The flaws not insignificant.these partworks arre marketed as accurate replicas but riddled with inaccuracies.The playmates uss defiant did not have the star fleet pennant the wrong way round. the eaglemoss one did.The cardassian galor class did not have the right shade of yellow.The micro machine did have correct colour.The stargazer has wonky nacelles.The furuta didn't.the bajoran solar sailor is badly put together.
At this price point, and at this size, these ships are not bargains they are very expensive for a partwork publication.each regular issue costs 9.99 the model is only about 5 inches in length and the magazine contains information which is available for free elsewhere. the specials so far are twice the price and only margially bigger.for example the jjprise is only about 8 inches and badly put together.contrast the eaglemoss jjprise with playmates jjprise.the playmates jjprise was a bargain.contrast eaglemoss jjprise with the hot wheels jjprise.the hot wheels jjprise was a bargain.both are no longer being made.so, fair play, these are now relatively expensive.when you compare and contrast this partwork publication by eaglemoss with a rival diecast partwork you see this publication is not a bargain. example in tesco if you wanted to collect a regular issue 'helicopter monthly' you could have got a helicopter replica measuring nearly 12 inches and a glossy factual magazine for £7.99. That is a bargain.even the star wars official starships collection by deagostini was a bargain.
please dont misunderstand me.i like my eaglemoss trek models.i dont mind the 'flaws'.i just dont agree with the marketing which states that these models as highly accurate replicas when they are not.
if you are happy with your purchases, then all well and good.if you want to justify and make excuses for the 'flaws', then please do so.
i am only suggesting that (i) there is a 'bubble' secondary market for some of these models which has nothing to do with supply bottlenecks and nothing to do with the market dynamics of partwork publications and (ii) that the marketing promises more than the model can actually deliver
The Playmates USS Defiant was 20x bigger than the EM one and made entirely of plastic.
The Color of the Galor is off, but it's not green or purple. Looking at pictures of it on Ex Astris Scientia, it's not a million miles from the CG and studio model under unlit conditions.
Well, my Stargazer had straight nacelles.
And finally yeah, the solar sailer was flimsy, but that is entirely down to the design of the ship. They made the model as big as they could to compensate.
The £10 price point for die cast/plastic replicas is fantastic, especially when I was paying £8 per blind box of Japanese Futura toys at conventions, or twice that if I wanted to know what I was buying. And there is literally no competition between the quality of these models. And the JJPrise? The playmates one was £30 new and twice the size. The Hot Wheels one is barely 2 inches long and has terrible detailing. The JJPrise is missing one reg decal on the underside. Mine had wonky nacelles which I managed to pry off and re-glue in under 2 minutes. These are flaws, but in comparison to the rest of the model? I'm sorry, but they
are insignificant. The only comparison to be made to existing models are those made in a similar scale and price point, and those are only the Japanese F-Toys/Futura and Johnny Lightning ships. Which were not sold in the shop down the street from me, had to be imported from Japan and (admittedly this is a small thing) you had to build yourself. And the quality varied
wildly. 20 issues in to this collection, there has not been that level of quality change.
