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New Star Trek Collectibles Magazine features David Mack interview

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startrekfiero

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Now available at your favorite book and comic stores is the "Unofficial Guide to Star Trek Collectibles" magazine. This publication is packed with many Star Trek memorabilia related goodness including:



  • An exclusive interview with Destiny Trilogy author David Mack which includes book reviews of all three Destiny books!​
  • An article about EMCE toys written by Paul "Dr.Mego" Clarke​
  • A history of Mego and the Star Trek License by Brian "Palitoy" Heiler of the Mego Museum
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  • An article about the rare Mission to Gamma IV play set​
  • An analysis of Mego's many reuses of the Star Trek Transporter​
  • A look at the Mega rare Mego Intergalactic Planetarium by John Michals
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  • Article featuring the latest information and incredible screen shots on the new Star Trek Online game due out in 2009​
  • Game review of Star Trek Legacy for the X-Box 360
  • News and images of the very latest Star Trek toys and collectibles including Trek postage Stamps and Trek PEZ!​
  • Feature article on Diamond Select Toys!​
  • Feature article on Sideshow Collectibles!​
  • Hallmark interview including news on the latest Trek ornaments!
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  • Feature article on Master Replicas with the latest on their Mark IX Science Tricorder and the Starfleet Assault Phaser!​
  • Interview with Playmates Toys including the very latest news on the new movie collectibles!
And a whole lot more, so if you're in the mood to read something "startrekish" then beam down to your
local book or comic retailer on Nov 17th!
http://www.megomuseum.com/dump/trekmagcover.jpg

http://www.fwmagazines.com/product/1492/47
 
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How many posts do we need about this? After reading through your last attempt at spamming the board and the suggestive remarks made I for one have no intention of buying your magazine or even looking at it. Heck I wish I hadn't wasted $16.49 of my precious money to buy your book! I may submit a request to send it back.

Kevin
 
Kevin, LS and myself decided that a new thread on the topic can be opened since we closed the last one while waiting to hear back from the admins on the legal issues. Please, let's keep this thread on topic.
 
Kevin, I am very sorry to hear that you feel you wasted your money on my book. A lot of time and hard work went into creating it so I am very concerned to hear that someone feels it was not worth purchasing.
Out of the many people I have received feedback from you are I believe the first to state this kind of very negative feedback. Now I realize that you can't please everyone but I would still like to know if you have a specific reason in why you feel the book was such a waste of your money?
 
startrekfiero said:
Kevin, I am very sorry to hear that you feel you wasted your money on my book. A lot of time and hard work went into creating it so I am very concerned to hear that someone feels it was not worth purchasing.
Out of the many people I have received feedback from you are I believe the first to state this kind of very negative feedback. Now I realize that you can't please everyone but I would still like to know if you have a specific reason in why you feel the book was such a waste of your money?
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My issue is not with your book itself but with your lack of "professionalism". I think the suggestive remarks made in the last thread on this topic were very rude and unprofessional. Even if there was any such basis for the remarks they were still better left unsaid. You know that Paul Simpson frequents here, and would read what you wrote, and implied, and yet you wrote it anyway. I don't have time for so-called fans or authors who would treat others with such disrespect. I would feel the same way about any of the other authors who frequent the board if they were to behave in such a manner. However, I have been a member here and a visitor for several years and have never read anything of the sort by other authors who frequent here.

I don't mean to get off topic here but he did ask the question "why".

Kevin
 
I am a very professional person and anyone who knows me or has worked with me can back that up.
First of all, my comments were not aimed at Paul or anyone specific so your assumptions are incorrect, and second, all I said was it was an interesting coincidence. I mentioned this merely as a "Hey two Trek mags had similar content, pretty cool, great minds think alike" type of thing. That was it. Then others posted wondering how it could be anything but coincidence as they didn't know the process and I was answering those questions. Then my mistake was answering questions on how anyone at CBS would have even been able to see the content ahead of time in a what if scenario and since it was asked that way part of my answer reflected the way that question was asked. I should have just ignored those what if type posts and for that again I apologize. Then the whole thing went into some bizaar conspiracy theory thing which I then quickly tried to put a stop to. That's it, end of story.
So, now that we know what everyone actually meant lets all move on now and discuss this new magazine for those who wish to. Thanks :)
 
