I love the look and sound of the new phasers! Really awesome
The new hand phasers suck, in fact...
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Yeah, it's the only one, if I'm not mistaken. And you see it change settings as well (that "flip" it does).
The TOS phasers and communicators look ridiculous and hokey (just like the TOS Enterprise), but they get a kind of pass for it since it was in the 60s and all. I actually like the ST XI stuff since it's the same basic ideas, only they all actually look decent now.
Right, so I don't understand why posters were saying we don't see a closeup of a phaser in the movie.
I can see why you'd say that, but I think they look better now than 15 years ago. See, every design is rooted in it's era of origin, no matter the attempt to be "futuristic." Look at the nacelle struts in TMP refit- at the time it was the cat's whiskers, now, looking back, the RIDICULUSLY severe slant backward combined with the rather tiny connection to the secondary hull just *reeks* of aerodynamic late-seventies cool, IMO anyway. Not that that's bad, just placeable in time of conception.
Glad you like 'em, really. The whole "suck" thing is just a kneejerk reaction from a severe OS fan(atic).
The closeup was really of Kirk- the phaser was just solidly in there as well.
But what about the conspiracy to hide their ugliness ?
Anyway, in that Narada scene we get to see good shots of the phasers several times, not just once. We even see the stun/kill change a couple of times. Blu-ray shots will be great. Until then, a few...
But it will be nice when we have screen caps.
I AM mistaken. You do have more than one look at them. I will admit- the lines are good, resembling TOS phaser nicely- but the details just aren't...ummmmm, as cool for ME.But what about the conspiracy to hide their ugliness ?
Maybe I have to get the toy & play with it for a while...
I AM mistaken. You do have more than one look at them. I will admit- the lines are good, resembling TOS phaser nicely- but the details just aren't...ummmmm, as cool for ME.
Maybe I have to get the toy & play with it for a while...
I wish they had a water gun version. Has there ever been a phaser water gun ?
No, I meant was it not the one (the phaser) they were discussing. It was so obviously seen in the film, I thought they must be meaning something else...
By the OP's logic, Batman should still be using shark repellent rather than the updated weapons he has now.
The playmates toy must be atypically inaccurate then.
Back in the early seventies I believe there was one- and it looked NOTHING like the real thing. I think they just used the name "phaser" to cash in on the popularity of the syndication.I wish they had a water gun version. Has there ever been a phaser water gun ?
Bat Shark Repellent make sharks weak, reduces their mass making them appear somewhat "toy-ish", and softens thier teeth so as not to cause tissue damage. Do not underestimate 60's superhero technology.
Bat Shark Repellent make sharks weak, reduces their mass making them appear somewhat "toy-ish", and softens thier teeth so as not to cause tissue damage. Do not underestimate 60's superhero technology.
Define "people."
There will always be a few trekkies who will recognize that prop. And there will always be a few who will recognize the new version. And then there will be the vast majority of people who would look at either of those two interchangably and say at most "that's the thing Kirk used in Star Wars to call Scotty to beam him up, isn't it?"
I wouldn't bet big money on any version of Star Trek being a particularly hot topic of conversation in another forty years.
I said it in another thread. I like new phasers with the exception of the spinning emitters. I just don't see how they can pump that much energy into the small part that lets it swivel. heres a little photo shop i did of how i believe it would look better.
Back in the early seventies I believe there was one- and it looked NOTHING like the real thing. I think they just used the name "phaser" to cash in on the popularity of the syndication.I wish they had a water gun version. Has there ever been a phaser water gun ?
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but there seems to have been a fairly accurate TMP phaser water gun released at the same time as the film, and, more recently, a classic series water pistol from Star Trek: The Experience which was molded off the Master Replicas reproducion.
OKAY Flightmech, without the spinning emitter (that the toy shows so prominently), and the texturizing, not bad. Looks like a STIII one. I could hover with that. To a degree.I said it in another thread. I like new phasers with the exception of the spinning emitters. I just don't see how they can pump that much energy into the small part that lets it swivel. heres a little photo shop i did of how i believe it would look better.
Holy crap, Batman! I wuz around back then, and I totally forgot about that one. Prolly 'cause I wrote it off as being crappy. But yeah, not totally off the mark. After the Aurora phaser, communicator & tricorder models, I got really jaded & demanding.
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