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mars396

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#79477 New York City Toy Fair 2015 Discussion Thread

Posted by mars396 on 24 February 2015 - 12:26 PM

Since we all want a Reliant, and have been asking for a Reliant since the Art Asylum days, and the Reliant will display beautifully with the Enterprise refit, I am now 99.999% sure DST is making a USS Grissom.

That would certainly keep the theme of confusion and anger generated by their baffling Bird of Prey decision.




#79241 New York City Toy Fair 2015 Discussion Thread

Posted by mars396 on 16 February 2015 - 04:42 PM

It's simple economics.  The Romulan Bird of Prey is THE cheapest Star Trek ship to produce:

very over-simple shape

Very few pieces to assemble in the factory

only two LEDs

 

and they can charge the same as their other, more expensive-to-produce ships




#79157 New York City Toy Fair 2015 Discussion Thread

Posted by mars396 on 15 February 2015 - 03:51 PM

Romulan BoP is not very exciting

Klingon/Romulan Battlecruiser would have been more exciting for the 50th


#77832 Star Trek - The Official Starships Collection

Posted by mars396 on 29 September 2014 - 10:51 AM

Thanks for your opnions guys.  I have yet to see one in person due to nothing in the area to see.  I may have to order one on blind faith.

Yes you need
Faith of the heart
I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe

OK enough of that nonsense.
Do what I did:   I picked my absolute favorite ship of the ones released at that time and took a $20(plus shipping) shot.   I figured if I don't completely and unconditionally love it, I could always twist a twist-tie on it and hang on my XMas tree.  

But, I fell in love with my little USS Voyager and immediately bought more online.  And more.  Then even more.   I got my Local Comic Shop to order the yet-to-be-released ones through Diamond Distributing.    Now I can pick and choose the ones I want, as opposed to being a subscriber and being stuck paying for a Solar Sailer and Ferengi Marauder I will never put on display.


#76329 AskDST 245

Posted by mars396 on 21 May 2014 - 08:31 PM

I suppose I should rank my other wants too, huh ?


Select:

 

#1 Sisko and Jadzia Dax (FC uniforms)

 

#2 Janeway and Seven

 

#3 Movie uniform Kirk and Spock 

 

 

props:

 

Next Gen Phaser/Voyager phaser

 

24th century tricorder(s)




#76256 AskDST 245

Posted by mars396 on 13 May 2014 - 02:37 PM

^ I believe he quoted it for emphasis.

 

 

I would use bold for emphasis

 

"new" is used for trickery and deceit

 

USS Defiant from The Tholian Web - hey that's a "new" ship, right ?

 

cloaked USS Enterprise from The Enterprise Incident.  all "new" starship for 2015!!!

 

USS Excelsior from Flashback - the first DST ship with soundclips from  Voyager - that's a "new" one!

Battle-Damaged USS Enterprise-D from Generations.  We've never done that particular ship - that's "new"!




#76034 Klingon BoP is finally coming!

Posted by mars396 on 24 April 2014 - 07:18 AM

A cautionary tale for anyone looking for the HMS Bounty:
 
DST has made a running change to their production, and is now shipping General Chang’s Undiscovered Country BoP in the new “attack mode” box.   They look exactly the same until you get close enough to read the phrase sticker in the window, and see that there is no landing gear.
 
My LCS ordered an HMS Bounty for me, and received one of these repackaged Chang BoPs instead.  The Packing Slip even lists “1 HMS Bounty Klingon Bird of Prey”.  Unfortunately, this repackage doesn’t include the landing gear, or else I would have bought it immediately.  DST Customer “Service” is unwilling to send my LCS a landing gear battery cover;  they would rather incur the expense of shipping the BoP back to the distributor, and ship another one back to my LCS (that’s assuming, of course, that they don’t send the wrong BoP again.)
 
 
 
Even Art Asylum is confused:   I found this on the Art Asylum website:
it is named BoP-Bounty_pkg1.jpg, yet it is Chang's BoP in the new box

http://www.artasylum...Bounty_pkg1.jpg
 
 
 
Please be absolutely sure when you see a Bird of Prey in the Wild that it is the Bird of Prey you are looking for.   These repackaged Chang BoPs DO NOT include the landing gear.

 




#75818 Star Trek Select

Posted by mars396 on 07 April 2014 - 12:52 PM

oh man....

 

I'd be so into Sisko and Dax, then Janeway and Seven.

 

Please take my money, DST!