On Wednesday, I wrapped up my running sub-feature from the last four months of looking at Playmates ill-fated SeaQuest DSV tie-in toyline. Much like the show, it certainly showed a lot of promise early on, but despite the quality of the figures being there, the line just couldn’t secure its spot in a crowded ‘90s marketplace, and the show shifting gears and itself struggling to keep is own audience didn’t help matters. The biggest drag to the toyline as it exists is the omissions. Playmates released seven of the show’s ten regular characters, while also released two of the guest stars. Plans for continuing the line would have of course included the three missing member, but not helping matters is that two of the three, Westphalen and Krieg, are major fixtures for the show’s first season, and the final of the three, Ortiz, is one of the few cast members to return in the show’s second season. It just wasn’t right. So, I decided to fix it, darn it! I mean, I decided to fix it roughly 13…
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