Movie, who cares? What about the Toys?

[Proximity_Phaser]

OK, Trek XI may blow or it may be everything to everybody in spades, but what about the merchandising?

I'm hoping that the tracer guns make a comeback (ain't going to happen).

I predict we'll get:

A lazer tag phaser game.

Some lame Trek themed Monopoly, Risk, etc. games.

A bad PC/console game.

Action figures!

Models of the new ship design.


What else should there be, or do you think there will be? What kind of new tech toys that weren't possible back in the heyday of TOS?

 

[Dale]

A freaking communicator cell phone! I'm tired of promises and rumors and start-ups that go nowhere. Keep the design of the communicator the same as in TOS and release a cell phone that exactly duplicates that design.

 

[The Wormhole]

I imagine Diamond Select will do some action figures when the movie is released. They do currently hold the Trek action figure license, anyway.

 

[Proximity_Phaser]

I asked my eight year old, and he's hoping for Legos, like the Star Wars ones.

 

[Mordock]

Proximity_Phaser said:
I'm hoping that the tracer guns make a comeback (ain't going to happen).

So you're saying I probably shouldn't hold out for the Star Trek Lawn Darts I've always wanted?

 

[Dale]

Mr. Spock's Vulcan Chemistry Set.

Scotty's "More Power" Miniature Nuclear Reactor Kit.

Anatomically Correct Sulu Doll.

"Phasers on Stun" Personal Tazer Device.

"Photon Torpedoes... Awayyyyy" Lawn Darts (homage to Mordock).

 

[Proximity_Phaser]

"Tholian Web" bondage kit....

 

[ancient]

I'm hoping to get the action-figure of Kirk's new side-kick: Garth Garth Binks.

 

[SeamusShameless]

Someone needs to brew an extremely potent beer, something on the level of Samuel Adams Utopias, dye it blue, and market it as Romulan Ale.

 

[Dale]

It's a Guatemalan lager with a buttload (literally...it makes it all the way through the digestive tract) of blue dye in it...

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Wonderful stuff, that blue tinted poo.

 

[Dale]

Yes, the color of my feces is always the best indicator of how much fun I had on any given visit to Star Trek: The Experience!

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Me too--but only because I spend too much time in the Klingon Sodomy room.

(Look, I've already gone on record as to being disgusting.)

 

[Cary L. Brown]

dalehoppert said:

It's a Guatemalan lager with a buttload (literally...it makes it all the way through the digestive tract) of blue dye in it...

Is that actually for real? Where did you find that???

 

[MattJC]

It's on the menu at Quark's Bar and Restaurant at Star Trek the Experience in Vegas.

 

[Dale]

They've got it on tap at Quark's at Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas (actually not the same beer as the bottled variety), which is where you can also buy the bottled variety in singles, six-packs and 24 bottle cases.

I buy some to take home every time I go (nothing like bringing a six to a party when they already know you're a Trekkie) and drink a lot on tap while I'm there, and I keep a bottle in my "permanent collection" of Trek memorabilia.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

And you can buy it by the six-pack there if you like.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

dalehoppert said:
Yes, the color of my feces is always the best indicator of how much fun I had on any given visit to Star Trek: The Experience!

Apparently the motto, "What happens in Vegas..." means nothing to you. Too much sharing!

For the record, this Romulan Ale recipe sounds much more yummy than "Guatamalan beer," which sounds kinda dire even without the charming instestinal effects...and I've always interpreted that "ale" thing as a loose translation, I can't envision Romulans going for anything but hard likker...

375 ml Bacardi® 151 rum
375 ml Everclear® alcohol
375 ml Blue Curacao liqueur





Highly potent, highly dangerous, highly seductive. Just like real Romulans.

Oh, and here's a nice compendium of some popular Trek beverages, including a heroic-sounding recipe for Cardassian kanar involving a blowtorch, that sounds like our Cardies. There's the easy version (Sam Adams Beer?!?) but the difficult one sounds more fun.

 

[Dale]

Everclear... damn, the lady can drink!

It's not a bad beer, actually, but you're absolutely right that, despite the name, Romulan Ale was always portrayed on Star Trek in all its incarnations as a liquor more akin to whiskey than true ale.

What were we talking about? Oh yeah... toys. Sorry kids!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I usually toss in a bit of Jaegermeister to spice things up. Vortas are immune to most poisons, even Klingons fear us in a drinking contest!

What were we talking about? Oh yeah... toys. Sorry kids!

Likker is toys! Right?