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This was one
of the figures produced for the 1996
series of Star Trek action figures.
This series of figures featured
characters from all four Star Trek
series in generic Star Trek packaging
and included the first two "1701"
figures. This figure is often
considered the best Worf figure
produced to date because a) he's not in
some weird, unnatural pose and b) he's
not bearing his teeth and snarling. He
just looks like he's standing there. Go
figure. He still has huge hands,
however. My figure was purchased at the
Target in Waterloo, Iowa.
This series
of figures included a Skybox trading
card as a pack-in premium. These
trading cards are longer than average
and consequently don't fit easily into
any standard size trading card storage
device. Unopened, this figure will now
fetch an average of $7.00 on the
secondary market. Opened and intact,
the figure will average $4.00. Worf in
his DS9-style uniform features
articulation at the neck, shoulders,
biceps, elbows, waist, hips and knees.
As mentioned before, this is a popular,
if not particularly valuable version of
Worf.
This figure
is almost entirely an original sculpt,
although the head was originally used
for one of the "Generations" Worf
figures. This figure (with slight
re-tooling to add ribbing to the
shoulders and some paint changes) has
been reissued this year as the "movie
uniform" Worf figure, a Target
exclusive. Go out and buy some Star
Trek figures from Target today. If
these exclusives flop and wind up in
the bargain bin, the 4.5" line of
figures will die out. The only other
ones coming out this year are mail-in
exclusives from Toyfare magazine.
Pretty slim pickins'.
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