Hey Dave Very interesting 🙂 You had me laughing with the wrong sized bodies for Scotty and Kirk😅 I think the reason Spock was greenish, was that he cut himself shaving.😉 You certainly have the assembly of these figures down to a science now... Worked perfectly with the Science Officer. 😏 Thanks🙂
I've never had the Mego or ERTL figures and I can say both are lovely and have their charms. The ERTL figures I didn't even know existed until I was about 18 or so - I saw them at a toy fair with my uncle and I was blown away that they even existed. I don't presently own any of the figures shown here but all are on my to-get list. Nice video!
Its not too often i say this, and especially with a franchise as big as Star Trek but i'd never seen these before. Although the head sculpts aren't as accurate as the Mego line they certainly do have a certain charm about them and the extra articulation is always welcome.
Not a targ, but a "Warrigul". Funny thing "Warrigul" also spelled "warragul" or "warrigal", is an alternate name for the Australian dingo in one Australian Aboriginal language.
you do see Spock in the Starfleet uniform in III - in the opening with the Wrath of Khan death scene recap and later when Sarek visits Kirk and he puts on the flight recorder log showing spocks final act from Wrath of Khan
The accessories are in scale with the 'Playmates' 5" figures. I have some phaser pistols manufactured for use with LEGO figures, which my ST3 figures hold very well. The ERTL 'Scotty' looks more like John Cleese, than anything else.
It does, but it's more like oven cleaner and will remove 'all' paint. Including factory applied paint. Break fluid tends to leave that alone, so I prefer it for removing child added paint like this.
I didn't know these existed, I knew that Ertl made the ships and I have a few, but action figures? looks like I might have a new toy hunt to look in to. Thanks for the review!
Great video Dave!! I had the older doll 8"/10" size with cloth pants & shirts with the blue weapons. But l was stupid and sold them at a toy convention, got a good price for them though. Keep up the good work 🖖☯️🖖
I am a HUGE HUGE fan of those first four Star Trek original cast movies so I don't know why I never picked up these figures at the time ! ... well I DO... I only ever saw them once at one place and that was at a grocery store of all places like just on a single peg, I think in the cereal isle. I only had enough money for specific groceries at the time. And probably the most importantly, There was only Scotty and Kruge on those pegs. i do remember going back a couple of times thereafter to check if they put more out. This was back in the day and there wasn't any eBay or Amazon or internet to go to to look into purchasing sets of things. I even checked out the only comic shop that was in my city (where I had purchased all my FASA pewter Star Trek miniatures, ship recognition guides and RPG manuals) to no avail. I would have LOVED these ! I really liked the Star Trek The Motion Picture 5 POA figures that Mego put out but, didn't really get the enjoyment out of them that I feel I could have. I DID recreate Kirk's battle with the Gorn captain from "The Arena" with the Admiral Kirk figure battling my Star Wars Walrus Man... but I digress...
Got two of these back in '84. Thoughts: The thumbs broke on both. I used to have them point the phasers the wrong way because they looked more gun-like. The Mego figures may have had less artic, but they look much more durable. The Ertl ones were like the A-Team figs, and had a kind of cheap 'Joe knock-off' quality to them.
Wow they look pretty good. The phasers are a bit too big but still not a bad line. Too bad they didn't do better. A huge line of Trek toys would be amazing.
Yeah Dave the communicator and phaser is a closer scale to the 8" Mego figures. I customized the ERTL figures with Mego heads. I liked the Mego heads better. So I have the McCoy, was looking for Sulu and Chekov heads. A Decker is close to Chekov..... stumped on Sulu "oh my". Thanks for the vid. Have a great one bud.
Too bad Decker did not live long enough to get this uniform. There is a very old Joe that looks a little like Sulu, and another old one with red hair that could pass for Kyle.
Both of the figures I refer to were in the first wave of GI Joe RAH when they all had the same green uniform and were distinguished by their accessories. This figure had black hair with a receding hairline. He could look like Michael Ironside. When I did the head swap I looked at him and thought "Hey, he looks a little bit like Sulu." Not a lot mind you, just a little, which at that scale can sometimes be enough. I never actually tried to make him look like Sulu, just left it as is.
The oversized accessories always bothered me, but the Klingon Commander comes with the greatest accessory ever, his dog... which I was finally told is NOT a Targ. A great improvement to these would be a head swap. I turned an extra into Bones ages ago but maybe time to convert the rest. Cool.
