Starship collection magazine

ilovesmybrick

Has anyone here seen this magazine, http://www.startrek-starships.com/eng/index.asp, apparently it's launching here next week. Can't say I'm too interesting in most of the models, but II've been looking to get my hands on a model Defiant for years, and the Enterprise D looks pretty sweet! I'mjust hoping it will be available in Cork and not vanish from the shelves before the Defiant issue.

Myrddin

Ooh I really like those models, I wonder if they'll pop up on ebay for sale without having to subscribe to the mags

ilovesmybrick

I'm guessing they will, though from looking at the website it appears that you can buy back issues from there eventually.

_Kaiser_

UK/ROI page not working here but from browsing through the US side there's some cool ships being offered (lists what issues come with what too):

http://www.startrek-starships.com/usa/ship-order.html

Defiant is #9 but to be honest there's quite a few I wouldn't mind having

Goldstein

On a side note it'd be nice to know how many issues there are likely to be in total. The site says they'll send you a binder every 16 issues and there are 30 issues so far listed on the website. I don't need ALL of Starfleet.

Aha, just seen the FAQ where it says there are 70 planned issues, that's a lot!

endacl

EnterNow wrote: »

Ooh I really like those models, I wonder if they'll pop up on ebay for sale without having to subscribe to the mags

If you pop into easons a week or two after each issue was released, you'll pick them up for a euro or two each. They always sell off the excess partworks cheap. There'll be a boxful near the mags.

ilovesmybrick

3.99 for the first issue, the model of the D isn't too shabby, though the nacelles feel a small bit flimsy

FutureGuy

Got the first issue. Beautiful model

This could be my Ketracel White...

Myrddin

Anyone buying them in stores, rather than subbing?

ilovesmybrick

Buying them in the shops myself, to be honest I'm not interested in a lot of the ships on offer

FutureGuy

EnterNow wrote: »

Anyone buying them in stores, rather than subbing?

I may subscribe for the first 20 issus or so, and go from there. The Borg Ship (a special for subscribers) is waaaay larger than the ships.

Provisional List of IssuesEdit
■01 USS Enterprise-D
■02 USS Enterprise (refit)
■03 Klingon Bird-of-Prey
■04 Enterprise NX-01
■05 Romulan Warbird
■06 USS Voyager
■07 K't'inga-class
■08 USS Excelsior
■09 USS Defiant
■10 Borg sphere
■11 USS Reliant
■12 Ferengi Marauder
■13 Akira class
■14 Vor'cha class
■15 Prometheus class
■16 Valdore type
■17 USS Equinox
■18 Bajoran Solar Sailer
■19 USS Enterprise-E
■20 Xindi-Insectoid starship
■21 Raptor class
■22 Jem'Hadar fighter
■23 Nebula class
■24 Suurok class
■25 Delta Flyer
■26 Breen warship
■27 Krenim weapon ship
■28 USS Enterprise-C
■29 Galor class
■30 USS Stargazer
■31 Borg Queen's vessel
■32 Jem'Hadar battle cruiser
■33 Maquis fighter
■34 Romulan Bird-of-Prey (23rd century)
■35 Hirogen warship
■36 T'Plana-Hath (starship)
■37 Prototype Klingon Bird-of-Prey
■38 USS Enterprise-J
■39 Son'a Command ship
■40 Runabout
■41 D-5 class
■42 Romulan drone-ship
■43 USS Enterprise-B
■44 Jem'Hadar battleship
■45 Malon export vessel
■46 Federation mission scoutship
■47 Scimitar
■48 USS Relativity
■49 Tholian starship (22nd century)
■50 Goroth's starship
■51 USS Kelvin
■52 Son'a collector
■53 Xindi-Reptilian starship
■54 Oberth class
■55 Suliban cell ship
■56 Phoenix
■57 Fesarius
■58 Steamrunner class
■59 Xindi-Aquatic cruiser
■60 Vulcan Long range shuttle
■61 Saber class
■62 Hideki class
■63 USS Enterprise-A
■64 Romulan Bird-of-Prey (22nd century)
■65 USS Dauntless
■66 Federation holoship
■67 Scorpion class
■68 Norway class
■69 USS Enterprise
■70 Species 8472 bioship


NO NUMBERS
■ Borg probe
■ Cousteau (yacht)
■ Borg cube
■ Galileo

SPECIALS
■ Deep Space 9
■ USS Enterprise (alternate reality)
■ Future USS Enterprise-D from "All Good Things..."
■ Space Stations

ilovesmybrick

I wonder what the deal with the specials is, a space station or two would be quite nice...

