Playmates learned one valuable lesson from the first wave of Deep Space Nine figures: get the figures on the shelves within a year of the show’s premiere. The Deep Space Nine toys took a year to hit the stores, and though their quality was arguably worth the wait, the buzz surrounding the launch of that series had died down by the time the figures appeared. Not so with the Voyager figures – these arrived in store within six months of the series premiere on UPN.
The Voyager figures who were in Starfleet uniform displayed a new philosophy on Playmates’ part. Starfleet uniform bodies were now nearly identical for every character, with a standard female body and a standard male body. The height of individual characters could be varied by different lengths of legs.
