I remember seeing the Enterprise playset in a commercial and wanting it so bad. Was so disappointed when I never found it in stores. The figures and die-cast Enterprise alone were never enough to satisfy my appetite.
Before a single episode had even aired in the UK, I saw these figures in my Mum's catalogue. I saw how cool "Mr Wolf" looked, (yep, they spelt Worf with an "L"!), and he's been my favourite ever since. A couple of years ago, my Mrs bought me Mr Worf still on card for Christmas!
I remember this era like yesterday. I noticed the figures in K-Mart sometime in Fall of 1988. I was born in 1980, so it was my business to know which figures were available back then. I hadn't watched The Next Generation yet. My first figure was LaForge. I got a few more not long after that. I remember people talking about the show a lot. "Star Trek is back" was a common theme that I heard. Unfortunately when I finally watched it I didn't care for it. Neither did anyone in my class. You would think that 8 year olds would be into this line. I was the only kid in my class to buy some of these figures. By the summer of '89 every kid moved onto the Ninja Turtles. These Star Trek figures hung out on the shelves for a while. Not many kids were interested in them. The show moved too slow for us. Too many of us were Ritalin kids that got into Sonic The Hedgehog and Metallica. We liked things with a faster pace. These were adult collectables before adult collectables were a thing in action figures. Great era. Great memories. I had fun buying the figures that I did. It's too bad that the show didn't appeal to my age group better.
Then there was me, who abandoned TMNT for Star Trek. Wasn’t the only one. There were good reasons Star Trek was as strong as it was in the 90’s, and it wasn’t just because of adults who grew up on TOS.
@@jasonschlierman412 yeah, but you're talking about the 90's. I was done with toys before the Playmates Trek figures came out. My last figures were Robin Hood & Pirates Of Dark Water. Christmas of 1991 was my last Christmas getting figures. And on that day (even though I asked for these toys month's before) I felt I was getting too old for toys. I was more into the Warrant & Guns N' Roses cassettes that I also got on Christmas along with sports cards. 1992 was spent watching MTV and chasing girls. I didn't even know Playmates made a Trek line in the 90's until I got back into collecting again in the 2000's. To me the Galoob line from the late 80's was Star Trek.
@@cyborgroxx And that your personal story, but your point was that children in general where not interested in TNG, which is false. Beside myself, I personally knew a lot of kids that became Star Trek fans as children because of TNG. Was it as big as say X-Men or Batman: TAS? No, but it was still popular.
@@jasonschlierman412 I hate the internet, lol. Ok, yes, there were kids out there that liked it...I just didn't know any. At least not in my grade. As far as X-Men go, I was done with cartoons by the time that came out. I did like the Sega game though.
That first ad sounds like the 1950's Ovaltine Secret Squadron commercial. Modular sets looked like a cool idea, very much how the shows/movies seemed to jump around from location to location. Enterprise play set keeps reminding me of a cereal bowl, which certainly has some merit to it too. I'd have a great time eating cereal out of the Enterprise bridge. La Forge's visor would've been the ultimate collectable for fans.
The only Enterprise toy ship I liked was the die cast metal one (similar in size to the original star wars die cast ships) with the saucer section that could separate from the main body.
I had one too. The little metal tab that held the sections together snapped. I imagine this happened a lot due to that saucer being so top heavy. The cool thing about that die cast metal enterprise D is that it was almost a perfect scale with constitution class enterprise later put out by Micro Machines. I was one of those nerdy kids that was always annoyed when my little ships weren’t to scale with one another.
A friend's older brother bought all the figures & the electronic Enterprise right when the show was new. They looked really cool on a glass shelf. But a few years later he up and sold them all. He's a big trekie.
One time when I was a very young kid, I somehow accidentally turned the radio to AM...😬 I started flipping the dial and looking for different stations...📻 I found weird talk shows and even stranger music...😳 It was one of the most riveting experiences I had ever had, I was shook...💯✔
The Worst u can make your own AM station from home- Just from parts lying around, did it with a science 101 experiments kit when I was young. I doubt it goes to everybody’s AM, or very far signal though....it’s probably just a neighborhood or less.
Wesley Crusher would not have been a peg warmer, he was the only kid in a kids toy line. When I was a kid I didn't have any hate towards him whatsoever
That was Romulan was Commander Tebok, played by Marc Alaimo, his second role on TNG,. His first role was as Ambassador Badar, the speaking Antican in "Lonely Among Us". Third was as Gul Macet, his first Cardassian, in "The Wounded" prior to portraying Gul Dukat on DS9.
wotaj Trekkie ! Jk ...I loved ds9 n voyager and classics...never got info tng...seemed to ...idk, was good, just didn’t like the shows model. Maybe now that I’m older I can enjoy it? Torrent, here I come....
