Got my Nacelle figures today and I love them! As everyone has stated, the accessories are amazing. The bodies and articulation, all good. I’m not an articulation junkie and none of these guys are doing martial arts, so I have no complaints here.
I’m even happy with most of the heads. Valkris is clearly missing some paint apps, but I had to look at the renders to really pinpoint what was missing. Others like Sulu, Tuvix and Weyoun look great. Even Archer looks much better in person, no Muppet here.
My biggest issues are with Garrett and Jellico, the paint apps around the eyes are too heavy, it looks like they were both punched in the face. I wonder if they are all this way or just mine? I may try to get replacements on these.
I get that that these may be lacking for the modern day collector who prioritizes the art of the action figure over the character, but for me, world building is priority #1 and I’m happy to collect figures of different styles (and subjective) quality. I think Nacelle succeeded in creating a line that is a clear evolution of DST, with similar aesthetics but more modern articulation, sculpting and awesome accessories. Compare that to Playmates attempt a few years back, where they tried to create a line that was intended to be a successor to their own original line, but failed on both counts, resulting in mediocre figures that brought nothing new while having very little ties back to the original.
I don’t know if there are really enough Star Trek action figure collectors to keep this line going, but fingers crossed that they keep making these for a while, because I want all of them.
