Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription

[t_smitts]

An order from Real Merch arrived yesterday: Got the ECS Horison, Malon ship, and Tsunkatse ship. All look decent. Impressed by the detail on the Horizon, considering how small it was. Pity it didn't appear in a better episode.

I also stopped by my local store today and impulsively bought the Captain Proton ship. I wasn't terribly interested, but it was the last one there (apart from XL's and new show stuff, which don't interest me) that I did not have. Maybe it some company starts making new stuff again, the guy at the store will start bringing it in again. (He DID seem interested in the Caretaker's Array, but more for himself).

Edited to add: the Captain Proton one has a bit more heft than I expected.

 

[dantini]

I added the STO Edison to my collection today. It's nice that about half of the ship classes that make up the fleets in PIC season 2 and 3 already exist as Eaglemoss models. Either because they're from "old canon" (Akira, Sovereign), or because they were made before they became canon (Luna, Odyssey), or because they were in season 1 (Inquiry), or because they were part of the STO collection (Edison, Gagarin, Pathfinder - though I never much cared for the latter two, so I don't have them).
Now I hope someone will make the Sutherland, Ross, Reliant, Alita, Echelon, and Excelsior II as well!

 

[Macintosh]

I got a Titan and a Pathfinder!

 

[Paul755]

Looks like alot of the new stuff is already gone

 

[Markonian]

Secured the UN One!
It's like a futuristic paper plane. It looks very 2001: Space Odyssey. Could work as a post-First Contact United Earth presidential spacecraft,

I also stopped by my local store today and impulsively bought the Captain Proton ship.

That ship is one of my well-liked. The magazine cover was monochrome as well back in the day for this model. It looks both comically retro and sleek.

I like to think that the ship is called Proton. And some of its sister ships are Electron, Neutron, Quark, Positron, etc.

 

[NOVE9]

Looks like alot of the new stuff is already gone

A lot went in the first 11 minutes, I got the Deimos and the Buran

 

[Macintosh]

Looks like alot of the new stuff is already gone

Within minutes. But I noticed some stuff switched back and forth between sold out and available, so it's still worth checking back if you really want something.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I’m curious if the Cerritos will ever make it back to the store again or if it’s done for good.

 

[CommanderTrip]

As some already know, I have had some issues with missing orders and unfulfilled items from Master Replicas. I have sent emails to customer service and initially received a reply for my missing USS Nog, but received no help or response with my unfulfilled item or missing order. I wanted to share my experience today in the interest of buyers beware.
Long story short: After sending 3 e-mails with no response to my missing order, I decided to try and send a missing order inquiry from another e-mail address to see if maybe I was having a problem with the email address I was sending from (going to junk folder maybe?). Sure enough, customer service responded within 24 hours to the alternative email. However, when I then provided them with the order # (provided in previous emails), they stopped answering. I took it upon myself to dispute the charges for the missing items with my credit card company as it has been over a month. Fast foward to today, I went to log into the master replicas website to check the order status of my last purchase, and I discovered that not only was my password incorrect, but I could not reset it because master replicas had deleted my customer account. This led me to fire off a rather firm-toned response. Not a great way to start the weekend, for sure. Now I have a few starship collections I wont complete unless going through real-merch or secondary market. Ah well, it is what it is.

UPDATED TO ADD: Decided to fire off a few tweets on the MR twitter page to see if it might shake anything loose. It did, they are looking into it and actually provided me with some concrete info for now and with a way to follow up in future. Stated the account deletion was some error on their end and they undid it....

 

[drt]

I’m curious if the Cerritos will ever make it back to the store again or if it’s done for good.

From the bankruptcy documents it seemed that Eaglemoss had most of their stock in a large warehouse in Romania and other stuff scattered in a few smaller ones elsewhere in Europe. My assumption is we're currently seeing the more easily accessible stuff make it to MR's website. It doesn't seem like Eaglemoss' inventory system was 100% accurate, which is probably why as stock arrives in the UK they "find" additional units of previously released items.

Presumably there was also recently manufactured stock still in China. Note that Robinson said EM had produced a smaller version of Cerritos (in the same scale as Titan and Vancouver), as well as the 32nd century Jubayr, my guess is these are still in China, since I've never seen them pop up on eBay. I would think that sales to date should have generated enough capital for MR to undertake the cost of shipping stock from China, but I'm not convinced if that they'll pursue anything but the lowest hanging fruit - it may also be that stock just got scrapped, I can imagine warehouse space being more of an issue in China than Europe.

