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[Destructor!!!]

You guys have great camaraderie - you're entertaining to watch/listen to.

[Prometheus]

You guys have great camaraderie - you're entertaining to watch/listen to.

 

Thanks D....Its always fun to do the reviews and I never know what Will Decker is going to say to make me laugh....

[Qcjoe]

Love the reviews guys.

[VorlonKosh]

Anyone else still waiting to get their HMS BOP from Big Bad Toy Store?

[data_2006]

I did for a long time and then I broke down and bought one on Ebay (did the same with teh Exceslior and Ent- not saure why but they sure don't seem to get their shipments from DST anymore.....

[Tyjos Azari]

So got the Star Trek IV BOP Up on the blog.

http://rborg42.wordp...v-bird-of-prey/

[mars396]

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.

 

[Jay K]

Thanks for the head's up dude. I'm sure everyone here would press the try-me button in the shop to be sure, but it's information like that, that makes this forum invaluable for me.

[JMW326]

Thanks for the heads up. I had a similar issue with DST and Toys R us online when purchasing the Super Pursuit Mode Knight Rider vehicle. They sent the regular KITT. Apparently they have the same sku and box with only the sound sticker being different.

[DSTZach]

It was a simple mis-ship from Diamond Comics, Mars. If we had a spare stand, we might have sent you one, but we don't, and besides -- you never bought the ship, it was still in your store's hands. And since it was Diamond Comics' error, not ours -- we are not the same company -- that made it an issue between your store and Diamond Comics. We service dozens of customers a day, but there was nothing we could do in this case.

And I can see someone in the warehouse pulling the wrong ship, but we've been offering the Chang BoP in that new packaging since we did the second production run, so nobody here is confused. Not sure where you found that picture, but I remember getting a misnamed image and internationally NOT using it. I certainly didn't think it ever ran on the site.

[DSTZach]

And the boxes are totally accurate. Nobody is putting the wrong ship in the wrong box. Dialogue sticker and movie sticker are fully accurate across the board, and Bounty landing gear should be fully visible.

The SPM KITT issue was apparently on toysrus.com's end, they initially didn't realize that the Toys R" Us cases contained both versions. But I believe that matter had been resolved.

[JMW326]

The SPM KITT issue was apparently on toysrus.com's end, they initially didn't realize that the Toys R" Us cases contained both versions. But I believe that matter had been resolved.

Oh yeah. That I am sure of. I talked to several people at TRU. All idiots. I eventually took it back to the store and the guy at the returns counter did not believe me when I tried to explain what happened. He even went as far as to open the regular KITT to try and find a button to make the SPM parts pop out. Lol. I finally got him to give me my money back from the online purchase and drove to another location and lucked into finding one SPM left on the shelf.

[Tiberius]

TRU employees, are often tools.
In the Playmates days, I would call in to ask if they had anything new. I asked to know which Star TREK toys they had, and the floor person told me about the little green guy, or the gold robot!!

[DSTZach]

FYI, we changed the packaging between the first and second production runs of the Chang BoP because the big, flat packaging, while impressive, was a nightmare to ship. It was an awkward size, it didn't fit in any boxes that weren't made especially for it, and it was prone to damage. The new shape is much easier to ship.

[mars396]

The new shape is much easier to ship.

And easier to confuse with the HMS Bounty

[DSTZach]

Well, they were probably made at exactly the same time, which is why we were so motivated to modify the packaging dimensions. We weren't about to fix the packaging for the Bounty, then pack the Changs in the same old unwieldy packaging just for continuity's sake. So if we had kept the flat packaging for the Chang BoP, we would have kept it for the Bounty as well.

 

But by your argument, every version of any Excelsior-class ship is easy to confuse with the other. So is every version of the Constitution Class, every version of the Sovereign class, etc. At a quick glance, sure, you couldn't tell which ship it was, but the stickers clearly indicate what is inside.

 

Mistakes happen. A warehouse worker in a hurry might have pulled from the wrong pallet, or a previous worker might have replaced an item on the wrong pallet, but most likely it was NOT due to mistaking one item for another. I've gotten the wrong requisitioned product shipped to me on occasion, but those are clearly code errors, and not sight errors, because I'll get a comic book instead of a toy. I've never gotten the wrong version of a Trek ship, and while I can't speak for retailers getting incorrect items, as someone who reads every customer service e-mail, I have never seen another report of anyone else getting one, either.

[ShipNerd]

Received the BOP from ST IV.

This is probably the most humorous DST Ship I have ever bought.

The Sound Chip is classic and fits the movie very well.

The repackaging looks like it was meant to protect the wings...a very wise move.

Amazed that the Landing Gear did Support the ship.

BBTS delivers with a well protected shipping box.

Win Win....and a "Double Dumbass on You!"

Great job by DST.

[DSTZach]

Wow, thanks, SHipNerd!

[mars396]

six weeks later:  I FINALLY have my Bounty !!

 

and it has exceeded all expectations.

WOW what a great sculpt and paintjob - looks screen used.

 

This is truly DST's most versatile ship - so many different display options.

 

Yes, my landing gear is glued together crooked and not all that convincing-looking up close (and the screws do NOTHING to help this - what are they for ???), but while landed, there is so much goodness to partake that it draws attention away from the crooked landing gear

 

BRAVO  DST ! !!

 

I would probably explode if I got a K'Tinga (or many variant K'Tingas) with this level of detail.

[Jay K]

Kruge BoP on sale at amazon UK for £21!

http://www.amazon.co...words=Star Trek