to the merchandising items for the movie as well, including Mego’s action figure lines. Mego had big plans for the line but the lack of heavy demand at the box office meant an early end to the line. Many products were left unproduced and The Star Trek Motion Picture line of action figures proved to be a bit of a disappointment for Mego, which were one of many reasons why they met with an untimely end a few years later.

By the time Star Trek Next Generation was hitting the airwaves in 1988, Star Trek toys had not had the best track record since Mego’s glory days in the early to mid 1970’s. After Mego’s failed attempt at marketing toys based on Star Trek The Motion Picture in 1979, and ERTL’s failed attempt with Star Trek III in 1984, the Star Trek toy brand was considered to be a bit toxic. After a very successful string of movies (Star Trek II, Star Trek III and Star Trek IV) it seemed that it was about time someone took a gamble on Star Trek once again……Enter the Galoob toy company. Galoob decided to take a chance on the newest Star Trek television series, mostly because the toy licensing rights came at a friendly price. The Next Generation television series was a success from the very beginning, but it gained mega status as the show went on. Despite the show’s big ratings and success, Galoob’s toy line struggled with poor sales. This was due to many reasons, but it was mostly the poor design and articulation of the figures. Most of the figures from Series 1 went through multiple variations throughout its run and they just felt rushed with very little playability factor.

The Star Trek: The Next Generation television show was a huge success and brought Star Trek back to audiences in a big way. It seemed only natural that a new toy line would be released for it, and it was in 1988 by the Galoob Toy Company. It turned out to be a disappointing line to say the least, and Next Generation toys ceased to exist before the second series in 1989 ever made it to production. Star Trek toys had not had the best track record since Mego’s glory days in the early to mid 1970’s. After Mego’s failed attempt at marketing toys based on Star Trek The Motion Picture in 1979, ERTL’s failed attempt with Star Trek III in 1984, and now Galoob’s disappointing effort, the Star Trek toy brand was in limbo. Enter the Playmates toy company. Playmates had been around had been around since 1966, and had MASSIVE success with their new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toy line. Now Playmates had turned their attention towards a dormant Star Trek franchise for another shot. The Next Generation television series was a success from the very beginning, but it gained mega status as the show went on. Playmates realized Star Trek already had a huge fan base, so with the right design, production lines and marketing, they felt they could turn around the bad luck that been plaguing Star Trek toys since the late 1970’s. They were absolutely correct, because in 1992, Playmates would begin a very successful eight year run of some incredibly well-done and fun action figures and accessories.

All good things must come to an end, and for Star Trek, that time came in 1999. Over the course of its Star Trek run, Playmates had released a massive amount of new products for each year, but that production greatly slowed down for 1997 and 1998. For their final release of products in 1999, almost every item was an exclusive to a retail store or site. This made collecting the final products a bit more difficult, which also makes them more valuable. The decline in sales was due to a number of reasons, but among the biggest was due to a certain other Science Fiction franchise, called Star Wars. Hasbro brought the line back in 1995 and it was posting huge sales numbers at retail. Also, the last live action Star Trek movie, Insurrection was such a disaster that Paramount shelved the entire Star Trek movie series. With no new movies on the horizon, Star Trek only had the television series and one of the biggest (Deep Space Nine) ended in June of 1999, leaving only Star Trek Voyager. Voyager would run until 2001, with modest ratings but Playmates decided that it just wasn’t enough to merit a continuation of the toy line based on that series (despite Seven of Nine). During its eight year run from 1992 to 1999, Playmates released some truly amazing and high quality products. Their figures were fun and it was obvious they paid attention to detail. When you think of iconic toy lines from the 1990’s, most collectors name Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or the Power Rangers, but Playmates’ Star Trek line should definitely stand with their head held high because they showed what a good Star Trek line could be by realizing its potential and bringing it to life.

Over its storied history many quality Star Trek products were released from 1974 to 1999 by Mego, Playmates and even Galoob to a lesser extent. Just like every toy line, the values of certain items can greatly fluctuate over time. This is based on several factors, including the item’s time period, scarcity, consumer demand and overall condition. The good news for Star Trek collectors is there always a demand for items from this era, as Mego and Playmates created some truly iconic pieces. Loose individual Mego figures can still be found on the secondary market in varying degrees, depending on which series they are from. The same goes for the playsets and accessories. Carded or boxed items can still fetch quite a bit of money, especially if they are the Series 2 or 3 alien figures. The Motion Picture figures can be found fairly easily but the accessories are becoming harder to find in good boxed condition. The ERTL figures used to be in dollar bins but they are beginning to rise in price lately. The Galoob toys are still fairly common on the secondary market, with only a few select items being worth picking up. The Playmates line is an interesting one indeed. Most of the items produced by Playmates can be found with ease on the secondary market at very reasonable prices, but prices are definitely beginning to creep up a bit. Values on Star Trek items remain steady with values and prices always inching up each year. The market remains strong due to an ever present 70’s and 80’s nostalgic desire and a rabid fan base. The figures, playsets, vehicles, and other accessories from the various Star Trek lines will only increase in value as these figures and sets become rarer and harder to find in the future.