Myrddin

Ah balls this is turning out to be a real need to do, is it too late to subscribe & get issue 1?

FutureGuy

ilovesmybrick wrote: »

I wonder what the deal with the specials is, a space station or two would be quite nice...

I rang eaglemoss this morning. A few times a year, subscribers have the option of buying specials at extra cost. They'll be a bit more than the regular model cost but wont be available to non-subscribers.

I am really wondering whether I should even bother. I have done some research on EagleMoss and I read the work "rip-off" and "extortion" mentioned quite a bit.

Goodshape

So. Very. Tempted.

Are these weekly or monthly or what? £9.99 a week might be a bit gratuitous. Jesus, that's nearly £700 (€820!) by the time it's finished?


But damn they look nice


[edit] it's every two weeks, I just spotted on the site. Charged for two issues at a time. 28 days notice and an email or phonecall to cancel a subscription.

FutureGuy

Goodshape wrote: »

So. Very. Tempted.

Are these weekly or monthly or what? £9.99 a week might be a bit gratuitous. Jesus, that's nearly £700 (€820!) by the time it's finished?


But damn they look nice


[edit] it's every two weeks, I just spotted on the site. Charged for two issues at a time. 28 days notice and an email or phonecall to cancel a subscription.

Easons reckon they could be 17 euro each every 2 weeks...

I also asked Eaglemoss why there is such a massive difference between the STG and Euro prices. They are offering free shipping to Ireland so it shouldn't cost that much...

Anyways, having rewatched Season 3 of Enterprise along with the gf (first time, loved it), I'm delighted about the Xindi love. Also...Enterprise J

Goodshape

FutureGuy wrote: »

Easons reckon they could be 17 euro each every 2 weeks...

Ah right, crap. I forgot to click the Ireland flag on the website. €15.99 an issue ordering online.

Would be great to have but that's too steep for me . I'll keep a look out in the shops for cheaper older issues or something.

Goldstein

Goodshape wrote: »

Ah right, crap. I forgot to click the Ireland flag on the website. €15.99 an issue ordering online.

Would be great to have but that's too steep for me . I'll keep a look out in the shops for cheaper older issues or something.

€15.99 is taking the piss, £9.99 sterling is only €11.72!

Being overcharged over 36% for living in Ireland! Over the 70 issues the overcharge alone is over €300 when you include the extras. There's no downwardly sliding scale discount for subscribing either which is disappointing.

70 issues @ €15.99 = €1,119.30
4 more binders at say €10 /ea = €40
Estimate of 10 specials = €159.90
Total: €1,319.20+ :eek:

You could buy a hell of a lot of ST merchandise for that.

_Kaiser_

I'd really love some of these but those prices....

ilovesmybrick

Yeah I think I'll be picking it up whenever ones I really want come up, bird of prey, Excelsior, defiant and a few others will be must haves! Sure where would I find the space for 70 + of them!

FutureGuy

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

I'd really love some of these but those prices....

I'm awaiting confirmation from Eaglemoss as to why we are paying 4-5 euro more.

Goldstein

FutureGuy wrote: »

I'm awaiting confirmation from Eaglemoss as to why we are paying 4-5 euro more.

I emailed quark@ferenginar.ufp asking the same thing but haven't heard back yet.

somuj

I broke mine. Thought the saucer section came off :-(

FutureGuy

somuj wrote: »

I broke mine. Thought the saucer section came off :-(

It does now!!!

Don't know whether to laugh or cry. At least you can get another for 4 euro.

Myrddin

somuj wrote: »

I broke mine. Thought the saucer section came off :-(

Why would it, unless a big huge grid appeared in front of you?

Optimus Prime

Goldstein wrote: »

€15.99 is taking the piss, £9.99 sterling is only €11.72!

Being overcharged over 36% for living in Ireland! Over the 70 issues the overcharge alone is over €300 when you include the extras. There's no downwardly sliding scale discount for subscribing either which is disappointing.

