The baton for making die-cast Star Trek ships passed to Fanhome earlier this year and today we are getting our first look at the actual models from the first wave. The new Starship Collection launches in November and you can now pre-order ships to extend (or start) your collection.
Fanhome’s Starships Collection begins
Fanhomes’s new collection will cover all the modern Star Trek series including Picard, Strange New Worlds, Discovery, Lower Decks and Prodigy. Fanhome is working with Paramount Global to ensure the models are as accurate as possible and they will all be based on the original visual effects models that were used to make the effects for the show.
The new Official Star Trek Starship Collection is being sold as a monthly subscription service, much like the old Eaglemoss collection, and in fact the series is being supervised by Ben Robinson, who also headed up the Eagelmoss Star Trek products. Fanhome starts taking pre-orders today, September 6th, and the models are expected to ship to customers in early November. The list price for the first ship – the U.S.S. Titan-A (from Picard season 3) – is $44.95. Subsequent ships will be priced at $55.00, all with free shipping and you can cancel any time.
USS Titan-A model
The ships in the collection are constructed with a combination of die-cast metal and high-quality ABS resin. The typical model measures between 7 and 9-inches (180-225 mm) long. The designs are all based on the original visual effects models that were used to produce the shows. Each ship in the new collection comes with a 16-page magazine that profiles the ship in the Star Trek universe and explores the design process with exclusive art and brand-new interviews with the production team.
USS Titan magazine included with model
Following the Titan, here are the next five ships planned as part of “Stage 1” of the new collection…
U.S.S. Stargazer NCC-82893 (Sagan class) from Star Trek: Picard Season 2
USS Stargazer model
U.S.S. Farragut NCC-1647 from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1
USS Farragut model
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-F from Star Trek: Picard Season 3
Enterprise-F model
S.S. Eleos XII NAR-59019 from Star Trek: Picard Season 3
SS Eleos model
The Shrike from Star Trek: Picard Season 3
The Shrike model
Fanhome has more than 20 ships planned for the collection. There will also be several oversized replicas of the most significant ships, which will be approximately 11 inches (280 mm) long (available individually and to subscribers for a premium). Subscribers will also get other exclusive gifts. Pre-orders for the subscription service open today.
Ship models will also be available individually the month after they are made available for subscribers. Individually purchased ships will be priced at $64.99 each plus $5 for shipping.
For more details or to pre-order, visit fanhome.com.
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Will the window alignment be better with these?
Probably, but you won’t be able to see them on the Titan since Captain Shaw liked it dark.
Ùgh, I can answer my own question.
There’s some high res photos on some Facebook groups. Window alignment is terrible.
At these inflated prices, it’s a hard pass for me.
What is the window alignment problem? I’ve heard the term a lot, but it’s nothing that my eyes are obviously drawn to when I look at these pics.
What are people seeing that’s a problem?
I don’t collect these models myself but I have read that the die-cast windows aren’t always aligned correctly with the window paint.
The Titan-A / Enterprise-G model looks amazing!
I’ve never heard of an NAR ship designation before. Nice to see they added that. It’s a nice touch to add some “realism” to the ships to me. The Navy has similar ship designations for civilian/support ships that support military operations. Combat ships get the USS (United States Ship) designation while USNS (United States Naval Vessel) is designated a support ship. Likewise the Royal Navy does this with the HMS (His Majesty’s Ship) combat ships and RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary).
It’s from the Berman era. The Raven had an NAR registry.
Good post.
What does NAR stand for?
From an Old time ‘Trekkie’ (the ORIGINAL SERIES), WE were told, at the First New York S.T.Conv., U.S.S., Meant United Star-Ship, NOT United STATES, Starship.
Also, the disaster, that almost ended us, was the EUGENICS WARS !
It’s also been call United Space Ship.
NCC and NAR have never been described.
United Systems Starship (uggh, I know I know) was also mentioned, I think in TMOST.
Not entirely correct. As far as I know NCC means Naval Construction Contract
Snugglepuff was clearly referring to what “USS” means in the context of the US Navy.
In the Star Trek universe, I always thought “USS” indeed meant “United Star Ship,” although I suppose it could also mean “United Starfleet Ship.”
IIRC, Malcolm Reed said that a relative served about a Royal Navy submarine called HMS Clement that suffered a Kursk-like disaster. So that abbreviation appears to survive until around that time at least.
eheh yes there is a drydock with reg NAR-30974. Funny, I use that as my WiFi SSID.
10.6″ XL Odyssey-class… sold!
Per the Fanhome site, other upcoming XL (up to12″) versions are: Enterprise-G-labeled connie 3, Voyager-A & Protostar
Disappointed to see those cursed stands are back. I’ve got a romulan warbird with a cracked nacelle due to the poor quality of these stands.
They straight up don’t deliver to Canada, at all. Looks like they lost out on a collective $1400 from this trekkie.
Apparently we’re not allowed to watch Prodigy either.
These all look nice but I just can’t get behind it fully at this price point. I will have to pick and choose instead of collecting all. I really wish that either Star Trek Micro-Machines or something similar would get a relaunch or maybe a line like the Star Wars Micro-Galaxy Squadron could happen but with Star Trek ships.
I would love a new wave of micro machines. They were awesome! A re-release and update are well over due
Not impressed with the lack of detail on the Farragut especially around the bridge, I’d expect more for $55
Why only shipping to US,UK or Germany???!
They are losing so much business from global fans.
The run is limited also. They may not have faith in these selling well. After all, the DSC line cost Eaglemoss badly, they couldn’t give those ships away, LOL
I have every one of the Discovery line, and the 31st/32nd century Constitution class USS Armstrong NCC -325XXX is rumored to be made as it was a last minute cancellation when Eaglemoss went bankrupt. I tried to watch the show, didn’t like it, but loved the outlandish ship designs, especially the Voyager NCC-74656-J and USS Jubayr.
Star Trek is for Americans and Britts only. What are you even doing on this site.
$65 each!
Protostar in next wave, please and thank you.
I used to have the old pewter models that you could paint yourself, I think they cost $5-8 each
They need to get with Bandai to make some snap together model kits. Would give them all the money for those.
These expensive die cast things aren’t really for me, but cool for those that are into them that someone is continuing it.
I am from Spain and I can’t buy any model :(
Does the Farragut have a shuttle bay rear of the saucer or below aft of the nav deflector?