In the centennial Q&A, DSTChuck bats clean up on your miscellaneous questions!

Mark Dos Santos

You guys do a great job on the Star Trek ships and I am looking forward to completing my row of Enterprises, but what I want to know is are you guys going to give BSG the same treatment and start putting out ships? I would love a Viper MKVII or MKII, a Raptor, Cylon Raider and of course a Galactica would be awesome!

DSTChuck: We have considered it in the past but as of now we have no plans for any ships for BSG.

Jonathan Carroll

What is the status of BSG wave 4 and the the Toys r Us exclusive wave in terms of a UK release? Shops still have yet to stock any of these figures, while sites like play.com constantly push back their release dates. Are we still getting these waves, or has the UK missed out on them already? P.S. Where can I find a complete checklist for the BSG figures, as I’m constantly discovering new Cylon variants, and I want to track them all down.

DSTChuck: I think our distributor in the EU passed on those offerings. Lately all they have been willing to stock has been the Cylon offering. There might be some other ways they get into the UK but any significant stock would come from a distributor.

Jay Taylor

Is it at all possible to release the parts for the SG1 and Atlantis gates in some sort of box set without any figures? Could we also get the Plane, and other vehicles that were launched through the gate ahead of the teams? What are the possibilities of getting some small plastic models of the ships used in the StarGate universe? From the Prometheous, Odyssey, Dedolys, etc.

DSTChuck: Jay right now we do not have any plans for new Stargate merchandise but we have from time to time looked at ways we might get more gates or the original SG-1 Figures out there.

Jonathan Quirk

Any plans to release either the Horus or Anubis Guard figures originally planned for SG-1 series 5? The Stargate figures based on “classic” Stargate seemed to do better financially (DST should know better than anyone, nostalgia sells), so I was thinking that you might try releasing, say, two-packs of a hero and a villain to test the retail waters? Jack O’Neill and an Anubis Guard, Daniel and a Horus Guard, Teal’c and Apophis (using the Serpent Guard body painted gold), Carter and that cool Baal figure we never got to buy… that sort of thing, mixing cool alien foe sculpts with re-releases of classic SG-1 characters that you can now only get on eBay for hundreds of dollars. Some of the unreleases figures sounded cool (I still think you would have gotten more pre-orders for SG-1 series 5 figures if you’d released a picture of the Horus guard for prospective customers to see), and I would love a chance to complete my SG figure collection. Thanks for your time.

DSTChuck: Those are some VERY good ideas for two packs and you never know. The only issue with that though is the new figures are not tooled so we’d need to see at least a decent level of interest from retail before we could go forward with them.

Kevin Gomolchak

I know you guys are probably getting sick of seeing Stargate related questions from me, but here I go anyway. I was listening the commentary from the recent SGU DVD release and the actors seem to be excited that they will get action figures. Do they know something we don’t know, or are they just assuming from the fact that the previous series’ got figures. I now know that both myself, thousands of others, and David Blue want to get Eli Wallace action figures.

DSTChuck: Not to disappoint them but right now we have no plans to make SGU toys- once the series has been on the air a few seasons we’ll see how interest is.

Andy Kinnear

Hi Chuck You have said previously that hopefully if and when the Stargate SG1 and Atlantis films are made this may stimulate enough interest in the idea of further figure product from the retailers. - I appreciate how big an “if “ that really is. 1) Does the fact that Stargate Universe (which has David Hewlett and Bob Picardo reported as guest appearing in season 2) is still ongoing, and SG1 and Atlantis are popular in DVD terms make no difference to the figure collecting market? I ask that, because those of us that want and collect these figures will be the ones who will buy those DVD movies when they are released! The general audience does not fit into that equation in the same way. - Unless am I missing something here? 2) Is it safe to say there will be no further Stargate figs at all if the movies don’t go ahead? It’s particularly frustrating from an SG1 perspective, because we are only two figures short from having the complete main cast of the entire ten year run of the show and their absence is glaring. - General Hammond and General Landry. I have now given up any hope on a further Atlantis’s wave, a re-release of any of the existing characters produced, or either of the two Sgates themselves. - As important as Dr Beckett and Mr Woolsey are in the Stargate collecting audience, I can also see you simply won’t get them made. Unless – is it plausible that the two missing Atlantis leads could be included alongside a final SG1 wave? - Again, assuming there even is one. In a variation of the comments I said in my most recently submitted Trek Question, (submitted after Ask DST 98) I hate sounding despondent, but with no details of production updates - because there are no upcoming products, you find you don’t want to get your hopes up. Esp after the length of time we have all waited, hoped and saved for more of these characters.

DSTChuck: Andy- you are kind of missing something. The retailers have to be intested in the product. We can only do so much to show them fan interst or buzz or even the ratings for a show. If there is a movie, even a direct to DVD one, then they can count on a certain level of interest that they can convert to sales. It also shows the studios that there are enough fans out there to make it profitable, which gives retailers confidence. They have a tough job…a buyer always buys too few or too many of stuff. There is no way to be “right”. Sorry to say no new Stargate figures are in the planning.