MAY PILE OF LOOT: “Undiscovered Country Captain” Sulu

This is how I know.Throughout these posts on the Star Trek Nacelle figures, I’ve repeatedly insisted I can tell that Nacelle really put passion into these toys and care about them and the license despite the weird choices and production jank, and as final proof of this, I give you Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country Captain Hikaru Sulu.

Weird choices? Sure. He doesn’t even have the waist cut torso joint the other two have. Ankle joints are at the top of the boots, objectively the worst way to do ankles. And the detents in his right elbow are barely hints of detents while the left elbow has normal ones. BUT.

He comes with two communicators and two phasers. One set is accurate to Star Trek VI. And one set is accurate to Star Trek II.

Because we ALL KNOW this Sulu could be from either movie. Unlike some actors cough cough Shatner cough cough, Takei’s appearance didn’t change much between 2 and 6. I myself am only specifically collecting characters from or compatible with the second and third movies, and I love that Nacelle knew this would be a thing and did pack-ins accordingly Also, there’s this:

Yes, you’re seeing right. That’s a swappable chest piece  that lets you switch between the two iconic yet inexplicable looks of the movie uniform jackets - flap up, flap dangling.

I can’t stress enough that the mark of a truly great licensed action figure is doing a thing you absolutely could get away with not doing because it’s just cooler if you do it.  The extra gear and the swappable flap are precisely that, and that’s why these Trek figures are amazing figures that are occasionally bad figures, not “average out to OK” figures.

Also PILE OF BONES.