More than thirty years after Galoob’s small-scale Star Trek: The Next Generation action figure line collapsed, licensee Super7 has just debuted their first wave of TNG figures, with more to follow!
The company teamed with Funko for a wave of Original Series figures back in 2016 for the show’s 50th anniversary, but now they’re moving into the 24th century with the first six entries into their Star Trek: The Next Generation 3.75″ line of semi-articulated figures — the same scale as the 1988 TNG figures from Galoob.
Starting off with Captain Picard, Lt. Commander Data, Lt. Worf, Acting Ensign Crusher, Guinan, and a Borg drone, these first six Next Gen entries make up Wave 1 of Super7’s TNG “ReAction” line, with a promise of more to come later in 2021.
From the original licensing announcement in January:
“Star Trek: The Next Generation was a breath of fresh air, not just on television, but to my relationship with Star Trek. Suddenly, I cared a lot,” said Super7 Founder & Owner, Brian Flynn.
“From Picard, to Riker with and without beard, Data and Lore, reverse aging Guinan, Q’s infernal meddling and being way too captivated by any Borg storyline that ran through the series and beyond, I finally came to really understand the world of Star Trek in ways I did not when I was younger, and I can’t wait to celebrate that history with the toys that Super7 will be making.”
A second wave of Star Trek: The Next Generation ReAction is scheduled to follow in Fall 2021.
ReAction figures celebrate the iconic action figure of our childhood. The unique size and sculpting style was simple while allowing the imagination to go all in on daily adventures. With ReAction figures, Super7 continues the classic action figure style while making the figures we wished we had while growing up.
For those of you who remember the original Galoob series, those figures were based on the show’s first season cast — before the days of Guinan and the Borg — and had only prototypes of an Acting Ensign Crusher figure built before the line was shuttered in 1989.
Galoob also never produced a Beverly Crusher or Deanna Troi figure — each of which hopefully will be part of Super7’s second TNG wave later this year — the action figure series was marketed as a “boy toy” product which didn’t view female characters as high priorities… aside from Security Chief Tasha Yar.
From our 2013 Galoob retrospective interview series:
Bob DiGiacomo: Historically, boys weren’t interested in buying female action figures. I mean, there were all the sexy girls from comic books boys would buy – Mattel had a big hit with She-Ra, and Galoob had a line called Golden Girls, but those lines were directed at girls – but because the girls didn’t really sell for us, we would never put them in as part of the first year releases.
Jim Fong: I can’t recall if we ever talked about doing Crusher or Troi – in fact, I can’t really remember why we did Tasha Yar and none of the other female characters. It may have been because Yar was head of security, and presumably that meant she would feature in more action sequences on the show.
Bob DiGiacomo: Tasha Yar was a kick-ass girl, so she was truly an ‘action’ figure – she was prominent in the show, she was tough…
Jim Fong: We had to take a guess which of the characters would be involved in more of the action scenes than others and our guess was that Wesley would be one of those characters. Had the line survived for more than its short run, I’m completely confident that we would have made figures of Dr. Crusher and Counselor Troi to go with the previously-released toys.
Each of the six figures retails at $18, and are available to preorder now at Super7’s website ahead of an expected July 2021 release date.