Toys out early!

[Captain Randy Hall]

I'm glad to hear that some of the toys are starting to trickle out. As I've said on previous postings, I ordered all the stuff I want through my local book store, Comics to Astonish in Columbia, so I'll either see it in the Previews or get a happy surprise when I show up for my weekly stack of comics.

I may not be as young and spry as I used to, but hopefully i'll get the full sets of goodies I ordered.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

I havnt seen any in stores over here in england though. ill keep an eye out.

Forbidden Planet have the Enterprise available to pre-order. Apparently it's out at the end of April.

 

[Sector 7]

^You mean u actually play with them?! I thought people only collected them to look at and never open....

If that was a reply to me, I wouldn't exactly call modding a figure "playing with them".

I have display shelves. I prefer the idea of McCoy and Chekov being in their Enterprise uniforms rather than the cadet ones.

PO-TAY-TO or PO-TAH-TO... Trekkie or Trekker... moddling [modeling] or playing... it is all the same thing. I don't really care if u do or not. My comment was about people who buy toys they never open or use... just let them collect dust or use as 'investments'. I have always considered it a laughable thing. Like they said on Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer "A toy isn't a toy unless it's loved by a child."

I have many fond memories of playing with my 3-piece Star Trek model kit... phaser, communicator and tricorder... until they finally fell apart, then I saved and bought another kit and played with it.
My paper route paid for every model kit I could buy. Every ship, the bridge set and Spock shooting the 3-headed monster.

 

[Therin of Andor]

in Germany, they ask 12,95€ for one which is MORE than double.

More than double is about right for all Star Trek books, comics, toys, etc. sold internationally. Always has been.

If you get a local distributor they'll be cheaper than air-freighted mail order. But not by much.

 

[miraclefan]

not again

 

[miraclefan]

As the figures are damn awful...
I wont be picking any up, but as for the ship and maybe the prop replica toys, maybe .

The toys still arn't as bad as the Serenity figures that came out though, ill give Playmates that.

I havnt seen any in stores over here in england though. ill keep an eye out.

So you have seen them in person then?

 

[Classic Fan]

I havnt seen any in stores over here in england though. ill keep an eye out.

Forbidden Planet have the Enterprise available to pre-order. Apparently it's out at the end of April.

Cool, cheers i havnt checked there, oddly.

 

[dave_R_treker]

Hey...here's a question.

Any online sources we'd be sure to get what we want from?

I always went crazy during the previous PLAYMATES days, having to go to a dozen different stores to find all the figures I wanted.

Easier to buy online, even if it costs a little more.

Amazon.com has some

 

[shapeshifter]

Was at Walmat and Target today, only Walmart had anything; the figures with bonus bridge section included. One quarter of the display rack was already sold.

 

[God Magnus]

Hrm. I seem to remember there being a small scale (1/50 or so?) version of the movie Enterprise announced a while back, but I'm beginning to think I remembered wrong. I'd really like one in that scale to put on my desk at work. Ah well. I went hunting today and came up with zip. Going to try TRU tomorrow. I'm excited to see Trek back on shelves!

 

[richpit]

I was at both my "local" TRU stores today. One had only the Enterprise and the other had only the Transporter Room playset. I didn't see any comms, trics or phasers yet.

 

[BolianAuthor]

The Toys R Us website lists all the new film toys as coming soon, and offers a pre-order option.

 

[indranee]

hmm, I don't usually do toys but I might have to with this one....

 

[urbandk]

hmm, I don't usually do toys but I might have to with this one....

I don't do toys either, but that big Spock, yum!

 

[Species517]

I picked up my Enterprise today:

 

[indranee]

very cool. how much is that thing?

 

[Species517]

It was $29.99

 

[Eddie Roth]

Oooh, groovy lights on that thing! I gotta say, it doesn't look half as bad as the Playmates publicity shots made it look.

 

[Rarewolf]

I havnt seen any in stores over here in england though. ill keep an eye out.

Forbidden Planet have the Enterprise available to pre-order. Apparently it's out at the end of April.

There are some payment security concerns with FPI

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=88416

 

[ncc-1017-e]

I got the Enterprise phaser communicator and tricoder. I did this in te hope that it would help and make me like the production design of this movie better. The toys are all done very well! I have to say that! We did a comparison with TOS Enterprise. the refit, both from DST, and this new Enterprise from playmates. THis was not comparing the toys but the actual designs of each ship. Hands down TOS and the refit are just much better looking from every angle. THe problem with JJ's Enterprise is clearly that the warp engines are way to close together! If they had placed them where they should be placed this new Enterprise would look OK! The phaser, comm and tricoder well they all are ok. I would probably gone in a different direction with the phaser in itys design! The ship is my major problem!