Star Trek II Art Asylum Light & Sound Enterprise

[FalTorPan]

Earlier this week I finally received the Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan USS Enterprise NCC-1701... and, even though I haven't unpackaged it, I noticed that it's missing a little something...

NCC.

Yes, the prominent label on the top front saucer just reads "-1701."

$@#%$@#@ -- I mean D'OH!

Does anyone else have this collectible? If so, is it NCCless for you, too?

 

[Brannigan]

Ill tell you on monday, when mine is due to arrive. God I hope not.

 

[Captain Robert April]

One of the big reasons I prefer to purchase my collectibles in a store, where I can examine the thing first.

 

[biotech]

So if its meant to be from STII, why is the cover art and damage pattern from STIII?

 

[Brannigan]

I just got it, and mine says "NCC" on the top, looks really good and I havent even got it out of the box yet.

 

[FalTorPan]

I emailed the seller, who promptly and politely asked me to email the maker, who promptly replied and said they'd gladly swap my NCCless Enterprise for a ship-shape one.

Great customer service from two companies that I'll gladly continue to do business with.

 

[Captain Robert April]

I'd just ask 'em for a "NCC-" decal to correct the error, but that's just me.

 

[SonicRanger]

Um, aren't errors worth a lot of money? Consider yourself lucky, keep or sell the error, and buy yourself another one.

 

[Rat Boy]

From what I've been reading, this sounds like another AA/DST disappointment. Even if you don't get one with misaligned registry or warped warp nacelles, you're going to get a product whose plastic is so cheap that it's practically transparent to the interior lighting. I'm definitely going to think not twice but several times before preordering one of their products again.

 

[Forbin]

Rat Boy said:
From what I've been reading, this sounds like another AA/DST disappointment. Even if you don't get one with misaligned registry or warped warp nacelles, you're going to get a product whose plastic is so cheap that it's practically transparent to the interior lighting. I'm definitely going to think not twice but several times before preordering one of their products again.

Dude, remember it's just a toy.

 

[FalTorPan]

Captain Robert April said:
I'd just ask 'em for a "NCC-" decal to correct the error, but that's just me.

These aren't decals in the peel-and-stick sense.

 

[biotech]

biotech said:
So if its meant to be from STII, why is the cover art and damage pattern from STIII?

 

[David cgc]

The cover art is probably for consistency with the model. The damage itself is probably a simple retcon (the damage on the model in Trek III did match the damage report diagram during the first battle of TWOK). I suppose they might also have wanted to make it more visually distinct from the vanilla version.

Incidentally, I put off buying the E-A because I thought the battle-damaged version would look like this, and not like the black-saucered monstrosity they actually made. If I actually cared about the difference between the E(R) and the E-A, I'd probably feel as if I were toyed with.

EDIT: Just to be sure, we're talking about this, and not this or this.