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A Collector's Trek #3: 1970's AHI Rack Toys

Picture this: You are a Trek-crazed child growing up in the 1970's. The show has become a syndication sensation, and your young mind simply cannot get enough of Kirk and Spock's adventures. Whenever the show airs, you can routinely be found just a few feet in front of the television, eyes transfixed on today's adventure. But just as you get ready to plop down and watch "The Trouble with Tribbles" for the tenth time, Mom and Dad abruptly barge into the room and turn off the set. They tell you to throw on your jacket because the family is heading out to the store. Your mind races, grasping for some excuse not to make the trip. After all, how could you possibly be expected to miss Captain Kirk's triumphant defeat of Arne Darvin and his fuzzy death trap?

The situation seems dire... until you hear the name of the store to which your family is going. It seems Granny's prescription has run out, and a quick run up to the local pharmacy is in order. Suddenly you are moving at warp speed, strapping on your shoes and combing your hair in record time. Your parents are surprised by your eagerness, not knowing that you have an ulterior motive in place. Unbeknownst to them, a trip to the drug store is not a journey into boredom for you; it's a visit to a Star Trek merchandise nirvana, thanks to Azrak-Hamway and their plethora of inexpensive licensed rack toys.

Azrak-Hamway International (or AHI as it is more commonly known) burst onto the retail scene back in 1964 with a line of novelty toys. AHI's releases commonly consisted of inexpensive items you would find on the racks of local grocery and drug stores. In 1974, AHI acquired the Remco brand, bringing with it a multitude of television licensing deals. Using these brands, AHI breathed new life into its product. The cost and quality stayed the same, but the toys were now tied around recognizable properties, adding up to big profits for AHI. The placement of the product and its relatively cheap cost made it almost irresistible to children trapped in an otherwise boring grocery store. If a kid had a few extra bucks burning a hole in their pocket while out on a family shopping trip, it's a good bet that they spent it on an AHI product. And to a child obsessed with Star Trek , the following list of inexpensive AHI Trek toys must have proved utterly futile to resist:

Water Guns: A summer playtime staple, AHI made two different Star Trek -themed water guns. The Phaser Water Gun was an obvious product to make, but Azrak's other release, the U.S.S. Enterprise Water Gun, was quite an imaginative toy. It's basically an Enterprise mounted on a handle, with a spray nozzle protruding from the deflector dish. Easily one of the neatest H2O warfare devices ever made.

Disc Shooting Phaser Gun: Much like the Rayline Star Trek Tracer Guns of the 1960's, the Disc Shooting Phaser Gun fired an assortment of small plastic discs at an incredibly rapid rate. Unlike Rayline's product though, the AHI disc shooter actually looks like a phaser, which makes it about 10 times cooler. Also available was a package of extra discs... just in case you ran out of ammo.

Phaser Ray Gun: Starting to sense a theme here? It seems like the phaser was AHI's favorite item to base toys around. The Phaser Ray Gun was the most diminutive of their releases, but may have been the most accurate when it came to action features. Labeled as a "Space Flashlight", this little guy emitted a beam of light when you squeezed the trigger. No crazy discs or stream of water here. One drawback though: The penlight battery was not included.

The Phaser Saucer Gun: Able to fire off a selection of brightly colored disks, the Phaser Saucer Gun seems like the unwanted member of Azrak's phaser family. With only three discs included, the odds of you losing all your projectiles early on were pretty good. Once that happens, how much fun could a saucer gun be without its saucers? Not much, I'd say.

Activity Games: While they don't hold a candle to 3-D chess, AHI's assortment of pinball games probably provided hours of distraction for young Trek fans. The games are pretty straightforward, with a player attempting to lodge a ball into different point recesses. What is really nice about these, though, is the artwork used in their design. Like much of the AHI product packaging, the graphics used for the game backgrounds borrowed heavily from the Gold Key Star Trek comics of the day.

