Factory Entertainment - SDCC 2024 booth preview - Phaser Rifles, Time Circuits, and more!

[masterjedi322]

FE has been teasing their booth at SDCC on social …

Some new pieces that caught my eye include a Star Trek phaser rifle from the TNG/DS9/VOY era.

Also a set of BTTF time circuits!

I want to get excited about these, but some of FE’s recent pieces have shaken my confidence. Guess we’ll see…

Sean

https://fb.watch/tya4zLgC0a

 

[Apollo]

Meh nothing to get excited about with their track record

 

[Captain Dunsel]

They must have a standard contract that promises licensees that replicas they produce will be a minimum of 25% different, when compared to the originals they’re based upon.

 

[Leinads]

They must have a standard contract that promises licensees that replicas they produce will be a minimum of 25% different, when compared to the originals they’re based upon.

Sounds like a slogan, “Think 25% different”

 

[WinstonWolf359]

I get the idea of idealizing a prop or combining some details to make more of a "total package" type of prop but I've often wondered how they can look at "many original props" and somehow choose to make a replica that doesn't look like ANY of them.

 

[masterjedi322]

Latest post included a preview of the First Contact phaser rifle, which will be limited to ~150 - "a couple of hundred pieces and priced at ~$3000-4000...oy.

Guess I'm sticking with my Rodd.com kit.

Sean

71 reactions · 12 comments | The first of a series of #sdcc backstage videos. You’ve asked, here’s a glimpse of our #StarTrek First Contact Type III Phaser Rifle. | Factory Entertainment

The first of a series of #sdcc backstage videos. You’ve asked, here’s a glimpse of our #StarTrek First Contact Type III Phaser Rifle..

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[Apollo]

Hand made in the U.S.A. probably, price is about right

 

[renaissance_man]

From that preview video it seems like the front section of the First Contact Phaser Rifle will be interchangeable. But given the many glaring errors in the Factory Entertainment Star Trek line I forsee more errors and at such a high price tag this is another I will not be buying. I will stick to my resin casts from the original molds of the actual props which cost me a fraction of the price of what will likely be another inaccurate replica.

 

[masterjedi322]

I feel the same way. I saw another teaser of their booth with prototype TNG cobra head and SNW phasers.

And while I would love both of those, it’s hard to get excited given some of their latest Trek pieces. Here’s hoping though…

Sean

 

[Funky]

Prices for licensed pieces are out of control.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

I don’t get too excited by seeing booths filled with prototype pieces, anymore.

I can’t even begin to take the time to gather a list of all the times we’ve seen booths filed with wondrous prototypes that never end up going into production, from MR, to EFX, to Anovos, etc...

Cadet costumes?

Galactica sidearms?

Jango costumes??

Worf Sashes??

Cage Lasers and Communicators?

Wow!!!!!

 

[WinstonWolf359]

I feel the same way. I saw another teaser of their booth with prototype TNG cobra head and SNW phasers.

And while I would love both of those, it’s hard to get excited given some of their latest Trek pieces. Here’s hoping though…

Sean

At least with the Cobra they'll no longer have the gray misted with silver paint job to screw up...

 

[Utinni]

I don’t get too excited by seeing booths filled with prototype pieces, anymore.

I can’t even begin to take the time to gather a list of all the times we’ve seen booths filed with wondrous prototypes that never end up going into production, from MR, to EFX, to Anovos, etc...

Cadet costumes?

Pretty sure those Anovos Star Wars costume "prototypes" were all costumes owned by Jose and his friends, they were not "prototypes" in work.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

At least with the Cobra they'll no longer have the gray misted with silver paint job to screw up...

How optimistic!

 

[Apollo]

Is John Eblan making these rifles?

 

[Fett_Ish]

I gotta say, anymore, anytime I see a licensed prop replica or statue of a ship from Wars or Trek or whatever, I ask myself, ‘can I model and print that?’ The hundreds or thousands they ask are becoming less likely to go to market I think.

 

[Apollo]

I gotta say, anymore, anytime I see a licensed prop replica or statue of a ship from Wars or Trek or whatever, I ask myself, ‘can I model and print that?’ The hundreds or thousands they ask are becoming less likely to go to market I think.

Well see thats the funny thing and the reason I asked if John Eblan is making FE’s Phaser rifles

He is making their high end ships for them so maybe cut out the middleman FE and deal directly with John, a consumer might save some money that way

 

[PHArchivist]

So is - essentially - the problem that Factory Entertainment is "idealizing" too much?

I just had the Moonraker space gun delivered yesterday.

Per their write-up, they added details seen in appearances of the prop in subsequent video games...

 

[jts1031]

According to Dave Blass on X, he met up with Connor Ferreira, and introduced him to Factory Entertainment. It seems he's at least involved in the construction of the studio scale Phoenix.

 

[gregday]

Very interested to see how that BSG S1 Blaster turns out.