On 20 Aug 97, David Linzer wrote to All:
 DL> Can anybody tell me why I can never find a Borg action figure? I
 DL> know they have made one style of Borg action figure, but I can never
 DL> find one in the stores though they have everybody else that was in
 DL> First Contact.
Hee hee -- I guess I got to them before you started looking!  :)  I have 
like, 6 of them here.
I go to our local Toys-R-Us, Target, Wal-mart, Walgreens and K-mart once 
every week, and make stops every few weeks or days at other places - in 
search of action figures, particularly the case figures.  3 years ago, long 
after the Star Trek 1993 assortment (with blue cards) was supposed to be 
gone, Shirley Rone and I cleaned out Chico buying up all of them.  One time 
at Toys-R-Us they brought out about a hundred 1993 assortment figures, and 
put them out at 99 cents!  Gawd, I bought like 50 figures that day, including 
the scarce Guinan figures - of which I got six of them!  (In case the rest of 
you out there didn't pick it up, David Linzer, Shirley Rone and I all live in 
Chico - which is a small-ish northern California community...)  Shirley seems 
to have dropped out of the intensive action figure collecting lately (she has 
almost no funds these days) but I am still avidly collecting.
The last Borg figure from the First Contact line I found in Chico was over at 
Payless on Mangrove about 3 months ago.  It was $2.99, being closed out with 
other First Contact figures, and I snagged it, along with a bunch of 1994 
(series 1) DS9 figures which were 99 cents.  I have not seen another Borg in 
Chico anywhere, since.  Toys-R-Us sold out of it almost immediately back last 
December.  Wal-Mart never got it in.  The strange thing is that the Borg 
figure is not the rarest one of the assortment.  Actually, the Picard in 
Space Suit from the First Contact set is the key figure to have -- and it's 
still around here in town.  According to Lee's Action Figure News and Toy 
Review, the scarcest of the First Contact figures is Troi.  Those are pretty 
much gone too, at least here in Chico, though I think there's still a few 
around.
I could probably part with one of my Borg figures if you are interested.  Let 
me know.
 DL> And most confusing of all, why don't they have the action figure
 DL> of the Borg queen? I asked a co-worker about it, and he looked it up
 DL> in his catalog. He said they did make one style of Borg, and no
 DL> queen.
Playmates was not licensed to render a Borg Queen figure, so they never 
produced it.  It *is* possible that somewhere down the road, as part of the 
regular Star Trek action figure line, that she will come out, but it isn't 
likely.  It probably had something to do with
 DL> I am talking about the action figures that are about 5" tall.
Right.  Me too.  There were also five 9 inch dolls that came out that were 
really nice, and I purchased one of each, but my favorite ones are still the 
5 inch figures.
Did you get the Target exclusive Sulu, Pike, Spock and Scotty figures last 
Christmas?  They weren't in very long!  Do you collect other lines besides 
Trek, like Mars Attacks or Seaquest of the Three Stooges?  I have several 
figures of these lines, like the Seaquest, I'd be willing to sell.  I also 
have several 3 Stooges 9 inch figures (or dolls as some call them) which I 
have available to sell also.  I also have some of the 1993 and 1995 Trek 
figures I would be willing to sell, as well as a complete set of the 
"Generations" figures.  If you're interested in any, let me know.
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