I've looked around and have yet to see a dog that was painted like yours. So you were accurate in saying it wasn't that color. It had a dark gray maybe color. But it looked to be all one color no "detail".
I hadn't seen these particular Star Trek figures before, and I wasn't aware of them at all, so this review was a nice surprise for me! I could tell right away that the face paint on Spock was very odd. He certainly looks a lot better without that green paint! The thick o-ring was interesting. Probably in an effort to keep the figures' limbs tighter over a longer duration, I'd imagine. A little awkward to work with though, it seems. Thanks for the review, my friend!
Great stuff, I might have switched the t bar with Scotty as he is a larger character and Spock is slimmer, maybe the original bar would look better on Spock. But thanks for the review, another great video.
I had to replace the hip joint on my Kirk figure back in the 90's. I had to sacrifice a GI joe dreadnaught figure. It fit just right. I wished Ertl would have made .
Wonder if you could take some broken (or spare) Mego Motoin Picture figures and perform headswaps with the Ertl Search for Spock figures. You'd get Bones that way, at least. I can't remember - did Mego make figures of Sulu, Chekov and Uhura or not bother?
at the start of the movie there was a recap of the 2nd movie. and spock was in his uniform, they might have done it to cash in on the better movie too, two birds one stone
Hello. First, the color on Spock is one of 2 things, either it was added as you suggest or it is a paint app factory fail. Second Kruge is pronounced "krooge." I am critical of your opinion that they were lazy because the choice was actually a good one because had thy been able do more, at reduced cost, like Sulu, Chekov, etc. Also, the design allows for head swapping with GI Joe figures to create lots of "redshirts" to supplement the core crew.
That Kirk looks like it was sculpted to the likeness of Jeffrey Hunter aka Captain Pike from the pilot Episode. In fact it is a pretty good likeness if you look at him this way. I know, it makes no sense...
ERTL is best known best to me for Thomas and Tugs. Mattel should of been doing die-cast for Thomas sin e the beginning of their license, what is their number one toy seller?! Hot Wheels which are Die-cast, ah to quote Optimus "It's a lost art."
Daft film? Hmmm. This movie was 9th highest grossing film of 1984. The problem with the toy sales here is that these things NEVER saw wide distribution. They were really only ever seen in the mail order section Starlog magazine. I looked high and low for them in 84’. Never saw them is ANY store.
Wrath of Khan is when they should of released a ton of figures. Star Trek merch was always off the mark compared to Star Wars. I purchased these when they came out. Not soon after the rubber band inside each figure broke. My GiJoes 30 years later haven't had that issue.
Ertl? Hmm like you said my Ertl toys I have are older "Hot Wheels" type die cast. Dukes of Hazzard 3pks I picked up. Do yourself a favor IF you take them out of the package BE CAREFUL. The Boss Hogg Cadillac, the Bull Horns come off VERY EASY and disappear fast. Also most have stickers not painted tampos. So they peel and dirty up fast. Dust finds ANY tape substance. Sucks. I opened one 3pk. I have one other series set from the 80's show and the movie versions x2. As for these I never saw the Star Trek line. Or I did and didn't remember. I was so entrenched in Star Wars I probably just never cared. Sad.
ERTL's choice of characters is a bit bizarre. kirk, fine, (no phaser?) Kruge, fine. (no weapon but a Targ, ok...) who's next? bones? no. let's do scotty. and Spock? yeah. the movie was directed by nimoy, and he WAS in it (briefly) but as you said dave, he was never in uniform. if they wanted to re-use the body, why not sulu, checkov or mccoy?
scotty was probably chosen over bones as 'beam me up scotty' was/is such a popular saying.. as for spock you cant have a star trek line and not do a spock figure (and spock did appear in the movie in the uniform in 2 flashbacks to Trek II)
If this were a set from ten years prior, consumers would probably have been more forgiving, but considering they came out in 1983, by which time far better quality figures were on shelves, they do sadly come across as rather bland and unexciting. The three identical Starfleet uniform bodies, I actually find extremely dull; surely they knew these things were gonna flop. The infamous "only the even-numbered movies are the good ones" Star Trek curse did indeed hit with ST3 (though it's one of the more passable odd-numbered ones). It strikes me that Ertl picked up this licence fairly cheaply or last minute - indeed after the successful ST2 missed having any tie-in merchandise - and they just wanted to rush something out quickly. But the ST movies were never younger-child orientated (I used to find them quite heavy going as a boy) so Ertl really picked the wrong tie-in to experiment a potential action figure venture with. I'm also wondering if Ertl actually sold these on behalf of someone else, as they just seem so un-Ertl-ish. I'm assuming Spock's odd green hue is indeed the result of some former young owner's modifications, though it's interesting to note that early in the TV series production, Spock was experimented to have a slightly shiny, off-colour tint to his complexion... maybe the child who owned these was an ST nerd and modified the colours as a homage!!
