Showing posts with label TOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TOS. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Quantum Mechanix Star Trek insignia badges

Quantum Mechanix (otherwise known as QMx) have been releasing Star Trek insignia badges since 2009. Like many of QMx's products, the badges are highly accurate reproductions of screen used props, in some cases even using original production molds.

QMx have two different ranges: Full scale prop replicas (early badges had pin backs, but these were soon replaced with powerful magnets, allowing each badge to be worn without damaging clothing), and under-scaled pins (which continue to use pin fastenings).

The list below is split into those two groups, and then in reverse release order, with the latest badges at the top of each section.

Full-scale replicas

 Discovery mirror universe insignia badge pins

Discovery Enterprise insignia badges

Saturday, 25 November 2017

Star Trek rugs

Starting in 2013, ThinkGeek have released several Star Trek rugs (and indeed rugs from a number of other popular culture series). The rugs have drawn from several different aspects of Star Trek, although the majority have been starship inspired.

The following list is in reverse release order, with the latest rugs at the top of the page.

Federation Presidential seal rug
  • Dimensions: 48 inch diameter.
  • Release date: November 2017.
  • Coverage: Images.
  • Purchase: ThinkGeek.

Borg Cube rug
  • Dimensions: 52 x 52 inches.
  • Release date: December 2015.
  • Coverage: Images.
  • Purchase: ThinkGeek.

Sunday, 19 November 2017

McFarlane Toys Star Trek action figures

Page created 19th November 2017. Last updated 18th August 2018.

McFarlane Toys will start releasing Star Trek toys in 2017, after having acquired a license to produce toys from all the prime timeline TV series and movies. They have so far announced plans for two lines of action figures, at seven-inch and ten-inch scales. Characters currently planned are from TOS, TNG, and Discovery.

The list below is split into the two different scales, with characters listed in release order within those sections.

Seven-inch figures

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Captain James T. Kirk

Saturday, 4 November 2017

QMx 1:6 scale Star Trek articulated figures

QMx have produced a range of Star Trek characters as 1:6 scale articulated figures, starting in 2016. Each character is released separately, and features highly detailed head sculpts, intricately recreated cloth costumes, numerous accessories, and an assortment of different hands to allow different poses, and to hold all those accessories. Each figures also comes with a display base. Most of the releases have also been available as an exclusive edition when bought directly from QMx, including additional accessories. At 1:6 scale, each character is about twelve inches tall.

So far the majority of releases have been of TOS TV-era characters. There has been one TNG figure in the series so far. QMx have plans for many more characters from the TOS and TNG TV eras, plus Wrath of KhanStar Trek Beyond, and Discovery figures.

This list is in release order.

Captain Kirk

Spock
  • Overview: TV-era Spock, with a phaser pistol, communicator, tricorder, and landing party utility belt. There are numerous hands to hold each of those, plus ones for the live long and prosper sign, nerve pinch and mind meld. The exclusive edition comes with a Vulcan lyre too.
  • Release date: July 2016.
  • Coverage: Images and details.
  • Purchase: AmazonThings From Another WorldEntertainment EarthForbidden Planet.

Friday, 29 September 2017

Star Trek Cats products

Star Trek Cats is a series of Star Trek products featuring Star Trek characters reimagined as cats by artist Jenny Parks. The series began with a book, published by Chronicle Books, based on TOS, accessories and a calendar followed, based on the original artwork, and later a TNG book too.

This list is split into several cat-egories.


Publications

Star Trek Cats

Star Trek: The Next Generation Cats

Monday, 18 September 2017

Star Trek Miniature Editions

Page created 18th September 2017. Last updated 24th April 2018.

Miniature Editions are a series of novelty gifts published by Running Press, each comprises a small model, sometimes with light and/or sound features, and a short booklet detailing the subject matter. Running Press produce Miniature Editions based on numerous popular culture subjects, including several based on Star Trek, since 2013. To date the Star Trek sets have all been small model starships, or miniature props. The first four releases were all based on TOS, while later releases moved on to TNG subjects.

Chronicle Books have also released a similar gift and book set, Mr. Spock: Logic & Prosperity Box, released in 2013, which includes a small bust of Spock along with a booklet.

The following list is in publication order.

Light-Up Phaser

Light-Up Starship Enterprise

Thursday, 25 August 2016

F-Toys Star Trek starship models

F-Toys is a Japanese maker of small models, which come packaged with sweets. They have released several Star Trek ships, starting in 2008, with the Star Trek Fleet Collection. Most of the same ships from that original series were reissued in 2016, and there have also been mirror universe variants of some designs.

The ships often require some limited assembly to complete them up, and come with an adjustable display base, with text describing the ship.

