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- This
figure was one of the first wave of
Star Trek: Voyager figures produced
by Playmates. This series was
produced in 1995 and featured the
nine major characters from the
television show. There would be six
additional figures in the Voyager
series before Playmates decided to
combine all of their 5" Star Trek
action figure lines into one line
which would carry characters from
all of the Star Trek TV series and
movies.
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- For some
reason, the Voyager figures have
generally kept (or rather,
increased) their value better than
Playmates figures from other Star
Trek TV series or movies. This is
especially true of the figures based
on female characters. Unopened, this
figure will now fetch an average of
$22.00 on the secondary market.
Opened and intact, the figure will
average $9.00. Lieutenant Torres
features articulation at the neck,
shoulders, biceps, elbows, waist,
hips, knees and thighs. The thigh
articulation was a new addition with
this series of figures and was an
improvement that allowed the figures
to "sit" more normally.
Unfortunately, to cut production
costs Playmates has begun reducing
the number of articulated points on
"new" figures (i.e. ones that aren't
cobbled together from parts of old
ones). This has left some of these
figures little more than pre-posed
statues (some of them "oddly" posed
statues, to put things kindly).
Fortunately, this figure doesn't
suffer from that problem and is a
very good likeness of Roxann
Dawson's character from the show as
well.
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Playmates,
always looking for other ways to save a
buck, has gotten some additional milage
out of the body of this figure as well.
The body used for this figure was also
used for the Captain Janeway figure in
the same wave of Voyager figures and
was then recycled a second time for the
Ensign Seska figure in the next wave of
Voyager figures. The body was then
used, yet again, for the "limited
production run of 10,000" figure,
Beverly Crusher from "Generations."
Nevermind the fact that Dr. Crusher
only wore her standard ST-TNG Uniform
throughout the entire "Generations"
movie. I guess it WAS more accurate
than the uniforms depicted by the
"Generations" series of figures. Maybe
she wore it off-screen.. or
something...
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