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Sadly, 3.75 inch Star Trek figures don't do well. I wish they'd be more successful, but kids don't want to play explorer, and collectors more than kids want Trek toys.
Kirk's accessory is an oversized communicator, but it is certainly sized more like a tricorder!
good point.
Is it a communicator? I thought it was a PADD
10:20 all of a sudden that figure in the middle of the top of the screen starts jumping around all by itself? that was unsettling...
Hey Dave
Very interesting 🙂
You had me laughing with the wrong sized bodies for Scotty and Kirk😅
I think the reason Spock was greenish, was that he cut himself shaving.😉
You certainly have the assembly of these figures down to a science now... Worked perfectly with the Science Officer. 😏
Thanks🙂
I've never had the Mego or ERTL figures and I can say both are lovely and have their charms. The ERTL figures I didn't even know existed until I was about 18 or so - I saw them at a toy fair with my uncle and I was blown away that they even existed. I don't presently own any of the figures shown here but all are on my to-get list. Nice video!
Its not too often i say this, and especially with a franchise as big as Star Trek but i'd never seen these before.
Although the head sculpts aren't as accurate as the Mego line they certainly do have a certain charm about them and the extra articulation is always welcome.
I see Star trek and I love it
Great video
Great video!!! Bringing those toys back from the brink of rubbish is inspiring!
Spock and the Warrigul look great! That brake fluid tip has amazing results.
Not a targ, but a "Warrigul". Funny thing "Warrigul" also spelled "warragul" or "warrigal", is an alternate name for the Australian dingo in one Australian Aboriginal language.
@@unklejohn7381 Cool. Thanks for letting me know. Of course Kruge would have a special type of Klingon pet.
you do see Spock in the Starfleet uniform in III - in the opening with the Wrath of Khan death scene recap and later when Sarek visits Kirk and he puts on the flight recorder log showing spocks final act from Wrath of Khan
The accessories are in scale with the 'Playmates' 5" figures. I have some phaser pistols manufactured for use with LEGO figures, which my ST3 figures hold very well. The ERTL 'Scotty' looks more like John Cleese, than anything else.
Are the Ertl figures in the same scale as the playmates figures? I feel like they're smaller.
ERTL and Mego were 4" instead of 5", right?
Thanks for your video, it helped me restore my Spock
I have recently found out that Dettol works just as well as Brake fluid to remove old paint, bit of info to pass on.
It does, but it's more like oven cleaner and will remove 'all' paint. Including factory applied paint. Break fluid tends to leave that alone, so I prefer it for removing child added paint like this.
I didn't know these existed, I knew that Ertl made the ships and I have a few, but action figures? looks like I might have a new toy hunt to look in to. Thanks for the review!
Great video Dave!! I had the older doll 8"/10" size with cloth pants & shirts with the blue weapons. But l was stupid and sold them at a toy convention, got a good price for them though. Keep up the good work 🖖☯️🖖
I am a HUGE HUGE fan of those first four Star Trek original cast movies so I don't know why I never picked up these figures at the time !
... well I DO... I only ever saw them once at one place and that was at a grocery store of all places like just on a single peg, I think in the cereal isle. I only had enough money for specific groceries at the time. And probably the most importantly, There was only Scotty and Kruge on those pegs. i do remember going back a couple of times thereafter to check if they put more out. This was back in the day and there wasn't any eBay or Amazon or internet to go to to look into purchasing sets of things. I even checked out the only comic shop that was in my city (where I had purchased all my FASA pewter Star Trek miniatures, ship recognition guides and RPG manuals) to no avail.
I would have LOVED these ! I really liked the Star Trek The Motion Picture 5 POA figures that Mego put out but, didn't really get the enjoyment out of them that I feel I could have. I DID recreate Kirk's battle with the Gorn captain from "The Arena" with the Admiral Kirk figure battling my Star Wars Walrus Man... but I digress...
01:31 AM... cant miss this one tho :D.
Nighty night!
I have spock only no green face on mine .thanks great video .
Got two of these back in '84. Thoughts: The thumbs broke on both. I used to have them point the phasers the wrong way because they looked more gun-like. The Mego figures may have had less artic, but they look much more durable. The Ertl ones were like the A-Team figs, and had a kind of cheap 'Joe knock-off' quality to them.