The "Soaring" U.S.S Enterprise: A truly inventive product, the "Soaring" U.S.S. Enterprise doesn't really seem like it belongs with the rest of the AHI line. The packaging design is completely different from all their other releases, and the toy itself featured engineering wizardry seemingly ahead of its time. Using an included launcher, a child could launch the Enterprise into the air and send it soaring by means of a small plastic propeller. While AHI had to take liberties in the Enterprise's design to make it work, the sheer thrill of launching your own Starship into the air clearly makes up for any screen inaccuracies.

Sky Diving Parachutist Figures: It's pretty difficult to come up with something nice to say about Azrak-Hamway's "Official" Sky Diving Parachutist Kirk and Spock figures. I could say that these predicted orbital skydiving well before we actually witnessed it in Star Trek , or I could give them credit for being some of the very first action figures ever produced of Kirk and Spock. But none of that would make up for the fact that these are Kirk and Spock... wearing parachutes. I guess the transporters must have been down that day.

As goofy as it is, the AHI Star Trek product is an integral and often overlooked piece of Star Trek merchandising history. Released years after the show's cancellation, AHI proved that the license was still viable at retail while also satisfying demand for product appealing to younger fans. Although quite inexpensive at the time of their release, Azrak-Hamway Star Trek items can command high prices nowadays, sometimes fetching hundreds of dollars if still sealed in their original packaging. Pretty impressive for toys produced "on the cheap"...

But not all the Star Trek product produced by Azrak-Hamway International fit into the inexpensive, "rack" toy category. AHI also produced higher-quality items under the Remco brand, including some of the nicest toy replicas made up to that point. Next time around, we'll take a look at some of the 70's Remco products, including one of my favorite Trek toys ever produced…

------------Want to read more from James Sawyer about Star Trek products? Check out his blog  - A Piece of the Action .

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In the 1970s, some major advances in computer technology started to influence children's toys during the decade as evident in the simply computerized game of Simon and the development of the Atari computer and gaming system. Popular culture also continued to greatly influence the types that were available, with many youngsters being able to recreate their favorite movies or television shows with matching actions figures and dolls. Picking only a few was a hard task as I could easily have included 100 +, if you check on the right hand side of the page you will see our other Years from the 1970's which include more than 250 other Vintage Toys from the Seventies.

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Vintage Toys: 1970s Star Trek Inter-Space Communicator

The original Star Trek TV series ended in 1969, but its enduring popularity was evident not long after. Fan demand for new adventures led to the 1973-74 animated series , and it’s from that period that this neat Star Trek toy comes from. It’s an Inter- Space Communicator, released in 1974 by a British company called Lone Star. Hell, I’d like just the packaging, featuring a surprisingly decent illustration of Kirk and Spock.

In case it wasn’t immediately obvious, the communicators here worked with a string attached between them. To the future !

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Max Power May 5, 2013 at 2:20 pm

I’m pretty sure that the MIR space station used this technology, too

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1970’s Star Trek Series Playset Lives Again As Retro Original Series Playset

Missing the 1975 Mego Star Trek Playset? Well, then here’s something that will send you through the roof. ThinkGeek is peddling a Star Trek Retro Original Series Playset based on the 1970s playset. So whether you are a fan who misses the original set, or just want to introduce your kids to the world of playable Star Trek toys, this is a must-have toy/collectible. Seriously, if you are not elated, or already up on the roof, you are not a real Trekkies then. The set is, of course, an officially licensed product and it is designed for 8-inch cloth action figures.

Made of vinyl and cardboard, this 2016 iteration can be folded up into a neat box, complete with carrying handle for easy portability. If you are fan of this awesome 70s sci-fi show, you are probably in your 40s or 50s now and therefore, you probably won’t be carrying this thing to your neighbor’s house. That will be weird but if you still do that, then’s that really, really weird, if not super creepy. So, I guess the Star Trek Retro Original Series Playset likely be on your Star Trek altar of collectibles.

Key features you can expect include a built spin-action transporter, command chair, console, a pair of stools, six view screen scenes. Recommended for age 8 to infinity. Ok, it says “8+”, but I am guessing you will love to see “infinity” so you can lock this in the glass cabinet, instead of letting your kids ruin it. Be honest, that’s what you are going to do, right? You can pick up the Star Trek Retro Original Series Playset over at ThinkGeek for $59.99 .

