Re: Can you please help me ID some of these props?
Ok. After reviewing the pieces, I think the stars of the show were two of the Comms, the TOS phasers, and the TOS P1s. This post focuses on these nine pieces.
PLEASE let me know if you can ID the maker of these pieces!
The first one I pulled out was this one. On first glance, the body was pretty sleek and thin, not part of the fat bottom comm. family we have seen. I would say it is def. not a JTK comm.. because the faceplate is not as big as the JTK’s tend to be, and the grain runs vertically, and not horizontally as the JTK does.
Here is the outside of the comm.:
The inside was in decent shape minus the discolored moiré.
The next comm. was also sleek and nice, but a “smoothie.” This one was in slightly better shape, with a nice moiré.
The phasers were in pretty good shape, but two of them seem to be built up “24th century Phaser” kit. All three phasers have metal nozzles, but the rear tail fins do differ. The first phaser was a static white handle:
The P1 on the white handle seems to lack some detail.
Importantly, on the actual phasers in the show, the rear tail fins of were angled. On the 24th century phaser, they are squared:
Compare:
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To me, the following phaser ALSO looks like a 24th century phaser, but the rear tail fin is properly angled, which suggests to me that 1. it was swapped out, or 2. some of the kits had angled fins:
And those fins again:
The eBay listing said the phasers were static. To my shock and happiness, it had working lights! A push of the trigger and:
The last and perhaps my favorite was the last phaser I pulled from the box. I was surprised by how HEAVY it was. Best way to describe it would be to imagine it was made of some sort of metal (It feels and appears however, to be a resin or plastic).
This phaser was packed in the box without a P1:
This phaser is well put together. The craftsmanship is evident and I LOVE the feeling of holding it due to the weight.
It differed than any other phaser I have seen in its texture. This pic perhaps shows it best, but the body of this P2 has some sort of grain. Hard to explain, but here’s the pic:
I am going to skip ahead a little. The box also contained four separated P1s. Because I liked this phaser so much, I wanted it complete. A quick size check proved that three of the P1s were too big to fit. One, on the other hand fit a little snug, but looked to be in place. On closer inspection, this P1 had a similar “grain” as the P2:
Now for the P1s. Again, there were four of them ranging in functionality and weight. Two were fairly solid and heavy, and two were rather light.
The one on the far left of the above pic is the lightest one and is missing the track wheel. The one to its right is slightly heavier, and is the one that fit into the “grainy” P2. The two to the left seem to be very similar in shape, with the third one from the right being the most heavy. It also has the only track wheel that spins.
Here’s a close-up of the P1 on the far left:
The silver detail on the side of this P1 appears to be silver tape. Again, it’s the lightest.
The next P1.. over was the small one that fit into the P2:
The next P1, the heaviest one, had a little surprise inside when I opened it up:
This P1 did not light up now however.
Lastly, the P1 on the far right:
More to come!
