Monday, March 05, 2018

Terrific TV Toys: Ensign Chekov Transporter figure by Playmates

When "Star Trek" first aired in the late 1960s, Ensign Chekov was the young'un of the crew, reportedly brought in to appeal to a younger demographic for the show. Played by Walter Koenig, he was heavily accented and a bit of a Monkee or Beatle or something like that as he faithfully served his captain.

In 1998, Playmates captured that image of Chekov in one of a series of "Star Trek" action figures with an interesting interactive slant -- each character is on a Transporter pad ready to beam into action, and batteries (included!) light up the stand and their legs. It's a bit clever, if not totally accurate, and fun for any "Trek" fan. It's also the subject of this month's episode of Terrific TV Toys ...


8 comments:

Jasonduke360 said...

Ok, for a battery product sitting for 20 years and still works is amazing! I've often wondered about how can a living being can survive in an energy beam. I can tell you back in 2008 I had Aol, and they had a news feed reporting some company successfully transported a organic Molecule from one location to another. Also it's either Germany or France, but there makeing matter anti matter. There is just a very small amount it takes decades to make it. My source was the discovery channel. So, Yea star trek is coming true. Wish they could have a holo deck for real, I'd never leave my house!!

BRBTV.com said...

Oh, that’s the best news i’ve heard all day!!!

B. Marshell said...

man, i do love these lil toy infomercials.. learnt me alotta bout the stuff i had whens i was just a wee tyke. when youse gonna do a thing on love boat toys. i played with that all the time, even used my mash toys with it.

B. Marshell said...

man, i do love these lil toy infomercials.. learnt me alotta bout the stuff i had whens i was just a wee tyke. when youse gonna do a thing on love boat toys. i played with that all the time, even used my mash toys with it.

B. Marshell said...

man, i do love these lil toy infomercials.. learnt me alotta bout the stuff i had whens i was just a wee tyke. when youse gonna do a thing on love boat toys. i played with that all the time, even used my mash toys with it.

BRBTV.com said...

Would love to do something on “Love Boat” toys! They’re tough to find.

Jasonduke360 said...

Never even knew they had love boat toys! I do know however the real love boat was used up into the early 2000's as a luxury liner then scrapped.

BRBTV.com said...

Yea, never knew there was “Love Boat” stuff, either, until I saw an action figure of one of the characters at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con a couple years ago.