70 issues @ €15.99 = €1,119.30
4 more binders at say €10 /ea = €40
Estimate of 10 specials = €159.90
Total: €1,319.20+ :eek:

You could buy a hell of a lot of ST merchandise for that.

Hmm. you could save about 21cent using parcel motel I was going to get this myself when i seen the price of the first issue, but 15.99 is ridiculous! whatever about a tenner..

FutureGuy

Looking again at the list, I've highlighted the ones that I would be interested in.


Provisional List of IssuesEdit
■01 USS Enterprise-D
■02 USS Enterprise (refit)
■03 Klingon Bird-of-Prey
■04 Enterprise NX-01
■05 Romulan Warbird
■06 USS Voyager
■07 K't'inga-class
■08 USS Excelsior
■09 USS Defiant
■10 Borg sphere
■11 USS Reliant
■12 Ferengi Marauder
■13 Akira class
■14 Vor'cha class
■15 Prometheus class
■16 Valdore type
■17 USS Equinox
■18 Bajoran Solar Sailer
■19 USS Enterprise-E
■20 Xindi-Insectoid starship
■21 Raptor class
■22 Jem'Hadar fighter
■23 Nebula class
■24 Suurok class
■25 Delta Flyer
■26 Breen warship
■27 Krenim weapon ship
■28 USS Enterprise-C
■29 Galor class
■30 USS Stargazer
■31 Borg Queen's vessel
■32 Jem'Hadar battle cruiser
■33 Maquis fighter
■34 Romulan Bird-of-Prey (23rd century)
■35 Hirogen warship
■36 T'Plana-Hath (starship)
■37 Prototype Klingon Bird-of-Prey
■38 USS Enterprise-J
■39 Son'a Command ship
■40 Runabout
■41 D-5 class
■42 Romulan drone-ship
■43 USS Enterprise-B
■44 Jem'Hadar battleship
■45 Malon export vessel
■46 Federation mission scoutship
■47 Scimitar
■48 USS Relativity
■49 Tholian starship (22nd century)
■50 Goroth's starship
■51 USS Kelvin
■52 Son'a collector
■53 Xindi-Reptilian starship
■54 Oberth class
■55 Suliban cell ship
■56 Phoenix
■57 Fesarius
■58 Steamrunner class
■59 Xindi-Aquatic cruiser
■60 Vulcan Long range shuttle
■61 Saber class
■62 Hideki class
■63 USS Enterprise-A
■64 Romulan Bird-of-Prey (22nd century)
■65 USS Dauntless
■66 Federation holoship
■67 Scorpion class
■68 Norway class
■69 USS Enterprise
■70 Species 8472 bioship

There's a run between 30 and 50 where I have little interest in most of the models so I think I'll subscribe for the first 30, get the specials and quit.

FutureGuy

keithgeo wrote: »

Hmm. you could save about 21cent using parcel motel I was going to get this myself when i seen the price of the first issue, but 15.99 is ridiculous! whatever about a tenner..

I'd happily pay a tenner as they are much larger than the usual Eaglemoss figures. Easons are saying it'll be 17 euro so and there isn't a hope in hell that I'll be paying 17 euro for a Sona'a ship.

I'd pay 17 euro for about 10 of them.

Goldstein

somuj wrote: »

I broke mine. Thought the saucer section came off :-(

That'll teach you for letting Troi drive
At least it's easy to get a cheap replacement of the first issue - you can pretend the first one is the Odyssey.

I want to look at the full list of ships but at the same time I don't want to look at the list and still be surprised when the new ones come out. Still very torn what to do, hate being ripped off. Might subscribe for a while I think, the first few look amazing. The d'deridex is top of my list, probably my favourite ship of all time.

ilovesmybrick

somuj wrote: »

I broke mine. Thought the saucer section came off :-(

I won't lie to you, I thought it detached for a while too!

Where are people getting the €17 from? It says €9.99 on the back of mine for "Eire/Malta"....

:edit: Ah Issue 2 is €10 and the regular price is €15.99!! Feck that. They ain't worth €16.

FutureGuy

Mods, can you please add spoiler tags around the lists I posted in case people want to be surprised by what is coming?

Optimus Prime

I bought the first one earlier because its only 4 quid. the top part of the Enterprise fell off about 10 minutes after i opened, the plastic bit where "enterprise" is written.