Me again....is your avatar, the little lightning guy from the Siege TF’s exclusive camera guy? If not, it’s damn close?! I already lost my black button on top of camera m...and has to find this guy like 10 times on my floor already. Yeah, I open all my TF. Only SW I keep nib.
@@necron99.aka-sammyboy92 Yeah Armin Shimerman, He started working on TNG the same time he was playing Mouse on Beauty and The Beast with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman.
I remember nobody much older than me liked Wesley Crusher. I was 11 when the show came out but only watched it occasionally until the third season. I think I bought the last Galoob Riker at my local, Kay Bee, and that it was the last one period in the store.
This must be a false memory that I made up in my head. I remember this one time I saw a commercial on TV for an Enterprise-D playset that was 3 or 4 stories tall. It included various areas of the corridors and a turbolift. I also remember it showcasing figures of Dr. Crusher, Troi, and Wesly. It all looked great too. Since there is no evidence of at least prototypes of this I have to admit it must have been either a dream or a memory that I somehow made up. Yet I still remember the television commercial that never was quite vividly.
I had all the Galoob star trek figures when I was a kid, and yes the episode where Picard meets himself is season 2 episode 14, just watched it last night lol
The only Galoob TNG toy I had (and still have) is the die-cast Enterprise with the separating saucer section. What was bad for Galoob ended up being great for Playmates, tho.
The Galoob 3.75" figures were, and I hate to say this, kind of dumb. Most were moulded holding a phaser (in both left and right hands), with the other arm bent at the elbow with a closed fist - they couldn't hold anything - and yet, most had tricorder accessories that would go over the figures' shoulder, but was so stiff it stuck out sideways. The paint apps were odd - I have Picard and Riker, and for some reason, both have bright yellow lips. I was not upset when they stopped production. Loved the 'Playmates' figures, though. Got 100+ of them. They were awesome. Thanks for the video. Nice one.
Those Enterprise playsets looked like they would have been pretty awesome! Well designed! It's a shame this line didn't take off, but you're right; the Playmates line pretty much filled in the gap. (If you have a video on that, could you send a link?) I was 13 when TNG premiered, so I had pretty much outgrown toys by then, but I did hold out hopes that they would do well. Thankfully, they (eventually) did. :D
Howdy, Junkman. Good that you did focus on Galoob and TNG. As pathetic the attempt was made. It’s the 80s, 3 3/4 was a popular action figure line and they go good with Star Wars and G.I. Joe figures and they did not expect TNG was going to bra success.Wish they made a wave 3 set of figures next to Wesley and Romulan Commander.
Same. These fit in so well with Star Wars and GI Joe. They could use each other's ships and playsets interchangeably. More play value there. Really loved it.
I remember having LaForge, Picard, Riker, Worf, and Tasha in this line. I only ever saw one Data, but it was the one with the blue speckled face so I didn’t buy him. I never saw Q, the Ferengi, the Selay, or the Antican, though. If I remember correctly, this was the very first toy line that I ever collected with my own money. I was pretty disappointed that it was cancelled so quickly, though.
That cardboard playset was genius! How cool would that have been, especially had they done it up in plastic? Wow, that Gordi LaForge visor is super cool as well, would have loved that as a kid. It's a bummer that the Enterprise ship didn't get made, definitely the Galoob Star Trek version of the the Falcon in its own right. That would have been a beautiful toy. Love that it could detach too.
If we could ever get an action figure line for TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise and the original ten films, I’d be all over that! Playmates came the closest, but missed the mark by the end.
I remember getting those figures and getting a poster that had images of the unreleased product like the bridge play set and other figures and on the other side of the poster was the painting of the enterprise D that was in captain Picards ready room . Luckily playmates came out with a better line of figures and play sets.
The only things I didn't have from this line were the aliens, Ferengi Fighter and Enterprise shuttle. Had everything else, even the hand phaser which was really a flashlight that could make noise. I wished the line had continued, ruined a Riker painting a beard on him, plus a Worf and Geordi. This was before I discovered acrylic paints work best on action figures lol.
I have a theory about how the Enterprise frisbee would work. I noticed the saucer section was more round than the actual ships was and one photo shows the decals at an odd angle as if the saucer section wasn't stationary to the neck. The saucer section looked as if it would spin while the rest of the ship would theoretically trail behind as it soared through the air
NEver chased down the Galoob line, even though I was a Trek fan and collector at the time, getting most of the Playmates line Even at the time of release, the Galoob stuff was uninteresting, coming across as a quick cheap license grab to knock out crummy toys. Those walkie talkies and FM radios pretty much support this view. Trak had been plagued by cheap licensed products since the 60's, usually slapping "Star Trek" on some generic toy already released. Some of the Remco and Mego stuff of the 70s did this, but Mego also did a great job with their action figures and playsets of the 70s, a first for Trek
Hey Junkman? Have you ever noticed that in your videos the shadow being cast from your Kenner Star Wars Imperial Shuttle kind of looks like a Star Destroyer?
