First announced last fall, the first wave of unique Star Trek action figures from the Nacelle Company were unveiled today at Toy Fair in New York—and all the action figures from wave one are now available to pre-order.
Wave 1 pre-sale reveal
As their name implies, The Nacelle Company has nerdy roots. Founded by Trekkie Brian Volk-Weiss, Nacelle Company is best known for their docuseries including The Toys That Made Us and The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek as well as producing the Gates McFadden InvestiGates podcast. They combined their love for toys and Star Trek with this new line of action figures which features fan favorites and deep cuts that span franchise history.
The Nacelle’s figures are 1/12 scale (about 6 to 7 inches) and “highly articulated,” similar to Hasbro’s Star Wars Black series. You can pre-order each figure individually for $29 at nacellestore.com or pick up all 8 in a bundle for $225. Wave 1 is expected to begin shipping in the Fall of 2025. At this time Nacelle is only taking orders from the USA.
Designs for first wave was initially revealed during a panel at New York Comic-Con last October. Today at New York Toy Fair, Nacelle is showing off their first figures. “I’m honored with the overwhelmingly positive response from the Star Trek community on our first wave of figures,” said Nacelle Founder and CEO, Brian Volk-Weiss in a statement. “To earn the trust of this passionate and loyal fanbase, is truly one of the highlights of my career.”
Here are brand new images for each wave 1 figure (with accessories)…
Captain Jellico – Star Trek: The Next Generation “Chain of Command”
Weyoun – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Captain Garrett – Star Trek: The Next Generation “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
Captain Sulu – Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Peter Preston – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Tuvix – Star Trek: Voyager “Tuvix”
Valkris – Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Mirror Archer – Star Trek: Enterprise “In A Mirror, Darkly”
The packaging for each shows off the figure and accessories as well as branding for the movie or film. Here is Tuvix as an example…
Generations Kirk teased for wave 2
When the first wave was announced last fall, Nacelle solicited ideas from Star Trek fans worldwide regarding future waves, asking them to email their suggestions to StarTrekIdeas@nacellecompany.com. According to the company, the response has been “overwhelming,” and Nacelle has incorporated fan input into their wave two lineup.
And on Tuesday afternoon, live from the Toy Fair in New York, Brian Volk-Weiss streamed a dramatic reveal of the first wave two figure, which is Captain James T. Kirk from Star Trek: Generations. You can watch the video below.
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Brian Volk-Weiss joining All Access this week
Nacelle CEO Brian Volk-Weiss will be joining Anthony and Laurie this week for TrekMovie’s All Access Star Trek podcast, which will be released early Friday morning. We will talk about the Star Trek figures, the other Nacelle Star Trek projects (past, present and future), and about his personal fandom. Let us know if you have any questions for Brian in the comments below.
The Star Trek figures actually aren’t the first toys from Nacelle. In 2024, Nacelle partnered with Alcon Entertainment to produce the first-ever line of action figures for the acclaimed sci-fi series The Expanse. Nacelle Toys is producing and distributing toys for their NacelleVerse brands that include RoboForce, Biker Mice from Mars, Sectaurs, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, The Great Garloo and Power Lords. For more details, check out nacellestore.com.
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The flowing champagne glass for Archer is perfect.
Ok, which Weyoun are we getting?
Why does Jellico come with Livingston (I’m too lazy to go to Memory Alpha and look up what he did regarding Picard’s fish)?
Valkris comes with Genesis? Are you trying to get me to spend all of my money?
Interesting how Captain Sulu comes with Star Trek II phaser and communicator.
Seriously, which Weyoun liked pizza (again too lazy to go to Memory Alpha and look it up)?
Why does this company want me to be poor?
“Oh, and get that fish out of the ready room” – Jellico
Weyoun 6, the ‘traitor’.
Livingston returns after Chain of Command. As an accessory, it works for Picard too down the line.
If he has the Ketrecel White he’s probably the first Weyoun from “To the Death”
Thank you @nkc and @argonzo. I knew someone would know the answer! (Again, I freely admit I was being too lazy to go to Memory Alpha to look up the answers.)
Well, these look awesome but what about the major characters? I see they have Kirk coming, but what about Spock, Bones, Picard, Riker, Worf, etc.?
I sort of think that’s the point–those have been released first in every line?
Well, these sculpts look much better than the Playmate figures. Maybe there as good as the McFarlane ones (did they only release Picard and Kirk?).
But, again, I would think you’d start off with the most popular ones first. These look cool, but I’m not interested in getting any of them, except possibly (and probably not) Sulu. These are deep cut characters.
So, if you’re going to put the money in to create a new line of figures, why go with ones that are probably going to have lower demand. It just doesn’t seem smart to me.
Because every line does the same four figures and then folds when nobody is interested, because every line does the same four figures which the collectors already have.
That is not why the Star Trek toy lines fail. If you really believe that, than you have no business making comment on it.
As someone who works in the toy business, you are absolutely correct. This is a bad sales strategy, no matter how many times previous lines have done those characters.
At worst, you’d want a handful of major characters mixed in with more secondary characters, and maybe one obscure character.
When Super 7 launched their Simpsons line they didn’t do any of the family in their first wave and they didn’t sell, and they lost the license before ever doing Homer, Bart, Marge, etc.
What may happen here is fans getting some really deep cut characters, which is kinda neat, but they risk never getting to more popular characters because if the first wave or two don’t sell, the line is dust, and now you have fans with piecemeal collections.\
Those who want the obscure characters will be happy. But that is a very small subset of customers.
Nacelle have confirmed that from wave 3 that every other wave will be a complete bridge crew.
So, you’re saying from wave 3 on, it’s the cast from each show?
