MEGO TMP Bridge Playset

[QuasarVM]

You maybe right, Christopher...or it may be a combination of factors...

You are not necessarily in ERR-ROR.

 

[Maurice]

I think Mego must have been working from pictures of the P2 bridge that were in some magazines during its production...

Well, the Mego TMP Enterprise model was capable of "saucer separ", in line with one of the aborted storylines for what would have been the new ST project (film/TV/film, etc).

Which one are you referring to? I seem to recall some idea kicked around where the saucer separated and landed on some planet...but can't recall where I read it.

 

[QuasarVM]

I think Mego must have been working from pictures of the P2 bridge that were in some magazines during its production...

Well, the Mego TMP Enterprise model was capable of "saucer separ", in line with one of the aborted storylines for what would have been the new ST project (film/TV/film, etc).

Which one are you referring to? I seem to recall some idea kicked around where the saucer separated and landed on some planet...but can't recall where I read it.

Planet of the Titans had that. There's even pre-production art of it at Otten's site...of course that was the Ken Adams/Ralph McQuarrie version of the ship.

http://www.ottens.co.uk/forgottentrek/images/phase 2/Enterprise saucer 2 by Ralph McQuarrie.jpg

 

[Christopher]

There was going to be a saucer separation in the original planned climax for TMP itself, with the Klingon ships reappearing once V'Ger ascended and attacking the Enterprise. There are some gorgeous Andrew Probert storyboards of the sequence in The Art of Star Trek, showing the details of the saucer separation system built into the TMP Enterprise (yes, the final version). So the toy didn't have to be based on anything earlier than the film itself. That Enterprise was designed with separation in mind.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

There was going to be a saucer separation in the original planned climax for TMP itself, with the Klingon ships reappearing once V'Ger ascended and attacking the Enterprise. There are some gorgeous Andrew Probert storyboards of the sequence in The Art of Star Trek, showing the details of the saucer separation system built into the TMP Enterprise (yes, the final version). So the toy didn't have to be based on anything earlier than the film itself. That Enterprise was designed with separation in mind.

IIRC, that wasn't the original planned climax for TMP, but rather Probert's proposal to the producers for a possible more-action-oriented climax when they were having trouble nailing the ending.

 

[Maurice]

There was going to be a saucer separation in the original planned climax for TMP itself, with the Klingon ships reappearing once V'Ger ascended and attacking the Enterprise. There are some gorgeous Andrew Probert storyboards of the sequence in The Art of Star Trek, showing the details of the saucer separation system built into the TMP Enterprise (yes, the final version). So the toy didn't have to be based on anything earlier than the film itself. That Enterprise was designed with separation in mind.

IIRC, that wasn't the original planned climax for TMP, but rather Probert's proposal to the producers for a possible more-action-oriented climax when they were having trouble nailing the ending.

Yes, it's a common enough myth that i was once officially part of the ending. It never was. It was just a proposal...as was the other ending Andy wrote up where the ship goes back into drydock and...no, wait, if I say it next thing you know it'll be another urban legend.

 

[Therin of Andor]

it's a common enough myth that i was once officially part of the ending.

Hehehehehehe. Cool typo!

 

[Christopher]

Okay, sorry about the mixup. Still, the point remains that the TMP Enterprise was designed by Probert et al. with saucer separation as an integral feature (they even included a separation line on the miniature, and it's called out in the Kimble blueprints), so there's no reason to assume that the toy's separation ability was inspired by any earlier incarnation of the film.

 

[QuasarVM]

Okay, sorry about the mixup. Still, the point remains that the TMP Enterprise was designed by Probert et al. with saucer separation as an integral feature (they even included a separation line on the miniature, and it's called out in the Kimble blueprints), so there's no reason to assume that the toy's separation ability was inspired by any earlier incarnation of the film.

The one-upsmanship is killing me...and not very productive.

I never said the toy was based on Planet of the Titans. I was pointing out that the concept went back as far as the concepts for POTT. Anyone who ever had the cutaway poster of the refurbished Constitution class ship from TMP knows that the saucer separation was always part of the design...

The four squares on the bottom of the saucer section are the landing feet -- or the doors for them.

 

[Christopher]

Okay, sorry for the misunderstanding. I have no idea how you're reading "one-upmanship" into my comments. I'm responding to the ideas, not the people. I'm only interested in accuracy.

 

[QuasarVM]

Okay, sorry for the misunderstanding. I have no idea how you're reading "one-upmanship" into my comments. I'm responding to the ideas, not the people. I'm only interested in accuracy.

Your posts are "one-up" above mine...

NP, Chris...lol!