I have some but not all of these t.n.g. collectable toys from galoob. As I recall there weren't too many of the t.n.g. toys available to purchase for anyone to buy at all....
I don't think that the "frisbee" isn't a frisbee, it looks like some of the foam gliders that I'd gotten at the time that were actually pretty horrible to throw around.
One of my greatest regrets is when I got divorced and in a fit of depressed rage threw all my display figures (including all the galoob figures that I'd had since '88) in a box and dropped it at a Goodwill.
I still think this line had a ton of untapped potential. I think the sculpting on these figures - and the scale in which they were made - were fantastic. The Playmates line was always too glossy, too cartoonish and too large for my taste. Playmates had more articulation and an insane amount of variety, but they never felt right to me. I wish the Galoob series had started with more figures, that came with more accessories. I also wish the hand sculpts were neutral and not stuck in fists and holding phasers. But on the whole? Love this toy line and wish they'd had been able to stick it out long enough to to really capitalize on TNG's eventual success.
Good observations- even though I collected mostof the Playmates figures, I too thought the pre-FC figures looked out of proportion, though well articulated with recognizable faces in most cases, but not all Art Asylum knocked it out of the park though
I want that unreleased Geordie visor! I loved Star Trek as a kid and I used to take my moms hair clip that kind of looked like the visor and I'd pretend to be Geordie LOL.
@@zacharyjochumsen9677 Believe it or not, the Geordi visor proto type for TNG was fashioned. after a large hair clip that girls wore in their hair at the time, around 1986,87. The prop dept modified it with the visor frame.. ( The reason Geordi became chief engineer , after being at the helm is due to the fact that the Enterprise could steer itself if programmed to, so giving Geordi the engineering job would give him more of a challenge for being vision impaired.)
Looking at the unreleased frisbee of the enterprise, I believe the “how” if it was that the saucer would spin while the lower hull and engines were designed to stay somewhat straight making it look as though the ship was flying straight. I’m guessing that it may not have worked too well in the end which may be why they didn’t release it
Junkman 👊😁 Galoob Definitely made some awesome toys. I still have some of the transforming playsets they released on the Star Wars line. Would have been awesome to of had these Star Trek toys from Galoob.
Never liked those playsets shoehorned into grossly out of scale spaces or ships, like that Galoob bridge set in the distored Ent-D Fine for 5 year olds, but by even 8 years old, I wanted technically accurate details and scaling
The playsets weren't "shoehorned into grossly out of scale spaces or ships," you're just setting your standards unreasonably high. Many ships from Star Trek aren't exactly scalable, so making a playset of one that's in scale with the figures wouldn't be feasible or economical. There's a reason why a life-sized Enterprise model was never made for the shows or movies, is what I'm saying.
would you ever want geordi visor in gallon scald that would be interesting to see in scale for like three was master replica who made rep,ie of gerdis visor in scale with the actual screen used model
I wish those unreleased toys would've made it into stores. I had 4 of these figures (Picard, Worff, Riker, and Geordie). It's too bad we didn't see any Klingon Warrior figures or a Klingon Bird of Prey. I'm thinking a Klingon Bird of Prey frisbee would've been awesome too!
My parents bought me a set of Galoob Trek figures, and I think I traded them all to a friend for his old and broken toys. I regretted it for a long time, not nearly as much after looking up pics of them. Horridly bland, and I thought the same thing as a kid.
Nothing says beat me up snotty like a star trek lunch box! I would have proudly carried it. Also I just realized that the Junkman in the beginning looks more like a truck driver and less Han solo
That Junkman yeah, as much as I support the free market, it seems like a company who is buying up all companies tend to become complacent. Without competition holding their feet to the fire they seem to slow down innovation. A good example is when WWF bought all the wrestling promotions. Without competition their product took a slow dive.....sorry about my rant
I think of three different reasons why the FM radios, walkie-talkies with combadges, the electronic Enterprise, the flying Enterprise, the inflatable Enterprise, the three actionscapes: Enterprise bridge, transporter room and alien planet, the Enterprise playset, Wesley Crusher and Romulan action figures, the die-cast Ferengi marauder and the VISOR toy wasn't released: A. The first season sucked! B. The toy line sucked! C. When the crew of the Enterprise went back in time in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, they created by accident, a series of events which ultimately led to the explosion of Galoob headquarters, thus preventing these toys from ever being made.
