“You spent how much at a Toy Show?”

Yes, oddly enough, just a little while after putting Star Trek Saturday on hiatus, I’ve opted to devote a full week to the toys of one of my favorite franchises. Originally, I was just going to bring back Star Trek Saturday to do it, but then I realized that would mess with the abundance of themed weekends I’ve been planning, so instead, I’ll try to get most of it out of my system in one week-long purge.

The reason for this sudden spike in plastic Trek goodness is because I went to a Toy & Collectibles show last week and hit the mother lode of Star Trek stuff, both Playmates and Art Asylum. One dealer had a great collection of both loose and mint-in-package figures, ships, and playsets. Sadly, the ships were priced a little too rich for my blood, but there were a lot of figures that I needed for my collection and the guy that owned the table was ready to deal, so I did a lot of buying. I won’t get to it all this week, but I’ll do what I can.

As a sidebar, let me mention that I rarely find shows like this in my area, but this one was fantastic and worth the two-hour round trip. I also picked up a bunch of other random stuff, and I’ll likely be devoting next week to the rest of the haul.

I’ll be back later today to check out Playmates’ Engineering Playset!