Star Trek Micro Machines 3 pack - The Original Star Trek

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The USS Excelsior miniature was released with a NCC-2000 registry and also was printed with a NX-2000 registry. The latter is rarer. Another way to identify Micro Machines is to look for the level of detail on the toys. Many Micro Machines sets and cars feature a high level of detail, including intricate paint jobs and small moving parts. 4. Find the model Today, we’ll take a look at what Micro Machines are, how to identify these miniature cars, and a list of the top 10 rarest and most valuable Micro Machines today. We have also assembled a buying and selling guide to help you with forming a collection of your own or selling your collection to those who will appreciate them. Rare Micro Machines: Round-Up List

At the 2020 New York Fair, [2] new Micro Machines were announced and are available in stores as of August 2020. [3] Sets include Muscle Cars, Farm, Racing, Construction, and Off-Road, and an updated version of the Super Van City is available as well. In the TNG Season 6 DVD-special feature, " Dan Curry Profile", it was revealed that Star Trek Visual Effects Producer Dan Curry, an Original Series fan, collected Star Trek Micro Machines. Clemens V. Hedeen, Jr. (Fun City USA / Hedeen International), Patti Jo Hedeen, Ned Cain (Fun Maker/Hedeen and Companies)

Micro Machines: Buying & Selling Guide

David Galoob's assessment notwithstanding, the wide-ranging and highly lauded Star Trek Micro Machines sub-line from the mid-1990s became very popular among Star Trek collectors for years, despite performing below the company's sales expectations at the times of their release. (see below) In 2013, former Galoob art department employees Jim Fong and Robert DiGiacomo provided extensive details and archival photographs from the development of the Next Generation toy line to TrekCore.com. Numerous cancelled products and previously unseen prototype designs were covered in these three articles. [4] Consequently, its action figure lines were not only small, but were judged inaccurately-molded and had to endure a number of errors during production and release. " It just never really hit its stride at retail," Galoob added, (and) " never was anything like Star Wars , and ultimately we dropped it." Micro Machines cars and playsets are generally quite small, with most cars measuring between 1 and 2 inches in length. However, this is not a hard and fast rule as some of the Speciality Series featured larger models. 3. Detail I have most of them. The only ones I seem to be missing are Sisko's Bajoran Sailing Ship, Caretaker Array and the Kazon Torpedo. My AGT Ent. D seems to have disapeared in the move at some point, and hopefully I will find her again. Overall, the original Micromachines that were the first to be produced are the best sculpts. After that, they seem to get gradually worse. The Defiant is aweful, but it's a collectors item. The HMS Bounty is probably my favorite one. I have that one in the console in my car. Don't know why, but it's there. It's the only BOP model on the market that has pivoting wings. Well, the Strike Force one had them too, but the wings pivoted in the wrong place and it threw the rest of the ship out of proportion.

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. For 3 to 4 years, Micro Machines was the largest selling toy car line in the US with total dollar sales exceeding the combined sales of the next top-selling lines: Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Majorette.Micro Machines are a line of toys originally made by Galoob (now part of Hasbro) in the mid-1980s and throughout the 1990s. Micro Machines are tiny scale component style "playsets" and vehicles that are slightly larger than N scale.

This playset was released in the 1990s as part of the Star Wars Micro Machines toy line. The playset featured a miniature replica of the iconic Millennium Falcon spaceship from the Star Wars franchise, along with various mini figures and accessories. The playset was popular among both Star Wars and Micro Machines fans, and it was highly sought after for its detailed design and accurate representation of the Millennium Falcon. Micro Machines hold a special place in the hearts of many who grew up in the 80s and 90s. These characterful miniature toy cars, also called Galoob Micro Machines, were manufactured by the company Galoob between 1987 and 1999. Likewise, the Kazon fighter of set 66128 is that of the studio model as it was originally delivered to Paramount Pictures and before it was decided to have it modified into its ultimate onscreen configuration. Early Micro Machines television commercials were famous for featuring actor John Moschitta Jr., who was (at the time) listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's fastest talker. As a result of his work in the commercials, Moschitta came to be known as the "Micro Machines man". [1] Find sources: "Micro Machines"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Micro Machines offered a way to create small fleets of ships from Trek for a good price. Imagine paying model prices if you wanted 20 Warbirds? Yikes. Another Star Wars collection is based on the Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, which is a series of novels written by Timothy Zahn, which takes place in the Star Wars expanded universe, and it includes several playsets based on locations and vehicles from the novels, such as the Star Destroyer, the Millennium Falcon, and others. With the release of the movie Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Hasbro released a new set of themed Micro Machines. This second revival lasted only a year; no more sets were released after Rogue One. One of the many Micro Machines product lines was the Insiders series. Incredibly popular in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the Insiders series featured a small vehicle inside the standard size Micro Machine. The body and chassis of the larger vehicle connected via a hinge. Opening the larger revealed the smaller, which was a different model of car.

While the Micro Machines collection is known primarily for sizing down automobiles, it has also featured several playsets including 1991's fold-out Super Van City. Licensed character products would often be fold-open heads including miniature characters and vehicles interactive with their playset environment. Micro Machines also utilized several diverse features such as color-changing cars and "Private Eyes" vehicles that even allowed one to peek inside and view an illustration of the contents. Wow, I think they look really good on my shelf. Anyone else love these things? I find myself wanting multiples of different ships to have little fleets. Micro Machines had a well-known advertising campaign in the 1980s involving fast-talker John Moschitta Jr. The commercials featured pitches in his trademark speedy style and ended with the slogan "If it doesn't say Micro Machines, it's not the real thing!". The Micro Machines brand was revived for a few years in response to the popularity of the similar Speedeez brand. Hasbro also opted to use many fantasy castings in the revival. The revival only lasted a couple of years.

How To Identify Micro Machines

Micro Machines were featured in the 1990 Christmas movie Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin. In the movie, Culkin's character sets dozens of Micro Machines at the bottom of a flight of stairs as a hazard for a pair of bungling burglars. This trap was also featured in the Sega Genesis game, though it's referred to generically as "Toys". Before its acquisition by Hasbro, Galoob held three separate Star Trek licenses. It produced the first action figures and toys based on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1988, created a line of figures for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier in 1989, and finally released a series of Star Trek "Micro Machines" starship miniatures from 1993 until 1997. The license for larger-scaled Star Trek (toy) ship models passed to Galoob's successor, Playmates Toys, which, envious of the success Galoob had enjoyed with its Action Fleet toy line (particularly for Star Wars), unsuccessfully tried to emulate the formula with the Star Trek: Strike Force line in 1997.