{"id":3887,"date":"2012-03-28T23:22:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2012-03-28T23:22:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T03:22:58","slug":"equipment-dst-spock-figure-to-guest-star-on-cbs-hit-comedy-the-big-bang-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=3887","title":{"rendered":"Equipment: DST Spock Figure to Guest Star on CBS&#8217; Hit Comedy The Big Bang Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/spockheader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3894\" title=\"spockheader\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/spockheader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a>Classic Star Trek fans rejoice! Leonard Nimoy will reprise his role as Mr. Spock on this Thursday&#8217;s episode of <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em> &#8212; but he won&#8217;t be playing the role by himself. Instead, Nimoy will lend his voice to an 8-inch, cloth costumed Mr. Spock figure from Diamond Select Toys&#8217; Star Trek Retro Cloth action figure line! An exact replica of the classic 1970s Mego figure (faithfully executed for Diamond Select by the designers at EMCE Toys), Mr. Spock has a conversation with Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) in a dream, and convinces Sheldon to open up a rare, mint-in-box Teleporter Playset (released in the U.K. by Palitoy in 1975).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0For those of you looking to have your own personal conversation with Mr. Spock, the figure is sold out, but a Mirror Universe version of Spock will be available later this year in the Retro Cloth line, along with Mirror Kirk, Captain Picard and a Borg!<\/p>\n<p>Follow Diamond Select Toys on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/diamondselecttoys\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CollectDST\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and check out the full line of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diamondselecttoys.com\/store\/subcategory.asp?CategoryID=335&amp;SubcategoryID=507\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek Retro Figures here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"550\" height=\"354\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=1530926809001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%2Flive-feed%2Fbig-bang-theory-leonard-nimoy-star-trek-video-304200&amp;playerID=441616896001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAC3bNtw~,c0hgCOyLwy6daoR0Hna5EeV6oU1QPZy0&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=1530926809001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%2Flive-feed%2Fbig-bang-theory-leonard-nimoy-star-trek-video-304200&amp;playerID=441616896001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAC3bNtw~,c0hgCOyLwy6daoR0Hna5EeV6oU1QPZy0&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" width=\"550\" height=\"354\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1\" flashVars=\"videoId=1530926809001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%2Flive-feed%2Fbig-bang-theory-leonard-nimoy-star-trek-video-304200&amp;playerID=441616896001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAC3bNtw~,c0hgCOyLwy6daoR0Hna5EeV6oU1QPZy0&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"videoId=1530926809001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%2Flive-feed%2Fbig-bang-theory-leonard-nimoy-star-trek-video-304200&amp;playerID=441616896001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAC3bNtw~,c0hgCOyLwy6daoR0Hna5EeV6oU1QPZy0&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic Star Trek fans rejoice! 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