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Action Figures ACTION FIGURE RESOURCE A CTI O N F I G U R E S I remember Battlestar Galactica from when I was a kid. to shelf it until after Star Wars revitalized the Sci-Fi I used to love watching this on a Saturday evening (in genre in 1977. the UK). The first episode aired on September 17, 1978 but was It is a story of betrayal, heroism, love interrupted by an hour long broadcast announcing the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace accord at Camp and courage. David. During its short live 17 original episodes of the It is the story of survival against all odds. series were aired (five of them two-part shows), totaling 24 hours of broadcasting. It is the story of one species fight for survival But in April, 1979 ABC cancelled the show, despite from the merciless onslaught of another. its winning the 6th Annual People’s Choice Awards In a distant part of the universe there are a series of for Best New TV Drama Series, quoting poor viewing planets known as the 12 Colonies which are the home figures and high costs as the reasons. Strangely of a civilization of humans. enough I have clearer and fonder memories of this than I do of Star Wars and I used to eagerly await The Colonies had been at war with the Cylon Empire, each episode. a cybernetic race, in the past. But the colonies are ambushed by the Cylons, helped by a human named After a couple of years hiatus a poorly budgeted and ill Baltar, in a surprise attack that lays waste to all the conceived sequel titled Galactica was aired in 1980 but What Was planets and all but wipes out their population. Fleeing this was a quick failure. the colonies in any spacecraft they can find the few The original series, however, continued to gain a cult human survivors to refuge in space. following and Glen A. Larson, Richard Hatch, and Bryan Battlestar Galactica? Of all the Colonial Fleet, the Battlestar Galactica seems to Singer (independently of one another) remained faithful be the the only military ship to have survived the attack. to the original series, trying to revive it. Led by the famed military leader Commander Adama, Several other projects, including demonstration the Battlestar Galactica and its crew take up the task of videos and a miniseries, were planned or started but leading the small fugitive fleet of survivors into space in never came to fruition due to a lack of funding or search of a fabled refuge known as Earth. commitment. “THERE ARE THOSE WHO BELIEVE... The original concept for the program was conceived in As a result it wasn’t until 2003 that a new re-imagined the late 1960’s by Glen A.Larson and was called Adam’s Battlestar Galactic was made. THAT LIFE HERE... Ark, but unable to find backing for the project he had BEGAN OUT THERE. FAR ACROSS THE UNIVERSE. WITH TRIBES OF HUMANS... WHO MAY HAVE BEEN THE FOREFATHERS OF THE EGYPTIANS... OR THE TOLTECS... OR THE MAYANS... THAT THEY MAY HAVE BEEN THE ARCHITECTS OF THE GREAT PYRAMIDS... OR THE LOST CIVILIZATIONS OF LEMURIA... COMMANDER DAGGIT IMPERIOUS LUCIFER OVION OR ATLANTIS... ADAMA LEADER SOME BELIEVE THAT THERE MAY YET BE BROTHERS OF MAN... WHO EVEN NOW FIGHT TO SURVIVE... SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE HEAVENS.” COMMAND SHIP Th e Reimagin e d S eries Why are th ey So With Ronald D. Moore and David Eick as the creative Rather than being a poor re-make it is an excellent Hard to Find? forces behind the Reimagined Battlestar Galactica tribute to the original and as such I am looking forward Universal Television made a miniseries which premiering to the Sci-Fi channel’s re-imagined “V” series (anybody on Sky1 in the UK and Ireland in October 2004, and on the else remember that one?). Sci-Fi channel in the U.S. in January 2005. So... Also, despite some character changes, it remains close I was about ten when Battlestar Galactica first premiered This miniseries was so successful that Sci-Fi opted to to the original concept and still “feels” like “Battlestar on British television and I was completely mesmerized What figures are there? develop this new version of Galactica into a television Galactica”. and transfixed by it. series. Who released them? Unlike most science fiction series, the re-imagined In fact, the very next day I dragged my old man (father) The new re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, like its series doesn’t feature aliens and intentionally avoids How old are they? down to the local Toys R Us store to get me some of the predessor, went on to receive television awards and techie phrases or lingo in order for the mainstream much critical acclaim from the TV critics and several audience to fully appreciate the show’s storylines new Mattel Battlestar Galactica action figures. What are