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Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription

I got shipment confirmation and tracking for Discovery this morning. I don't think I've looked forward to a new ship since the 1701-J...which I actually never got because they skipped me ahead 6 issues to get me on the "current" track the exact month I would've received it.

And good luck finding it in good condition since for a normal price.
 
Yes, the Viper Mk II is currently on pre-order, w/ the Nu-Cylon Raider close behind. According to Markonian:
#01: Viper Mk II (2004) - April
#02: Cylon Raider (2004) - June
#03: BS Galactica (2004) - August
04: Viper Mk I (1978) - October

Unknown/uncertain order: Galactica (1978), Pegasus (2004), Colonial One, Raptor, Cylon Basestar (1978, + 2004), Viper Mk VII (2004)

Pure guess: Resurrection ship? Cloud 9 and other select civilian ships?
I called Eaglemoss last week and there are plans to start a subscription offer, but not until next month. I would expect an email announcement to be sent from "Hero Collector" on the matter soon, and when it does I will post it here, unless someone else beats it to me first. :)
 
question for veteran subscribers:

i forgot to update my credit card information with eaglemoss after getting a new card number and only realized this when they attempted to pull the funds for discovery, then sent me an email telling me to update my payment method (this happens when you go half a year between signing up and actually being charged for the product). the woman i spoke to said they'd be charging me again in "the next day or two" (she was kind of brusk) but three days later, no charge.

has this ever happened to anyone else and did this cause significant delays?
 
Yes. This is when I discovered I actually have 5 different account numbers with Eaglemoss, all with their own individual credit card numbers associated with them. Apparently, all the Specials are actually handled through a different account from the main subscription one. I thought I had them all covered when I changed my card info last year (main sub account, XL sub account, Disco sub account & online store account), but I didn't know about the Specials one so it bounced when they tried to send me the Franklin special edition. I did fix it and the Franklin arrived about a week later without much lag time. Now I'm going to soon be getting the new BSG subscription when it becomes available, which will likely give me a sixth account with them. Yay!

I don't find this way of conducting business very efficient, and it's likely contributed greatly to some of the problems we've all been collectively seeing with their shipping and distribution logistics behind-the-scenes. Not sure how many people know they have this many multiple accounts when credit card numbers need to change when they switch cards. Should be one master account to change everything; "One Ring to Rule Them All", as it were. Yet another example of their odd business model. Products are still top-notch, however, and I will (semi-grudgingly) continue to support them.
 
Yes. This is when I discovered I actually have 5 different account numbers with Eaglemoss, all with their own individual credit card numbers associated with them. Apparently, all the Specials are actually handled through a different account from the main subscription one. I thought I had them all covered when I changed my card info last year (main sub account, XL sub account, Disco sub account & online store account), but I didn't know about the Specials one so it bounced when they tried to send me the Franklin special edition. I did fix it and the Franklin arrived about a week later without much lag time. Now I'm going to soon be getting the new BSG subscription when it becomes available, which will likely give me a sixth account with them. Yay!
ok thank you for putting my mind at ease. i really didn't want to deal with backorders 1 issue into my subscription. i won't start us down the road of bitching about their bizarre business practices (*cough*lack of communication*cough*) again, but yeah i found it odd after years of buying from the eaglemoss store that my discovery subscription is wholly separate from my web shop account.

anyway, i've actually started rewatching battlestar galactica in anticipation of the new collection. so well done, eaglemoss, well done.
 
Which brings me to a tangentially-related question. Has anyone in the US subscribed to the Back to the Future II DeLorean model set? I just got the latest HeroCollector newsletter with a small link in there about it and when I clicked on it, I got sent to a non-informational page about them being up to Issue #64 now - They must literally be building the entire DeLorean DMC-12 vehicle part-by-part, including BTTF add-ons! When clicking on the "click here for more details" link, it just takes me back to the homepage, that happens to contain absolutely nothing about it!

Is this thing only available to people in the UK? I'm kind of curious now - I owned an '81 DMC-12 back between 2000 and 2003 (nightmare vehicle to work on) and I'm curious how accurate the kit is, based on my knowledge of having worked on the actual vehicle. Curious if it has the fiberglass body under the stainless steel skin. This design actually wreaked havoc on an already weakened electrical system that required a metric ass-ton of ground wires to jump over the non-conductive body from the outer stainless steel skin to the inner Lotus frame. As this kit seems to have functioning electrical parts, I'm wondering if they actually ran into a similar difficulty with the internal wiring harness. Anyone out there gotten this sub?
 
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I owned an '81 DMC-12 back between 2000 and 2003 (nightmare vehicle to work on) and I'm curious how accurate the kit is, based on my knowledge of having worked on the actual vehicle.
Are you saying you modded a real life car into the BTTF DeLorean?
 
Heh...no. Wish I did, but it cost me enough to repair and restore it stock that I barely broke even when I sold it. By the time I was done, I was pretty fed up with it. Too much hassle for a vehicle that wasn't designed all that well to begin with. It was built in Ireland and the factory had a door for Catholics and another for Protestants (no joke), so you can imagine that it wasn't the best of working environments. The production was funded by a grant from the UK gov't to boost the then-failing Irish economy near Belfast in the north. The wiki has a pretty good breakdown of the history of the doomed company.

