News TOMY Star Trek Diecast Ship Replicas
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So I guess there is some news. I first heard about this from this small You Tube channel that popped up in my feed, so do not mind giving them a plug.
I like that the individual LEDs in the nacelles are now no longer visible behind the Ddffusor, still to blue imo. The pain job looks great! Glad the blue has been toned down here.
I like that the individual LEDs in the nacelles are now no longer visible behind the Ddffusor, still to blue imo. The pain job looks great! Glad the blue has been toned down here.
That looks absolutely beautiful. Glad they put the diffuser in there. Makes a world of difference. The paint job is perfect and it looks like they addressed the nacelle sag. 
Wish I had the money for it, though…
Wish I had the money for it, though…
I’ll never be able to justify something like this. I was gonna say afford, but that’s not true. I could afford one, but I don’t think I’d ever be able to justify one.
For the same price I could pick up a latest generation XBox/Playstation/Nintendo whatever you which I’d get hours of fun from.
For the same price I could book a nice weekend away somewhere with the missus and have a lovely old time.
Something like this… it’s too much to pay for something that just sits there… for me anyway.
It’s very pretty though. Beautifully done. The nacelle lighting was my immediate gripe before and I’m glad to see it’s been addressed.
For the same price I could pick up a latest generation XBox/Playstation/Nintendo whatever you which I’d get hours of fun from.
For the same price I could book a nice weekend away somewhere with the missus and have a lovely old time.
Something like this… it’s too much to pay for something that just sits there… for me anyway.
It’s very pretty though. Beautifully done. The nacelle lighting was my immediate gripe before and I’m glad to see it’s been addressed.
This is why I would consider this a very niche "luxury spend" the kind of thing I would buy if I were well off enough to not notice the wallet pain
This would also be an issue for me. We live with 5 cats which means this thing would be finished within 5 minutes of being displayed.
With every new video I'm seeing marked improvements. Don't know about that background music, though... 
my only nitpicking complaint from this video is the phaser turrets just being naked LED bulbs - I get why they did it, but they seem somewhat unnecessary (particularly since they never lit up originally*) and odd compared to the rest of the ship's lighting looks.
* = I think it's also arguable that the TMP version of the ship would have had blue phaser beams to match the blue photon torpedo fired in the wormhole
* = I think it's also arguable that the TMP version of the ship would have had blue phaser beams to match the blue photon torpedo fired in the wormhole
It's not the only post-TMP detail of the model: The nameplate under the fantail read "-ENTERPRISE-" in TMP, the later movies eliminated the dashes flanking it.
For those of you that did order this when are they expected to arrive?
I think my email said Fall 2025 (November?).
I think this ship is looking great. I am now very excited and can't wait to receive it! I really didn't think I could get these ships in this size with this production value at the prices I've paid. The cost to quality (and desire) is quite reasonable to me. I wonder what the next one will be? Will TOMY just continue with the E-B next or go straight to TNG's D? I would think the D will be a bit more in cost (especially with the tariff/China stuff) so I hope that cost to desire ratio holds up... 
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