What do you think the price point will be and are those easy to assemble?
Excelsior starship in fall of 09?
#61
Posted 23 April 2009 - 09:57 PM
What do you think the price point will be and are those easy to assemble?
#62
Posted 23 April 2009 - 10:13 PM
No idea about the price yet. We are told that it will be around 15-16 inches long, and a skill level 2 kit. If you've built any car or aircraft models, then you shouldn't have any problems with this. It is listed as a 2010 release, along with the 1/350 (33 inch long) Classic TOS Enterprise model kit.
#63
Posted 23 April 2009 - 10:27 PM
Holy crap! Are you serious?
It certeinly is about time. With the popularity of the Akira class, I'm surprised it took this long to get a licensed kit.
#64
Posted 23 April 2009 - 11:12 PM
#65
Posted 24 April 2009 - 09:40 AM
Wow, that would be awesome. I would love DST to do an Akira ship too.
#66
Posted 30 April 2009 - 03:44 PM
the 1/1000 scale akira has been shelved indefinitely in favor of a 1/1000 refit/ent a. Sorry guys.
#67
Posted 30 April 2009 - 03:49 PM
Ugh. Are you serious? Does the world really need more of those? Bleargh.
#68
Posted 30 April 2009 - 08:47 PM
#69
Posted 30 April 2009 - 09:49 PM
#70
Posted 30 April 2009 - 10:14 PM
SS
#71
Posted 06 May 2009 - 07:18 AM
I know this is a pretty old post, but what's inferior about the E? Do you mean the actual design of the ship, or the AA toy being inferior?
#72
Posted 06 May 2009 - 11:56 AM
I used to own the E, so I believe I can answer that. For one thing, the windows aren't painted in like the later releases, the WOK 1701 the battle damaged version, TOS 1701, TOS The Cage version, as well as the Where No Man Has Gone Before version, The new Enterprise D, etc.
Also, the Enterprise E is rather sparse in the paint application department as well, not to mention that only the front part of the nacelles light up, the part that's supposed to be blue doesn't even have lighting at all.
Otherwise, the sculpt and stand are very well done, but yes, compared to the later releases, it is indeed inferior in my honest opinon.
-Kyp
#73
Posted 06 May 2009 - 12:14 PM
It is an inferior product if you are a nitpicker about certain details. Some paint apps were missing (ie the top of the nacelle pylons), there was no play cover on this issue (it was an oversight on the part of the AA/DST switch over), there was some light bleed, and, yes, the blue part of the nacelles didn't light up (which caused a great outcry from some of us when we realized it).
Is it truly an inferior product? I don't really think inferior is a fair term. Is it less superior? Yes. I mean the sculpt is amazing and the most screen accurate available. What paint apps are applied are amazing - I am not that worried about painted windows though. The sounds are absolutely beautiful. And, despite the omission of the lighted blue part of the nacelles, the lights are pretty cool.
Would I like a re-issue with corrections? Certainly. Would I not recommend the product? Absolutely not.
-EDIT-
ARGH! You baited me into an off topic discussion just posts after I chastised for being off topic! Back on topic! LOL
#74
Posted 06 May 2009 - 12:16 PM
Also, the Enterprise E is rather sparse in the paint application department as well, not to mention that only the front part of the nacelles light up, the part that's supposed to be blue doesn't even have lighting at all.
Otherwise, the sculpt and stand are very well done, but yes, compared to the later releases, it is indeed inferior in my honest opinon.
-Kyp
Hmm...well since I don't any of the other ships I think I can live with all that. I have the PM 2009 Enterprise and love it so I'm sure this will still be a step up, LOL.
#75
Posted 06 May 2009 - 02:31 PM
#76
Posted 27 October 2010 - 11:57 PM
#77
Posted 28 October 2010 - 07:18 AM
#78
Posted 28 October 2010 - 07:48 AM
#79
Posted 28 October 2010 - 04:26 PM
#80
Posted 28 October 2010 - 05:07 PM
The delay has actually been good for me; it gives me time to set some money aside for the Excelsior and Enterprise-B, especially since I'm now scrambling to try and buy one of those new Millennium Falcon toys Hasbro put out, that I stupidly missed during the first run.
DST never really attached a date to the Enterprise-B and Excelsior, they just sort of displayed it as a toy they were working on (kind of like the BoP,) and might have had added an "estimated" release date at some point; I think one of the displays had a "Estimated Q4 2009" on the card underneath the ships, but it wasn't anything that was really concrete.
It's also worth noting that the Enterprise-B and Excelsior were announced shortly after the Enterprise-D was actually released. This leads me to believe that DST announces their ships as soon as they begin working on them, and have something they can display as a potential mock-up. (Usually an AMT/Ertl kit.) The release date may be given for legal reasons; from what I understand, stores aren't allowed to solicit pre-orders unless they provide a release date for whatever is being pre-ordered. In some cases, stores actually make up a release date if none is provided by the manufacturer; this is incredibly common with video games, where stores frequently make up a date and then alter it to match whatever date the manufacturer provides. If this is why DST is providing a vague "date," it does make some sense.
I should also note that since the Enterprise-B and Excelsior were announced, the BoP has been announced and shown, the updated Enterprise-E has been announced and displayed, and it looks like BBTS is taking pre-orders for another run of AGT-Ds, so DST is still clearly working on new ships, as well as reissues for those who may have missed the first run. Also, if memory serves me correctly, I thought someone mentioned that DST decided to "flip" the BoP and Ent-B/Excelsior release dates. This actually makes a lot of sense, especially if you look at potential variants:
1. BoP with FX and clips from Generations; ties in well with upcoming Ent-B, and allows for a possible Ent-D variant
2. BoP with FX and clips from TUC; ties in well with upcoming Excelsior (NCC-2000,) and may justify an updated 1701-A reissue
3. BoP with FX and clips from TSFS; ties in well with upcoming Excelsior (NX-2000,) and may justify an updated version of Art Asylum's self-destructing 1701 in proper packaging, based off of DSTs already retooled WOK 1701
#2 and #3 on that list are obviously meant to be either/or options based on what hull registry DST gives the Excelsior, but if they run two Excelsiors with an NX and NCC prefix respectively, that's actually three BoP variants, two Excelsior variants and one slight retooling, one Ent-D variant, and two refit constitution-class variants that DST could pump out over the next few years.
I'm honestly looking forward to all three ships, so I have no preference over which of the three is released first; as long as my updated 1701-Es show up in January, and the Ent-B, Excelsior, and Klingon BoP are all released, I'll be happy. After waiting for the Enterprise-D, I feel like I can wait for anything. Once the thing showed up the 18 month delay seemed like an 18 second delay because the quality was so good. As long as the BoP, Enterprise-B, and Excelsior maintain that level of quality/detail, I'll be happy.
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