That's an amazing online resource. It's gonna take me days to get though them all and they are all interesting.
Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription
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That's an amazing online resource. It's gonna take me days to get though them all and they are all interesting.
Even at the peak of Trek popularity (say, around the mid 90's), I wonder how many YOUNG kids were buying Trek toys. I was 13 in 1995, and was definitely interested in both the Playmates and Micro Machine lines, but I heard years later that part of the Playmates action figure line's appeal was the realistic look, which pleased adult collectors. I wonder if that wasn't the same for the Micro Machine line.
Thanks for the resource link, grabbed all the magazines, very useful!
Those Micro Machines were pretty detailed for their small size. I do remember that some ship sets were hard to find in stores and sometimes you just had to be at the right store at the right time...
In the early 2000s I bought my kids a Megabloks Enterprise-D. Still have it in a box in pieces. I suppose I could rebuild it if I could find instructions. But when my kids were young there was very very little Star Trek stuff out there for them but lots of Harry Potter and Star Wars.
I have all of them packed away somewhere with my FASA miniatures. I really wished they weren't so permanently warped - it's almost like they were put in the blister pack whose boxes were intentionally too small while the soft plastic was still cooling from the molding process.
Yeah, that was the drawbacks to some Micro Machines--my DS9 in particular looked it had been through the wringer a bit, but I didn't mind as a kid since the station was originally supposed to be not in great shape anyway. Othwerisw, nearly all of my Micro Machines are still in pretty good shape--one major advantage they have over Eaglemoss is that you generally don't have to worry about them breaking if you accidentally drop them.
I collected the entire line, honestly, for quite a few I enjoyed the magazine more than the model of a ship I barely remembered.
Maybe dip them in hot water and carefully bend into shape? I don’t know how it works with soft plastic but that’s what to do with warped resin.
I’d venture that the last time Trek was purely aiming at a kids market toy wise was in the 1970s.
They’re still packed away somewhere from a cross-county move from 6 years ago. Once I dig them back up I’ll give that a try.
I wish the Star Trek property rights owner would partner with "Bandai" instead of "Eagle Moss".
They would do a FAR better job with quality plastic models then the slip shod "Made in China" quality that we get with Eagle Moss.
They would do a FAR better job with quality plastic models then the slip shod "Made in China" quality that we get with Eagle Moss.
I would agree. It would also likely double the price of all the models.
At least the quality would match the price finally.
From the 4x Eagle Moss ships that I own, I don't feel the quality matches the price, regardless of the metal used inside to give it "heft".
Too many issues like window printing being off-set drastically from their Window bumps.
Print errors, etc.
Think they were hard to find in stores? Try finding them in Canada! We got the first big box set up here. (Mine still has a sticker from Eaton's, which was basically the Canadian version of Macy's, until it went under), but not the other two. I was lucky enough that my dad got the second for me while at a business trip in Vegas. The third, however would elude me for nearly two decades. After years of seeing overpriced sets on eBay, in 2015, I finally found one that was...still overpriced, but at least affordable.
I was greatly satisfied with that one, and I eventually bought a second version of each of the first two sets. (The first, because years of being played with and dropped by my grubby little hands had left most of them dirty and/or broken; and the second, because, frankly some of the models in the set my dad got me should never have gotten past quality control). I had them all out for a number of years, but 2015, ironically, was also the year I bought my very first Eaglemoss model. Eventually, I boxed up the Micro Machines (along with the handful of Johnny Lightning and Furuta models I had) to make way for my ever-growing Eaglemoss collection.
The US shop is still taking preorders, but it's mostly for stuff that's been out of stock for awhile or sold out very quickly when they were initially released. I dunno, Eaglemoss might be concentrating on restocking a lot of sold-out ships before introducing new ships from LD, PROD, SNW, etc., so this could be a lull period as far as brand-new models, IMO.
Based on the online store, it appears they're discontinuing the original Starship and Discovery subscription issues. It seems like they're re-releasing the popular ones as "Collector's Editions", but I imagine some of obscure ships are probably gone forever. New ships I assume will be part of the Universe collection moving forward.
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Well that sucks, considering I don't have all of them yet! 
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