60th Anniversary 1701 Cutaway

[Tomalak]

If anyone has 11 feet of empty wall and 600 bucks, this is your moment.

Star Trek - The Original Series Enterprise Oversized Cutaway Print By Matthew Cushman

Celebrate one of the most iconic starships in science fiction with this stunning *24" x 36" Star Trek: The Original Series Enterprise Cutaway Poster by renowned technical illustrator Matthew Cushman.

factoryent.com

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

I just received an email from Factory saying that there may be an alternative product to this in the future

 

[Firebird]

If anyone has 11 feet of empty wall and 600 bucks, this is your moment.

Star Trek - The Original Series Enterprise Oversized Cutaway Print By Matthew Cushman

Celebrate one of the most iconic starships in science fiction with this stunning *24" x 36" Star Trek: The Original Series Enterprise Cutaway Poster by renowned technical illustrator Matthew Cushman.

factoryent.com

Six-hundred dollars?! I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous pricing.

 

[Donald G]

Six-hundred dollars?! I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous pricing.

"Gotta pay the 'Trekkie Tax,'" as we used to wryly say when buying Star Trek releases on each newly introduced must-have state-of-the-art "upgraded" physical media format.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

"Gotta pay the 'Trekkie Tax,'" as we used to wryly say when buying Star Trek releases on each newly introduced must-have state-of-the-art "upgraded" physical media format.

Yeah but thinking about it 600 dollars feels a little bit like robbery because they know Trekkies will pay.

Are fans really that way, that they'll pay any price for merchandise?

 

[publiusr]

No.

And, wouldn’t you know it, after a brutal 9 days of 12 hr shifts…with me thinking I might have a few extra dollars…my brake pedal goes to the floor.

I can’t win.

 

[Donald G]

Yeah but thinking about it 600 dollars feels a little bit like robbery because they know Trekkies will pay.

Are fans really that way, that they'll pay any price for merchandise?

I don't . . . because I am old and was raised by grandparents on fixed incomes who survived the Great Depression. I held off on buying my Star Trek media until prices came down to what I felt I could justify (or I could find decent used second-hand copies) many years after release on formats that have lost their coolness factor. I only this Spring got around to buying TNG and TAS on Blu. I don't own any Voyager and only two seasons of DS9 on DVD.

Heck, I just "upgraded" my Trek films from DVD to Blu-ray (not 4K) last year. I don't have a 4k TV and I don't have room for huge screens to show off the "benefits" of the increased resolution. So, some of us - I daresay a good number of us - can resist the siren call of dropping $600 on a huge poster.

Some very cool Star Trek merchandise is just not intended for fans of a lower socioeconomic status. It's for the well-off superfans with money to burn. We can look at them. We can ooh and ah over them. We can watch videos from the former Mythbusters guy praising them - and Cushman's artistry does deserve praise - but they're not really meant for us.

 

[UssGlenn]

Six-hundred dollars?! I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous pricing.

do the math. If the poster was 36" long and was the same price per square inch it would cost $43. That sounds very reasonable.

the real problem is framing it. Part of my job includes framing stuff professionally and I can't get plexiglass longer than 8 feet. you can get 12 foot stuff, but its like $500 a sheet.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

do the math. If the poster was 36" long and was the same price per square inch it would cost $43. That sounds very reasonable.

the real problem is framing it. Part of my job includes framing stuff professionally and I can't get plexiglass longer than 8 feet. you can get 12 foot stuff, but its like $500 a sheet.

I wonder how much Scotty's whale tank would have cost lol

 

[Tomalak]

do the math. If the poster was 36" long and was the same price per square inch it would cost $43. That sounds very reasonable.

Yeah I actually don't think it's unreasonable for an absolutely enormous piece of art with a very small print run.

Clearly hardly anyone is actually going to have the space to display this so it's very niche.

 

[Dar70]

Already sold out.

Not surprising. The initial release were limited to 500 and numbered. (At least I think they were numbered) So people were probably buying with the Intent to resell. I almost bought it but it's just 24"x36". I'm hoping they make one a little bigger so the detail shows up better.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Yeah I actually don't think it's unreasonable for an absolutely enormous piece of art with a very small print run.

Clearly hardly anyone is actually going to have the space to display this so it's very niche.

The lobby of Blue Origin headquarters has some space stuff on display, including the original 8-foot filming model of the Enterprise refit. Its founder Jeff Bezos could afford the $600 poster, plus the much higher cost of getting it framed behind glass, and I'll bet he could find 11 feet of wall space for it.

Elon Musk probably likes sci-fi artifacts. And the Museum of Pop Culture, originally founded as a sci-fi museum by late tech billionaire Paul Allen, might buy the poster despite its size and cost.

 

[Ssosmcin]

There at 1707 things out there I will look at and say "damn that's cool" which I never had the urge to own. This is one of them. But I'd be happy with a digital copy for fun fan reference.

 

[drt]

There at 1707 things out there I will look at and say "damn that's cool" which I never had the urge to own. This is one of them. But I'd be happy with a digital copy for fun fan reference.

yeah, I'd pay $10 for a digital copy, but that's my limit because I find this particular cut-away more of a curiosity that the definitive version of the 1701.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Not surprising. The initial release were limited to 500 and numbered. (At least I think they were numbered) So people were probably buying with the Intent to resell. I almost bought it but it's just 24"x36". I'm hoping they make one a little bigger so the detail shows up better.

Well the small one is 600 smacker roos. A larger one will most likely be a grand. Thats way too much for a poster.

 

[Dar70]

Well the small one is 600 smacker roos. A larger one will most likely be a grand. Thats way too much for a poster.

No the 11' IS the larger one. I was talking about something bigger than the 2 foot x 3 foot release. I can't hang an 11' poster up.

 

[TRON JA307020]

No the 11' IS the larger one. I was talking about something bigger than the 2 foot x 3 foot release. I can't hang an 11' poster up.

Oh. I messed up. The 11' is 600. Still way too expensive. I would assume a smaller one would be a couple hunnys at least.

 

[fireproof78]

Yeah but thinking about it 600 dollars feels a little bit like robbery because they know Trekkies will pay.

Are fans really that way, that they'll pay any price for merchandise?

Enough are.

Same with Star Wars. The FOMO effect is real.

 

[publiusr]

the Museum of Pop Culture, originally founded as a sci-fi museum by late tech billionaire Paul Allen, might buy the poster despite its size and cost.

Along with the Woz, I liked Paul Allen. I despise his sister, however—over her trying to kill Stratolaunch.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Enough are.

Same with Star Wars. The FOMO effect is real.

I've never had FOMO, just don't get how people can get like that