They look great. Are they the $29.99 ones?
Well, my two phasers are the original, gray-body ones - I bought them for $25 each. Now they're painted a bit more bluish in the gray section ("new color"), and they go for $25 each that way. If, for some reason, you want the original, more-grayish color, those now go for about $50 each (""original release"):
New Force (they're also available elsewhere - prices vary).
I guess I'd go for the slightly more bluish these days (maybe closer to the actual TOS color?, though I like my gray ones). There are also bronze handle and white handle/black body phasers if you want to get specialized (the white/black one was in early Season One; the bronze is a never-seen variant, I think, made for Trek's 40th anniversary). Regardless of version, the Phaser 1 can separate from the Phaser 2 (the P1 can fire either way), and it has a variety of settings which determines the firing sound. You use the P2 trigger or the button on the bottom of the P1 to fire.
The communicator comes in two flavors: normal, and shiny gold grid with an extra voice phrase. The normal version usually goes for $25, the shiny gold grid usually goes for $30. I consider the normal grid closer in appearance to what TOS had, and it has a jumper on the circuit board that can be burned open with a soldering iron to get the "exclusive 9th voice phrase" (which is Spock saying, "Your signal is very weak, can you turn up your gain?"). The gold version has this jumper open to begin with.
While I had my basic communicator open for soldering, I also placed a new moire disc which I'd printed with my laser printer: it provides a better effect than the painted-on disc as originally supplied (same on both the $25 and $30 version). But, that was just me - I liked playing "Scotty" by modifying my communicator. The communicator as supplied is certainly worth $25/30 (though I think the $25 bronze grid is more accurate than the $30 gold one). In both cases, the moire disc rotates, you can flip the grid open to activate the communicator (like in TOS; the feeling of flipping it open is just right), and the lights blink. Besides the 9th phrase, there are 7 voice phrases (4 Kirk, 3 others), plus the opening chirp and the call tone (which you get by pressing the middle button, like in
Day of the Dove, and then Spock calls back asking if you need an armed party).
There are plans for a medical tricorder (with a "McCoy" scanner) and a science tricorder (with a yet-to-be-seen science scanner). The medical version's screen will have a set of readouts like those above the bed in sick bay; the graphic for the science one is to be determined.
I personally know that the phaser and communicator are great toys/replicas,
well worth the money, so I'm looking forward to the tricorder(s). I have no connection with any seller. But these are
awesome - the best and most-affordable TOS props/toys/replicas I've
ever seen.
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