Six months after fan-favorite Star Trek licensee Playmates Toys announced they were returning to the final frontier, the company has unveiled their first look at 2022’s inaugural wave of action figures and toys.
Expected to become available for purchase online this July — and in stores later in 2022 — the initial lineup of Playmates Toys Star Trek toys this year will consist of eight character action figures from current and legacy productions, as well as two additional releases in the broader toy category.
For the action figure lineup, the first wave will include Michael Burnham and Saru from Star Trek: Discovery (in their Season 2 styling), Captain Picard, Commander Riker, and Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Admiral Kirk, Captain Spock, and Khan from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
While Playmates did not announce specific pricing, the new action figures are available for preorder at Entertainment Earth for $15.99 each.
While the two Discovery figures are obviously new, all of the other Trek characters in the first wave were previously produced by Playmates Toys in their 1990s heyday (using different likeness and body sculpts).
Playmates describes the action figures as “five-inch, 1:14 scale figures” which feature 14 points of articulation; products based upon legacy Trek shows and films come in “nostalgic” 1990s-era packaging, while items from the new Paramount+ series will have modern Star Trek Universe packaging.
In addition to the action figures, Playmates Toys will also be kicking off their Star Trek return with a pair of Original Series “action accessories” — as their old commercials called them — an 18-inch light-and-sound model USS Enterprise toy, and a classic Trek hand phaser (again, new editions of products originally released in their 1990s run).
While Playmates did not announce specific pricing for these toys, the Enterprise model and phaser are available for preorder at Entertainment Earth for $49.99 and $29.99 respectively.
While this is all Playmates Toys has announced for release in 2022, the company’s press release today makes clear that this is not the only products coming for fans; they expect to “continually expand the Star Trek collector line with fan-requested favorites based on the dozens of Starfleet heroes and infamous aliens” from all thirteen films and eleven shows, including Star Trek: Strange New Worlds which is set to premiere in May.
In terms of specific additional announcements, Playmates only notes that more toys are expected to be revealed later this year — for a second wave of product arrivals in early 2023.