News Corgi Announce New Star Trek Die-Cast Models

[publiusr]

I guess our money is no good here….
Corgi was going to do a Vostok put the Russians put up a stink…well,,, I wouldn’t worry about that anymore.

Hey Corgi! Do and Energia Buran with snap on snap-off payloads and strap-on boosters!

 

[Tomalak]

They’ve announced the third ship in the range will be the Refit Enterprise, with brand new tooling. No images or further details yet. They are also hoping to do more ships in the future. At 10:50 in this video.

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[publiusr]

The Q glider is lovely!

 

[t_smitts]

Apparently, the license is worldwide except the US & Canada.

https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/04/corgi-uk-announces-new-star-trek-model-starship-model-plans/

Then who has the rights in the US and Canada?

 

[drt]

Then who has the rights in the US and Canada?

It’s possible that those rights cost more than Corgi felt made sense. I’m also not sure if Corgi actually sells anything in the US officially, so it might be simply their standard business practice.

It isn’t like Walmart or Target would carry them anyway, so I can see why they might not bother. They’ll make it to the US with little hobby shops selling them grey market.

 

[t_smitts]

Speaking as someone who has a few Furuta models and the second and third Micro Machine box sets, I know there are ways for a Canadian to acquire them, but I'm just curious, who, if anyone, has the rights in Canada and the US right now.

 

[drt]

Speaking as someone who has a few Furuta models and the second and third Micro Machine box sets, I know there are ways for a Canadian to acquire them, but I'm just curious, who, if anyone, has the rights in Canada and the US right now.

Considering how many products seemingly are the same or significantly overlap with other products, it doesn’t seem that CBS Consumer does exclusive licenses (or they’re so expensive no one takes one).

In the last ten years we had Hot Wheels, Eaglemoss and QMX all basically making similarly sized prebuilt diecast/plastic ship models. Any of them may still hold a license, but two are now defunct and I think Hot Wheels is content to just rerelease their tiny Kelvinverse ships now and then. In addition to selling off Eaglemoss’ stock, Master Replicas acquired QMx and have insinuated they may do more Trek ships. I think at this point they’re probably your best bet, but we probably won’t know if they’re doing anything for months.

 

[Tomalak]

I think Fanhome is the best chance for Eaglemoss-style ships in the future.

https://www.fanhome.com/uk/movie-series/star-trek-starships/

 

[James Swallow]

I think Hot Wheels is content to just rerelease their tiny Kelvinverse ships now and then.

Just FYI, the small-scale HW Enterprise has just come out again with a slightly updated deco - black detail on the saucer section and a red nacelle stripe. This is the 8th re-release of that casting.

 

[Commander Troi]

Apparently, the license is worldwide except the US & Canada.

https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/04/corgi-uk-announces-new-star-trek-model-starship-model-plans/

Rats!

 

[C.E. Evans]

i don't think US & Canada customers will be deprived of die-cast Trek ships. It may not be from Corgi--unless you really hate having money--but I think Fanhome will step into that void. If anything, die-cast Trek ships are probably among the best selling Trek merchandise these days...

 

[drt]

My only concern is that historically Fanhome tends to be subscription only, and I don’t want to collect any of the ones Eaglemoss already did (even though Fanhome might be of better quality).

 

[Markonian]

My only concern is that historically Fanhome tends to be subscription only, and I don’t want to collect any of the ones Eaglemoss already did (even though Fanhome might be of better quality).

Good thing that Fanhome announced both sub and non-sub options.
I wonder if and when Corgi gets anything else out of the door besides 1701 and Enterprise-D.

 

[publiusr]

Any pics of the Corgi TMP Refit yet?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Kelvin Enterprise-A please.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Oh shitballs a Vostok would have been a fun model

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Kelvin Enterprise-A please.

Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!

 

[Tomalak]

Any pics of the Corgi TMP Refit yet?

Not yet, but I'm keeping my eye out for it. Could be a really nice model, but Corgi sometimes have eccentric paint apps on Star Trek models so we'll see.

 

[Markonian]

Not yet, but I'm keeping my eye out for it. Could be a really nice model, but Corgi sometimes have eccentric paint apps on Star Trek models so we'll see.

Hopefully it's not a "we lovingly recreated the ship and put our own spin on it."

 

[Shaka Zulu]

I wouldn’t get my hopes up. The classics are usually bestsellers and they’ll get them out of the door first.

But I’m cautiously optimistic about their delivering of newer hero ships instead of promising vaporware.

Even if they do eventually get sold here in North America, I also wouldn't get any hopes up about them being cheap: much like the Transit Collection Corgi made years ago (replicas of famous public transit vehicles from North America, primarily the GM 'New Look' bus and the PCC streetcar, with several of them done in different liveries of different transit agencies), they'll probably be quite expensive.