So I would say there are a couple of additional ways for more Cerritos to see the light of day. I've also noticed that RealMerch has been selling more Titans recently, however they've been doing it via eBay auctions and generating 3-5x the revenue of "list price" sales. I wouldn't be surprised if MR simply has RM sell off random cases that turn up in this manner for a cut of the higher revenue (as I haven't detected MR having an eBay presence).

PS: check out this flex https://old.reddit.com/r/StarTrekStarships/comments/1391n1o/stargazer_vancouver/

 

[137th Gebirg]

Great info, thank you!

 

[Nate]

Slightly off topic but finally made it to visit this beauty in DC

 

[CommanderTrip]

Slightly off topic but finally made it to visit this beauty in DC

I'd say topic close enough. And what a beauty! I started watching The Center Seat: 55 years of Star Trek Documentary series on Amazon prime - its narrated by Gates McFadden and they touched upon this old girl in one of the earlier episodes.

 

[t_smitts]

So, as I mentioned before, I made a rather large order last week (four items) and got an email a few days ago that they were being shipped. It showed just yesterday that it had been collected (presumably from a warehouse in the UK or mainland Europe) and today says out for delivery, which would mean it reached Canada and got through customs and then got to my town in the span of only about 24 hours. I find it difficult to believe they're that fast, even for an order as large as mine.

Has anyone had any experience with Whistl?

 

[CommanderTrip]

So, as I mentioned before, I made a rather large order last week (four items) and got an email a few days ago that they were being shipped. It showed just yesterday that it had been collected (presumably from a warehouse in the UK or mainland Europe) and today says out for delivery, which would mean it reached Canada and got through customs and then got to my town in the span of only about 24 hours. I find it difficult to believe they're that fast, even for an order as large as mine.

Has anyone had any experience with Whistl?

Yes, recieved two orders tracked via whistle with no issue, third on the way and hopefully a fourth with missing items/orders soon. I have a spot saved on shelf for modern galactica once they find it.

orders have generally taken a while to ship, and then there seems like a burst of progress towards the end.

 

[CommanderTrip]

From the bankruptcy documents it seemed that Eaglemoss had most of their stock in a large warehouse in Romania and other stuff scattered in a few smaller ones elsewhere in Europe. My assumption is we're currently seeing the more easily accessible stuff make it to MR's website. It doesn't seem like Eaglemoss' inventory system was 100% accurate, which is probably why as stock arrives in the UK they "find" additional units of previously released items.

Presumably there was also recently manufactured stock still in China. Note that Robinson said EM had produced a smaller version of Cerritos (in the same scale as Titan and Vancouver), as well as the 32nd century Jubayr, my guess is these are still in China, since I've never seen them pop up on eBay. I would think that sales to date should have generated enough capital for MR to undertake the cost of shipping stock from China, but I'm not convinced if that they'll pursue anything but the lowest hanging fruit - it may also be that stock just got scrapped, I can imagine warehouse space being more of an issue in China than Europe.

So I would say there are a couple of additional ways for more Cerritos to see the light of day. I've also noticed that RealMerch has been selling more Titans recently, however they've been doing it via eBay auctions and generating 3-5x the revenue of "list price" sales. I wouldn't be surprised if MR simply has RM sell off random cases that turn up in this manner for a cut of the higher revenue (as I haven't detected MR having an eBay presence).

PS: check out this flex https://old.reddit.com/r/StarTrekStarships/comments/1391n1o/stargazer_vancouver/

Thanks for the background info and link. Its a shame if a bunch of made merch was scrapped for warehouse space. Almost as tragic as the destruction of the enterprise D sets in Generations.

The Yosemite prototype looks great! Is that the 32c constitution too?

 

[Macintosh]

Slightly off topic but finally made it to visit this beauty in DC

Jealous! I went to Washington DC in January 2019 and was hoping to go into the Smithsonian to see the Enterprise, amongst other things... but of course thanks to the government shutdown all the museums were closed...

 

[Macintosh]

The Yosemite prototype looks great! Is that the 32c constitution too?

It's a Saturn-class.

 

[Paul755]

MR tweeted out a sneak peak of Fridays drop…

XL - La Sirena, Nebula Class, USS Equinox, Enterprise E (regular)
Special - Ty Gokor station

 

[drt]

Also more unreleased ships coming Friday 26th May: Shuttlecraft Hawking, Captain’s Yacht, Caretaker Array and Gold Plated Enterprise E XL


Seems like they’ve gone to weekly drops of fewer items, probably to make it a bit easier on their shipping department (although it still usually takes them over a week to ship after ordering).