Wow they look pretty good. The phasers are a bit too big but still not a bad line. Too bad they didn't do better. A huge line of Trek toys would be amazing.
Yeah Dave the communicator and phaser is a closer scale to the 8" Mego figures. I customized the ERTL figures with Mego heads. I liked the Mego heads better. So I have the McCoy, was looking for Sulu and Chekov heads. A Decker is close to Chekov..... stumped on Sulu "oh my". Thanks for the vid. Have a great one bud.
Too bad Decker did not live long enough to get this uniform. There is a very old Joe that looks a little like Sulu, and another old one with red hair that could pass for Kyle.
@@chriscattelino8169 what Joe looks Sulu-ish? I'm tired of searching LOL
Both of the figures I refer to were in the first wave of GI Joe RAH when they all had the same green uniform and were distinguished by their accessories. This figure had black hair with a receding hairline. He could look like Michael Ironside. When I did the head swap I looked at him and thought "Hey, he looks a little bit like Sulu." Not a lot mind you, just a little, which at that scale can sometimes be enough. I never actually tried to make him look like Sulu, just left it as is.
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Love these figures. Bought mine when I was older, so not played with. My small Mego figures can't say the same for
Great as always. More Star Trek videos!
The oversized accessories always bothered me, but the Klingon Commander comes with the greatest accessory ever, his dog... which I was finally told is NOT a Targ. A great improvement to these would be a head swap. I turned an extra into Bones ages ago but maybe time to convert the rest. Cool.
I've looked around and have yet to see a dog that was painted like yours. So you were accurate in saying it wasn't that color. It had a dark gray maybe color. But it looked to be all one color no "detail".
I hadn't seen these particular Star Trek figures before, and I wasn't aware of them at all, so this review was a nice surprise for me! I could tell right away that the face paint on Spock was very odd. He certainly looks a lot better without that green paint! The thick o-ring was interesting. Probably in an effort to keep the figures' limbs tighter over a longer duration, I'd imagine. A little awkward to work with though, it seems.
Thanks for the review, my friend!
I like the paint on the "monster dog" :D
Great job Dave!👍😁
Another wonderful video 👍
Odds are that O ring is replacement since these had really fragile rings that snapped right out of the package when they were new. Some in package..
Could be, They all have the same type. But my guess is they are original from the look of them.
Great stuff, I might have switched the t bar with Scotty as he is a larger character and Spock is slimmer, maybe the original bar would look better on Spock. But thanks for the review, another great video.
I had to replace the hip joint on my Kirk figure back in the 90's. I had to sacrifice a GI joe dreadnaught figure. It fit just right. I wished Ertl would have made .
Wonder if you could take some broken (or spare) Mego Motoin Picture figures and perform headswaps with the Ertl Search for Spock figures. You'd get Bones that way, at least. I can't remember - did Mego make figures of Sulu, Chekov and Uhura or not bother?
It would be easy to do. I think finding the Ertl figures would be the hardest part. They don't turn up that often. The mego ones are easy to get.
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I like these more than the mego versions.I also think they look nicer than the 1's super7 did not 2 long ago which are also 3 n 3/4.
*chuckles at Meee-go* I pronounce it "Meh-Go" Found out the "dog" thing is actually supposed to be a Klingon Targ.
Expect the carded versions a rarety - cool video👍👍
Monsterdog paint job is epic. I say, keep it.
I believe Kirk is holding a communicator. He rarely uses a tricorder. He loves to be beamed up.🖖
Can you use break fluid on the Action man space boots and gloves ?.
at the start of the movie there was a recap of the 2nd movie. and spock was in his uniform, they might have done it to cash in on the better movie too, two birds one stone
Vulcan& romulans are supposed to have a green tint from TOS forward the film couldn't pick this up. In TNG it got better 🖖
well, at least the set is only a small amount so much easier to collect
Are these better than the Galoob 3.75 inch figures for Next Generation?
They are pretty cheap and look like they would break quite easily. I don't own any of the galoob ones to compare.
Hello. First, the color on Spock is one of 2 things, either it was added as you suggest or it is a paint app factory fail. Second Kruge is pronounced "krooge." I am critical of your opinion that they were lazy because the choice was actually a good one because had thy been able do more, at reduced cost, like Sulu, Chekov, etc. Also, the design allows for head swapping with GI Joe figures to create lots of "redshirts" to supplement the core crew.
