Sigh. Does anyone else have issues with the thing not powering up?
Edit: I got it running, but it is VERY finicky with the cable adapter combination. I guess a to long cable has to high of an Ohm rating?
Mine powered up just fine. I took an old random phone c cord and cube.
How are the light leaks. Did they do a good job making sure they are not there?
Got it to work with a USB A to C cable.
There is a slight light leak from the port navigational light. Not enough to bother me. What is more annoying is that the port signage on the engineering hull Starship Enterprise United Federation of Planets is slightly off center.
Got it to work with a USB A to C cable.
There is a slight light leak from the port navigational light. Not enough to bother me. What is more annoying is that the port signage on the engineering hull Starship Enterprise United Federation of Planets is slightly off center.
Yeah. Those airlock ports have extremely small decos. I have the usual light leaks but not bad enough for me to return it. I will just do my own putty job. Also had a decal partly off but again easily fixable.
Haha. Yeah. I'm thinking they may not bother doing a D now but something less detailed. The D has a ton of lighting and decals and I don't think they want to take a chance again with more QC issues.
I received mine about 2 months ago and haven't had any of the issues mentioned. No light leaks, off-centered labels, power issues, etc. This is by far the nicest model I've ever owned especially at the price paid. The only thing I still don't like, as with the TOS, is the stand. There must be a better way for the saucer sections to be supported without the huge plastic pieces or rods.
Some people have said they don't have light leaks. But I haven't seen one yet without. Have you looked with it completely pitch black in the room?? If I have it dimmed in the room i can't really see the leaks.
Anyhow over at RPF one guy just got his and it has bulges on the saucer. I don't know if Tomy should do anymore of these. This one is nice but man they really dropped the ball on quality.
People are going out of their way to find flaws now. No wonder why the rest of the world views Star Trek fans as obsessive compulsive.
It's also a mass-produced toy made by a toy company, not a professionally made studio model replica.
It's like expecting a Volkswagen to have the fit and finish of a Bugati...
The way I see it, my understanding is you can get a pro-built Polar Lights refit of that size with equivalent painting and lighting for something like $5,000, and it'll probably be perfect. You can also get the Factory Entertainment Enterprise-refit for $15,000, and, judging by the photos, it'll be considerably worse in most ways. The TOMY model seems to be about 90% of the way to perfect, for maybe 20% of the price.
Can you imagine the complexity of all those LEDs for all the windows on the Enterprise-D? And if one LED in a window goes out, people will be asking for a warranty replacement (nevermind the fact that the ship has a mix of windows lit and windows unlit, so a dead LED would blend in).
Then the people complaining about saucer supports, even though the Galaxy class is probably the most front-heavy design in all of Star Trek.
Yeah, if I was Tomy, I would stick to the simple models like the Romulan Bird of Prey, Shuttlecraft Galileo, Space Station K7 (basically anything TOS) if continuing the Star Trek line at all.
A little light bled a loose decal, sure. But man those bulges are nasty looking. If mine had come like that I would have returned it straight away.
It is more expensive than all but the most complex Märklin HO scale steam locomotives, which for me are the reference for mass produced models . Those do not have any misaligned prints, or light bleed.
This one is Euro 400.
Sure it is smaller and less of a licensing fee, however it is also mechanically much more complex.
The only thing that really bothers me about mine is the following.
The rest is stunning. Tried to get some pictures that showcase the iridescent paint.
Wow - that thing is beautiful. The forward lean is a little distracting, but other than that, damn near perfect.
Considering they had to drop the funding goal for the D7 by 50%, I'm thinking they may be done with Star Trek, although, I think there probably would be healthy interest in the 1701-D. Particularly since there is no way it would ever be 1:350, so they could go to maybe a two-foot scale at a slightly cheaper price point.
I didn't see those pictures, but that is a valid complaint.
That’s without the saucer supports, someone up thread posted a wedge to level it out. That it leans so much without the saucer supports causes me to question the overall stability without them.