"Shut up Wesley." I had a "Star Trek The Motion Picture" bridge. I only had the figure of Captain Kirk, but my Star Wars figures enjoyed the playset. I had five storm troopers and two snow troopers that would storm the bridge. I had two Death Star Commanders, but I pretended they were rebel troopers. It was awesome, until I got my Death Star World, and then there was no going back.
The Galoob figures never impressed me.The figures looked pretty chunky and the phasers molded into the hands never looked right. But the first season of TNG was pretty bad and the second season was a marginal improvement. When Gene Roddenberry "lost creative control" the characters and the show started to be much better. By this time Galoob had given up and the Playmates series came along soon after.HUGE improvement.
Yeesh! The old Star Trek communicator walkie-talkies that were released in the 70's (kinda large, blue, but had a flip lid and an antenna) were way cooler than the generic (thankfully unreleased) TNG walkie-talkies.
I thought the Galoob figures were crap. They were equal in quality to the STAR WARS figures from the original trilogy, that came out years earlier, so they should have been of better quality. The diorama playsets looked juvenile, like they were some grade school kid's science fair project.
I love how they were in scale with the Star Wars Kenner figures. The best episode of TNG was when the Enterprise discovered a wormhole that transported the ship back in time to a galaxy far, far away. Sadly, that episode only aired in my house during Action Figure Theater...😞
I wish they hadn't used all of that soft plastic on them. The paint didn't stick to them well and faded. All of my AA TOS figures no longer have their Starfleet insignias. It's too bad that the Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys figure lines were discontinued midway through their DS9 releases.
@@KEVMAN7987 ..I saw images of a TOS Nurse Christine Chapel and Yeoman Janice Rand figures. They looked great and would've rounded out the TOS line nicely.
At least Galoob released those Star Trek Micromachines ships. I used to love those.
I remember seeing the Enterprise playset in a commercial and wanting it so bad. Was so disappointed when I never found it in stores. The figures and die-cast Enterprise alone were never enough to satisfy my appetite.
Same, same, same.
Before a single episode had even aired in the UK, I saw these figures in my Mum's catalogue. I saw how cool "Mr Wolf" looked, (yep, they spelt Worf with an "L"!), and he's been my favourite ever since. A couple of years ago, my Mrs bought me Mr Worf still on card for Christmas!
I remember this era like yesterday. I noticed the figures in K-Mart sometime in Fall of 1988. I was born in 1980, so it was my business to know which figures were available back then. I hadn't watched The Next Generation yet. My first figure was LaForge. I got a few more not long after that. I remember people talking about the show a lot. "Star Trek is back" was a common theme that I heard. Unfortunately when I finally watched it I didn't care for it. Neither did anyone in my class. You would think that 8 year olds would be into this line. I was the only kid in my class to buy some of these figures. By the summer of '89 every kid moved onto the Ninja Turtles. These Star Trek figures hung out on the shelves for a while. Not many kids were interested in them. The show moved too slow for us. Too many of us were Ritalin kids that got into Sonic The Hedgehog and Metallica. We liked things with a faster pace. These were adult collectables before adult collectables were a thing in action figures. Great era. Great memories. I had fun buying the figures that I did. It's too bad that the show didn't appeal to my age group better.
Then there was me, who abandoned TMNT for Star Trek. Wasn’t the only one. There were good reasons Star Trek was as strong as it was in the 90’s, and it wasn’t just because of adults who grew up on TOS.
@@jasonschlierman412 yeah, but you're talking about the 90's. I was done with toys before the Playmates Trek figures came out. My last figures were Robin Hood & Pirates Of Dark Water. Christmas of 1991 was my last Christmas getting figures. And on that day (even though I asked for these toys month's before) I felt I was getting too old for toys. I was more into the Warrant & Guns N' Roses cassettes that I also got on Christmas along with sports cards. 1992 was spent watching MTV and chasing girls. I didn't even know Playmates made a Trek line in the 90's until I got back into collecting again in the 2000's. To me the Galoob line from the late 80's was Star Trek.
@@cyborgroxx And that your personal story, but your point was that children in general where not interested in TNG, which is false. Beside myself, I personally knew a lot of kids that became Star Trek fans as children because of TNG. Was it as big as say X-Men or Batman: TAS? No, but it was still popular.
@@jasonschlierman412 I hate the internet, lol. Ok, yes, there were kids out there that liked it...I just didn't know any. At least not in my grade. As far as X-Men go, I was done with cartoons by the time that came out. I did like the Sega game though.
OK, can we all just marvel at the Galoob video's expert editing. "Do you plan to blast a hole in the viewer?" Cuts to someone activating toy phaser.
