BadBunnyMike

Well that blurred intendant kira number isnt right, there werent even 10,000 of her made.

My lowest number is on a 9" Garak and it is 000002 or 8 I cant remember off the top of my head but he is a single digit I know that

Awww if I knew you were gonna toss the promo sheets and stuff I woulda took em off your hands. Yeah it is really sad the Ref site stalled, Rick at New Force didnt want to pursue it any longer, and when I switched over to a new comp I couldnt get the login info anymore. I might...just might try and find a hosting site for it myself and switch over.

I agree that they arent as good, the sculpting kinda went downhill on them, at least for the characters IMO.

It makes me wonder just how many of these people are STILL Around, half of them I have never heard of haha, and I have been here for a loonnnnnng time

The Way Of The Warrior is a great episode for sure, but honestly I have gotten two people hooked on Star Trek, and that was because of Voyager. Voyager was their gateway into the Trek world and now they love it. They have even gone to a few conventions with me

The Playmates line was on the decline anyway...Sadly. I really liked them and we were getting ALL KINDS of cool variant and obscure figures. But IMHO The Art Asylum / DST are FAR better...I just wish you guys would do another line or REGULAR figures. The Selects are AWESOME I have all of them, and the TRU ones, but they are so bulky they take up so much room on my walls hahaha.

I love the NX-2000. The only problem and reason I have for possibly not wanting to purchase it, besides the space and monetary issues, is that it was a "dock-monkey" meaning it just sat around in spacedock only being tested for experiments only. And even though I have to admit it looks great not only in the movies but as a toy (great job DST), the NX version has only been launched once (ST:III), other than that it is always seen in Spacedock not being used in all the other movies (ST:IV and ST:V). I know it is the origional Excelsior, I still wished writers would have done more with it than keep in spacedock "just for looks" and then finally use it in only one movie with not only a registry change but a somewhat different look.

 

Now, even though I am bashing the NX-2000 I want it to be known that I do love the Excelsior class over all. I also think the toy is spectacular in appearance. Kuddos to DST for another acceptional job, hope to see it soon. Now maybe if I get more space I will purchase it, but for now my final 2 spots on my shelf are reserved for Reliant and Voyager.

 

Here is the thing with this...variants like that if you dont get them when they are released you are gonna have a hard time down the road getting it without paying crazy Ebay prices.. If you are "waiting for space" then i suggest you buy it and keep her in the box until you DO have space or else you will miss the chance

I want the Reliant most of all...Already got my Excelsior, and Reliant is my next fav choice. Defiant and Voyager are cool but i already have a toy version of them, Reliant has not had a toy release yet.

OMG I LOOOOOOVE HER!!!! She just came today and I seriously love it...the wait was WELL WORTH IT! So beautiful.

BTW That front view picture is AMAZING, Shows that ship in her glory, Oh man

I don't even use the stands so that wouldn't stop me from buying them. They are all hanging from my ceiling. I love my little beauties floating above my bed

 

What is you point of view regarding DST's product? I'm not trying to be antagonistic but I'd quite like to know your own opinions on DST's product. Do you think things could be improved upon? What are your thoughts on the plastic used on the WoK Enterprise? Where do you stand on these issues, if you think their issues in the first place? Do you believe we should just take whatever DST produces and feel grateful for it? I see you jump to their defence a lot (every single time) but I never really see you offer any of your own opinions on product... I could be wrong but since this conversation is current, I'd really like to know. I mean it's OK to be critical. 

 

This is how I see it and this might be a bit of a long post, something I am not really known for but here it goes. 

 

Having been a kid in the 90's when Playmates came out with their line, I loved it. Loved every bit of it, the toys, figures, you name it I was a fan. I loved seeing how the ships were getting better and better from them as time went on. When Playmates stopped in the early 2000's and Art Asylum took over I was a teenager, and seeing the drastic jump from the look of the Playmates stuff to the NX-01 and Enterprise figures I was floored. As more of an adult collector I loved how realistic it looked. As the line moved on it was getting better and better. More geared towards the realistic look, rather than playability. 

 

When DST acquired Art Asylum's lines, I personally don't think there was a LOSS like most people tend to say. They gripe that Art Asylum was better and blah blah, well yeah Art Asylum was a smaller company and didn't have the resources to reach as big of a market like DST can, so sure when production runs start going up, then there are bound to be more errors found, and nitpickers start going to town.

