Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription

Indeed - makes sense. Probably why a number of these things like the Vancouver have started popping up there, both in personal photos and for sale.

 

There is a German store which has a relatively good offering at fair prices. Not sure how good they are at international shipping.

https://www.filmwelt-center.com/de/filmwelt-shop/star-trek-raumschiff.html

 

Thank you for that. Some good stuff in there.

 

From Ben Robinson

https://twitter.com/bencsrobinson/status/1602657311012651010?s=61&t=xo29CaiM4pk71G8lY33WAQ

in another tweet he says there are no records of pre-orders, so it will be first come, first served.

 

Hm. Did I really want a T'Plana Hath (the Discovery one, not the First Contact one), or did I just want it because it was twelve bucks?

Either way, I do appreciate having one last shot at filling out my row of Doctors Who without having to resort to eBay, though I doubt there's a crate of Nines and Fours that EM was just sitting on.

 

I just want a Cerritos and Lower Decks Titan.

Waiting for them to hopefully make “regular sized” versions was such a massive mistake.

 

New Twitter thread from Ben

https://twitter.com/bencsrobinson/status/1602747205709807616?s=46&t=4PJk4YXjyeJ5hY54-fLQzQ

from pt5 of the thread

 

All these things (should they come to pass) are very good news. Thanks very much for the updates - keep 'em coming!

 

The LD Titan was actually the last ship I bought before E'Moss officially went dark. I haven't regretted it. It really works as an "animated" XL.

 

Here’s hoping for plentiful Cerritos and Vancouvers.

 

Yeah, I'm curious what the makeup of this stock actually is, probably restocks of Disco ships, lol.

 

here's hoping for affordable individual shuttles

 

It’s gonna be all the crappy Discovery Klingon stuff and the STO ships.

 

I intentionally held off on getting the STO ships until I completed some other sets. Maybe it’s time I get them. Maybe they’ll be made available at “bargain basement” prices.

 

I was never that stoked on the STO ships, I just have the Ent-F and the Chimera. The only Trek ship left I want is the Reliant concept, maybe the LD Titan and Vancouver if I come across them for non-silly prices.

Where I f’d up is I planned to get the Galactica collection, but never got around to it, more likely that ship has jumped away. Whoops…

 

I'm flying out to see my folks on xmas day, but before I go, I made a quick stop at my local store yesterday and got myself a model. He doesn't have much left that I don't already have, but I ended up getting issue #92, the Medusan ship.

Apparently the concept was that the Medusans don't have their own ships, so they borrowed some from the Federation, so we get this spherical-hull shaped ship with some elemants similar to the Daedalus and Connie. I could imagine the Feds have others of this design for themselves as either Starfleet or civilian transports. Always nice to have another TOS-era Fed ship design. We pretty much just have the Connie, the Antares, the Bonaventure (sort of) and this one.

Not terribly exciting, but I like how the model slips into the stand without any resistance. The soft color on the Bussards is nice, too.

Here's hoping next year brings some good news on the remaining wares!

 

Wasn’t there also a reference to the Cetacean research lab? I think the FASA stuff may have been based off of Rick Sternbach’s blueprint set, which had all those conceptual things. Sadly, we wouldn’t actually see a Cetacean lab in operation for another 3+ decades when it finally appeared in LDS.

 

I think the Cetacean Ops was from Sternbach’s Tech Manual, not FASA’s.