Spark has always been yellow/green. You can see it very clearly an any episode and movie.
Looks like the monster dog was painted to look like battle cat
Looks like the Klingon has had a 'black wash', or some approximation of it, added to his forehead too.
You could be right. I will give him a clean as well. Easy enough to remove.
That Kirk looks like it was sculpted to the likeness of Jeffrey Hunter aka Captain Pike from the pilot Episode. In fact it is a pretty good likeness if you look at him this way. I know, it makes no sense...
ERTL is best known best to me for Thomas and Tugs. Mattel should of been doing die-cast for Thomas sin e the beginning of their license, what is their number one toy seller?! Hot Wheels which are Die-cast, ah to quote Optimus "It's a lost art."
Daft film? Hmmm. This movie was 9th highest grossing film of 1984. The problem with the toy sales here is that these things NEVER saw wide distribution. They were really only ever seen in the mail order section Starlog magazine. I looked high and low for them in 84’. Never saw them is ANY store.
yes and at the time think Trek III was mostly positively received by critics as being not as good as II but much better than TMP
Star trek 3 is this best
It's a good film. Watched it again recently.
Wrath of Khan is when they should of released a ton of figures. Star Trek merch was always off the mark compared to Star Wars. I purchased these when they came out. Not soon after the rubber band inside each figure broke. My GiJoes 30 years later haven't had that issue.
Spock didn't have green paint on him. that be a kiddies work (same as the dog)
Ertl? Hmm like you said my Ertl toys I have are older "Hot Wheels" type die cast. Dukes of Hazzard 3pks I picked up. Do yourself a favor IF you take them out of the package BE CAREFUL. The Boss Hogg Cadillac, the Bull Horns come off VERY EASY and disappear fast. Also most have stickers not painted tampos. So they peel and dirty up fast. Dust finds ANY tape substance. Sucks. I opened one 3pk. I have one other series set from the 80's show and the movie versions x2. As for these I never saw the Star Trek line. Or I did and didn't remember. I was so entrenched in Star Wars I probably just never cared. Sad.
I only remember ERTL for making jibber jabber.
I remember Ertl for making model toys of The A-Team van. So again... jibber jabber.
ERTL's choice of characters is a bit bizarre. kirk, fine, (no phaser?) Kruge, fine. (no weapon but a Targ, ok...) who's next? bones? no. let's do scotty. and Spock? yeah. the movie was directed by nimoy, and he WAS in it (briefly) but as you said dave, he was never in uniform. if they wanted to re-use the body, why not sulu, checkov or mccoy?
scotty was probably chosen over bones as 'beam me up scotty' was/is such a popular saying.. as for spock you cant have a star trek line and not do a spock figure (and spock did appear in the movie in the uniform in 2 flashbacks to Trek II)
If this were a set from ten years prior, consumers would probably have been more forgiving, but considering they came out in 1983, by which time far better quality figures were on shelves, they do sadly come across as rather bland and unexciting. The three identical Starfleet uniform bodies, I actually find extremely dull; surely they knew these things were gonna flop.
The infamous "only the even-numbered movies are the good ones" Star Trek curse did indeed hit with ST3 (though it's one of the more passable odd-numbered ones). It strikes me that Ertl picked up this licence fairly cheaply or last minute - indeed after the successful ST2 missed having any tie-in merchandise - and they just wanted to rush something out quickly. But the ST movies were never younger-child orientated (I used to find them quite heavy going as a boy) so Ertl really picked the wrong tie-in to experiment a potential action figure venture with. I'm also wondering if Ertl actually sold these on behalf of someone else, as they just seem so un-Ertl-ish.
I'm assuming Spock's odd green hue is indeed the result of some former young owner's modifications, though it's interesting to note that early in the TV series production, Spock was experimented to have a slightly shiny, off-colour tint to his complexion... maybe the child who owned these was an ST nerd and modified the colours as a homage!!
That's not a triquarter but a "pad." Much like an iPad today.
It's not - it's his communicator.
COMMANDER KRUD! LOL
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Spock's face shouldn't have any green. Those figures are very fragile though. And the dog isn't painted.
Vulcans have copper-based blood, so they're naturally going to have a green tint to their skin...
I wouldn’t say they did such a bad job but I do agree they did some lazy work 😕
They all wore civilian clothes throughout most of this movie.
Sadly, 3.75 inch Star Trek figures don't do well. I wish they'd be more successful, but kids don't want to play explorer, and collectors more than kids want Trek toys.
Dont take the paint from that dog. it will take away all of its character