While I'm a (mostly) a fan of the AA/DST ships, their fragility and stupid stands have always concerned me.
Plus with quality control at DST being what it is, it's a miracle if I get a ship that isnt defective somehoe (my new WOK Enterprise has the speaker rattling around the saucer section!)
So yeah, playmates ships - sometimes charmingly inaccurate, always sturdy and reliable and mostly fun to play with!
- Jim
100% agree. Playmates have always seemed to beat DST stuff in terms of quality. Sure, the D may not separate, some of the ships may be inaccurate and they may seem to much like "toys" to some, but for me that’s what I want. I don't want to pick it up and be afraid that it might instantaneously combust, I want to swoosh it around the room and seem silly to the people next door with my pathetic photon torpedo impression, and have great fun with it, not let it gather dust but to loved, something my DST
ships can’t seem to handle at the moment.
Today, I went to a local shop. They had the Defiant MIB. I asked how much it might be... and he said $25!
So, I snapped it up! Also got the Romulan Warbird and Klingon Cruiser, neither of which I had as a kid!
Fantastic deal! I'm still after a Defiant, but I got my first Klingon and Romulan ships a few months ago. I love them, the Klingon Battle cruiser looks quite threatening with my Klingon fleet and the Romulan Warbird is extremely swooshable, and both are done with far better detail than I thought, especially for their age. Again, well done with the Defiant!