Star Trek: USS Enterprise NCC 1701-A Electronic Starship

die Kugelhalterung des schwarzen Ständers ist zu dünn und daher gebrochen - konnte aber ohne sichtbare Spuren geklebt werden. Das Modell ansich hält was es verspricht.

I preface this like so many others saying that I've been a Star Trek fan since the beginning and through the decades, one comany after another has tried to make a "quality" model of the great ship Enterprise. The problems have always been getting the nacelles to line up, getting the detailing right, corny sound effects. Well Art Asylum has finally come out with an accurate, durable and all around fun model of the ship Kirk commanded. I love this thing. The only nit picky fault I can find is that for some reason toy companies keep painting the ship blue in one shade or another. As far as I can see it's either a bone white or battleship grey but other than that, I love this thing.

This item is well worth it...clean lines and hard to find so adding it to my collection was amazing. I reccomend if you have a chance jump on this detailed collectors star ship do it.

I've wanted a toy of the original movie Enterprise for as long as I can remember. I love this ship, the original series movie ship designs are, in my humble opinion, by far the best Trek has to offer. Of course, I absolutely despise the Next Gen ship designs, but that's another matter entirely. So, it's been rough trying to get my hands on such a toy. Most are either tiny, cheap, low detail gift shop item toys, or model kits. As far as I could see, there's been no inbetween. Though any model kit I ever attempt to build disintigrates on contact with air, I even bought two kits of the movie Enterprise. One of the very original refit, and a light up kit of the Enterprise A. As stated, they both promptly returned to their base elements upon completion of the the kits, and I was left with nothing but a Trek themed frisbee and some sharp plastic parts to thrill and entertain my early childhood imagination. However, my desire for a toy of the Enterprise remained unsated. To me, and those like me, that lack the skills of a model builder, or the desire to work at those skills, this toy is a godsend. For a toy, it is incredibly detailed, very pretty. To the model builders out there, you will complain, gripe, whine, and moan over the very visible seams and lack of detail crammed into a small package. Go get the Bandai or the Polar Lights model kits. Both are excellent in their own ways. However, even for me this toy is not perfect. There remains a couple flaws. The base, as mentioned by others, is cheap, flimsy plastic that bends under the weight of the toy it was supposedly built to support. The light and sounds action I could very much do without. I'm already contemplating opening this toy up, disconnecting the speaker, and somehow rigging it so that the button simply turns the light on with one click, and a second press would turn the lights off. Then it would be near perfect. I can do without a base, or make one myself. My major complaint is just that I want the lights to turn on, and stay on, until my childlike awe and glee is satisfied and I turn it back off.

If you expect this model to match the pictures of it in Star Trek Communicator Magazine you will be very disappointed. If you compare the two you will see that the one in the magazine was obviously touched up with more detail. What you actually g et is decent but it's not like the one in the magazines. It does however match the picture that Amazon provides pretty well. It is best viewed from a distance,, I'll put it that way. There is a visible seam where the struts of the nacelles attach to the main engineering hull in particular. If you attach the base AFTER the base mounting hull plate is attached as they say to do you risk damaging the model. Best to attach the base to the mounting plate first then screw it on. Sounds are cute.. Mainly it just isn't nearly as finished as I would have hoped.