We wrap up our ToyFair 2019 coverage this afternoon with a roundup of all the other Star Trek licensees on the scene in New York City, including QMx, gaming vendor WizKids, and we even stopped to check in on McFarlane Toys before we exited the event.
Our first stop was with the New Zealand Mint, which has been putting out high-grade silver Star Trek silver products for the last few years. On display at ToyFair was their 10cm, 15-gram pure silver Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock sculptures, which retail at a whopping $550 each. (While the detail is impressive for the size and material, they’re probably out of many casual collectors’ price range!)
They also showed us some of their silver foil Original Series character notes — with an expectation of Next Generation editions yet to come — as well as some of their Juan Ortiz TNG silver foil posters… with Original Series versions from that collection set to arrive in the coming months.
We also looked in on QMx, who had only a limited selection of products on display, including their recently-announced Star Trek: Discovery Terran Empire and USS Enterprise insignias, set to roll out in the spring.
While the pins featured aren’t the official, final designs — the red cross on the medical badge may end up being black to match the Discovery line, and the bronze Terran badge color is still being tweaked — these look to be a nice addition to the existing range of QMx Trek badges.
There were no sign of upcoming 1:6-scale character figures, though we did confirm that the next ones planned are Original Series Hikaru Sulu and Uhura figures, and then the company expects to prioritize some of their previously-featured Wrath of Khan characters.
(No sign of that Captain Georgiou we saw at Comic Con, unfortunately!)
Next up is NJ Croce Co., a smaller company just entering the second wave of Star Trek products with an upcoming bendable Next Generation Captain Picard doll, rather unusually clad in his Season 1 uniform with the low collar.
The company previously released a few Original Series bendable figures — Captain Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty — and this new Picard release is expected to retail at about $8.99 later in 2019.
Gaming licensee WizKids had a number of new Trek items on display, including a few new additions to its line of Star Trek: Attack Wing products — including a new addition to the Unpainted line of Trek gaming models, a Cardassian Nor-class station for collectors to decorate however they see fit.
Also new to the Attack Wing line is their Kelvin Timeline Faction Pack — featuring two Trek ’09-style Constitution-class and Klingon ships — and new character figures including prototypes of Commander Shelby and the Mirror Broken-style Will Riker from IDW’s comic series.
Lastly, a new tabletop strategy came called Star Trek: Conflick in the Neutral Zone, where players use tokens to act out space battles in a Next Generation-era setting. Here’s the official description of the game:
In this simple flicking game, players will flick discs representing the various ships found within the Star Trek universe. These ships are used to collect resources or attack other ships.
Collecting resources (energy and command points) is accomplished by bringing a collector ship within range of an energy or command point planet. To attack, you must use your attack ship to hit an opponent’s ship off the planet or board. Successfully attacking an opponent will award a command point.
Our friends at The Coop also gave us a peek at what they’ve got coming up in 2019, with their next pending release to be a Borg Cube insulated lunchbag just about ready to hit stores.
Also on the way this year — though product photos were not yet available — include a black backpack inspired by the Discovery away gear seen in “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” last season; a Discovery version of The Coop’s Starfleet uniform shoulder bags (complete with silver Commander sciences badge and delta patterns), a pet collar-and-leash set themed like the classic Enterprise warp nacelles, a Borg Cube pet squeeker toy, and an 8″ plush Discovery shuttlecraft (for both pets and owners alike).
As more on these products become available, we’ll keep you updated!
As many of you hoped, we did have a few minutes to chat with the team from McFarlane Toys, who have been fairly quiet on the Star Trek front since early last summer when — despite their work at modifying the product to resolve the issue — their planned Star Trek: Discovery phaser was disappointingly cancelled due to legal restrictions which impacted retail release of the product.
While the phaser seems to be officially ‘dead’ at this point, we also had a chance to ask about the status of additional Star Trek character figures to follow their 2018 release of Captain Kirk and Captain Picard — though despite their previews of Spock, Burnham, T’Kuvma, and more characters over the past two years, the company didn’t have any new announcements to make at the event.
All that being said — and contrary to some speculation we’ve seen around the web — the McFarlane Toys team told us that they are continuing to explore possibilities of new Trek releases with both their retailer and CBS licensing partners — “We hear you! We hear all the fans!,” they told us, when we mentioned their swath of active licenses with the franchise.
So the news may not be much from the McFarlane corner right now, but we don’t think they should be counted out just yet — we’ll just have to wait and see.
Finally, briefly made contact with Diamond Select Toys, whose recent Kelvin Timeline Kirk and Spock figures we reviewed earlier this month. They didn’t have anything new on display this year — their previously-previewed Enterprise-C and Reliant models still are unscheduled, though hoped for 2019 — and their next planned release is the deluxe Borg drone figure they’ve showcased before.
The company announced just last week that they acquired the consumer side of Gentle Giant Ltd., who released some Star Trek: Discovery sculptures like the San Diego Comic Con-exclusive Commander Saru bust last summer.
One of Gentle Giant’s planned Discovery releases was their set of “Fleet Flyers” ship models announced last February; unfortunately we confirmed just ahead of the acquisition announcement that this product line has been placed on indefinite hold — so we don’t expect them any time soon, if ever.
That’s it for our 2019 ToyFair coverage – but you can be sure we’ll bring you all the latest news on the next round of Star Trek merchandise announcements as soon we have them!