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News TOMY Star Trek Diecast Ship Replicas

Yeah, I’ve heard of those services where they give you a fake address in the US to send them to, which then get shipped to you but they always seemed rather pricey.
 
So I guess there is some news. I first heard about this from this small You Tube channel that popped up in my feed, so do not mind giving them a plug.

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I like that the individual LEDs in the nacelles are now no longer visible behind the Ddffusor, still to blue imo. The pain job looks great! Glad the blue has been toned down here.
 
I’ll never be able to justify something like this. I was gonna say afford, but that’s not true. I could afford one, but I don’t think I’d ever be able to justify one.

For the same price I could pick up a latest generation XBox/Playstation/Nintendo whatever you which I’d get hours of fun from.

For the same price I could book a nice weekend away somewhere with the missus and have a lovely old time.

Something like this… it’s too much to pay for something that just sits there… for me anyway.

It’s very pretty though. Beautifully done. The nacelle lighting was my immediate gripe before and I’m glad to see it’s been addressed.
 
Richard S. Ta said:
I’ll never be able to justify something like this. I was gonna say afford, but that’s not true. I could afford one, but I don’t think I’d ever be able to justify one.

For the same price I could pick up a latest generation XBox/Playstation/Nintendo whatever you which I’d get hours of fun from.

For the same price I could book a nice weekend away somewhere with the missus and have a lovely old time.

Something like this… it’s too much to pay for something that just sits there… for me anyway.

It’s very pretty though. Beautifully done. The nacelle lighting was my immediate gripe before and I’m glad to see it’s been addressed.
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This is why I would consider this a very niche "luxury spend" the kind of thing I would buy if I were well off enough to not notice the wallet pain
 
New update on the refit. There’s a new video showing off the latest revisions of the lighting effects.

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Looks like there’s a little more detail in the shuttlebay than the earlier prototypes, which is good, that looked conspicuously unfinished.
 
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drt said:
the paint on the strongback seems way more subdued as well, which addresses my previous complaint
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Yeah, the pictures from last month looked really decal-y. You can only see the finish in these clips, but they seem to match the quality of the painted sections better.
 
my only nitpicking complaint from this video is the phaser turrets just being naked LED bulbs - I get why they did it, but they seem somewhat unnecessary (particularly since they never lit up originally*) and odd compared to the rest of the ship's lighting looks.

* = I think it's also arguable that the TMP version of the ship would have had blue phaser beams to match the blue photon torpedo fired in the wormhole
 
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