San Diego Comic Con may be all wrapped up, but there’s still some Star Trek product news which made its way from the West Coast this weekend!
Diamond Select Toys revealed a few new upcoming items at the massive convention, starting with the first set of Star Trek Kelvin Timeline character action figures since the original Playmates line of Star Trek ’09 toys nearly a decade ago.
Styled after Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto’s characters, this pair of 7″ figures features Captain Kirk and Commander Spock as they appeared in 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness, complete with dleta-pattern Starfleet uniforms as created by costume designer Michael Kaplan.
These figures are set to include interchangeable hands, so the characters can hold both communicators, phasers, and phaser rifles (with ‘blaster’ effect plastic attachments), and will come with bases styled like the red transporter pads on the Kelvin Timeline USS Enterprise.
The Into Darkness figure pairing are already available for preorder at Diamond Select’s web shop at a price of $49.98, and are targeted for a “Winter 2018” release.
The company also teased a look at an upcoming Borg drone figure, which is still being finalized — tentatively scheduled for “Winter 2019,” the figure is set to come with interchangeable components (including Borg arm, heads, and cybernetic eyepieces) and a removable ‘vest’ to showcase a second layer of assimilation.
Finally, the biggest reveal at the Diamond Select booth was the debut of their forthcoming Ambassador-class USS Enterprise-C model, tentatively planned for a formal release sometime in 2019 (with preorders expected to go live before the end of 2018).
The ship seems to differ somewhat from the studio model used for production of The Next Generation, especially in regards to the shape of the bussard collectors, but it’s not yet clear if this display model is a true representation of the final product, or if it is still a development build used for promotion.
Regarding their long-awaited USS Reliant model, Diamond Select does still say that they are continuing to work through final development on the ship — but no release date or approve model for public display has yet been revealed.
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