Everyone has ALL of the cloth-costume Star Trek Retro figures from DST and EMCE Toys, right? And you’re all Mego collectors from back in the day, right? So you’ve all seen how we’ve managed to preserve the essence of the old 8-inch toys both by remaking characters you have AND introducing new ones, right? Okay, so what’s the next logical step? You got it – Star Trek: The Next Generation. This year is the 25th anniversary of the series that revitalized the Trek franchise, and who better to kick off the line than Captain Jean-Luc Picard and a fearsome Borg drone? No one, that’s who. Now, go out and order them. You know you want to. Resistance is futile. Beam them into your collections this summer!

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These dates represent our best estimated in-store dates and may change as production warrants. We’ll be updating these dates through our blog in an effort to bring customers the most up-to-date information possible. See the full list after the jump.
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Is it Preview Night yet? No? Well, I’m officially declaring it Preview Morning. And I’m officially declaring our old-fashioned Mego-style Star Trek Retro toys to be rebooted! It’s a whole new generation of Retro toys — in fact, it’s The Next Generation, because Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard and a member of the Borg collective are the next two figures in the Retro series! They’re 8 inches tall, and will fit right in with the rest of your 8-inch Classic Trek crew members. How is this possible, you ask? Time travel!

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It’s a big day for Diamond Select Toys this week at comic and specialty shops! Not only do the 8-inch Retro Star Trek Captain Pike and Salt Vampire come out, there’ll also be two new Minimates box sets on the pegs! One is Real Ghostbusters Series 1, with Ray Stanz, Egon Spengler, and exclusive figures of Janine Melnitz (civilian outfit) and Slimer, and the other is Mobile Action Xtreme (MAX) Series 1, with a fireman, a smoke jumper, and the set-exclusive policewoman and special ops soldier! Anyone looking to relive classic TV memories or expand their ranks of real-life mini-heroes, this week is the week to hit the local comic store!

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This week, Starfleet Admiral DSTChuck answers all your Star Trek questions. Get started after the break!

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This time, it’s the Star Trek version of of the Q&A. DSTChuck answers all your Star Trek questions! Beam up after the break!

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Enjoy this week’s Star Trek edition of AskDST while we’re setting up for San Diego Comic Con!  We’ll be back with another installment next week, but look for it later in the week as opposed to Monday.  So strap on your Tricorder, fire up the impulse engines and get ready to go where I guess a few people have gone before! (more…)

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Prepare yourselves for the Original Series Star Trek action figures series 5! I just got finished putting together some ads for previews and that means you’ll be seeing the first pictures of these guys soon! I know one of our largest fan bases is strictly trekies, so I suspect we’ll be getting tons of emails about these guys. The assortment includes Season 3 Captain James Kirk, “Tholian Web” Dr. Leonard McCoy, Nurse Christine Chapel and Bee Hive wearin’ Yeoman Janice Rand. They are sculpted by Patrick Pigott and the detailing is really great. They are on par with some of our other great Star Trek Figures and I know you are going to love them, especially for the sweet crew ladies party dresses uniforms. The ad should be out by April and you can look for these guys in stores in August, also that means the salt vampire is coming soon too!

DST-Jen

I had the pleasure of photographing and preparing the Geological Tricorder for the website and for general DST goodness. It’s just as awesome and accurate as our other tricorders only this one is so much better. Why is that your asking yourself, well because this one scans rocks! Haven’t you ever been stranded on some rocky or desert like planet and wished you had something to scan the lay of the land and collect soil sample information! I know me too! So I have taken some pictures for you and prepped them all up for the website, enjoy and by golly get those pre orders in or else you may miss out of one of the best role play items this year!

Dear Readers,

I spent the better part of the other day here trying to get our fog machine to work, why is it whenever I want to use something like that it is always broken, or missing a piece, or I have no idea how to use it in the first place! After a few hours of fooling around with it I finally got it working so that I could set up a borg shoot with DST-Matt. We wanted some cool pictures of the borg with dark, creepy lighting and fog. It looked like the borgs where either standing in a swamp bog or maybe had just put out an electrical fire with a few fire extinguishers. I think the shoot was successful, they are definitely interesting pictures, who knows where we might be able to use them! Well I am going to pass them a long and hopefully get a gallery up here on the site for you guys to enjoy.

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DST-Jen