That first ad sounds like the 1950's Ovaltine Secret Squadron commercial. Modular sets looked like a cool idea, very much how the shows/movies seemed to jump around from location to location. Enterprise play set keeps reminding me of a cereal bowl, which certainly has some merit to it too. I'd have a great time eating cereal out of the Enterprise bridge. La Forge's visor would've been the ultimate collectable for fans.
The only Enterprise toy ship I liked was the die cast metal one (similar in size to the original star wars die cast ships) with the saucer section that could separate from the main body.
My little brother had that.😊
Yep...I used to have that. Very cool.
Had two of them since the 1st one broke almost after I got it. But I kept it and it was often used as the damaged ship.
I had one too. The little metal tab that held the sections together snapped. I imagine this happened a lot due to that saucer being so top heavy. The cool thing about that die cast metal enterprise D is that it was almost a perfect scale with constitution class enterprise later put out by Micro Machines. I was one of those nerdy kids that was always annoyed when my little ships weren’t to scale with one another.
@@xdproductions3087 Me too. Mismatched scale is annoying.
Galoob sounds like something I left in my gym sock. Love your stuff Junkman.
Loved admiral Arkbar on the bridge of the Enterprise
Yeah, but it was a trap!
A friend's older brother bought all the figures & the electronic Enterprise right when the show was new. They looked really cool on a glass shelf.
But a few years later he up and sold them all. He's a big trekie.
One time when I was a very young kid, I somehow accidentally turned the radio to AM...😬 I started flipping the dial and looking for different stations...📻 I found weird talk shows and even stranger music...😳 It was one of the most riveting experiences I had ever had, I was shook...💯✔
The Worst u can make your own AM station from home- Just from parts lying around, did it with a science 101 experiments kit when I was young. I doubt it goes to everybody’s AM, or very far signal though....it’s probably just a neighborhood or less.
Now FM sucks and I can maybe find 1 or 2 things on AM to listen to. Like old radio theater.
I loved these toys....and still have them. The Wesley Crusher would have been a peg warmer for sure!
Me too ! ,i have the Galoob figs & the later PlayMates stuff , even some of the 8' & 12 " (7 of 9 ! )
Wesley Crusher would not have been a peg warmer, he was the only kid in a kids toy line. When I was a kid I didn't have any hate towards him whatsoever
Eh 2 things, is that Ferengi at 7:10 just after leaving the ship to use the toilet, and is that Admiral Ackbar in the Enterprise a 7:50?
I was thinking the same thing. Ferengi pee blue. Akbar was there to claim it was a trap.
Hey junkman, yes something right up my alley Star Trek, awesome video man...live long and prosper buddy
That was Romulan was Commander Tebok, played by Marc Alaimo, his second role on TNG,.
His first role was as Ambassador Badar, the speaking Antican in "Lonely Among Us". Third was as Gul Macet, his first Cardassian, in "The Wounded" prior to portraying Gul Dukat on DS9.
wotaj Trekkie ! Jk ...I loved ds9 n voyager and classics...never got info tng...seemed to ...idk, was good, just didn’t like the shows model. Maybe now that I’m older I can enjoy it? Torrent, here I come....
Ok...who was the 3rd toy...the Ferengi ? And was same actor as that jewish guy whom played quark ?
Me again....is your avatar, the little lightning guy from the Siege TF’s exclusive camera guy? If not, it’s damn close?! I already lost my black button on top of camera m...and has to find this guy like 10 times on my floor already. Yeah, I open all my TF. Only SW I keep nib.
@@necron99.aka-sammyboy92 Yeah, it's Kremzeek, but the one that was packaged with Masterpiece Megatron.
@@necron99.aka-sammyboy92 Yeah Armin Shimerman, He started working on TNG the same time he was playing Mouse on Beauty and The Beast with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman.
Love your impot on the subjects
You know what else is fun? Saying the word Galoob.
I remember nobody much older than me liked Wesley Crusher. I was 11 when the show came out but only watched it occasionally until the third season. I think I bought the last Galoob Riker at my local, Kay Bee, and that it was the last one period in the store.
This must be a false memory that I made up in my head. I remember this one time I saw a commercial on TV for an Enterprise-D playset that was 3 or 4 stories tall. It included various areas of the corridors and a turbolift. I also remember it showcasing figures of Dr. Crusher, Troi, and Wesly. It all looked great too. Since there is no evidence of at least prototypes of this I have to admit it must have been either a dream or a memory that I somehow made up. Yet I still remember the television commercial that never was quite vividly.