startrekfiero said:
First of all, my comments were not aimed at Paul or anyone specific so your assumptions are incorrect, and second, all I said was it was an interesting coincidence. I mentioned this merely as a "Hey two Trek mags had similar content, pretty cool, great minds think alike" type of thing. That was it.
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Sorry (and apologies to the mods, but I can't let this pass), but that's not at all how it went down.

You said "those in the know" knew that there was "too much similarity" for there to be coincidence. You said that in a post in the other thread on 12/19 at 9:59am (my time). The reactions you received were in response to that statement, after which you started back-pedaling. Indeed, just now when I went looking for that original post, I noted that you edited it at 12/19 at 4:30pm, and the "those in the know" bit is now gone. I know *I* didn't imagine reading it, because my response to you in that thread, which I backed out after your attempt to "explain things," quoted it and essentially took you to task for the implications carried by your original statement.

I'm betting I wasn't the only one who read that and had similar reactions.

(Note: the original text is quoted in later replies by Paul Simpson and Steve Roby.)

So, kindly do us the service of not treating us like we're idiots. You opened the can with your ill-considered comments, and were called on it. You're still getting called on it, and you're going to continue to get called on it until you own up to your role in this admittedly stupid and quite avoidable "affair."



(Note: I'm not speaking for anyone associated with Star Trek Magazine. This is just me, irritated BBS participant.)
 
startrekfiero said:
Now available at your favorite book and comic stores is the "Unofficial Guide to Star Trek Collectibles" magazine.
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Unofficial? I could be completely wrong in this, but, you know to me this implies that you had no consultation what so ever with Paramount/CBS in the creation of this magazine and your assertions in the previous thread that it had been looked over at CBS are damnable at best as if they had looked over it, then it would be the Official Guide to Star Trek Collectibles, just a thought there!

Dayton Ward said:
You said "those in the know" knew that there was "too much similarity" for there to be coincidence. You said that in a post in the other thread on 12/19 at 9:59am (my time). The reactions you received were in response to that statement, after which you started back-pedaling. Indeed, just now when I went looking for that original post, I noted that you edited it at 12/19 at 4:30pm, and the "those in the know" bit is now gone. I know *I* didn't imagine reading it, because my response to you in that thread, which I backed out after your attempt to "explain things," quoted it and essentially took you to task for the implications carried by your original statement.

I'm betting I wasn't the only one who read that and had similar reactions.
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I can assure you that I indeed did see that very comment as well, I didn't notice the change though.

As you also wrote Star Trek: The Collectibles StarTrekFiero, I thought you might be interested in reading this review thats contained in Issue 16 of Deathray Magazine:

So-so book on the merchandise of Star Trek. It looks packed enough to be exhaustive, but we lack the expertise to say for sure. It's clunkily written, and unattractively presented. A measure of the quality is that the forward is by Chris Doohan, Scotty's real life son. Though he did appear as an extra in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, that is pretty unexciting. Still, the book does at least contain a price guide, the one thing these books are useful for beyond serving as a "wants" list for collectors.
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The purpose of the new thread was to avoid the discussion that was in the old one, regardless of what was said or meant there.

Absolutely no legal matters are to be brought up here about this. Not about the alleged accusation and not about the magazines officiality or lack thereof. If any of the involved parties have any sort of legal matters to tend to or discussions to prevent perceived legal matters or misperceptions then that is to be done off of the Trek BBS.

Let's keep this one about the content and reviews of the magazine itself.
 
So, regarding the magazine itself: I haven't seen it at either of the comics shops I frequent, so I ordered two copies online (maybe it will be collectible some day -- I wish I still had my complete run of All About Star Trek Fan Clubs from the '70's. Those were RAD!)

Anyway, I spent about an hour going through one copy, and came to a couple of conclusions.