 

Now yes, to most of us that have been on here for a while saw DST get sort of a bad wrap with all the delays and cancellations in the late 2000's with the Enterprise D and so forth, but you can't place the blame on them, things happen, economies take a turn, and ***t happens ya know, there is nothing you can do about it. But as a company they had to take that as a learning experience and from what we've seen with recent releases and time tables they HAVE learned. 

 

Overall I LOVE the entire DST line, the figures kept getting better and better (with the occasional slight disappointment) and the Ships are mind blowing. What I love the most is that they aren't just releasing all the same old stuff that has been released by Playmates, for example the A, Excelsior, AGT-D. I mean sure they released some ships that PM did, but made them 10 times better, Saucer Sep on the D, movable Wings on the BoP, and even really cool variants, half cloaked and cloaked versions ya know. 

 

DST is giving us quality product that in relative terms cost about the same as the PM ships did back in the 90's, but so much better. If you look at the inflation rates in the last 15 years, a $30 ship in 1994 would cost nearly 50 today. (http://www.bls.gov/d..._calculator.htm) 

So if you think about it, you are paying the same price for these ships, yet people complain that they are "expensive for a sub-standard product" because someone wants to nitpick a paint smudge, or a barely crooked registry number, shallow windows, trademark info, cheap plastic, blah blah....i've heard it all... If you want to do a price comparison vs. quality, take the JJ Prise from Playmates at $39 bucks i think it was. You get what you pay for, albeit cool, it is a TOY and LOOKS LIKE A TOY. DST ships look more real for a little bit more. 

 

Now with the TWOK Ent, I personally never had the original AA Ent-A do do a comparison, but I have always LOVED the Refit Enterprise, and as a kid was sad PM never did one. When i got my TWOK one I still to this day think she is a thing of beauty. The "cheap plastic" argument in my opinion is pretty stupid. now yes there is a bit of light bleed which sure, it could have been painted a little bit thicker inside or something. But that might have taken away from the pearelescant look they were going for. Now this point has been made once before, but frankly HOW OFTEN are you pushing the button on the TWOK Ent? Once a month? Once a Week? 99% of the time the ship is sitting nicely on the stand on a shelf, mine is hanging from my ceiling. You don't notice the light bleed unless the ship is in front of an open window or right next to a light bulb or something, and if that is where you have the ship enough to complain that the plastic is "cheap" then you are a fool right out the gate, you will be more worried that the sun faded your ship, or turned the plastic yellow rather than the light bleed that happens once a month when you push the button. 

 

So that being said, sure the light bleed is an inconvenience and hopefully DST does fix that problem with the A, but frankly I just don't see the point of beating a dead horse over it....yes we know people...GET OVER IT. All the negativity and reading the same bickering over and over and over just drives people away from here. I mean really....have you seen FHC posting on here lately? I haven't heard from him in MONTHS, or Sallah, people get sick of reading the same tired arguments and negativity and don't want to come back. Hell, one of these days Zach is going to do the same thing because he is just gonna get fed up with the negative attitude. 

 

Star Trek is almost 50 years old. We SHOULD be grateful that they are still producing collectibles from the show, and that they are of quality that DST gives us. I don't "jump to their defense" I just take a different, more logical, for lack of better word, approach to things. I won't nitpick every single flaw on every single thing because I don't find it worth it. And I have said this many many times, If DST stops making Trek product someone will pick the line up and here we go again, starting all the way back from scratch with the new company releasing the same stuff that we have already gotten, I want to see DST continue to produce new and different things, and keep the line going. So "boycotting" them all together because the paint scheme on some ship was too dark or blah blah whatever other lame ass excuse some of the people on here come up with is just going to hurt the line overall and put us ALL back at square one. You don't like something DON'T BUY IT....plain and simple. 

 

In a nutshell I am happy to get Trek toys on a regular basis and frankly someone is going to have some sort of problem with EVERY thing that DST releases one way or another, but most of the time it wont be from me. Hope that put into perspective how i see it.

No offence but can we stop beating a dead horse? Yes we all know that the TWOK Enterprise was transluscent but seriously...i have scrolled through 3 pages of "The plastic is cheap" blah blah....Lets just hope that the A looks better so some people on here will be happy. But can we really just drop the plastic issues please. 

Man I have to say looking at all of these figures I am pretty impressed by this series. Anyone on here collecting them??

My money is on the Glow in the Dark U.S.S. Defiant from Tholian Web...Zach seemed interested in that when it was brought up in a different thread. That is where my money would lay...but you never know...