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Fleet Captain

That's true in a lot of cases, but some toys on the site do bear a faint resemblance to actual props. This is weird: the Remco STAR TREK Rocket Pistol, used by Spock himself on the package, is actually a very good likeness of the LOST IN SPACE laser pistol: http://www.plaidstallions.com/startrek/rcat.html  

Duncan MacLeod

That's because the toy is what was use to make the 1st season LiS laser pistols. They took those, modified them, painted them almost entirely black, then added gold sights and a red light on top. On the lo-res black and white TVs of the time no one could tell.  

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Metryq said: Junk is right. Most of the stuff has nothing to do with STAR TREK—just random toys with "STAR TREK" stamped on it. I was expecting to see some of the action figures, or the bridge playset with the spinning transporter chamber. EDIT: And it's selling for some big bucks now . Click to expand...

Here's a site I just discovered yesterday that discusses all manner of Trek related toys, all series, all decades since its inception. http://www.apieceoftheaction.net/ I'm not knowledgeable enough to debate his authority, so I just perused it for the nostalgic romp that no one can really argue. He covers the Remco and AHI bargin toys of the 70s, so that should cover the meat of this topic. He apparently loves the Remco "electronic" phaser, stating it existed during an era when kids didn't care that much about screen accuracy. Uh, maybe he didn't, but I, just a brat of 12 years when it was released did care. Ugh, I found the thing horrendous! It was based upon the awkward proportions of the AMT kit, except, "inflated". I could have forgiven that if, IF the audio circuit had produced something, anything akin to the famous cicada-like shriek originally created for George Pal's "War of the Worlds". Instead...it "chirped"! I honestly think the company used a circuit originally meant for a kind of "robotic" birdcage display because it sounded NOTHING like a phaser! The circuit would have better served the flip-lid of a communicator toy. Except, the circuit board of the time could barely have fit within a tricorder housing, let alone a pocket shaver sized comm' casing. Here's the toy in question. http://www.apieceoftheaction.net/2009/08/star-trek-potpourri-spotlight-remco.html I was not thrilled with that purchase. Sincerely, Bill  

Captain April

Redfern said: I could have forgiven that if, IF the audio circuit had produced something, anything akin to the famous cicada-like shriek originally created for George Pal's "War of the Worlds". Click to expand...

Great link. Thanks.  

Metryq said: And as you may know, the Martian heat ray sound effect was a truck starter motor. (The visual was created with a grinding wheel photographed in a darkened studio.) Click to expand...

Captain April said: I had one of these. God what a dork. Click to expand...

Boss Monster Mod

Ah, the memories... I had that MEGO bridge playset, plus I had Kirk, Spock, Scotty, McCoy, Uhura, the Klingon, the (misnamed) Keeper and the Cheron. What I wouldn't give to have them back.  

Nice to see the "parachutist" got Kirk's shirt color right.  

CorporalCaptain

Silvercrest, vice admiral.

Redfern said: He apparently loves the Remco "electronic" phaser, stating it existed during an era when kids didn't care that much about screen accuracy. Uh, maybe he didn't, but I, just a brat of 12 years when it was released did care. Ugh, I found the thing horrendous! It was based upon the awkward proportions of the AMT kit, except, "inflated". I could have forgiven that if, IF the audio circuit had produced something, anything akin to the famous cicada-like shriek originally created for George Pal's "War of the Worlds". Instead...it "chirped"! I honestly think the company used a circuit originally meant for a kind of "robotic" birdcage display because it sounded NOTHING like a phaser! The circuit would have better served the flip-lid of a communicator toy. Except, the circuit board of the time could barely have fit within a tricorder housing, let alone a pocket shaver sized comm' casing. I was not thrilled with that purchase. Click to expand...

The King of Kings

My god, I had this toy! [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsHWlVlWaHU[/yt]  

SilverCrest, if it's any consolation, I absolutely LOVED the AMT "Exploration Set" model kit even though the phaser, communicator and tricorder were small and having inaccurate proportions that reflected more of the simplified designs depicted in the 1973 Filmation animated series. That was actually a darn clever idea for a assembly kit/role playing prop collection! Those items were certainly a parsec level jump from the "spent" makeup compacts that served as communicators, TV remotes as type 1 pocket phasers, and empty binocular cases as tricorders. Before AMT released that kit, I was rather reluctant to "hail" the Enterprise lest someone wonder if I was about to apply rouge to my cheeks! I guess I just held the kit to a standard different from the Remco toy. Yeah, irrational, I know. Well, maybe because I paid more for that single phaser than I did for the "Exploration Set" which supplied three props. Sincerely, Bill  

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