1) I'm glad I focused my Trek collecting on books & comics. I can READ those and get hours of pleasure out of them. Trading cards and action figures (both of which I used to collect) just aren't as much fun...

2) The internet is a far better way of presenting time-sensitive information to collectors than a magazine. By the time I read about the "Khan" Mego, it was already sold out everywhere. I understand deadlines and release schedules and all that -- magazines just can't compete with all the free information on the internet. If the magazine is going to survive, it has to have an accompanying website with THE latest information on a whole range of collectibles. Otherwise, I feel like I've subscribed to last year's magazine.

3) Wow, you produced a LOT of words in that one issue! I thought the days of an editor (essentially) writing an entire issue of a magazine ended with the demise of the pulps in the '50's. I'm impressed!
 
It's true that just about any publication will have time sensitive issues based on some of it's content. It's the excepted nature of the beast. For example, the Kahn being sold out by the time magazine was in stores is just one of those things that will happen. I know that most places that were offering pre-orders of the Khan had the figure pretty much sold out before it even arrived in house.
I think you will find that there are a lot of people out there who will disagree with the feeling that the internet can provide faster and more up to date info, because if that was actually true then we would not be seeing the massive amount of different and diverse magazines that are always available that we do.
I am also a Ford Mustang enthusiast and there are at least 10 different magazines specifically on Ford Mustangs. There are so many magazines on subjects that have at least 2 or 3 different magazines or more published on any given subject and this can be said for just about anything you may be interested in. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, tattoos, cooking, houses, landscaping, celebrities, ponds, hunting, fashion, decorating, guns, plants, pets, games, traveling, toys, etc, etc. Of course just about anything you might want to know about on any of these subjects can be found on the internet....somewhere.
But that's just it. Info on just about anything can be found somewhere, but much of the info on the internet is scattered about on many different sites and there are those people who just don't have the time or knowledge to do intense searches to try and find it all, assuming that they even know how or what to look for or even want to try.
Even the content found in my new Trek collectibles book can possibly be found scattered through out the internet on a bunch of different sites, but honestly who wants to spend the time and effort to even begin try and find it all when you can just as easily pick up a book or magazine and find most of it right at your fingertips ;)
Magazines are simply a good way to sit down, relax and enjoy the subject matter your interested in, be it Star Trek Collectibles or whatever your interests may be. And of course then you get to start to look forward to the next issue :)

Steve
 
Interesting viewpoint, for me though, I stick to websites for my news. I buy a lot of magazines, but I buy them for entertaining and interesting features, and a better quality of writing than one finds online.
 
Deano2099, this is not a news magazine.
The magazine is not meant to be an update on the very latest Trek collectible news and is not meant to try and replace any of the sites who give us the latest updates like say Trekmovie.com does for example.
It is first and foremost a magazine about the general collecting side of Star Trek, including detailed articles on not only many of the various very cool Trek items that have been produced over the years, but also about the actual companies who manufacture them and of course about the fans who collect them.
There is one page (out of 80 plus pages) that mentions some of the latest Trek items that were new as the magazine was going to print.
As I said above, we all know it can be difficult to try and be up to date when it comes to most magazines with deadlines and printing schedules and such, but in the case of at least this magazine our goal was not to even try and supply fans with the latest news. Our goal was simply to supply to fans of all ages detailed and informative articles on all levels of Trek collectibles both old and new, as well as articles on who makes them and who buys them.

For only $5.99 it is a pretty good bargain considering the great amount of content you will find within it's pages ;)
 
so I saw your video of you on the news on you tube and I thought maybe you would know something about a star trek hard blueprint I was looking into buying.Im not an official star trek collector,(i got starwars stuff,coins,hockey cards,comics)but I like to collect this and that if its something rare.The seller claims only 6 in the world.Anyway do you know exactly what this item is?I guess if you don't know then im done.lol.Thanks
http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh103/ocd4gymbo/Star%20Trek%20item/

notice the chip on the right side in one of the pics showing underneath all the blue is copper or gold colour.I thought at first it was gold stamp over blue but its the other way around.
 
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