Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription

[matthunter]

That sucks that you're out money. Did the UK shop make you pay up front? The US shop only charged when they shipped.

UK usually charges on order, not shipment. However, if you can prove you never received the goods, you should be entitled to a refund - the bankrupcy terms should have some provision for reimbursing anyone out of pocket. If the order was over £100 and you paid via credit card, your credit company may be liable as well.

Check these links:

https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-ri...oney-back-if-a-company-goes-bust-aAmCs2Z30SLb

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/r...you purchased cost,of the Consumer Credit Act.

 

[Tuskin38]

BigBadToyStore is the site where I get my Eaglemoss models. I bought a few that were in stock that I really wanted before they start getting snatched up.

 

[Nate]

BigBadToyStore is the site where I get my Eaglemoss models. I bought a few that were in stock that I really wanted before they start getting snatched up.

I don’t normally get mine from them but I did the same. Held in my pile of loot for now.

 

[drt]

hahaha

got my final(?) order from Eaglemoss today, of course there was a ship missing and another one they sent the incorrect version - one final “fuck you” I guess, lol

(I guess I shouldn’t complain too much, I practically stole some of them with the discount and coupon I used.)

 

[C.E. Evans]

Just got my likely last two ships directly from Eaglemoss yesterday--the regular-sized Discovery and Kerala. Had to go to my local post office and pick them up because they simply weren't going to deliver them to my door for BS reasons, and as such had just been sitting around on the undelivered mail shelf for almost a week. Not being a subscriber, but someone who bought ships I liked individually from the US store, I've been thankful to get all my ships without any broken pieces.

Even though I'm happy with the small fleet of Eaglemoss ships that I have (ten Trek ships and one Orville ship), it's probably the end of the line for me as any other ships I might want at other online shops are either all gone or will require me to take out a loan.

 

[thribs]

Why were they at the police station?

 

[C.E. Evans]

Why were they at the police station?

Whoops. My bad. I meant "post office" (it just looks like a police station--seriously, it does).

I'll go back and fix my post. Thanx.

 

[Species517]

I wonder if we’ll ever see the sales numbers, but my suspicion is that the sales tanked after they moved away from the small $20-$25 models and started pushing the larger $50-$55 models of the Discovery line and beyond. Not only did the larger models cost more and take up more shelf space, but the boxes were unstackable since they were all different sizes. It also seems like they produced a lot of Discovery era Klingon ships that were undesirable since most fans didn’t like the designs to begin with. I bet they didn’t even recoup the design costs for those.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I just noticed at BigBadToystore that all of their Eaglemoss preorders have been taken down (or changed to "sold out") and they're only listing what they have in stock there now.

 

[fireproof78]

wonder if we’ll ever see the sales numbers,

Well, you could bid for them.

 

[Paul755]

I wonder if we’ll ever see the sales numbers, but my suspicion is that the sales tanked after they moved away from the small $20-$25 models and started pushing the larger $50-$55 models of the Discovery line and beyond. Not only did the larger models cost more and take up more shelf space, but the boxes were unstackable since they were all different sizes. It also seems like they produced a lot of Discovery era Klingon ships that were undesirable since most fans didn’t like the designs to begin with. I bet they didn’t even recoup the design costs for those.

yeah, it always seemed like the Discovery Klingon stuff was on sale.

 

[Notsubway]

Ordered my Cerritos in early July and it took over a week to ship out, sounds like I got lucky they shipped at all. That said, hope they can re-organize or someone picks them out of bankruptcy or administration as it seems that what it's referred to in the UK.

It seems like along with the overall supply chain issues Covid created and current economic concerns, they just over extended themselves with product lines. I want to say they had over 10 different IPs they had licensing deals with, some very niche, like Stargate. I loved Stargate SG-1, but in reality, how many people are going to rush out to buy models from a mildly popular sci-fi franchise that's been dormant for a decade?

Honestly, while this is likely the end of Eaglemoss as we know it, I believe many of the product offerrings will live on. I just see too much value in the some of the licenses and product lines for someone not to get those assests on the cheap and not make money.

 

[NCC-73515]

I wonder if we’ll ever see the sales numbers, but my suspicion is that the sales tanked after they moved away from the small $20-$25 models and started pushing the larger $50-$55 models of the Discovery line and beyond. Not only did the larger models cost more and take up more shelf space, but the boxes were unstackable since they were all different sizes. It also seems like they produced a lot of Discovery era Klingon ships that were undesirable since most fans didn’t like the designs to begin with. I bet they didn’t even recoup the design costs for those.

I had the same thoughts - whoever imagined the ugly background Disco Klingon ships would sell remotely as well as the classics, and at a much higher price on top of that? Of course a lot more people buy Enterprises, Warbirds, BoPs, or important ships from the best episodes, like the Prometheus or the Equinox, or an 8472 bioship. Going XL probably also wasn't a good idea.

 

[publiusr]

Sigh.

Had I been Elon—I would have propped them, TOMY and Round2 up…and forgot about Twitter.

 

[thribs]

That Tomy one looks incredible. Such a shame it’s Colonial only

 

[saddestmoon]

I’m somewhat guttered that EM will never produce a Beyond Ent 1701-A as seen in the closing moments of the third Kelvin-Timeline movie…

 

[F. King Daniel]

I’m somewhat guttered that EM will never produce a Beyond Ent 1701-A as seen in the closing moments of the third Kelvin-Timeline movie…

Oh fuck! Hadn't thought of that

 

[drt]

It seems like along with the overall supply chain issues Covid created and current economic concerns, they just over extended themselves with product lines. I want to say they had over 10 different IPs they had licensing deals with, some very niche, like Stargate. I loved Stargate SG-1, but in reality, how many people are going to rush out to buy models from a mildly popular sci-fi franchise that's been dormant for a decade?

Yeah, I mentioned something similar in one of these threads.

Eaglemoss over extended themselves into properties that don't really have big collector fanbases. Stargate isn't the only one that's at least a decade past its heyday, I'd argue that Galactica, Space 1999 and Tron are as well. Their newer properties the Expanse and Orville are also pretty niche, I don't get the sense the general fans of those series are into collecting ships the way Star Trek/Star Wars fans are.

I had the same thoughts - whoever imagined the ugly background Disco Klingon ships would sell remotely as well as the classics, and at a much higher price on top of that? Of course a lot more people buy Enterprises, Warbirds, BoPs, or important ships from the best episodes, like the Prometheus or the Equinox, or an 8472 bioship. Going XL probably also wasn't a good idea.

Also want to agree with this school of thought. The Disco ships should have maintained the same form factor size-wise as the regular starship collection. Then the weird Klingon and largely similar Section 31 ships are probably a bit more palatable to casual collectors. It also differentiates the XLs for key ships from the newer series a bit more, instead of being only 10-20% larger than their Disco/Universe counterparts. Even then, the XLs were probably not huge sellers, so they probably should have dialed them back to just Enterprises and other Trek series main hero ships - and dispensed with the goofy gold-plated ones entirely.

 

[Tomalak]

I wonder if they had to go for larger models to get the kind of margins they needed to offset the additional licence cost for Disco/Picard?

They wouldn't be the first company to ruin themselves trying to meet licence costs as well as other overheads. The rapidly increasing prices of the XLs were another red flag.

 

[JamesRye]

The terribly designed DISCO ships were practically being given away. All reduced to a tenner here in the UK for months and months before the collapse.