the rarest? short webisodes as well as TV Movies, comics and which are well thought out and developed, as are the However in the 1970’s, unlike today, toys like these were entertainment console games have been made. characters. made to be played with, not collected, so most ended up I shied away from watching the re-imagined Battlestar In fact there is surprisingly little violence despite the being trashed after months play. Galactica for a long time, mainly because of my fond subject matter and instead the storylines generally This is the main reason why they are becoming memories of the original Battlestar Galactica series and explore the conflicts, relationships and friendships that because, living in Thailand, it wasn’t readily available, develop within the Battlestar itself and the apocalyptic increasingly difficult to find, coupled with the fact that however after a friend of mine lent me his DVDs I have fall-out of the destruction of mankind’s twelve colonies there are more and more collectors, like myself, who are became hooked. and of the remaining survivors as well as the moral trying to replace their vintage Battlestar Galactica action choices they must make in dealing with the continued figures from their childhood. They have also become more existence of the human race. popular recently due to the new re-booted TV sries, which I also loved. Even the newer DST (Diamond Select Toys) seem to be THE REIMAGINED SERIES becoming increasingly difficult to find, which is probably due to the fact that even though these were mass produced there was generally only one production run for each series. VINTAGE VINTAGE MATTEL CYLON COMMANDER STARBUCK Also the series has been finished for for a while now, so DST have stopped releasing figures, yet at the same time demand has been steadily increasing. Despite all this values seem to be fairly reasonable and stable at the moment which I think is due to this being a small niche and the fact that although demand is gradually increasing there is still and adequate, although decreasing, supply of the figures. It is my firm believe therefore, that over the coming years we are likely to see these continue to rise in value, especially for the vintage Mattel figures, as more STARBUCK RAZOR CYCLON NUMBER SIX APOLLO DUALA collectors try to back track on their collections and replace the figures they lost in their childhood. JOYRIDE STUDIOS MAJESTIC CYLON COMMANDER CYLON COMMANDER Mattel Battlestar Galactica Figures Mattel’s original line of Battlestar Galactica action figures In 1979 Mattel released two 12-inch figures, a Colonial was released in 1978 and consisted of Starbuck, Adama, Warrior figure and Cylon Centurion Figure. Daggit (the robot dog), two Cylons (silver and gold), Lucifer, Boltar, Boray (a pig headed creature), Ovion (a The Colonial Warrior was based on the original mold from Mattel’s Major Matt Mason’s Captain Laser figure and fly-like alien) and the Imperious Leader (a rather dull pink VIPER LAUNCH STATION alien). came with a laser beam, scanner device and Arial and the Cylon had the added bonus of a manually operated These figures weren’t up to the standard and quality of moving red eye and glowing chest. the Kenner Star Wars figures, however over the course of time, and particularly since the start of the new “re- Both these figures have become extremely hard to find imagined” series has resulted in a resurgence of interest in mint condition with their boxes intact, so are worth in new Battlestar Galactica figures and merchandising as keeping a look out for. well as stimulating the market in the old vintage Mattel Later, in 1980, Mattel also introduced a limited edition figures, which can still be found at very reasonable prices. mail away Gold Cylon offer, in which you had to send in The first series of Battlestar Galactica figures was sold four proofs of purchase from any of the four figures in the in 6 and 4 figure gift sets as well as the regular individual series to get. blister packs. Mattel also produced five Battlestar Galactica ships, three The second series was released in 1979 and included the which were based on ships featured in the show, and two original figures from series one as well as four new figures: made up ones. These were a Colonial Viper, Cylon Raider, Colonial Landram, Stellar Probe, and Scarab. Sidenote: With these figures, as is often the case with Initially each of these came with missiles that could be older figures, it is the weapons and accessories that fired but after a child died from swallowing one they were prove to be the most difficult to find, although the replaced, so the earlier figures have become somewhat of COMAND SHIP figures themselves are relatively easy to acquire.
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