Question about Star Trek Turtles

[BoggleKng]

It is true that each figure in the Star Trek series is individually numbered? Do the numbers really mean anything if they were mass produced?

[Buslady]

I know the old Playmates Trek figs were numbered, honestly I dont think it means a thing.

[Slash]

http://www.redshirt.co.uk/toys/star-trek-turtles/

It's a funny take on what was going on with that line.

[BoggleKng]

Yes, I found this article too but didn't answer my question. Is it out of habit because Playmate numbered the regular Star Trek figures too?

[Drtooth]

You know, if they re-release these in co-ordinance with the new Star Trek movie and the 25th anniversary, I may just pick them up. I scoffed at them before, but they actually look pretty alright. I just never seen the Trekkie Turtles and the regular ones side by side before.

[NoPressApril]

Originally Posted by BoggleKng

Yes, I found this article too but didn't answer my question. Is it out of habit because Playmate numbered the regular Star Trek figures too?

I'm not really sure what your asking but unless owning a low numbered figure is a really big deal to you then no, it doesn't mean anything. Playmates thought it was cool to number the Trek figures but they screwed it up so much rehashing already numbered legs as well as lotsa times making figures well into the 500,000's that most people didn't really pay attention to it anyway.

They did a few cool things with it like offering sets on QVC with matching high numbers or auctioning really low numbered figures at the "One Weekend On Earth" convention in Alabama (I got a pair of wesleys numbered in the 50's that day) but those were the regular Trek figures not the Trek Turtles. Maybe Playmates thought that numbering the Trek Turtles would make them more appealing to the Star Trek collectors who didn't care about TMNT.

I think that Playmates thought that the numbering thing was a bigger deal to collectors then it actually was. It's been my experience that unless you have #'s 1-10 or #1,701 it was no big deal to most people. It's been said that Playmates kept like the first 100 of most every figure they made anyway so finding an important low number is extremely hard. There were salesman samples that can fetch higher prices and usually instead of numbers they had something like iiiiii on them.

[BoggleKng]

Yeah, I remember when they did number the Trek figures and it did get quite out of hand. I figured the same was true with the Ninja turtle Star Trek figures..