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USS ENTERPRISE HAYNES OWNERS MANUAL (Part 3)

Gentlemen,
I'm in need of guidance from experts! I'm considering converting a Mego Enterprise Bridge playset into something more closely resembling the original Pilot Episode bridge, to put my Emcee toys Christopher Pike mego in. Would you guys be able to help with images or drawings? What are the main differences between the Pilot interior and the regular season interiors? I know the colors were desaturated, but it's hard to figure out much else...
Brianne.
 
You'd be better off building your own out of cardstock. Besides the matter of, essentially, a transporter on the bridge, the shape is completely off.
 
Yeah, your best bet would be to use your personal judgment and do whatever you think looks best to you, because the Mego "set" is already so different from the actual set, that I'm not sure there are many points of comparison on which to advise one way or the other.

Unless you’re talking a wholesale reworking of the Mego play set to more closely resemble the actual set? In which case your better off starting from scratch, and using images from Trekcore for reference to build your own.
 
Uh-Oh. I just saw that Haynes is doing a Millennium Falcon manual! LOL. We're going to have two fandom bases bitching about their work now.
 
Is it safe to assume that everything's going to at least line up with the info in the novel "Millenium Falcon"? There's a lot of history of the ship in that one, from the time she tried to jump ahead in the assembly line and onward.
 
Probably a safe bet. I'm guessing too that the art work will be consistent with the recent release of the Falcon 3D book that was released...or is coming out. Along with the cutaways that were featured in the Visual Dictionary and other DK guide books. I'm not really sure why this is coming out to be honest but it could be an interesting read. I think the article mentions that the book is coming out this November.
 
If Haynes is going to do a crappy Millennium Falcon manual, then Incredible cross sections should make an awesome Star Trek guide. That sounds only fair.
 
Comments have already been made several times in Trek Lit over the years (including somewhat recently in various threads) why DK is not a partner with Pocket Books. DK can't afford the licensing fee I believe. Believe me I've thought for years that DK should hook up with Pocket.

I've changed my mind about the Falcon manual being potentially crappy now that I know the creative team doing the book. I'm actually looking forward to it. It's really too bad that Haynes/Pocket couldn't do the same effort for the Enterprise book.
 
The Haynes work just doesn't compare to the old tech manuals for quality and insightfulness. The graphics are poor and it reads more like a trivia book than an inspiring, creative, and original piece.

The Haynes LEM manual was just as bad. I have numerous books and documents from Apollo, and Haynes filed to compile anything that added at all to what has already been done.

These books hide behind their well known name. They trust that the Haynes label and a popular genre is guaranteed to sell so they don't have to compile a truly inspiring work that rises above what has been done before. The casual fan has no interest in something so simplistic and the hardcore fan demands higher quality.

When will the awesome cut-away posters from the 90s ever be reprinted!?!
 
They've just done a series of WWII airplane manuals. I ordered the Messerschmitt 109 one. We'll see how they do on something that already has about a billion versions in print.
 
As I said, their LEM manual was terrible so don't get your hopes up. There are already many fine manuals on WWII aircraft out there which you probably would have been happier with.
 
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