This list is in release order.

Enterprise NX-01
  • Notes: From the first Star Trek Fleet Collection range, and also included in the series when it was reissued.
  • Release date: 2008 and 2016.

USS Enterprise NCC-1701
  • Notes: From the first Star Trek Fleet Collection range, and also included in the series when it was reissued.
  • Release date: 2008 and 2016.

Monday, 8 August 2016

Star Trek Hallmark Keepsake decorations

Hallmark's Keepsake range is a huge ongoing series of Christmas decorations, featuring characters and other designs from numerous properties, including Star Trek. The first Star Trek design, a model of the USS Enterprise was released in 1991, and there have been new Star Trek ornaments every year ever since, with between one and six new Star Trek designs available every year.

For most of the run of the series Star Trek offerings have tended to fall into three categories: Models of ships, which have featured every year but one since the first Star Trek piece in the range. Figurines of individual characters, sometimes with sections of a location, which have featured almost most years since 1995. And dioramas featuring multiple characters and/or sections of locations, most often recreating specific moments from episodes and movies; these have been a regular feature in the range since 2004.

There have been a handful of other formats as well, including more traditional glass decorations, props, and even a postage stamp. There have also been occasional larger ornaments aside from the tree-hanging type, including table-top pieces and tree toppers. Many of the ornaments feature light or sound effects.

The 2020 introduces a new Storytellers range, which interact with each other to tell stories, varying depending on which decorations you have.

This list is split into six, collecting together the starships range, figurines, dioramas, Storytellers, other hanging decorations, and larger format releases. Within each section the lists are in reverse release order, with the latest designs at the top of the section.

Starships


La Sirena


HMS Bounty

  • Notes: Includes sound features. A convention exclusive limited edition of 3500, available at Comic-Con@Home, New York Comic Con, and Hallmark's Keepsake Ornament Club.
  • Release date: July 2021.
  • Coverage: Details.

Thursday, 21 July 2016

RockLove Star Trek jewellery

RockLove is a jewellery maker, who started to produce Star Trek pieces in 2014. Their designs draw on various aspects of Star Trek, including insignia, props, starships, and text. This page lists all the Star Trek RockLove releases, in reverse release order (the newest pieces at the top of the page).

Coloured delta necklaces
  • Overview: Series of three Starfleet delta shaped pendant necklaces, with enamel colouring for each department.
  • Release date: July 2016.

Coloured delta stud earrings
  • Overview: Series of three Starfleet delta shaped pairs of silver stud earrings, with enamel colouring for each department.
  • Release date: July 2016.

Monday, 18 July 2016

Flying Star Trek starship models

While the ships of Star Trek are wholly designed for space, and not naturally inclined for atmospheric flight, that has not stopped numerous toy makers over the year trying their best to bring model Star Trek starships into the air. This page lists those efforts, in reverse release order, with the most recent flying ships at the top of the page.

USS Enterprise-A quadcopter
  • Overview: A remote controlled quadcopter, with the four propellers contained inside the saucer and lightweight polystyrene making up most of the rest of the ship. Also features lights and sounds.
  • Maker: Spin Master: Air Hogs.
  • Release date: June 2016.
  • Coverage: Toy Fair Announcement, images and video.
  • Purchase: Amazon.

Deep Space 9 flying disc
  • Overview: A hand-thrown foam flying disc with prints and cut-outs making it DS9-shaped.
  • Maker: Star Trek Shop.
  • Release date: July 2015.
  • Purchase: Star Trek Shop.

Monday, 20 June 2016

Icon Heroes Star Trek stationary and office products

Icon Heroes are makers of novelty office products and stationary, who have producing Star Trek products since 2014. Their range from the fairly mundane officer product, but with a Star Trek twist, up to high end statues in the form of bookends and paper-weights. So far all of their products have been TOS or TNG designs.

This list is in reverse release order, with the most recent products at the top of the page.


Picard facepalm bust paperweight
  • Notes: TNG bust and paperweight. Polystone, 8 inches tall, and limited edition of 1701. A revised and enlarged version of the similar bust released in 2018
  • Release July 2020.
  • Coverage: Details.
  • Purchase: Ebay.

TNG paperclips
  • Notes: Pack of 40 TNG paperclips, 20 each of the USS Enterprise-D and a TNG combadge, in an Enterprise-D themed tin.
  • Release 2020.
  • Coverage: Details.

Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Star Trek Funko Pop! vinyl figures

Page created 15th June 2016. Last updated 7th October 2021.

