Chronocidal Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 I've been watching the release announcements, and did manage to pick up a few of the pieces that I missed originally. Mostly a couple of the XL shuttles, Stargate ships, and BSG releases. They're nice collectibles, but I just had too many gripes with most of the XL starships to pick them up, and the ones that were good would have felt silly unaccompanied by something to match them (ie, the Reliant was beautiful, but they managed to screw up the Enterprise Refit in so many unbelievable ways that I couldn't bring myself to buy it). I never understood how they managed to make the panel detailing on so many of the ships look like they were run over by tractor tires (the XL Akira and Prometheus, in particular). Part of me would like to still get the "All Good Things" Enterprise D, but they half-assed the phaser cannon, and it made the whole thing look cheap. The smaller ships they released always seemed to come out much better by comparison, like the BSG fighters, and I picked up an XL Runabout and Delta Flyer, and really have no complaints on those. The one I did make a point to grab was the XL Discovery Enterprise, mostly because of the size. It's close enough to the length of the Polar Lights 1/1000 TOS Enterprise that I'm comfortable calling it 1/1000, because screw whatever noise the higher ups are smoking with the new scaling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanity is Optional Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Ended up with an extra XL Cerritos (two different people putting in a group order at the same time, derp). Gotta say it looks pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronocidal Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Yeah, I did consider the XL Lower Decks Titan. I find it kind of hilarious that painting the normally transparent pieces solid to match the cartoon style actually winds up hiding how bad some of the transparent pieces look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommar Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 I missed out on the USS Grissom when it was put back up for a short time. Otherwise I'm done with that collection. I have my little nerdy Starship wall over my turntables and I'm happy with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronocidal Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 On 9/28/2023 at 7:47 PM, Mommar said: I missed out on the USS Grissom when it was put back up for a short time. Otherwise I'm done with that collection. I have my little nerdy Starship wall over my turntables and I'm happy with that. Not the Grissom, but they do have the XL Pegasus back in stock, if you're just after an Oberth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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