I don?t want to speak for Nanjin but QMX wouldn?t have begun a Trek line with Uhura, that is the type of figure that you get to several releases in to complete a collection. It would not make sense for Nanjin to build his company on the back of an Uhura figure, that would just allow people to finish their QMX collections, basically letting them off the hook for failing to give us the entire bridge crew.
Yes, Uhura too soon would only be acknowledging QMx's "mess", as Nanjin put it.
jal76 said:
From a business standpoint what Nanjin is doing is smart. People love First Contact. EXO will get a lot more attention outside of this forum for launching First Contact figures than they would for a random Uhura release.
I guess
First Contact is something in the middle of the road, though I don't understand the love it gets. I never believed in it as some of the dialogue, scenes and acting felt like the actors were forced to do it at gunpoint.
The only films I really like are those focusing on the original cast. I saw the first three in the cinema, but was too young to appreciate the first.
The core of Trek for me is TOS, TNG and TOS movies. The rest is extra universe building that I wouldn't miss if they suddenly no longer existed.
Star Trek and Star Wars have always competed in my mind, but Trek has always been the lesser entity simply because as a child I'd much rather exist in the Star Wars universe as it was more like the wild west with space ships. (Which reminds me that QMx messed up with
Firefly too).
Where Trek usually wins is with the characters, acting and dialogue. And the literal
uniformity of the costumes. With QMx it looked as though you could gradually build a crew, assembling both characters and uniforms. So I obviously look forward to the time when Uhura and Chekov make their appearance in 1/6.
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