Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription

On a side note, not Trek,
My wife is getting me the XL Orville for my birthday next month

My first XL replica, gonna spend my 63rd birthday running around the house going "pew pew pew!"

 

My 3D printed DSC Connie concept arrived
https://imgur.com/a/16ydmDv

 

Remember to hug the donkey too!

 

So, I wonder what those of us who have subscriptions for DSC and all the XL's and Specials should do? Cancel the subs and start the new umbrella sub, running the risk of losing the opportunity to get things that have been skipped (of which there are Legion)? Start the new one, don't cancel the old one and risk getting expensive duplicates? This has me a bit concerned.

 

Nooooo!

Yeeees!

So, why didn't they do that for the Zheng He?

 

Also the Lower Decks ships do have visible phaser strips already.

 

Finally got notice that Hou-Yi and Avenger have shipped.

 

With Lower Decks an iffy, I am guessing that Prodigy is a no-go. I am curious to see the new hero ship for that series.

 

So they want to keep it accurate in one way but then deliberately change it by adding details that aren't there originally?

 

That comment about the RCS thrusters ist very strange. That's such a minor detail that it got lost on so many Eaglemoss models - at least in the regular size. That's because many models are not very detailed at the saucer rim. Even in some XL models the RCS thrusters are missing or are unpainted (Defiant, Akira).

And on the other hand: Why should the RCS thrusters be a clearly visible feature on every ship? The Cerritos seems to be designed with unremarkable thrusters so why change that on the model? I am sure on most ships in Star Trek you couldn't point on a spot and claim without a doubt that it is a thruster.

 

Thank you for the clarification. I do have a currently active subscription account for the Discovery series of ships (plus all specials) and I’m missing the Workbee and the USS Zimmerman of that line. I’m curious if their systems would be smart enough to preserve the legacy purchasing information in the new account.

 

Especially since when we see them In Star Trek '09, Into Darkness, Star Trek Beyond and "The Vulcan Hello", they randomly shoot from spots on the hull.

 

Ah HA! Just answered my own question. I finally took the leap to sign up for the "Star Trek Universe" subscription and there is, in fact, a check box that says "I am currently collecting Star Trek Discovery"! I will assume this means that they will keep the other sub preserved so it doesn't get cross-threaded with this new one. Oddly, there's also an "I have collected Star Trek Discovery in the past" option, which is strange to me, as that sub is still ongoing, as far as I know. Oh, well, at least there seems to be the appearance that they've taken subscribers like me into account. We shall see...

 

Are hopes fading for more ships from DS9 and TNG? I'm still hopeful for the Bajoran ship, the first iteration of the Jem'Hadar cruiser, the Ferengi shuttle, the Wadi ship, the Boslic ship, the John Knoll designed freighter from the credits and the Bonaventure and the warbird from the Chronology.

And the Emmett Till and the Defiant prototype!

 

Since the main subscription series has ended with 180, the prospects do not look good for ship types that would have fit nicely in that line, sadly. I suppose there's a slim chance they may do some one-off specials/shop exclusives, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

That said, I do concur with Markonian, here, in that I would like to see ALL ships being done at some point. They're clearly focusing on the many new series that CBSAA/P+ are pumping out now, which is doubtless keeping them all quite busy.

The good thing about all that is that every single ship now is a ready-made CGI asset that CBS can just email to Eaglemoss for immediate prototyping and printing. No real extensive research necessary for any of these in the future, trying to track down blurry photos of long-destroyed 30+ year-old physical miniatures!