New Phrases For Art Asylum Communicator

[DrMcoy]

Okay, the new Art Asylum/Diamond Select TOS Communicator toy is out, and one of the nifty features is that it is one of the first communicator toys to feature actual sound bites from the original TV series.

However, as nifty as they are, once you've run through them a few times, they aren't varied enough to provide much imaginative pretend "role play" between your posed questions and the "sound bite" responses.

For example, you flip open the communicator and say, "Hello, Enterprise, what's the situation." When you press the button for a response, you get "Spock here, Captain." Or, "Your signal is weak, can you turn up your gain?"

So here's what we need to do. Let's start compiling a list of BETTER phrases for them to put on the communicator...and once the list is complete, we can send it to Art Asylum and see if they'll make a SPECIAL EDITION of the communicator with these new phrases.

I'll get things started -- here are a few phrases from the actual episodes that would be a much more interesting response to the posed question of, "What is the situation?"

1) He's dead, Jim.
(from almost any episode)
Now there's a response that opens things up.

2) The aliens have taken all our women!
(Spock, to transporter chief in Menagerie when female crew beams down but male crew is left standing on transporter pads)
Now that phrase is a LOT more fun to respond to than "Scotty here, Captain."

You get the idea. So, all your Trekkies -- give us your best lines, sound bites or sound effects from the show that would be fun to have on a toy communicator.

 

[darthgordon]

Kirk- "What makes you think you're a man? You're an overgrown jackrabbit. An elf with a hyperactive thyroid."

Kirk- "...And you've got the GALL... to make love to that girl!"

Spock- "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true."

McCoy- "Murderers! Traitors! Assasins!" (or something to that effect from City on the Edge)

McCoy-"I'm trying to thank you, you pointed-eared hobgoblin!"

Uhura- " I'm an illogical women whose beginning to feel too much part of that communications console."

Scotty- "Laddy... don't you think you ought to rephrase that."

 

[TOSPHASER]

Hmmmmmm? :confused

 

[DrMcoy]

GREAT -- this is exactly what I was talking about.

And for those with questions, you know what I'm talking about.

You pull out the communicator and pretend to talk to it -- and you make up your own dialogue to correspond to the Star Trek "sound bites" on the toy communicator.

So, when toy says, "Transporter room ready, how many to beam up?" you hold up comm as though really talking to someone on the other end and you say, "Just one -- just little ol' me to beam up."

But the phrases on comm are limiting -- they need to pick more interesting sound bites that make the conversations you hasve with your communicator more interesting -- or at least more interesting for anyone who happens to overhear you talking to a toy communicator.

 

[Treadwell]

Keep in mind that AA would have to get the cooperation of Paramount to get clean versions of the sound bites, since if they were lifted from the finished episodes, there would be music in the background of most of these. (They do have music-free sound masters, as evidenced by clips used in some of the DVD documentaries.)

So it would kinda be a big deal to get something like this going.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Would be nice to be able to load in our own too.
Maybe someday. Or squeeze in an MP3 player.

 

[robn1]

They could use clips from the bloopers.

Uhura: Hi Mr. Spock, sugar...

Kirk: Mr. Spack...

 

[TK1536]

"What is wrong with me? I have eaten animal flesh and enjoyed it."

 

[Archie Opteryx]

"In four hours the ship blows up" - Scotty, The Savage Curtain

 

[DrMcoy]

For the record, i was only half serious about sending these to Art Asylum. I am a producer for an ad agency, and I am well aware of all the legal paperwork you need to secure for stuff like this.

I started this thread more as a joke and to see what obscure Trek phrases MIGHT have been fun had they actually added them to the communicator.

BUT, if Art Asylum is reading -- hey guys, youare getting some great suggestions here -- and as there isn't really a way to keep re-marketing the communicator toy (it didn't have different colored handles and paint schemes like the phaser) you might consider if offering a version with additional sounds might be doable.

My guess is they would have to negotiate with each actor who's voice is heard -- unless all the rights to this rest with Paramount...in which case it may be even more doable provided they can get their hands on the master voice tracks without music.

 

[DrMcoy]

"In four hours the ship blows up" - Scotty, The Savage Curtain

Great suggestion -- especially if preceded by you asking "What's the ship's situation."

 

[Gigatron]

Do people over the age of 8 actually talk to their toys like they're the real thing?

Maybe Hasbro (or whoever owns the license) should have a sound chip in Barbie so when you ask her on a date, she can respond to that too.








:lol

-Fred

 

[Archie Opteryx]

Do people over the age of 8 actually talk to their toys like they're the real thing?

I've been eight for thirty-seven years.

 

[Archie Opteryx]

I started this thread more as a joke and to see what obscure Trek phrases MIGHT have been fun had they actually added them to the communicator.

In that case, my all time favorite TOS quote:

"Brain and brain! What is brain?"

 

[Sporak]

The most obvious one to me that they forgot was simply "Kirk to Enterprise."


That said...yes we do still talk back top our toys :lol
My responce to
"Shall I beam down an armed party?"
Is:
"Yes and make sure they bring chips and dips too..."

 

[jts1031]

Maybe Hasbro (or whoever owns the license) should have a sound chip in Barbie so when you ask her on a date, she can respond to that too.

And the special geek version where her response is "No! Get a life!"