Funko's Pop! vinyl range of stylised figures encompassed characters from a huge range of TV series, films, video games, and more, including numerous Star Trek characters representing multiple series. The first Star Trek characters entered the range in 2013, and there have been regular additions in the subsequent years, typically coming in a large assortment of characters from one particular series at a time. There have also been a few additional retail exclusive characters.

This list is in reverse release order, with the newest releases at the top of the page.

Spock in captain's chair


Spock and Isis
  • Overview: Funko.com exclusive from the 2021 TOS assortment.
  • Release date: July 2021.
  • Coverage: Images.
  • Purchase: Ebay(ad)

Monday, 13 June 2016

Hot Wheels Star Trek starship models

Since 2009 Hot Wheels have released a number of model Star Trek starships. The collection so far includes ships from TOS, TNG, and nuTrek. Most of the ships have been part of a mid-scale series, where ships are typically about fifteen centimeters on the longest side. There are also a few releases as part of Hot Wheels smaller model-car series, which are about seven centimeters long.

Most of the mid-scale ships have been released in waves of four to six ships. The third was was released as a multi-pack with the board game Star Trek Scene It?.

This list is split into the two scales, in release order by the initial release of any ship class (with any subsequent variants listed immediately after) within each section.

Mid-scale models

USS Enterprise NCC-1701 refit
  • Overview: Movie-era refit USS Enterprise. This model has been released twice: As part of the first series, when it was inaccurately labelled on the packaging as the Enterprise-A, and in the second series with the correct packaging.
  • Release date: May 2009 (series 1), January 2010 (series 2).
  • Purchase: Amazon.com.

USS Enterprise NCC-1701 in space dock
  • Overview: Refit USS Enterprise in a special space-dock style display case, and painted as if part-way through the refit. A San Diego Comic Con exclusive.
  • Release date: July 2009.
  • Purchase: Amazon.com.

Saturday, 4 June 2016

Star Trek Barbie dolls

This is a list of Star Trek Barbie dolls and related merchandise. Mattel released the first Star Trek Barbies in 1996, to commemorate the series' thirtieth anniversary. Later releases have also marked major milestones for the franchise. This list is in release order.

30th Anniversary gift set
  • Notes: The first ever Star Trek Barbies, released to mark the franchise's 30th anniversary. A two-pack containing Barbie and Ken in Starfleet uniforms. The packaging includes cut-outs of Kirk and Spock on the bridge, setting a scene in which the four characters meet.
  • Release date: 1st January 1996.
  • Purchase: Amazon.com.

Star Trek (2009) Captain Kirk
  • Notes: One of three characters released as part of the merchandising around the release of the first nuTrek movie.
  • Release date: 26th March 2009.
  • Purchase: Amazon.com.

Monday, 16 May 2016

Royal Canadian Mint Star Trek coins

Page created 16th May 2016. Last updated 15th July 2018.

In 2016 the Royal Canadian Mint launched a series of Star Trek coins, initially offering a variety of designs to celebrate the 50th anniversary of TOS, and later releasing coins based on other parts of the franchise. Most of the coins were issued in precious metals, and were therefore sold for prices much higher than their given face values. Several coins have offered innovative features, such as being made in unique shapes, or glow in the dark printing.

This is a list is ordered in descending face value.

Starfleet delta
  • Face value: $200.
  • Material: Gold.
  • Mintage: 1500
  • Release date: September 2016.
  • Coverage: Images.
  • Purchase: Amazon.

USS Enterprise
  • Face value: $100.
  • Material: Silver (10oz).
  • Mintage: 1000
  • Release date: October 2017.
  • Coverage: Images.
  • Purchase: Amazon.

Sunday, 8 May 2016

Star Trek: New Visions photo-comics

New Visions is a unique series of Star Trek: The Original Series comics created by John Byrne and published by IDW, starting in 2013. Each issue is painstaking created using stills from the television series, to create new episodes in comic-book form, using all the original actors, sets, props and more, exactly as they appear on-screen. The books are perfect bound, and also about twice the length of a typical comic, with each issue normally featuring a forty-two page story (a few have comic in slightly longer or shorter).

The series began as an experiment on Byrne's part, who set out to create a photo-comic adaptation of the first aired TOS episode, The Man Trap. Realising he had hit on something, Byrne then began to work on an original story, and soon enough IDW picked up the idea, with the first story published as a one-off annual (IDW's first Star Trek annual in fact). The series gained it's title in the second story, issue one of New Visions, although later reprints of the annual also used the New Visions title. New Visions became IDW's second ongoing Star Trek comic series (following the nuTrek series), and is released on a roughly bimonthly basis; although has been subject to frequent shuffling on the release schedule that has led to it not quite keeping up to that release frequency.

