As you can see, there is an absolute consensus among all serious Trek fans about which ships are good, which ships are bad and where we should be focusing our attention.
It's incredible to me to see a serious fan suggest that we go back and make new versions of the ships that are our best-sellers, and introduced so many fans to our line. As others have noted, the NUMBER ONE complaint about this ship from Trek fans online -- more than accuracy, I would say -- is that it is another Enterprise refit. We are apparently being cheap and lazy by offering a "repaint" of the same ship. But I do not think a newly sculpted A, or TOS, or D, would be received much better. People like those ships, they display them all in a row, none of them are asking us to make them all over again.
Even if 1701D is correct about the proportions of the TOS, problems other knowledgeable fans apparently do not see, I seriously doubt any new version we put out would live up to that kind of scrutiny.
I also don't understand why weight is such a factor with people. I know people like die-cast, I know people want perceived value, but I simply don't see why a toy being too light is seen as a negative. If the D were lighter, the stands would last a lot longer.
I am fairly certain this ship will do well. I think it will do better than the green Defiant, because it is an Enterprise. I think it will also do better than if it had a smashed saucer section. I think it would even do better than a fully painted Enterprise with a smashed saucer section -- at least at SDCC, where the casual buyer and Trek fan (who maybe does not have an Enterprise already) would find a whole ship more appealing than a partial one. Long-term, maybe the latter would do better, but it would NEED to, because the only way we could do a new saucer would be if we did an entire run of them, like any new ship, in the thousands, not hundreds.
And it is a far world away from Star Trek, most days, but there are actually designer toy fans who just love to get licensed toys in crazy colorways. I honestly think the collective is simply unaware of the existence of the casual Trek fan, who does not rigidly adhere to screen accuracy.
So, someone calling the product "horrific" is more entertaining I guess. Probably everyone posting here has shelled out hundreds if not thousands of dollars for DST over the years. Keep that in mind when you're being sarcastic to us.
Nigel, I honestly have zero idea what you're talking about. Nobody has been sarcastic to you, least of all me.
The fully cloaked BoP was just a clear piece of plastic.
I think people here lost their minds when they found out it would be an exclusive. It was a beautiful piece, it made sense, and it was screen accurate. I bet we could have sold a lot more than we made.