The actual toy colors looked very different from the prototype pictured on the box. The box does actually say that the pictures are of a prototype, but the pictures look FAR, FAR more attractive than the actual toy inside.

Also, 4 or 5 of this toy could have easily fit inside that box. I also noticed that nowhere on the box did it show a picture that could have given the customer any idea of the scale or how small the actual product was compared to the box size.

Despite being small, in a deceptive package, and a different color, the actual Enterprise itself is well made and is display worthy. Even knowing everything above, I would have paid up to $15 for it, but had I paid the full price of $29 (US), I would probably have returned it to the store.

I’m fifty two years old and was a “real fan” when you were a naught but a glint in your mother’s eye, sonny jim. Not only do I know the people you mention, but I’ve personally met some of them…several times. I can also tell you for a FACT that Gene wanted new bood to take his vision into the future, and beyond, and that he would have approved of Mr Abrams putting his own stamp on Trek.

JJ Abrams needed to make the kind of movie he made to put it back into the public conciousness, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if he was to honour us with a more Roddenberry-esque tale in future instalments, now that it is back where it belongs. However, if you don’t understand that if he had made the movie most of US would have wished for, there wouldn’t be a future for Trek – as there would have been just us, the dwindling established fan-base, sat in an otherwise empty cinema – then you don’t understand the movie business. It may be something akin to a religion to the likes of us, but to *CBS* Paramount, Trek is a commercial license. Think about it.

As far as I can tell, the only “stupid” person in this thread is you. You have no understanding of the business, or economics. Perhaps when you move your spotty ass out of your mother’s basement, into the real world, you just might start to get a grip on such concepts.

You buy into anything & everything just cause it’s called “star trek”, & in the process encourage hollywood to do more bastardizing!

It’s a shame there’s so many of you drooling idiots out there. If you had any brains, & held paramount accountable for this garbage instead of blindly following, Star trek wouldn’t be heading down the toilet!

The new movie, & ALL the toys & merch, dishonors
Majel Barrett, Roger Carmel, James Doohan, Dorthy Fontana, DeForest Kelley, Mark Lenard, & Gene Roddenberry – & as far as I see it, if you don’t know who those people are then you’re not a REAL fan & need to GTFO!

I really think its the best Playmates ship. They clearly borrowed from Art Asylum with the stand though at least the stand fits. I always had to shave the pivot ball for AA ships to get it in the hole. They also used the single brisge dome button for sound effects. I had hoped for the classic individual sounds buttons but this will do. The lighting is vastly superior to any ship Playmates made in the 90’s. If they made this back in the 90’s, only the bussard collector’s would have lit up. I suppose we have AA again to thank forcing Playmates to up their game to get the movie license.

Mine unfortunatelt has some paint slop on the saucer including a annoying blotch of grey but its minor and not noitceable from afar. I’m not taking a long 2 hour bus and metro to exchnge it over minor imperfections. Even my AA ships suffer from paint slop anyway so lets not get into quality control here. As for the screws, I don’t mind them. Unless you enjoy staring at the underside of the ship, you’ll never notice them when its on display.

If all goes well, Playmates will be releasing a 12 inch X 20 inch long Narada mining ship in September.

My worry is that without a schematic of the circuitry, that I may reverse polarity the LEDs and blow them. Yikes!