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This Changes Everything – Star Trek Select Parts are Interchangeable

If you’ve been wavering about the poseability (or lack thereof) of the upcoming Star Trek Select action figures, this may help. Diamond Select Toys has posted that the parts that come with the Star Trek Select Kirk and Spock are interchangeable between figures. That includes the hands and lower torsos – my biggest gripe has been that the legs on these figures are static, but since you can swap between figures, that opens up a lot more posing options.

They also solved the mystery of why Spock comes with two Tricorders – one is open, and the other is closed. I do wonder why including two was more economical than including one that could just open and close, but I suppose the extra accessories will pay off if more crew members from the Original Series make it out in this line.

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WebSwipe: Assembling the Perfect Star Trek TOS Crew – A Piece of the Action

Speaking of those Art Asylum Star Trek figures for the Original Series, here’s a blog post from the always awesome A Piece of the Action, a site that covers Star Trek memorabilia, mostly action figures. This post covers how to put together the ultimate Original Series crew, using the figures from both Art Asylum and Diamond Select Toys (after they acquired AA and the Trek license).

This is for all of you Trek aficionado customizers who seek perfection in their TOS crew.

I figured it would be a good time to give you my version of a definitive AA/ DST crew. Some of these are pretty easy picks… others not so much. Some are gonna take a little elbow grease and extra dough to make happen. But you want the best, ya gotta work for it… And of course, this is all my opinion here. You may not agree with my picks, and that is totally cool. These just happen to be my personal picks after years of Trek collecting. So without further ado… My ultimate AA/ DST Classic Star Trek Crew!

via A Piece Of The Action: AA/ DST Special Feature: Assembling The Ultimate Crew!.

Diamond Select Toys Reveals Star Trek Select Kirk Official Pics

With Iron Mania still sweeping through theaters, I’ve been missing toy hype for a little movie opening this weekend – Star Trek Into Darkness. Wait a minute – what do you mean, there are no toys? I guess that even with the blockbuster status attained by the Star Trek reboot four years ago (incidentally, you will get the Star Trek reboot as an iTunes download for free if you buy your Star Trek Into Darkness tickets on Fandango), toy companies and retailers have a long memory when it comes to under-performing toy lines.

Thank goodness for the Original Series, the Next Generation, and the rest of the Trek licenses that Diamond Select Toys holds. It means we have some Trek stuff to run this week! Here’s the official pics of the upcoming Star Trek Select Captain James T. Kirk. I’m glad to see new Star Trek figures from DST, but I still have a special place in my heart for the original, more poseable Star Trek figures, from back when they were from Art Asylum.

Star Trek Select Kirk Cannot be Contained! New Packaging Shots Are Here!

We recently played Spot the Spock, but now it’s time to play Kick the Khan! The second Star Trek Select figure just got new packaging shots, so we thought we’d show you what Captain Kirk looks like in his new Select packaging.Kirk comes with an engineering room diorama base, a second set of hands, a broken phaser and a control rod, as well as a second set of legs so he can deliver a flying kick to the reeling figure of Khan himself! Look for him to arrive at comic shops and specialty stores in early June! Pre-order today with your local shop or favorite online retailer!

via Star Trek Select Kirk Cannot be Contained! New Packaging Shots Are Here! | Art Asylum Blog.

Diamond Select Toys Star Trek Select Mr. Spock Packaged Pics

Eager to see the new Star Trek Select line hit shelves? Our second update from DST shared packaged pics of the first Select offering, Mr. Spock from the original Trek series. BigBadToyStore has his arrival date estimated in May, while Entertainment Earth has him in June. So it should be a matter of weeks.

The packaging sample has two Tricorders in it – I’m not sure if that’s just an error with the sample or if there’s a reason there are two. What do you guys think?

Spock in the Box! Packaged Star Trek Select Pics Start Now!

The Star Trek Select line is almost upon us! Spock will be the first new 7″ Star Trek figure to come out of Diamond Select Toys in quite some time, and we’re pretty excited about it. Featuring a sculpt by Patrick Piggott, Spock comes with multiple interchangeable parts and a deluxe diorama base, including the alien Horta! Check out the Select-style packaging, below, and pre-order your figure today through your favorite online retailer or your local comic shop!

via Spock in the Box! Packaged Star Trek Select Pics Start Now! | Art Asylum Blog.

Thundercats Ho! Minimates Box Set and Deals at Action Figure Xpress

Today we’ve got two updates from Diamond Select Toys via the Art Asylum site. First up, we’ve got a new Thundercats Minimates box set arriving this Fall. And if you need a fix for Thundercats now, I also came across some deals at ActionFigureXpress.

Featuring “new” ThunderCats Bengali, Lynx-O, Pumyra and Ratar-O, as well as a non-poseable minifigure of the Berbil named Ro-Bear Bert, this box set is available to all comic shops and specialty store retailers through Diamond Comic Distributors’ Previews catalog. Now available for pre-order, the set will ship in the fall.

The three new ThunderCats in this set – blacksmith Bengali, healer Pumyra and wise, sightless Lynx-O – were introduced in the five-part 1985 movie ThunderCats Ho! as three Thunderans who came to Third Earth in the wake of Thundera’s destruction. Ro-Bear Bert was on of the two Berbils who saved the trio from the doomed planet, and Ratar-O was the Mutant commander who sought to capture them for the evil Mumm-Ra.

via New ThunderCats Get New Minimates in the Thundercats Ho! Box Set! | Art Asylum Blog.

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