all your starships are belong to us



I'm suffering from extreme hype build-up leading into the new Star Trek movie. I'm not quite as geeked as I was before any of the Star Wars movies, but I'm quite a bit older now. Anyway, I picked up Playmates' version of the redesigned Enterprise last night, and it's without a doubt the crown jewel of their roster of product.

It's smaller than I expected. I thought, judging by the size of the box, that I'd have to put the nacelles and those arms onto the hull, but the ship came fully assembled, with every detail painted on, and no stickers. Which was great. It's substantially smaller than the Playmates ships from the 90s, but it does look pretty good with DST's ships. Hell, it's almost too big scale-wise for them, but if all these ships had a consistent scale from two companies across fifteen years, I'd be shocked. It looks great next to my DST Enterprise-E, so that's all I care about.

I was a little annoyed that I forked over $30 for a mass-market ship this small, but the electronic features and lights made up for that. This thing is loud, bright, and genuinely annoying- the perfect electronic toy.

The sculpt is very detailed, which also softened the $30 blow. The stand is sturdy, and allows the owner to pivot and turn the ship 360 degrees. The sturdy stand is a big plus, since my Art Asylum/DST Enterprise-A stand broke and I haven't found a glue strong enough to hold the stand back together. That doesn't seem like it's an issue with this stand.

I had to get this now, just in case it sells out. I was around back when Playmates was making their ships in the 90s, and those were ridiculously hard to find, plus they cost $30 back then. (Seriously, just try to find a Voyager or Enterprise-B now for less than $300.) If this film catches fire, this could be a difficult piece to find. I think Star Trek will be the best film of the summer. Wolverine looks kinda dumb, Terminator is directed by McG, and I really don't need to again state my opinion on the Transformers and GI Joe movies. I'll expand on that later, though.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dear makers of the upcoming Masters of the Universe movie

Image
Here is your competition, from the 2009 GI Joe live-action movie. As you can see, it is patently ridiculous. Folks at Warner Brothers, you know you can do better than Paramount, the entity producing GI Joe. Just because it's based on a cartoon from the 1980s doesn't mean it still has to look ridiculous in a different way. I beg you, Warner Brothers, to look at what made the original property so charming in the first place, and not "update" or leatherize it. Some people say it worked for the X-Men franchise, but the only thing that time has proven about that is that copying that idea is bringing down genre films as a whole. I know you are worried about profits, since it's expensive to make movies, but not everything has to appeal to teenagers. Yes, they have money, but people who actually played with He-Man toys in the 1980s have lots more money, and some of them even have kids. Please, think of the twenty- and thirtysomethings and their children instead of the low
Read more

GI Joe wave 7

or 2008 wave 3 if you're going that way. Clicky. I think they're all pretty great, except the Duke w/ jetpack. It's great to get some more accessories like JUMP packs, but I already bought that Duke mold twice. Wild Bill is looking better, the HISS Driver was better suited for the Target exclusive HISS Tank. However, the Viper, Spirit, and Snake Eyes are all looking great. This version of Snake Eyes was the one I had back in the day, so I'm glad it was updated. I was glad to see they went with the stereotype version of Spirit. I liked the updated look he got in DTC, but this is an anniversary line. The Viper is going to be bloody, just like the Crimson Guard in wave 5. Hasbro could get a lot of mileage out of this mold, by doing another Viper Pit set and selling us a bunch for $25. Major Bludd has been pushed back to wave 8.
Read more

Webstor!

He-Man posted this on MySpace. I hadn't seen it in years, and just had to post it here. Don't you just love the cross-sells in these old toy commercials? Not only did it make you aware of the new bad guy, but also the new Battle Armor He-Man and it reminded you about Castle Grayskull.
Read more