Comments on: The Collective: Review DST TOS Science Tricorder Toy & Communicator/Phaser Toy Kit

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:09:50 +0000

The grey handle variant is the only one they have done that is close to anything screen used. The standard blue with black handle is way off….it was never blue, rather grey with a slight blue tint and a darker grey handle. However, the Trials and Tribble-ations HMS prop was grey body/grey handle. DST did one in 2009..it was a Toys ‘r’ Us exclusive (doesn’t mention DS9 or trials and tribble-ations on the packaging but it was based on this variant)….track it down if you can, as it is the most authentic DST have made yet.

By: laser pointer

laser pointer — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:53:01 +0000

#16, YOU are right.
“You’re going to put your eye out with that thing, kid!”
this is just what i am going to say! a great job, guy!

By: Alex Bony

Alex Bony — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:50:52 +0000

#16, thank you for sharing such great laser. this blue laser must bring much joys for my life.

By: erickson

erickson — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:20:33 +0000

#16, YOU are right.
“You’re going to put your eye out with that thing, kid!”
you are doing well.

By: Treknut

Treknut — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:31:15 +0000

It looks like there are a couple of versions of the communicator out there. One with the metal lid and one with the plastic lid. The one that is the “EE” exclusive has the metal lid as far as I can tell.

By: Capt. Luna

Capt. Luna — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:38:35 +0000

How about a psychological tricorder? That would be interesting to see. If your curious, watch “A Wolf in the Fold”.

By: agent036

agent036 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:52:05 +0000

The Geological Tricorder will play samples from the ships computer. I found this out today when I hacked my tricorder to add a three way switch that changes it from science to medical and geological. The circuit board for all three is the same one with a few different connections.

By: THX-1138

THX-1138 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:25:18 +0000

I love the DST stuff but I will continue to rail on every board available to me about the lack of customer service I have gotten in regards to the actual damaged tricorder I recieved. No response when I went through ANY of DST’s channels. I am very disappointed but like the schmuck I am I will probably still buy from them as they are pretty much the only game in my league.

I am also not too happy with the way the neck detail is on the Enterprise D I have but I can fix it. It is interesting to see on their Q&A section how they duck direct questions about it, though.

By: RD

RD — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:45:24 +0000

I almost forgot about Geophysicist Karl Jaeger and his classic lines:

“No detectable soil or vegetation, extremely hot toxic atmosphere swept by tornadic storms and continuous volcanic eruptions deadly to any life form as we know it without oxygen and life support systems.”

“Atmosphere exactly the same as ours.”

“I’m a scientist, not a military man.”

Much more interesting than D’Amato. LOL

I finally realize what the geological tricorder does that the others don’t, thanks to a recent screening of “That Which Survives” – evidently instead of the moire display and library tapes, there’s a rock sample chamber and giant square flashing white light that alerts a person to a perimeter breach. Not sure why a geological tricorder would have such a thing, but it does.

http://74.52.193.82/events/main.php?g2_itemId=124567

Will it come with a scanner too? Or, perhaps a soil/water sample collector? I can’t wait to see what they come up with for such a rarely used variant. I mean, which would you prefer? To play Bones, Spock, or D’Amato or Jaeger? Wouldn’t Scotty’s somewhat rare Engineering tricorder have been more interesting? Or Uhura’s?

By: Smitty™

Smitty™ — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:15:28 +0000

@22 Blow it out your wormhole!

So the TRU version has a plastic antenna grill. At the risk of sounding like a blasphemer I think I might prefer that version. The comm with the metal grill has a tendency to bend if flipped open too quickly. Sadly the bending affects the mechanism that triggers the open chirp. as a result it affects the various voice/sounds as well.

My next TRU sojourn looks like I’m gonna pick up another comm.

-cs™