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Jul 24, 2025 2:08 PM​

July Update!​

Hello everyone!
We are excited to bring you the 1:350 U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 from Star Trek™: The Motion Picture soon. We have been pleased with how everything has turned out so far and all is looking amazing. We have spent some additional time making sure that the model is as great as we promised, and, as a result, there will be a slight delay in the final shipment to you. We are currently looking to ship all North American orders within November 2025, with estimated delivery prior to U.S. Thanksgiving depending upon transport timing and delivery. We will keep you updated on shipping information.
We also have received our final collector packaging. Please see some images of what this will look like.

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WOW! That looks so cool!

 

[Jamesfett]

Totally cool. I am happy to wait a bit to make it as perfect as possible.

 

[RevelationSpace]

Haha, as soon as I saw the update headline at the top of that post I thought "Here comes the delay announcement," and lo and behold. No mention of European orders, does this mean ours will be even later than they already are?

Packaging looks nice, give your graphic designer a pat on the back!

 

[JiminSTLouis]

Haha, as soon as I saw the update headline at the top of that post I thought "Here comes the delay announcement," and lo and behold. No mention of European orders, does this mean ours will be even later than they already are?

Packaging looks nice, give your graphic designer a pat on the back!

EU deliveries will be February 2026

EDIT:
U.S. deliveries are only delayed one month. NOTHING in the prop/replica world. I don’t know what the original UK delivery schedule was.

 

[TheManDelorean]

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[TheManDelorean]

Karl Tate here, I'm a fan consultant to TOMY on the project.

The wide engraved gridlines are a function of the diecast metal process. They are as thin as the factory could make them. To get thinner the whole model would have had to have been made of plastic. This is a licensed "die cast" model that can have a certain percentage of plastic construction but not that much.

Areas on the model where you see finer detail and thinner lines are plastic parts.

As it is the engraved lines are about twice the thickness they "should" be, to be in-scale.

The TOMY hangar bay stops short with a conceptual wall or door at the forward end (the yellow area in the Probert drawing). The landing bay and cargo area seen in TMP take up most of the volume of the secondary hull and was just not possible to do for this product.

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The matte paintings of the cargo/hangar area in the film shows retracted door panels between the shuttle lift and the cargo staging area. For TOMY's model we added a conceptual second door between the shuttle lift and the landing floor.

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The prototype shown at Star Trek Las Vegas last August also had this forward landing bay door. I think this is a reasonable extrapolation if not strictly accurate.

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Hi Karl /phase pistol
Sorry for this delayed comment: I didn't realize there was an RPF page for this. I see your point about manufacturing limitations, however it seems to me that the alternative of going with a flat surface (with subtle printing to represent the panel lines) was dismissed entirely, when it may have been the better option for maintaining scale realism. Consider the design of a 1/6 scale person's eyebrows. Option #1 is to use pad printing on a flat surface to indicate the eyebrow hairs with lines. Option #2 is to place a piece of fur above the eyes. I know this is an exaggeration, but the general idea stands: the second option ruins the scale realism.

I have difficulty believing that the indentations on the recent prototype are only 2x. The filming model had extremely subtle indentations around the panels. The recent video released for the prototype looks much greater than 2x (in both depth and width). I feel it kills the scale realism. Was moving to a flat saucer dismissed out of hand by the design team? Maybe it was the lighting, but I felt the updated prototype video made it look quite deep and wide. I almost feel like the initial prototype (which I suppose was made from plastic) was a bait and switch.