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My inner 6 year-old is happy...

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msbae

Commodore
...because I got him one of his favorite toys, a die-cast metal replica of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation with detachable saucer. Why a detachable saucer? Because that was one of the many things this new Enterprise did that Kirk's ships couldn't do. Also, this toy was made during the 1st season. In that season, the ship separated twice.

Also, I had 2 of these in 1987-88. I broke them both by throwing them through the air to watch the Enterprise fly. They took quite a lot of abuse considering how rough I was with my toys back in the day.

Anyway, I took pictures...

The front of the package...

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/msbae001/TREK/Toy/04.jpg

Notice the price tag from JC Penney saying only $6.99? Things sure were cheaper in 1988...

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/msbae001/TREK/Toy/05.jpg

The back of the packaging...

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/msbae001/TREK/Toy/03.jpg

OMG, He removed it from the packaging! NRFB! NRFB! NRFB!:p

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/msbae001/TREK/Toy/06.jpg

Holding it in my left hand...

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/msbae001/TREK/Toy/07.jpg

With the saucer detached...

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/msbae001/TREK/Toy/08.jpg

With the saucer reattached...

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/msbae001/TREK/Toy/09.jpg

Admins: If this is the wrong section for this kind of thread, please move to the appropriate one. Otherwise...

BOW BEFORE MY AWESOMENESS!!!
 
I think I sold or gave away my Galoob 1701-D. It was cool, although being made of die-cast metal, just separating and reconnecting the saucer starts yucking up the paint job.
 
FalTorPan said:
I think I sold or gave away my Galoob 1701-D. It was cool, although being made of die-cast metal, just separating and reconnecting the saucer starts yucking up the paint job.
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Well, it won't be played with as vigorously as the 2 I had 20 years ago. It's likely to sit on my desk, serving as an inspiration for whatever I'm doing at the time.
 
msbae said:
...because I got him one of his favorite toys, a die-cast metal replica of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation with detachable saucer. Why a detachable saucer? Because that was one of the many things this new Enterprise did that Kirk's ships couldn't do. Also, this toy was made during the 1st season. In that season, the ship separated twice.

Also, I had 2 of these in 1987-88. I broke them both by throwing them through the air to watch the Enterprise fly. They took quite a lot of abuse considering how rough I was with my toys back in the day.
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I think I still have mine in my storage locker downstairs (in my apartment building). It was kinda neat. Not the sort of thing you want to throw around, though. I guess it's still intact by virtue of the fact that I was 19 when I got it, not 6.

Your story reminds me of the die-cast red Matchbox jet plane I had as a kid. Once I threw it out my 3rd-story bedroom window into the backyard to see if it would glide, and it just plummeted. It broke into its two separate pieces, the top and the bottom, and somehow the top half just disappeared or flew into a neighbor's yard or something, since I was only able to locate the bottom. So I taped a piece of cardboard over the opening and repurposed the toy as a starship. I made spacecraft out of a lot of things that weren't meant to be spacecraft.
 
Oh I love this little ship! Don't worry, it would make my inner 6-year-old happy as well! :lol: Saucer sep pic = teh awesome!

Btw, if it's any comfort, I also removed my Trek toys from their packaging. I don't care if that's blasphemy. ;)
 
The neat thing about the packaging for this toy is that the plastic piece that cradles the underside makes a halfway-decent display stand for the toy.
 
captcalhoun said:
NRFB?
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"Never removed from box." The preference of those who see collectibles as investments rather than playthings. I believe msbae is alluding to a Dexter's Laboratory cartoon set at a sci-fi convention, in which a clique of collectors grew outraged when a main character removed a toy from a box, chanting "NRFB! NRFB!" at him like a holy mantra.
 
Great thread, and boy what a HEAVY toy! I was older than 6 when it came out, and imagined all those little kids developing carpal tunnel and/or dropping it on their toes playing with that thing.
 
Christopher said:
captcalhoun said:
NRFB?
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"Never removed from box." The preference of those who see collectibles as investments rather than playthings. I believe msbae is alluding to a Dexter's Laboratory cartoon set at a sci-fi convention, in which a clique of collectors grew outraged when a main character removed a toy from a box, chanting "NRFB! NRFB!" at him like a holy mantra.
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Bingo.

Also, I too used to make Starships out of toys that weren't meant to be Starships. Normally though, they were made with Lego blocks as opposed to pieces of broken toys.
 
I know that pic for the back of the package is a little blurry but, did anyone notice the specs for ship on the back? The maximum cruising and emergency speeds of the ship are wrong. The package says Warp 6 for cruising and Warp 9.9 for emergencies. The real respective speeds are 9.2 and 9.6, according to the ST:TNG Tech Manual and onscreen dialogue. Warp 6 is just the normal cruising speed, which a Galaxy class can maintain for 7 years before fuel runs out. (Again, the ST:TNG Tech Manual said that, not me.) Traveling at 392c for 7 years could be pretty cool, though. At that speed, you'd cross approximately 2,692.31 light years. That's pretty good mileage for a ship with a mass of 5 million metric tonnes.

I really wish NCC-1701-D lasted longer. I love NCC-1701-E (and all the other ships named Enterprise) like they're my best friends in the world but, NCC-1701-D holds a special preference for me. I grew up watching that ship from ages 5-12. In the pilot it pushed itself to Warp 9.8 and then execute a saucer separation at that speed. That maneuver was so cool the NCC-1701-D instantly endeared itself to me. Andy Probert outdid himself with the Galaxy class design.

I'll never forgive Beavis and Butt-head for destroying her in Generations, though. I don't care how cool of a Borg-busting, Sona-blasting, Reman-ramming war machine NCC-1701-E happens to be... :devil:
 
i had the same toy. got mine for christmas and eventually rubbed off most of the paint from 'fighting' Romulans and Borg.
 
yay grats! i have that one too and it was great having it when i was a kid. :) i wish it had a stand though to display on.

the johnny lighting ones also have detachable saucer sections and have a stand... though much smaller.
 
Oh, my God, I had one of those too!!! Wow, that brings back memories... I even painted mine silver because I didn't like the original color. :)
 
Bad Atom said:
Oh, my God, I had one of those too!!! Wow, that brings back memories... I even painted mine silver because I didn't like the original color. :)
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Which is pretty much what the editors of the show did with color-timing adjustments. The Enterprise-D miniature actually was painted that azure hue, but onscreen it was generally color-corrected to a more grayish appearance. (Which is ironic, because Andrew Probert made it azure to match the occasional blue or green appearance of the original Enterprise, which was the result of color-timing errors in processing footage of the silver-gray miniature.)
 
I remember that ship. I got it when it (and the show) was new. Of course, I was 17 at the time, not 6.

I wish I still had it, but my brother destroyed it years ago when he was both drunk and high at the same time.
 
Ah, what a lovely thing, to recapture the delight in your first E-D. :)

My first spaceship romance was with the Pan Am Space Clipper (Orion III) from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I had seen the film about 5 times in as many weeks and when the kit came out I spent days loitering around the model section of my local Woolworths drooling over it. Sadly, I never was able to afford to buy one, but I loved holding the box and peeking inside to see all the pieces just waiting to be assembled so I could fly to the moon.

I dallied for a while with the Millennium Falcon, but when I first saw the E-D on screen, I knew I had finally found the spaceship-love of my life. :drool:

By far the most graceful, curvacious, duranium-clad vessel that ever sailed the heavens. :cool:

:techman:
 
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