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 years ago, when I bough a spare Bridger and a Playmates Lore, with the intent of making a Krieg, because he was my favorite character.  Of course, I ended up getting side-tracked for far too long, but I found those parts while working to get my collecting in better order, and finally put that Krieg together.  And I liked the end result so much that I decided to put together the other two.  So, here they are!

KRIEG

As noted above, Krieg is a Bridger with a heavily modified Lore head from Playmates’ TNG line.  I aimed for closer to his look in the pilot, to keep him in line with the Hitchcock figure.  His head is still pretty easily removed, so maybe one day I’ll do an extra head for Season 3 Krieg!

WESTPHALEN

Of the three not produced, Westphalen is the only one to supposedly have gotten a prototype from Playmates, though no images have ever surfaced.  Mine uses a Hitchcock body, repainted to give it the proper science department blue, with a heavily modified Lwoxana Troi head.  I based her on her appearances early in “Games” when she’s more casual, in part to better pair her off with Zeller, and in part because it made re-using the Hitchcock body an easier alternative to some more heavy modification for her slightly more standard lab coated look.  I’m still not 100% on how the hair looks, but she was definitely a “close enough to call it done” figure.  I may revisit later.

ORTIZ

Ortiz is ultimately a pretty simple figure, using O’Neill’s body, with a head from Wesley Crusher, who doesn’t actually look anything like Will Wheaton, but who does look an okay amount like Marco Sanchez.  Yay!