Hi mate, not exactly. I mean that from wave 3 Nacelle will alternate a complete cast wave with an ‘assortment wave’ (like wave 1). So wave 3 will be a complete bridge crew/cast, wave 4 an assortment, then wave 5 another complete crew and so on.
Let’s hope they survive to Wave 3.
Ok, thanks! I misread!
Any idea of what the first “bridge crew” of wave 3 will be?
i’m a ship guy not a figure guy but these look great
Same here
I have to laugh at the smarmy smile alt-face for Weyoun. And best of all when you get his figure you get like 4 for the price of 1! Well, sort of…
I notice Jellicoe doesn’t have an alt-face. That’s because he looked like he needed a laxative the entire episode… and lol on the dead/almost dead trauma faces for Peter Preston and Garrett
I wouldn’t even consider getting Weyoun without a smarmy face.
The ‘dead-version’ alternate heads are a bit bleak! The Rachel Garrett figure would be great for doing a line-up of all the 1701 captains.
I never liked how they used the movie uniforms for Yesterday’s Enterprise without the belts and shirts. It just seemed lame.
Other than that, the episode itself was awesome!
Me neither, but I sometimes think, imagine if they’d come up with some throwaway, pyjama-esque mediocrity like the future uniforms from All Good Things… the ‘lost era’ would be stuck with them! Better a half-monster-maroon than a monster.
Made me realize everybody but Jellico and Sulu died horribly.
These are incredible. Like they don’t even look like figures some of them.
These look great. I find it humorous they include the ‘dead face(s)’ of Garrett and Preston. Sign me up for Generations Kirk, btw.
Snap with the Generations Kirk…would like Final Frontier Kirk in the bomber jacket more though!
Speaking of Generations, hope they do Harriman!
So happy because that’s the Kirk I suggested.
These are EXCEPTIONAL!!! Haven’t bought ST figures since my mom gave me the Mego TOS ones in the 1970s. I’ll take ALL 8, please!!!
I do not see any new toys on the Nacelle store… Are these region locked maybe? Here is hoping then that BBTS will also carry them.
The article mentions that they are only available in the US. I’ve read elsewhere that Nacelle’s license does not cover other territories.
I like the company’s initial aim for never-produced-before characters; the first wave proves there’s a gold mine of them. I’m also glad they’re open to input for the line (I wonder if anyone had suggested LtCmdr. Remmick with an alternate head :-P )
Man, that Generations Kirk likeness is astounding!
Wow. The likenesses are amazing. Finally a decent Trek product. Honestly they look better than the ridiculously priced EX0-6 junk and the sculpts are great. I was fooled into buying two EXO-6 figures and both were poor.
I have been very excited about these…only to find out they aren’t currently available for order outside the U.S.
Nacelle have however said on social media that they are “working on it”.
Fingers crossed, to not have these available internationally would be a disaster (and more likely for the line to fail).
I’ll stay cautiously optimistic… it’s an exciting time to be a Trek and action figure fan…we have legacy figures coming from Nacelle, new Trek from Master Replicas…plus HIYA Toys doing an interesting mixture (beginning with Star Trek 2009) of series with 3.75 inch figures and more expensive 6 inch figures with fabric clothing…plus electronic ships (well at least the Kelvin Enterprise which was on display at Toy Fare).
I wouldn’t exactly call Hikaru Sulu or Weyoun “deep cuts”.
Captain Sulu kinda is though, no?
The folks at EXO-6 should hire these sculptors, because these are REALLY good, unlike EXO-6’s.
These are outstanding. Love all the accessories, especially Jellicoe’s.
I almost spat my coffee out when I saw the Rachel Garrett and Peter Preston figures come complete with bloodied corpse heads! That’s just a tad….morbid. Otherwise these look fantastic.
I did a double take myself, but I like dark humor so it worked for me in the end. I wonder if anyone will actually display them like that… get a Trek army of the dead going.
One Valkris to go, puh-lease! ;)
Nice.
But $30?
On the bright side far less than Exo-6. 🙂
For figures that size with that level of detail plus so many accessories and swappable hands and heads? It’s a fair price nowadays.
That’s pretty much the going rate now for more niche market figures at this size that have all these swappable body parts and accessories.
Thank goodness we’re getting characters beyond Picard, Data and Kirk. Finally. This is by fans for fans – only way a Star Trek business model will succeed.
These really look incredible, and given the detail and accessories I think it’s a steal. But also, it is an excessive degree of accessories – like, how many ppl who buy these will really be playing with them, swapping the different pieces? I would love to meet anyone under the age of 12 that these figures would appeal to – sadly kids these days don’t appreciate the old Trek the way I did when I was a kid… 👴
I guess this will appeal to little kids, but I don’t see grown-ups having much interest in this kind of stuff
I really like – as some have pointed out before – that they are using more unpopular and unusual characters. If you already have a dozen Picards or more at home, you don’t need another one in the hope that this line might continue into more interesting figures. I think that concept is really smart. Best merch strategy since Bluebrixx did not-Lego Star Trek.
These seem to align quite well with the really popular Art Asylum figures from 20 years ago. My favorite detail is Sulu’s jacket-flap. :D At 30$ a piece I might just get some of those guys and gals. Could potentially be the best line of action figures since Art Asylum.
I can’t wait to play with these! lol
Can this be bought in Canada? The website doesn’t work.
Volk Weiss sounds like something from the Blade Runner universe. Hope they will do some PK Dick stuff.
I want a bug-eyed Gowron.
I’m also rooting for a Sybok, Kolrami, Conspiracy-bug Remmick, Armus, and Polaski. Make it so.
That should be the cast of the next streaming movie. Section 32.
Y’all…uh…alive?