Super7 Star Trek: The Next Generation Guinan Super7, 2021
Day #2,902: August 21, 2025
Guinan You're a Droid and I'm a Noid
Star Trek: The Next Generation ReAction Figure
Item No.: No. 81124 Manufacturer:Super7 Includes:n/a Action Feature:n/a Retail:$17.99 Availability: 2020 Other: Perhaps the joke was not funny.
Super7 Guinan from Star Trek: The Next Generation came out a couple of years ago and was part of a very good - but sadly, small - offering of figures. There's something sad about how Star Trek is this amazing show that continued to reinvent itself across 940 episodes spanning 58 years, and people love it, but it had a hard exit from mainstream popularity around the end of the 1990s. The shows are generally good, the kids who grew up with them like and are a little bit embarrassed by them... but oddly, it didn't come roaring back. The Next Generation kids love the show, but Playmates did such a good job making sure you had cheap, good figures to buy that there's not a lot of demand for new product. Nor is there a lot of consistency, which isn't Super7's fault. Super7 had two scales of figures. Funko has offered up a few lines over the years. And so have Diamond Select Toys, Playmates, and even Hasbro. And Mattel. Exo-6. Nacelle. Master Replicas, Mego, Mezco. I could keep going.
Each line has its pros and cons, but there's a lot of overlap. With collector brands, you need to pick a size and build it out. You can make a few figures in other scales, sure, but if you want to lock in any sort of long-term loyalty from fans you can't let every company make a product - eventually you're just robbing each other of sales. The notion of the "master toy license" seems long gone, so Super7 - despite making a lot of good, demanded, unique figures - still only had a few waves before throwing in the towel.
Guinan appears as I remember her - wearing purple. The sculpt and pose are fine, but it's a figure that seems like it was sculpted digitally, with an exceptionally good head sculpt and a pose that really has no personality or body language. The face looks like Whoopi Goldberg, the hair comes out the back of the hat, and every one of her five joints moves smoothly. At $15-$18, she did OK - but I picked her up at the preposterous price of $3.19 back when FYE still marked down old items below suggested retail price. I think this figure is a dream for that price.
The actual costume has some detail, like stitching that makes panels of her outfit pop. They're very subtle on the action figure, so it looks like a much less ornate costume. Given how many of us watched the show on a Fox affiliate with snowy reception on a rooftop antenna, maybe we won't notice on the loose figure. The photo on the packaging shows us how she actually looks, and overall Super7 did a nice job.
There are no accessories, and her pose is pretty much the same as the other Trek ReAction Figures. This makes her a little boring - I would have loved her laser rifle or maybe a fencing foil. I assume this figure is primarily staying packaged, or will be opened and put in fan-made 3D-printed dioramas.
As I was spoiled by the Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes figures, I can't say that the Trek ReAction Figures were my favorites. I would have liked a little more texture and more variation in poses, although I suppose that bit of business may backfire. Playmtes went out of their way to give Riker an action pose, and ripped clothes, and it was a little silly. I assume this format is good for production and approval, but it would have been nice to have a little bend in her elbow or something about her posture that breathes a little life into the figure.
Today you can probably get a Guinan for about $15 shipped on a good day. I'd say she's easily worth it, just because that amounts to $10 and a reasonable shipping fee. I really wish Super7 gave her an accessory, but the purple looks right and things generally fit in with the other Star Trek figures they made. I doubt we're going to see anyone revisit 3 3/4-inch scale Trek any time soon, so if you've got a few bucks? Track these down, they're fun.
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