Well sounds cool as hell :)
I had all the Galoob star trek figures when I was a kid, and yes the episode where Picard meets himself is season 2 episode 14, just watched it last night lol
Glad Galoob eventually got a license again for glorious and dearly missed Micro Machines!
Really starting to deep dive into TREK line releases and concepts. Love and appreciate the catalog of content. Thanks.
The only Galoob TNG toy I had (and still have) is the die-cast Enterprise with the separating saucer section.
What was bad for Galoob ended up being great for Playmates, tho.
Galoob also had some cool Star Wars Action Fleet vehicles that were unreleased.
This was awesome brother, I wouldn't mind getting the visor, the diecast ships, you should do more Star Trek vlogs
The Galoob 3.75" figures were, and I hate to say this, kind of dumb. Most were moulded holding a phaser (in both left and right hands), with the other arm bent at the elbow with a closed fist - they couldn't hold anything - and yet, most had tricorder accessories that would go over the figures' shoulder, but was so stiff it stuck out sideways. The paint apps were odd - I have Picard and Riker, and for some reason, both have bright yellow lips. I was not upset when they stopped production. Loved the 'Playmates' figures, though. Got 100+ of them. They were awesome. Thanks for the video. Nice one.
Those Enterprise playsets looked like they would have been pretty awesome! Well designed! It's a shame this line didn't take off, but you're right; the Playmates line pretty much filled in the gap. (If you have a video on that, could you send a link?)
I was 13 when TNG premiered, so I had pretty much outgrown toys by then, but I did hold out hopes that they would do well. Thankfully, they (eventually) did. :D
DJ nary wow your the samgs age as my parents theerevblth 47
Cool, man. I hadn't seen these prototypes before.
Howdy, Junkman. Good that you did focus on Galoob and TNG.
As pathetic the attempt was made. It’s the 80s, 3 3/4 was a popular action figure line and they go good with Star Wars and G.I. Joe figures and they did not expect TNG was going to bra success.Wish they made a wave 3 set of figures next to Wesley and Romulan Commander.
I love seeing this stuff! Thanks Junkman. 😀
I love these figures. I can't really get into the playmates ones. These fall right in with my 3 3/4 size addictions
Same. These fit in so well with Star Wars and GI Joe. They could use each other's ships and playsets interchangeably. More play value there. Really loved it.
Great video from a couple of years back don't no how I missed this one proper thumbs up for this video
Another great episode Junkman!
Remco made a "flying USS Enterprise" frisbee in the 60s. Good installment here.
I remember having LaForge, Picard, Riker, Worf, and Tasha in this line. I only ever saw one Data, but it was the one with the blue speckled face so I didn’t buy him. I never saw Q, the Ferengi, the Selay, or the Antican, though. If I remember correctly, this was the very first toy line that I ever collected with my own money. I was pretty disappointed that it was cancelled so quickly, though.
" Shut up, Wesley, ............now, as you were saying Mr. Worf."
That cardboard playset was genius! How cool would that have been, especially had they done it up in plastic?
Wow, that Gordi LaForge visor is super cool as well, would have loved that as a kid. It's a bummer that the Enterprise ship didn't get made, definitely the Galoob Star Trek version of the the Falcon in its own right. That would have been a beautiful toy. Love that it could detach too.
8:10--The episode was "Time Squared," aired during the second season. 😉
If we could ever get an action figure line for TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise and the original ten films, I’d be all over that! Playmates came the closest, but missed the mark by the end.
That's one way to get Wesley to shut up.
I remember getting those figures and getting a poster that had images of the unreleased product like the bridge play set and other figures and on the other side of the poster was the painting of the enterprise D that was in captain Picards ready room . Luckily playmates came out with a better line of figures and play sets.
started with my favorite TNG episode ever. Thats the one where I realized Patrick Stewart was a master at his craft
The only things I didn't have from this line were the aliens, Ferengi Fighter and Enterprise shuttle. Had everything else, even the hand phaser which was really a flashlight that could make noise. I wished the line had continued, ruined a Riker painting a beard on him, plus a Worf and Geordi. This was before I discovered acrylic paints work best on action figures lol.
If you try hard enough, ANYTHING can be a frisbee...
The counsellor Troy figure would have cost a lot, with all that additional plastic they would have needed ;-)
My second childhood; buying all those toys for my son. I miss those days.
I have the Galoob Enterprise, Tasha, and Picard proudly on my wall
I have a theory about how the Enterprise frisbee would work. I noticed the saucer section was more round than the actual ships was and one photo shows the decals at an odd angle as if the saucer section wasn't stationary to the neck. The saucer section looked as if it would spin while the rest of the ship would theoretically trail behind as it soared through the air
Perhaps the saucer was detachable and the rest was a display base?