As the series has progressed so has Byrne's technique, while early issues typically used sets as available from screencaps, Byrne quickly began to expand his options by creating new CGI environments, ships, and even characters. Similarly his photo-manipulations have become ever more complex as he seeks to create unique scenes with characters and poses that do not exist straight from the screen. Occasionally Byrne has also made use of new photography to add in guest characters using new actors.

The list below is of all the New Visions issues, in release order. In addition to the individual issues, the second omnibus book of the series also features a bonus story, Eye of the Beholder, in which Captain Kirk visits both the Gold Key and TAS realities.

Annual: Strange New Worlds

#1: The Mirror, Cracked

Thursday, 17 March 2016

Mega Construx Star Trek construction toys

Page created 17th March 2016. Last updated 14th September 2018.

Mega Construx, previously known as Mega Bloks, is a construction toy company, which produces toys using plastic bricks and other interchangeable elements, compatible with Lego and other similar products. Mega Bloks have twice held a license to produce Star Trek construction sets, having produced a single set in 2004, and a range of sets from 2016 to 2018 (in which time the brand changed names).

So far their sets have drawn their subject from TOS and TNG, and broadly fall into four categories: Models of ships, playsets with figurines, individually released micro action figures in their Heroes range, and larger brick-built figurines in their multi-franchise Kubros range. This list is arranged into those four categories, in release order within each section.

Model ships

USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D
  • Notes: A large model of the Enterprise-D, and the one and only Star Trek set released by Mega Bloks when they first had the license in 2004. Released as part of the Pro-Builder range of large models.
  • Number of parts: 945.
  • Figurines: Captain Picard.
  • Release date: 2004.
  • Purchase: Amazon.

Klingon D7 class battle cruiser
  • Notes: The TOS Klingon battle crusier.
  • Number of parts: 351.
  • Figurines: Kor the Klingon.
  • Release date: April 2016.
  • Coverage: Images, box.
  • Purchase: Amazon, Entertainment Earth.

Monday, 14 March 2016

Star Trek parody books

In the 2010s there has been a steady stream of official Star Trek parody books, each taking a unique and light-hearted spin on the Star Trek universe. Continue below for details of them all. This list is presented in reverse publication order, with the latest books at the top of the page.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Cats

Star Trek Cats

Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Star Trek comic strips omnibuses

Some of the rarest and least known Star Trek comics were published as strips, as part of other publications. Thanks to the way they were distributed, and the relative obscurity of those publications (either only printed in the UK, or a handful of US newspapers), these strips were largely lost to time. Until the 2010s when IDW's Library of American Comics imprint started work to resurrect them. The result is a series of high quality reproductions of those long lost prints, in large hardcover volumes. This is a list of those books.

In the UK, in the late-60s and early-70s, some of the first ever Star Trek comics were published in weekly issues of magazines such as Joe 90: Top Secret, TV21, and Valiant, printed alongside other sci-fi and adventure series. This series started before Star Trek had even aired in the UK, and like their US contemporaries, the Gold Key Comics, often didn't have the strongest grasp on the themes and styles of Star Trek, often seeming quite out of character with the series we now know.

Later in the US, in the late-70s and early-80s, another series of strips was brought to life, syndicated to various newspapers. These strips were mostly set in the then present day of Star Trek, in the period of The Motion Picture.

Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics, Volume 1
  • Notes: First of two books reprinting the US newspaper strips, this volume contains the first ten story arcs, originally published from 1979 to 1981. Also included are several artist audition strips and adverts for the series, as well as reproductions of a series of strips uniquely originally published in McDonalds Happy Meals.
  • Writers: Thomas Warkentin, Tom Durkin, Peter Jacoby, and Sharman DiVorio. Artists: Thomas Warkentin, and Ron Harris.
  • Published: December 2012.
  • Coverage: Excerpt.
  • Purchase: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Things From Another World.

Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics, Volume 2

Saturday, 9 January 2016

Mondo Star Trek posters and albums

Mondo is an art company that obtained a license to produce Star Trek posters in 2010. Mondo's speciality is limited edition screen print posters inspired by popular culture, typically presented in retro styles. They also produce vinyl soundtracks, VHS videos, apparel, and other merchandise, all featuring original artwork. To date Mondo's Star Trek range has mostly included posters representing TOS, TNG, and Voyager, as well as small assortment of other merchandise including nuTrek designs.

Space Seed
  • Artist: Martin Ansin.
  • Format: 24 x 36 inch screen print with metallic ink. Edition of 300.
    • Variant: Printed on wood. Edition of 35.
  • Release date: 2010.

The Trouble with Tribbles - Spock
  • Artist: Olly Moss.
  • Format: 18 x 24 inch screen print. Edition of 350.
  • Release date: 2010.