February 06, 2006
Toys!!!

Turn my back and what happens? Someone comes out with a new Star Trek Enterprise model. I built perhaps half a dozen first-issue EMT/ERTL kits when I was a teen. Never could get the primary hull opaque enough to keep the kernel lights supplied from showing through the plastic. I nearly sold a much later issue at a convention art auction when I was in college. It hung quite impressively in my Fayetteville home, only to later be destroyed by a combination of poor engineering and lax packing when I tried to ship it across half the country. I always thought they butchered an otherwise good kit trying to replicate the complex hull plating of the (monstrously large) movie model.

The ERTL kit was very difficult to hold together... a poorly engineered model of an admittedly poorly conceived starship. In spite of that, I've always thought the movie Enterprise to be the prettiest of them all. Nice to see Paramount's giving another company a crack at the design.

Oh shut up. Shut up. Next one of you shouts, "Nerddddd!!!" is getting a boot to the head!

Posted by scott at February 06, 2006 07:41 PM

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