Any news on when- if ever these things will be available?? Seems like it is taking Diamond Select forever...
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Diamond Select Star Trek Tricorder
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The medical one is sold out but still have the other for pre-order for 34.99 here...
http://newforcecomics.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=NFCC&Category_Code=shipsrp
http://newforcecomics.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=NFCC&Category_Code=shipsrp
Thats a pretty good price-thanks for the post Cessna!
Racer_X
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The latest Art Asylum blog now shows the date as 4/22/09.
PC manufacturers seem to be able to design/manufacture/and deliver a real working laptop faster 
slightly ironic...
slightly ironic...
darthgordon
Sr Member
Hmmm... why does this keep getting bumped up?
The communicator came out so fast.
So, since they seemed to have up'ed the price by nearly twenty bucks, what are the chances that they'll chrome the plastic pieces that are supposed to be metal rather than painting them with that... well cheap silver that light shows through?
The communicator came out so fast.
So, since they seemed to have up'ed the price by nearly twenty bucks, what are the chances that they'll chrome the plastic pieces that are supposed to be metal rather than painting them with that... well cheap silver that light shows through?
Pumpernickel
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There's a new photo of the prototype in the "Unofficial Guide to Star Trek Collectibles" magazine, now on newstands. I don't have access to a camera/scanner now, but if no one else posts it I will after the holidays.
Pumpernickel
Pumpernickel
Someone said that the scanner for the science tricorder was a new design by AA. Anyone know for sure?
DrMcoy
Sr Member
If its the same book/magazine I saw, it still looks like they are using the HMS tricorder and scanner prop.
While I'm sure the Diamond piece will look good, I'm not expecting it to look anywhere near as nice as MR or HMS/Rodd.com pieces.
My GUESS is anything that was metal on the actual prop (or the HMS/MR replicas) will be silver painted plastic, just like on the communicators -- perhaps chromed on special edition versions down the road.
But you never know -- maybe parts of it will actually be metal.
Guess we'll have to wait until someone sees an actual unit, perhaps at Toy Fair in Feb or whenever company decides to release some actual photos of the toy.
What would be REALLY neat is if the smaller hand-held scanner actually had motor in it, even if it was a wind up motor, that made the thing-a-ma-bob inside actually spin around.
While I'm sure the Diamond piece will look good, I'm not expecting it to look anywhere near as nice as MR or HMS/Rodd.com pieces.
My GUESS is anything that was metal on the actual prop (or the HMS/MR replicas) will be silver painted plastic, just like on the communicators -- perhaps chromed on special edition versions down the road.
But you never know -- maybe parts of it will actually be metal.
Guess we'll have to wait until someone sees an actual unit, perhaps at Toy Fair in Feb or whenever company decides to release some actual photos of the toy.
What would be REALLY neat is if the smaller hand-held scanner actually had motor in it, even if it was a wind up motor, that made the thing-a-ma-bob inside actually spin around.
Pumpernickel
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The DST communicators have some metal (e.g., the antennae). Perhaps we will be pleasantly surprised with the DST tricorder? In any case, it's a new tricorder photo (it shows the lower compartment open) that I have only seen in that magazine.
Pumpernickel
DrMcoy
Sr Member
Even though it may be a new photo of tricorder with bottom door open, I can assure you that I have seen similar photos of the HMS replica photographed that way. It simply looks too polished to be a toy.
Again, I am NOT knocking Diamond or AA or whoever is actually manufacturing the toy, but it will be a toy, and I think if you are looking forward to getting this, you should adjust your expectations to it being 99.9% plastic -- any metal parts would truly be a bonus.
Still, even for $50, an all-plastic actual-scale accurate replica of the tricorder will be a FIRST at this price -- or even as a toy, as every other toy that has been made of this prop has either been grossly inaccurate or too small.
I'll be looking forward to this.
Here's another neat idea -- if MEDICAL version came with McCoy's scanner (the one we are most familiar with and is most often seen in series) and the SCIENCE version came with the larger scanner which can be seen in beginning of NAKED TIME and sporadically throughout series -- maybe by Kirk in GARY SEVEN episode, too. It's similar to McCoy's scanner, but appears to be a little larger, grip material is different, and there is a little hole on top through which one could see different colors, if I recall. It did NOT have the spinning mechanism seen through clear upper chamber like McCoy's had.
Again, I am NOT knocking Diamond or AA or whoever is actually manufacturing the toy, but it will be a toy, and I think if you are looking forward to getting this, you should adjust your expectations to it being 99.9% plastic -- any metal parts would truly be a bonus.
Still, even for $50, an all-plastic actual-scale accurate replica of the tricorder will be a FIRST at this price -- or even as a toy, as every other toy that has been made of this prop has either been grossly inaccurate or too small.
I'll be looking forward to this.
Here's another neat idea -- if MEDICAL version came with McCoy's scanner (the one we are most familiar with and is most often seen in series) and the SCIENCE version came with the larger scanner which can be seen in beginning of NAKED TIME and sporadically throughout series -- maybe by Kirk in GARY SEVEN episode, too. It's similar to McCoy's scanner, but appears to be a little larger, grip material is different, and there is a little hole on top through which one could see different colors, if I recall. It did NOT have the spinning mechanism seen through clear upper chamber like McCoy's had.
Pumpernickel
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As promised, here's the photo in the new Star Trek Collecting magazine.
Pumpernickel
Pumpernickel
Looks real good to me.
Course they deny us the money shot with the hood down.
Interesting how the upper door flops all the way down into the lower storage area.
Scanner looks really good.
Course they deny us the money shot with the hood down.
Interesting how the upper door flops all the way down into the lower storage area.
Scanner looks really good.
NakedMoleRat
Master Member
If that's a picture of the real thing, I'll sell my MR and buy three of them.
The chromey plastic used in place of aluminum on the phaser and communicator does not look like aluminum, whereas the aluminum in that picture looks like the actual metal -- so I think that's a picture of the HMS tricorder again, and doubly so since they aren't showing the hood up.