Those walkie talkies look like they were in the motion picture
NEver chased down the Galoob line, even though I was a Trek fan and collector at the time, getting most of the Playmates line
Even at the time of release, the Galoob stuff was uninteresting, coming across as a quick cheap license grab to knock out crummy toys.
Those walkie talkies and FM radios pretty much support this view.
Trak had been plagued by cheap licensed products since the 60's, usually slapping "Star Trek" on some generic toy already released. Some of the Remco and Mego stuff of the 70s did this, but Mego also did a great job with their action figures and playsets of the 70s, a first for Trek
The Enterprise playsets looked cool
What about Playmates? The 2010 releases are just good as the first one.
The saucer section in the series as well. Not just the movies.
Hey Junkman? Have you ever noticed that in your videos the shadow being cast from your Kenner Star Wars Imperial Shuttle kind of looks like a Star Destroyer?
I’ll have to check that out lol
I have some but not all of these t.n.g. collectable toys from galoob. As I recall there weren't too many of the t.n.g. toys available to purchase for anyone to buy at all....
I don't think that the "frisbee" isn't a frisbee, it looks like some of the foam gliders that I'd gotten at the time that were actually pretty horrible to throw around.
Super 7 has released a Wesley Crusher, Guinan and a Borg that are compatible.
One of my greatest regrets is when I got divorced and in a fit of depressed rage threw all my display figures (including all the galoob figures that I'd had since '88) in a box and dropped it at a Goodwill.
and someone out there is saying "one of my greatest days was going to goodwill to find a box of Star Trek figures even the Galoob ones!)
I still think this line had a ton of untapped potential. I think the sculpting on these figures - and the scale in which they were made - were fantastic. The Playmates line was always too glossy, too cartoonish and too large for my taste. Playmates had more articulation and an insane amount of variety, but they never felt right to me. I wish the Galoob series had started with more figures, that came with more accessories. I also wish the hand sculpts were neutral and not stuck in fists and holding phasers. But on the whole? Love this toy line and wish they'd had been able to stick it out long enough to to really capitalize on TNG's eventual success.
Good observations- even though I collected mostof the Playmates figures, I too thought the pre-FC figures looked out of proportion, though well articulated with recognizable faces in most cases, but not all
Art Asylum knocked it out of the park though
You are right Junkman...that was a great “ Dis play “.
I want that unreleased Geordie visor! I loved Star Trek as a kid and I used to take my moms hair clip that kind of looked like the visor and I'd pretend to be Geordie LOL.
The Geordi Visor wouldn't sell too good. for good reasons. But the rest of this collection was awesome.
You do know that a silver hair clip was exactly what the VISOR was modelled after, don't'cha? 🙂
@@johnbockelie3899 you ever try making you own geridi vsior out of foam and cardboard
@@johnbockelie3899 why do you think it wouldn't sell
@@zacharyjochumsen9677 Believe it or not, the Geordi visor proto type for TNG was fashioned. after a large hair clip that girls wore in their hair at the time, around 1986,87. The prop dept modified it with the visor frame..
( The reason Geordi became chief engineer , after being at the helm is due to the fact that the Enterprise could steer itself if programmed to, so giving Geordi the engineering job would give him more of a challenge for being vision impaired.)
The die cast Enterprise D they made was great.
I have these figures and the die cast Enterprise D with saucer section :-D
Why were Yar and Data rarer than the other four in set one? Also, instead of Wesley, I would have pushed for Troi and Crusher if I had been in charge.
Maybe this launched in the season where Dr Crusher was replaced by Dr Polaski.
Geordi's VISOR. As you can see, he can't.
I had (and still have) that little Next Gen phaser toy.
Looking at the unreleased frisbee of the enterprise, I believe the “how” if it was that the saucer would spin while the lower hull and engines were designed to stay somewhat straight making it look as though the ship was flying straight. I’m guessing that it may not have worked too well in the end which may be why they didn’t release it
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Galoob Definitely made some awesome toys. I still have some of the transforming playsets they released on the Star Wars line. Would have been awesome to of had these Star Trek toys from Galoob.
Not so sure if these are all unreleased . I have a phaser similar to the one at 2:20 but it makes different sounds . Overseas releases maybe ?
Funny you should use Bespin Cloud City in your intro for a Trek video, given Bespin was a cheap knockoff of the The Cloud Minder's Stratos ;)
Playmates made an enterprise glider. Similar to the galoob version.
