New Trek Props On Display

[sycor]

So you guys are basically complaining about this:

vs this:

without even knowing what the lense does? For all you know it may just be a digital display that moves similar to the TOS one. Man you guys are hard to please. :rolleyes

 

[Mechamaniac]

If you look at the pic in the far right, I think that Comm does at least have a flip open lid. I wonder what's under it.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Well, I don't have to go now! At least Playmates will have a hard time screwing these up!

I'll wait to see the communicator open to see what she really looks like. We were told at the beginning that the props had not changed that much?

 

[phase pistol]

I'm reacting to the plastic look of the comm. Not intriguing at all. The embossed delta shield irks the hell out of me. The proportions also seem wacko. That huge lens or whatever it is. THe way the lid fits over and around hte edge of the unit.

Well, maybe it's cool when the lid is flipped open, or if that big lens does something interesting. Probably it lights up blue or something. We'll see.

Also interesting to note that the comm is actually quite tapered, both in the top and side profiles.

Then again if you had snown me this thing before the movie came out, I would have been telling you about how Wrath of Khan was going to suck. :lol

 

[Contec]

Has anyone checked the stores if the communicator is in fact a real item? Maybe it a pen holder as the TOS was, The lid looks like a calculators to me.

 

[BrundelFly]

IM sorry..I like to pretend that comm doesnt exist.
TOTAL CRAP.

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[Gojira61]

Now that I think about it, I like where they're going with this design...

 

[QuasiOdo]

Phase Pistol-- yeah, preaching to the choir.

That embossed logo makes it so toylike it's embarrasing. To coin a popular cliche- FAIL!
Do we know who designed these...things...yet??
Because any of us could have done better.

And I don't care what the phaser looks like, because there'll always be only ONE classic, and we know what that looks like.

 

[jts1031]

I'm sure it's blasphemy around here, but I'm not going to see this movie for the props. Instead I shall see it in hopes that it has a good story. And I won't pass judgment on static props until they've been seen in action.

 

[glim999]

Well, I think I figured out why the new comm doesn't offend me.

It looks sorta like my phone :lol

 

[Scapey]

... For all you know it may just be a digital display that moves similar to the TOS one. Man you guys are hard to please. :rolleyes

I gotta agree with you - I think the new comm's pretty cool, and looks pretty much like I'd expect the classic comm to, if it were designed and followed on from real-life modern equipment.

 

[wuher da brewer]

Even money says a cell phone company has the license for a working communicator cellphone.

 

[MooMooEgg]

I like the fact that you can see the circular part of the communicator while closed (I can't wait to see it open), but it does look like it was made from cheap plastic and the embossed logo is definitely cheesy. However, I do think it'll make a nice display piece if MR or some other company makes one (especially if the circular area lights up).

and why didn't they have the phaser on display!?!?!?! :cry

 

[JoeRalat]

I'm sure it's blasphemy around here, but I'm not going to see this movie for the props. Instead I shall see it in hopes that it has a good story. And I won't pass judgment on static props until they've been seen in action.

I respect your view on this,but I have to say something. People are saying that we should not care, about the look of the ship, props..sets...etc..But I am sorry, that is not the case. I fell that they are also Characters. I do not hear any complaints about the earpiece. Because it just looks like TOS version. I have seen very little effort with this movie, to try to tie in with TOS.

That is how I feel about this.

 

[sycor]

I have seen very little effort with this movie, to try to tie in with TOS.

That is how I feel about this.

Maybe because it's supposed to be an alternate timeline? Spock is all they need to tie in with the TOS.

 

[racprops]

All I can say about the WOK Com, is you should have seen what the propmaster wanted...I did not have a lot to do with the one seen on film other that suggests the trans/lock detail, but I think Modern Props save us from a much worst version, a Veitnam Era Walky Talky.

Steve at Mordern Props made these for free just to stop the walky talky...

Rich

 

[Rylo]

lol:lol

Well, that's it. Time to machine a couple sum-*****es up, I guess.

Now that I think about it, I like where they're going with this design...

 

[phase pistol]

To folks claiming that the props don't matter... I would remind you that we are on a prop board. :lol

And face it, when I was a kid, I watched Star Trek for one reason: The Enterprise. Watching that ship glide across the screen, studying the Bridge panels in the fleeting glimpses we got during each episode (this was before VCRs even)...

Now I'm not going to claim that this is how everybody should see the show :lol but for me, props, sets and effects designs are a huge part of any fantasy or sci fi show. Naturally, it has to be. :thumbsup

 

[phase pistol]

Well, that's it. Time to machine a couple sum-*****es up, I guess.

Anybody machining acrylic balls (ahem) for these comms should look into making some for HAL lenses as well. :thumbsup

 

[rad1701]

I don't have a big problem with what I am seeing. They really had three choices for this movie. Make things look almost exactly like TOS, make things look radically different, or go somewhere in between and make things similar but a little different and more modern. Obviously they picked path three. It's really the only way to do it. This applies to everything: ships, costumes, props - even the actors. You could have handed the task of coming up with a newer design for the props to 100 of us here on the RPF and you would have gotten 100 different looks. In the end, it's hard to say why one is any better than any other.