Neat car, though. Looked like it could go 200 MPH standing still and it was the BEST handling car I've ever driven - I mean, Euro Autobahn supercar handling. That was where the cool of it ended, though. I always laughed at the absurdly under-powered PRV-6 engine it had - you'd be lucky to get 100 HP out of the thing (80 if you had an auto transmission like mine, which was super-rare). I don't see any way you could have gotten the thing up to 88 MPH to kick in the flux capacitor. It started shaking violently at about 65! :lol: I did get tired of people asking me where I put the flux capacitor. It stopped being funny the first 100 times I heard it.

Because it came out of a Brit factory, the wiring was aluminum (or aluminium as they like to say over there for some perverse reason), so by the time I got it, the wiring where the insulation cracked was pitted and brittle, breaking everywhere, necessitating new wiring harnesses in many locations. The "firewall" behind the seats was a joke - it was made of plywood - yes, PLYWOOD (some firewall!) - which also housed the battery. You get an acid spill from the battery or an engine compartment fire, there wasn't much stopping it from melting through the fiberglass body and lighting the battery compartment on fire (chemical fire).

If I didn't have such a bad time with the core of it, I might have dabbled with a BTTF resto-mod, but like I said, I was so sick of looking at it by the time I was done getting it running, I just wanted to drop it on someone. Some dude from New Jersey drove down with a trailer to buy it - wanted a hot car for his son's 16th birthday (must be nice!) I told him it was the perfect car and how horrible the engine power was. He'll never get a speeding ticket with it, relatively decent gas mileage, and if he was looking to get his son laid, that was the car for him. Sonovabitch didn't even bother to haggle with me! :lol:

I learned a lot about rebuilding cars from that and later my '79 Camaro, the latter of which I was forced to part-out and scrap because it was too eaten-out with cancerous rust and would have cost way too much to restore professionally, in excess of $15,000 in body work alone! I learned enough from both of those projects that I never want to do it again...ever.
 
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For the Canadians on the board, Chapters is now selling Eaglemoss models with magazines starting at $22. Most are already out of stock but hopefully they'll be adding more.
 
For the Canadians on the board, Chapters is now selling Eaglemoss models with magazines starting at $22. Most are already out of stock but hopefully they'll be adding more.

Are they? I'll have to look into this.

I just ordered the Daedalus and the runabout on eBay. They're coming from a UK dealer, so I expect them within 2 weeks.

I also got a shop from the local store today. He didn't have anything new yet, so I took one of the older ships that had been collecting dust on his shelf (or under it, technically) for a couple of years. I settled on the Xindi-Insectoid ship, since I already have the Xindi-Reptilian ship. (He was nice enough to give me a small discount, basically taking off the tax).

This one is really nice. It's one of the few whose dimensions just made a regular box impossible (I think the Borg sphere and the Orion ship are the only other two). The detail is terrific. I never noticed how scorpion-like it is, with the two lower "arms" being like pincers and the upper one being a stinger. Kind of like the very beetle-looking Jem'Hadar attack ship.
 
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Neat car, though. Looked like it could go 200 MPH standing still and it was the BEST handling car I've ever driven - I mean, Euro Autobahn supercar handling. That was where the cool of it ended, though. I always laughed at the absurdly under-powered PRV-6 engine it had - you'd be lucky to get 100 HP out of the thing (80 if you had an auto transmission like mine, which was super-rare). I don't see any way you could have gotten the thing up to 88 MPH to kick in the flux capacitor. It started shaking violently at about 65! :lol: I did get tired of people asking me where I put the flux capacitor. It stopped being funny the first 100 times I heard it.

Yeah, from what I read somewhere, the DeLorean was meant to be a car from cruising, not speed.

And yes, everone's gonna back BTTF jokes, probably even more so with people too young to remember when it came out. I'm sure that, to the end of his life, John DeLorean was probably happy to have his namesake car associated with that and not, you know that other thing they were associated with. :rommie:

Those gullwing doors seem like something that would be a pain in the ass to deal with. Were they?

If I didn't have such a bad time with the core of it, I might have dabbled with a BTTF resto-mod, but like I said, I was so sick of looking at it by the time I was done getting it running, I just wanted to drop it on someone. Some dude from New Jersey drove down with a trailer to buy it - wanted a hot car for his son's 16th birthday (must be nice!) I told him it was the perfect car and how horrible the engine power was. He'll never get a speeding ticket with it, relatively decent gas mileage, and if he was looking to get his son laid, that was the car for him. Sonovabitch didn't even bother to haggle with me! :lol:

Buying a classic car that an inexperienced teen driver can smash up, and possibly get a girl pregnant? Sounds nice. :lol:

It'd be kind of interesting to drive one and see what it's like, but I can't really drive a stick shift.
 
I gotta say, in person, the Discovery is WAYYYYY more disproportionate than I expected. Those nacelles are ridiculous.

EDIT: Finally got around to digging through the entire box. There's an insert claiming issue 3 "was delayed" (I thought the plan all along was for a gap because Shenzhou and Discovery were rushes) and promising a free gift to come with the new issue. Maybe a tiny binder to go with the undersized tiny booklets?

Insert had the new BoP on it. Was that confirmed as #3?

EDIT 2: Yup, BoP is #3. Really cool that the Discovery was modeled on the XB-70A. It's one of my favorite aircraft.
 
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