Star Trek: First Contact Action Figures (1996)
Welcome to our look at the Star Trek: First Contact toys, or “how Playmates killed the Star Trek action figures.”
I admit to being frequently critical of Playmates Toys’ for its handling of the Star Trek line from 1996 onward, and here is where I think they went wrong.
With the eighth Star Trek film on the horizon, Playmates liaised much more closely with Paramount this time around, trying to avoid a costly fiasco like the incorrectly-costumed toys from Star Trek: Generations. (Click here to see the rest of the article plus pictures.)
