Prices of Eaglemoss Star Trek models on Amazon are all over the place.
It really was! Really nice quality from Hot Wheels. I sold a bunch of the JJprise Enterprises a few weeks ago, one person came in and just bought them all (we only sell them for $1 to $2 a piece, so... yeah). I'd like to see Hot Wheels come out with another line similar to what they did with the Star Wars Hot Wheels 50th line. Great looking detail on these little $5 ships.
Indeed. The XLs seem kind of... cartoony? That probably sounds wrong, buut I have an XL JJPrise and it looks cartoony. It's nice, but, once you enlarge them a bit the model doesn't quite work for me. Maybe it's me being nitpicky, but I just like what I like.
Oh, oh, oh, guess what came today? It's the last one I was collecting, and it arrived while I was typing this!
I think the C looks kind of nice. But the way to get rid of the 'cartoonish' appearance is to give it a 'dirt wash'. Eaglemoss actually do this on the non-Federation ships. Some great examples are the rather excellent Merchantman model and the Klingon XL model (the exception is the warp sled - that has some cool dirt weathering).
Needs to be real subtle on the Federation ships.These things are mass-produced tat to be honest and so they will never be worth lots.There's a guy on ebay UK selling replacement decals, his ones for the Runabout completely transform the model from a featureless slab to an actual decent replica.
The XL 1701 Refit is beyond any sort of help though. Battle damage the hell out of it and display it as the wreck from TSFS!
I do wish that either of the regular-scale refit models (the -nil or the -A) had better quality. Even with a second bite at the apple, they weren't able to get the detailing to look good, while I did end up getting the Reliant concept model which had great aztecing and beautiful nacelles, complete with the front grill cross-bars being properly painted instead of just being one big lump. And, yeah, don't get me started on the XL having the funky pre-production bridge.
If anyone's interested in downloading the magazines, they're still available (for now).
Regular line:
https://en-us.eaglemoss.com/hero-co...cial-star-trek-starships-collection/magazines
Specials:
https://en-us.eaglemoss.com/hero-co...-trek-starships-collection/magazines/specials
XL:
https://en-us.eaglemoss.com/hero-collector/star-trek/star-trek-starships-XL/magazines
Regular line:
https://en-us.eaglemoss.com/hero-co...cial-star-trek-starships-collection/magazines
Specials:
https://en-us.eaglemoss.com/hero-co...-trek-starships-collection/magazines/specials
XL:
https://en-us.eaglemoss.com/hero-collector/star-trek/star-trek-starships-XL/magazines
I wish they would put out the mags for the shop exclusives, STO and BSG lines, but at this point it's not at all likely to happen.
It is curious how none of the major Trek news sites who normally do reviews of new Eaglemoss model releases are talking about this. TrekMovie.com, TrekCore.com, TheTrekCollective.com, etc. (and I think TrekToday.com is probably dead itself anyway). No reporting on it at all.
It is curious how none of the major Trek news sites who normally do reviews of new Eaglemoss model releases are talking about this. TrekMovie.com, TrekCore.com, TheTrekCollective.com, etc. (and I think TrekToday.com is probably dead itself anyway). No reporting on it at all.
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I guess they're slow to the punch or are on Summer Break.
Yeah, it would have been nice to have all of those, particularly since they stopped shipping the magazines for some of them.
thetrekcollective.com died too, last November
I did see it reported on one minor Trek news site, but can't remember which one now.
Oh my God, thank you! This is the one thing from this collection that truly interested me, the magazines. I never knew you could just download them! Would you happen to have a link for the Discovery, Picard, and Lower Decks ships? I know they're part of separate collections, but inserting /magazines at the end of their addresses doesn't seem to pull up a page to download them.
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They never put those up.
I saved the page to the Wayback Machine (here) but I need to re-crawl it later to make sure it archives all the linked magazines.
If not, I have them all archived in case anyone needs them. Thinking about putting them up in a hidden area on the SSDB.
I think that's a great idea; I never got around to downloading them myself.
I'll work on it this weekend. Once complete, I'll put out an announcement about it here and in the other Eaglemoss Official Starships thread. These things should absolutely be preserved at all costs and the more people that have access to them the better.
Ah, the ephemeral nature of the internet.
Content disappears so quickly!
Content disappears so quickly!
Just upload them to the Internet Archive, or point me to them and I'll do it.
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Thanks very kindly. It is a nice planet. Not Risa-nice, mind you, but it circles a happy star.
Thanks for saving the regular issues, but the XL and Specials issues don't appear to be have been saved. I hope 137th Gebirg can upload what he has soon. Big thanks to him too.
Edit: Ok, I've magically found the XL and Special pages backed up on the Wayback Machine now. Not sure what happened before.
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