FutureGuy

This is the CONFIRMED list from issues 1-30. Some differences from the one posted above.

1 Enterprise NCC-1701-D
2 Enterprise NCC-1701 TMP
3 Klingon Bird-of-Prey
4 Enterprise NX-01
5 Romulan Warbird
6 U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656
7 Klingon K'Tinga battlecruiser
8 U.S.S. Excelsior
9 U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205
10 Borg Sphere
11 U.S.S. Reliant (Miranda class)
12 Akira class
13 Jem'hadar cruiser
14 Cardassian Galor class
15 Equinox
16 Ferengi Marauder
17 Dauntless
18 Bajoran Solar Sailor
19 Stargazer
20 Klingon V'orcha class
21 Enterprise NCC-1701-E
22 Krenim Temporal Weapon Ship
23 Nebula class
24 Xindi insectoid ship
25 U.S.S. Prometheus
26 Tholian ship
27 Romulan Bird-of-Prey
28 Maquis Fighter
29 Jem'hadar bug
30 Nausicaan Fighter

Kurn

Ah I cant decide... to sub or not!

_Kaiser_

johnmryan wrote: »

Ah I cant decide... to sub or not!

You'll probably have to if you want any of them from issue 3/4 onwards I'd say. At that price most retailers won't be shifting many so won't bother stocking them.

Is issue 1 still out? I'm going to pick it up tomorrow if I can

FutureGuy

johnmryan wrote: »

Ah I cant decide... to sub or not!

I think I'm going to give it a miss. From what I have read from previous Eaglemoss subscribers, they are a complete joke of a company.

Items going missing regularly, items not being sent on time, specials not being sent with the correct delivery, items being damaged, crazy euro price compared with UK price, awful customer service.

Take a look at their facebook page. Anger all around.

Myrddin

I might skip the mags, & try pick up the models on ebay or something.

Kurn

I was on there FB page, saw a lot of happy people posting pics of their ships - but they do seem to break easily!!! Anyway I subbed - decided to treat myself, I wont stay with them for too long though. Lot of ships I don't care about, just want to main ones really and Ds9

bizmark

I bought this for the galaxy class model really happy with it think its a bit to rich at 15 euro every second week though but im tempted now

_Kaiser_

I've had a look in a few shops but can't see it. Sold out I guess or just not stocked

Kurn

Still waiting on mine, no ship yet - they have my money thou!

FutureGuy

My Easons in Limerick sold about 100 of issue 1!

FutureGuy

Part 2 was due in today in Easons. Was told there may be limited stock and to call this morning.

Never arrived. I was told it could be in tomorrow or Friday or Saturday or anytime next week.

I asked if they could hold it for me each week. They said "no, they stopped doing that for people years ago.

So I said I basically had to ring each morning to check if the magazine had arrived, otherwise I could miss it due to low stock.

"Yes, that's correct"

Yeah I think I'm done with collecting this. Will pick up the ships I want on eBay.

mr lee

there on ebay,magazine and ship,cheapest i seen was about 12e ish, thats delivered,the whole thing is a rip off over here with the prices, theres any amount of nice model ships on ebay,
whats goin to be in the magazines that most trek fans dont already know?

FutureGuy

mr lee wrote: »

there on ebay,magazine and ship,cheapest i seen was about 12e ish, thats delivered,the whole thing is a rip off over here with the prices, theres any amount of nice model ships on ebay,
whats goin to be in the magazines that most trek fans dont already know?

Yeah the magazines are pretty poor. Then again, noone is buying them for the mags

I picked two up in the Parkway FutureGuy....nicer than last week's one IMO. Next one is a €16 edition. Hmmm if it were €10 I'd be in there like swimwear. €16 means I'll be just getting Voyager and Defiant and that'll be it methinks. I am a cheap bastard y'know.

somuj

Issue 2 looks like paper mache. Cheap crap with a glossy magazine. I feel like pulling the saucer section assunder this time . . .

Kurn

3 weeks of waiting here, I subbed, they took the money right away, still no sign. Not interested in the mags - just want a few nice ships and will cancel then...

I'm a bit disappointed with #2's stand....the little catches aren't as snug as the first model.

FutureGuy

I like the A. Clearly not as impressive as the D but still a lovely model.

One of the best things about not subscribing is you can look through 20 magazines and find the best painted model to buy.