hi this is Jim from Trek world and over the years there has been no better example of brand Association than what existed between the Migo toy Corporation and Star Trek in the 1970s so join me after the break as we take a look at the single most iconic line of Star Trek merchandise ever produced after watching this video please remember to check out our channel for these other great videos also please be sure to like this video so that YouTube will offer it to more people lastly please consider becoming a VIP supporter via our patreon site using the link below in the description but before we continue I want to thank these sites for being the standard bearers for all things Migo this is the second in our series of videos on the 1970s series of Migo toys for the original Star Trek television show the first video covered the 1974 release
of the original five characters in this video we’re going to take a look at the edition of another crew member and a group of aliens that were released in two waves Dr Bowles McCoy caring for their Health and Welfare Scotty chief engineer [Music] Mr Spock the Vulcan first officer Lieutenant Jehovah the communications officer and new for 1976 the aliens Klingon you say Klingons their evil threatens the universe gone half human half beast Chiron is he good or evil neptunian dangerous in space and in his own watery habitat and the keeper his incredible intellect threatens the Enterprise
the Star Trek aliens now it is worth mentioning that every time Migo released a new wave of action figures it reprinted the original five that were done in 1974 and you can spot one of the ones that was maybe printed in 75 or 76 by a handful of changes on the packaging first and foremost if you look up at the top left hand side of the card here were Jim kirkius you’re going to see that the logo was no longer white it is blue you’ll also notice that they decided to print his name in purple also notice that the front of the card now has six cartoon caricature characters not five Lieutenant O’Hara is now on this card we’ll get to in a moment why she’s there oh no I’m not really going to get into what the average buying and selling price of these figures are at this point because to be perfectly honest anything
beyond the very first five all the reprints that happened as well as reprints that happened way even into the 2000s really really muddied the waters and have a very difficult time trying to identify which wave it is in so if you go searching on eBay for prices they are all over the place okay the second one is Mr Spock and like we saw with Kirk they are using actually a blue logo for Star Trek uh but instead of purple they stuck with the regular white characters for Spock next up we take a look at Dr McCoy again blue logo and again yet another color change Dr McCoy’s name is in green and next up we have Mr Scott and like we’d seen with the previous characters his logo is also blue now his name still says Scotty and of course our friend the Klingon is back also with a blue logo and this time a yellow name okay so now we come to probably the biggest reason why this wave even came
out and that was the decision was made in series two to add an additional crew member they had their options of Sulu Chekhov or Aurora realizing at the time just how popular dolls of this size were for little girls Migo wisely decided to add a horror to see if they could sell into that market with their Star Trek franchise okay I need to tell you before we go any further about some things that exist in Star Trek fandom that if you encounter a Star Trek fan and you say something perfectly innocently you might actually discover an overly emotional response okay first and foremost don’t assume that I’m a Star Wars fan just because I like Star Trek I absolutely love the fact that in Big Bang Theory Penny actually said because they get all cranky when you mix the two up I thought that was pretty good secondly the Migo dolls are actually Migo action figures they’re not Migo dolls okay let’s talk about what that really means
all right dolls have been around forever and for the most part they’ve always been aimed at little girls but then in 1964 about the same time that we were building the model of Starship Enterprise that was going to end up being the prop Hasbro released its very first doll aimed at little boys and they made the determination right then and there they were not going to use the word doll because Boys Wouldn’t play with dolls so they invented the phrase action figure [Music] attack and what you see here is actually the original 1964 GI Joe action and I’ll say action soldier action sailor it they use the word action everywhere but Dahl was eradicated action figure was created
to sell to little boy uh you’ll notice they changed the back of the cards too the cards have been changed now so that on the back of the cards they can show you that they’re selling things other than action figures we see for the first time on these cards we see the USS Enterprise Bridge set and the communicators that they were just getting ready to launch in 1976. now before we close the door on these particular series of action figures I want to point out that Kirk Spock McCoy and the Klingon know Scotty were released in 1979 specifically for Sears the idea was that maybe they could be sold in addition to whatever was going to be available for Star Trek the motion picture and we’re going to have a discussion on Star Trek the motion picture when we get to that point properly in season two of our show but I will tell you this the reason the eight inch dolls disappeared and their play
sets and everything else and we’ll talk about this in a future video but they all disappeared because pair come out asked Migo to please hold off on promoting and creating anything new with the movie coming out they wanted stuff created for the movie and not created for the TV series so everything stopped from ego in 1977. they did in fact make stuff for the movie and we will talk about that in a future video but that one decision pretty much doomed the entire franchise line for Mikko now if you’re if you’re wondering how do I find one of these how do I look at one and go okay this is the 1979 reprint and not the 1976 or 75 reprints even though that it has the right color on the front for the logo the names are in the same color you warned us about but all of them are blank on the back side and quite frankly now they’re usually referred to by the Migo fans as blank backs now the other
thing that was slightly different is in the beginning when they first started making the run for Sears they exhausted their supplies of the original Star Trek emblems that sit on the action figures chest so they went with something that’s actually heat sealed directly to the fabric rather than stitched or glued and it’s real easy to spot them because they actually have this white Edge that runs all along the edging of the Insignia a couple other observations before we passed off on this right now is that people who own these have reported that the pelvises on the blank box are actually a flesh toned and they were not on preview use releases and that Dr McCoy’s hair is a little bit darker in the Sears blank back than it is on all of the previous waves and that’s believed that maybe they used the same coloring that they used for the Kirk doll so now in 1976 they produce what I call wave three this was their first group of honest-to-goodness aliens and not crew members after all if you’re
going to play with action figures and you’re a child you need bad guys to really make it interesting so first thing we’re going to look at here is the Gorn now ironically this thing resembles more asmodeus from Gene rodberry’s Specter but I understand where they’re going with us they actually already had a lizard head there was a lizard man that was part of their superhero series you can see the little side picture that I have it here so they went ahead and they used that they had his brown instead of green they also went out and they used the Klingons uniform and Boots so they can slide it right up there the groin was very very easy for them to make they didn’t have to retool pretty much anything and it was a little bit of a disappointment however guys it was 1976. you probably were tickled enough to have this thing no matter what you know now it is actually pretty hard to get hold of so if you find one of these still on the card if you look at what I got here from eBay and they actually sold for 700 a piece
so I can understand why they’re such a collectible no the next alien that comes up was the alien from let that be your last Battlefield and it needs to be noted that the half white portion of this suit has a tendency to color shift with age and look really really bad jump out on Google do an image search for uh the Sharon from Star Trek Amigo and you’ll see photographs of action figures still in their packaging and the white looks anything but white I’ve seen it look gold I’ve seen it look rust it seems to me that the color bleeds like all over the place from it worth just a tiny bit less than the Gorn this little fellow sells regularly for six hundred dollars next up is the keeper Maybe what you’re looking at here is a doll that is named after the keeper which of