Klingon BoP is finally coming!
#1
Posted 18 May 2012 - 10:06 AM
Look what is finally up for preorder, with a pic no less! Wonder how many times BBTS will cancel the preorder?
#2
Posted 18 May 2012 - 11:31 AM
#3
Posted 18 May 2012 - 12:03 PM
#4
Posted 18 May 2012 - 02:35 PM
#5
Posted 18 May 2012 - 03:12 PM
#6
Posted 19 May 2012 - 09:19 AM
That was my first thought too! Wow, these DST ships are getting expensive.
But, I guess it's not all that much of a shock, since the phasers are $35.
#7
Posted 19 May 2012 - 12:18 PM
The ship will be officially solicited starting next week and is currently
showing an Oct/Nov ETA...once I get a wholesale cost from DST, we will list
on our site for presale...I can tell everyone that DST has the MSRP at $70
which means $50-55 is likely going to be a reasonably discounted
price...typically if the msrp is 70, I will pay $45 shipped to me, so to mark up even
10%, I would have to be at 49.99...but don't want to speculate, will wait
for DST to get me volume rates...
so, once I have my costs, I will post to Playtrek and our site...naturally
,we will sell as cheap as we can!
rick
#8
Posted 19 May 2012 - 12:55 PM
Let's not forget that we are getting a lot of cool features on this one ... poseable wings, maybe retractable landing gear, surely lights and sounds. Sounds fair to me.
#9
Posted 19 May 2012 - 05:09 PM
Agreed.
#10
Posted 19 May 2012 - 08:07 PM
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 03:40 AM
#12
Posted 20 May 2012 - 04:40 AM
They tried their damnedest to motorise the medical scanner with the TOS tricorder a couple of years ago, but they couldn't make it cost effective. Perhaps I'm wrong, and the lead-in time will allow them to implement it, but I certainly don't expect it for the BOP.
For the BOP, at least, I'm just fine with poseable wings being manual. We've only seen them reorienting on-screen once, as far as I remember, so it's not like the animation is an iconic feature, like it is with Voyager.
#13 Guest_1701_*
Posted 20 May 2012 - 01:36 PM
#14
Posted 20 May 2012 - 03:42 PM
This would, of course, be subject to the legal vagaries of their license agreement with CBS/Paramount. It'd be a way to boost sales of the BOP, and simultaneously give collectors more of the figures they clamour for. If it was successful, they might be convinced to mint new figures of Chang and Gorkon for the ST:VI BOP that I hope they make.
#15
Posted 22 May 2012 - 03:09 AM
This would, of course, be subject to the legal vagaries of their license agreement with CBS/Paramount. It'd be a way to boost sales of the BOP, and simultaneously give collectors more of the figures they clamour for. If it was successful, they might be convinced to mint new figures of Chang and Gorkon for the ST:VI BOP that I hope they make.
Well they won
#16
Posted 23 May 2012 - 11:18 AM
Im not a klingon expert...what are the differences between all the BoPs discussed thus far?
#17
Posted 23 May 2012 - 11:51 AM
#18 Guest_1701_*
Posted 27 May 2012 - 05:35 PM
HMS Bounty
Commander Kruge's Bird of Prey
Changs Bird of Prey
Star Trek The Next Generation/Generations/Deep Space Nine version - kind of a generic 24th century version of the Bird of Prey featuring the voices of Worf, Lursor, Be'tor, Martok and Gowron as I don't think having one for each of those characters is iconic enough to sell on it's own but a generic one that can stand against our Enterprise D's/possible Defiant's is probably more logical.
#19
Posted 28 May 2012 - 08:29 AM
That said, there's certain to be a point of diminishing returns with BOPs. Especially since almost all of the variants will look the same. I'd say the most you could get away with is making the Ro'tarran look battle torn, and packaging the Yesterday's Enterprise BOP as the K'vort class, with it's wings raised in package.
Of course, thinking about it, that's probably how they'll all be packed, for shelf space.
#20
Posted 28 May 2012 - 09:06 AM
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