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Indeed - makes sense. Probably why a number of these things like the Vancouver have started popping up there, both in personal photos and for sale.
 
From Ben Robinson
So I have some good news. I’ve been talking to the people who bought all the old Eaglemoss stock and they’re going to be offering it for sale online at regular prices in the new year. I’m helping them work out what it is and will let everyone know what is - and isn’t - available.
https://twitter.com/bencsrobinson/status/1602657311012651010?s=61&t=xo29CaiM4pk71G8lY33WAQ

in another tweet he says there are no records of pre-orders, so it will be first come, first served.
 
Hm. Did I really want a T'Plana Hath (the Discovery one, not the First Contact one), or did I just want it because it was twelve bucks?

Either way, I do appreciate having one last shot at filling out my row of Doctors Who without having to resort to eBay, though I doubt there's a crate of Nines and Fours that EM was just sitting on.
 
I just want a Cerritos and Lower Decks Titan.

Waiting for them to hopefully make “regular sized” versions was such a massive mistake.
 
All these things (should they come to pass) are very good news. Thanks very much for the updates - keep 'em coming!
 
I just want a Cerritos and Lower Decks Titan.

Waiting for them to hopefully make “regular sized” versions was such a massive mistake.

The LD Titan was actually the last ship I bought before E'Moss officially went dark. I haven't regretted it. It really works as an "animated" XL.
 
I intentionally held off on getting the STO ships until I completed some other sets. Maybe it’s time I get them. Maybe they’ll be made available at “bargain basement” prices. :D
 
I was never that stoked on the STO ships, I just have the Ent-F and the Chimera. The only Trek ship left I want is the Reliant concept, maybe the LD Titan and Vancouver if I come across them for non-silly prices.

Where I f’d up is I planned to get the Galactica collection, but never got around to it, more likely that ship has jumped away. Whoops…
 
I'm flying out to see my folks on xmas day, but before I go, I made a quick stop at my local store yesterday and got myself a model. He doesn't have much left that I don't already have, but I ended up getting issue #92, the Medusan ship.

Apparently the concept was that the Medusans don't have their own ships, so they borrowed some from the Federation, so we get this spherical-hull shaped ship with some elemants similar to the Daedalus and Connie. I could imagine the Feds have others of this design for themselves as either Starfleet or civilian transports. Always nice to have another TOS-era Fed ship design. We pretty much just have the Connie, the Antares, the Bonaventure (sort of) and this one.

Not terribly exciting, but I like how the model slips into the stand without any resistance. The soft color on the Bussards is nice, too.

Here's hoping next year brings some good news on the remaining wares!
 
Wasn’t there also a reference to the Cetacean research lab? I think the FASA stuff may have been based off of Rick Sternbach’s blueprint set, which had all those conceptual things. Sadly, we wouldn’t actually see a Cetacean lab in operation for another 3+ decades when it finally appeared in LDS.
 
Not that I recall. There's a deck called the Interactive Navigational Control Center (first pic), which has specific habitats and control systems for Medusans along with a traditional interface for human or other non-Medusan crew. On looking at the plans again, I was mistaken about Engineering having Medusan interfaces but Auxiliary Control (second pic) does have them, and it's depicted as being more like an extra battle bridge. The text doesn't offer any expanded details about the Medusan complement, but does suggest that the Galaxy class uses an advanced propulsion dubbed "ultra warp" because it relies on generating multiple warp fields that overlap, where older vessels use a single warp bubble and transwarp vessels combine that with a form of projection (transwarp being the next major step in FASA's take). This might explain why having a Medusan complement could be highly valuable, even essential, because the concept of "ultra warp" is an emerging one.

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Wasn’t there also a reference to the Cetacean research lab? I think the FASA stuff may have been based off of Rick Sternbach’s blueprint set, which had all those conceptual things. Sadly, we wouldn’t actually see a Cetacean lab in operation for another 3+ decades when it finally appeared in LDS.

I think the Cetacean Ops was from Sternbach’s Tech Manual, not FASA’s.
 
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