The unreleased figures and visor would have been cool
Never liked those playsets shoehorned into grossly out of scale spaces or ships, like that Galoob bridge set in the distored Ent-D
Fine for 5 year olds, but by even 8 years old, I wanted technically accurate details and scaling
The playsets weren't "shoehorned into grossly out of scale spaces or ships," you're just setting your standards unreasonably high. Many ships from Star Trek aren't exactly scalable, so making a playset of one that's in scale with the figures wouldn't be feasible or economical. There's a reason why a life-sized Enterprise model was never made for the shows or movies, is what I'm saying.
would you ever want geordi visor in gallon scald that would be interesting to see in scale for like three was master replica who made rep,ie of gerdis visor in scale with the actual screen used model
I wish those unreleased toys would've made it into stores. I had 4 of these figures (Picard, Worff, Riker, and Geordie). It's too bad we didn't see any Klingon Warrior figures or a Klingon Bird of Prey. I'm thinking a Klingon Bird of Prey frisbee would've been awesome too!
My parents bought me a set of Galoob Trek figures, and I think I traded them all to a friend for his old and broken toys. I regretted it for a long time, not nearly as much after looking up pics of them. Horridly bland, and I thought the same thing as a kid.
@@jayrobinson4125 Thought of mentioning, one of those "broken" toys as a Robotech figure that a dog had chewed on. I loved it and still do.
Nothing says beat me up snotty like a star trek lunch box! I would have proudly carried it.
Also I just realized that the Junkman in the beginning looks more like a truck driver and less Han solo
There small ship are the best .
I turned some into xmas ornaments.
And did not could 50.00 for dye cast
id buy CARBORD TOY FOR THE FIGS
These figures look better than the Playmates in my opinion. I wonder what happened to Galoob. I forgot about them
Hasbro bought them but still doing toys under the name
That Junkman yeah, as much as I support the free market, it seems like a company who is buying up all companies tend to become complacent. Without competition holding their feet to the fire they seem to slow down innovation. A good example is when WWF bought all the wrestling promotions. Without competition their product took a slow dive.....sorry about my rant
I think of three different reasons why the FM radios, walkie-talkies with combadges, the electronic Enterprise, the flying Enterprise, the inflatable Enterprise, the three actionscapes: Enterprise bridge, transporter room and alien planet, the Enterprise playset, Wesley Crusher and Romulan action figures, the die-cast Ferengi marauder and the VISOR toy wasn't released:
A. The first season sucked!
B. The toy line sucked!
C. When the crew of the Enterprise went back in time in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, they created by accident, a series of events which ultimately led to the explosion of Galoob headquarters, thus preventing these toys from ever being made.
The Bridge, It’s a TRAP
That junkman do you have the playmtes star trk tng toys
Lol four lights Picard being tortured
"Shut up Wesley." I had a "Star Trek The Motion Picture" bridge. I only had the figure of Captain Kirk, but my Star Wars figures enjoyed the playset. I had five storm troopers and two snow troopers that would storm the bridge. I had two Death Star Commanders, but I pretended they were rebel troopers. It was awesome, until I got my Death Star World, and then there was no going back.
The Galoob figures never impressed me.The figures looked pretty chunky and the phasers molded into the hands never looked right. But the first season of TNG was pretty bad and the second season was a marginal improvement. When Gene Roddenberry "lost creative control" the characters and the show started to be much better. By this time Galoob had given up and the Playmates series came along soon after.HUGE improvement.
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Interesting
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Galoob STNG line looks many times better than the childish look of the Playmates toy line.
I watch Star Trek Picard this morning it was pretty good it's going to be a good series
I just like saying....galoob
2nd season time squared SMH JUNKMAN SHAME SHAME SHAME
Yeesh! The old Star Trek communicator walkie-talkies that were released in the 70's (kinda large, blue, but had a flip lid and an antenna) were way cooler than the generic (thankfully unreleased) TNG walkie-talkies.
I thought the Galoob figures were crap. They were equal in quality to the STAR WARS figures from the original trilogy, that came out years earlier, so they should have been of better quality.
The diorama playsets looked juvenile, like they were some grade school kid's science fair project.
I love how they were in scale with the Star Wars Kenner figures. The best episode of TNG was when the Enterprise discovered a wormhole that transported the ship back in time to a galaxy far, far away. Sadly, that episode only aired in my house during Action Figure Theater...😞
10:08 No, it worked. But it only shows you this
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The Art Asylum Star trek toys were much better than these And Playmates.
I wish they hadn't used all of that soft plastic on them. The paint didn't stick to them well and faded. All of my AA TOS figures no longer have their Starfleet insignias.
It's too bad that the Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys figure lines were discontinued midway through their DS9 releases.
@@KEVMAN7987 ..I saw images of a TOS Nurse Christine Chapel and Yeoman Janice Rand figures. They looked great and would've rounded out the TOS line nicely.
They Also came out like years later
It's a trap!!!