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Posted by MIB on :
 
Does anybody else think that galoob should bring back the Star trek micromachines. I think it would be so cool to have a Micro machine Akira or Steamrunner class starship.

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Posted by ASDB_J (Member # 312) on :
 
I heard they are. It was from a source I wouldn't put a wager on, though. Yes, it would kick ass. I even came up with a list of ships they need to do.

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
 
I think I still have some of mine. I have like 3 BoP's though cause in order to get 1 ship I want, I have to get another I already have. I also never saw the Defiant or Voyager micro-machines.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
New Micro Machines Trek ships would be pretty nifty.

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
 
I still have all of mine.

I blew my allowance on a 30 ship set that KayBee Toys was selling. I got every model of the Enterprise except for the C. And at the time, no one had even dared imagined an E that soon.

Although I was quite distressed by the Type 6 shuttle being named "Berman."

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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :
 
I sold mine. For $100.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :
 
I've got both the Defiant and Voyager Micro Machines. The Voyager one actually has movable nacelles.

I almost got the Ent-E Captain's Yacht. Yes that one exists as micro machine, I saw it myself.

BTW: I saw newer Star Wars micro machines last week. They actually have a Sentinal class landing craft Micro Machine. You know, the 'big brother' of the Imperial shuttle. The thing was hardly noticable in the SW4 special edition movie.

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
 
Galoob stopped making Star Trek MM's back in 97 i think, or was it 96, they also discontinued their B5 line so they could focus on the Star Wars line which was pretty much sucked dry (they even had a Lars Family speeder) The Star Wars line is continuing at the moment with the new Ep. 1 sets (so that sentinal one isn't all that new). Chances are they won't start ST up again as it would require a liscence from paramount, Plus galoob no longer exists as a seperate company, its owned by Hasbro.


also, i'm not sure there is a E-Wing Action Fleet out there, i know some one had once made a custom design of one (as well as a custom Assault Gunboat).
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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
 
There is an E-Wing Action Fleet. I own it. It's pretty hard to get, as I understand it, I see it on eBay for upwards of $100, but I found it in TRU the day after I saw "Insurrection" in theatres, and I picked it up. It's a pretty cool looking fighter, and I even canabalized a Lego X-Wing into one.

Yes, the E-Wing Action Fleet does indeed exist.

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
 
Oh, sorry, i never was an action fleet man myself, although i do own a bunch of 2 dollar ones they were selling over at k-mart. ahh i love bargains.

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Posted by ScottKey on :
 
I've still got all of my Trek micro machines. In fact, I ordered a few more from some people online this past week because I recently came across all of mine and decided the fleet needed to expand. I too would like to see a new license and the new ships made.
 
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
What the heck is a micro machine, BTW? They don't seem to have crossed the generational gap.

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
 
Go here Vogon Poet: http://freespace.virgin.net/james.hobson/st.htm

That's about every Star Trek MM made I think.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :
 
There is an E-Wing Micro machine?? COOL!! That thing was never even seen on screen...

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
Well that's how silly they are - they could make mega-bucks by releasing a smallish run of mm's in the Star Trek range. They could even release different sets - an "Enterprise" box would be good.

A Klingon box with a Negh'Var would be good...

Not to mention all the ships from later DS9 eps...

New Dominion ships, new Cardassian, Fed, Romulan and Breen ships.

Did they ever to the Ferengi pod?

Andrew

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Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
 
Andrew: They did make a Negh'var. I have one. It came with a large boxed set, including the Pasteur and the Future Ent-D.

I have quite a few of them, including several Babylon 5 ships. I'm still looking for the Caretaker's array, the Kazon torpedo, the Enterprise-A, and Sisko's solar sail ship.

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Posted by MIB on :
 
Damn it. It seems like everybody has the Star wars action fleet E-wing starfighter but me! I'd kill for one! When it comes to the action fleet rebel starfighters, I have 5 of them. I have the X, A, Y, B, and T-wing stafighters. I made the T-wing myself. I even sell custom T-wings on Ebay occasionally. As for the Star Trek micro machines. I have all the federation ships with the exception of the Original Enterprise, and the U.S.S. Pastuer. My dog chewed up the U.S.S. Pastuer micro machine. I was crushed. I wish SOMEBODY would bring back the ST micromachines.

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
 
There is no E-Wing Micro Machine, there IS an E-Wing Action Fleet though. (MM's are smaller, no moving parts, AF's are larger, comes with a figure, usually a pilot, and have a bunch of features.)

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :
 
WHERE CAN I BUY ONE???

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
eBay. Good luck finding a cheap one...

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :
 
Hmm, there are six that they didn't sell in Australia. What a pain in the arse.

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
 
I need a bigger TV, this tiny little things shows NO detail.....

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Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
 
They looked a lot larger than the standard micromachines size...

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The crib for B'Elanna's baby has a small starship mobile with Micromachine-size ships. I saw Voyager, a BoP and a Klingon Battlecruiser.

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Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
 
Okay, Galen, either you don't agree with me, or you accidentally posted twice

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
I got the E-A... but it only came in a big-arsed collection basically the first TOS - the first movies the first two TNG and the first DS9. That was all that was out at that time. It had an added extra E-A "not available elsewhere...

I have never opened the pack.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
So these were some sort of toy thing that they don't make any more? What was so special about them?

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
 
Well, they are Trek, for one, collectors items, for two, can be fun, for three....

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Posted by Dax (Member # 191) on :
 
I got that special pack too, Andrew. I couldn't resist opening it though. It's annoying how they later mixed the new releases with old ones so you're forced to get doubles. It's even more annoying that they didn't release the Negh'var, Dominion Ships, Voyager, the Defiant, and others in Australia .

On a happier note: Did you'se know that the Runabout micro machine is to scale with the Monogram Voyager model kit?

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
I have a different idea of fun, it seems, Which may well be why I have a killer hangover. 8)

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
 
Well, Micro Machines have been around for a LONG time. Star Trek and Star Wars micro machines have only been around for oh 10 years or so.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
I had the same set Andrew's talking about. I opened it, of course. I ended up losing a few ships, and in the end, whatever ships I had were cut up and rearranged to make new ships...

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Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :
 
I have alot of duplicates of almost every ship. Toys-R-Us sold the 3 packs for a dollar each including Star Wars. Woo Hoo!

Unfortunately these ships after a while start to turn in a shade of yellow.

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
 
I've got the first two of those big packs, with the "All Good Things..." ships included. They're not too bad for such small toys. I ended up repainting a few of them to make them more "realistic" -- for instance, the Ambassador Class does NOT have a red navigational deflector!

I also tried a neat trick that unfortunately didn't work. I noticed that the MicroMachine model of the Defiant was almost the same scale as my AMT/ERTL model of Deep Space Nine, so I tried to glue the Defiant to one of the docking ports. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the glue to hold on without other supports, and it looked kind of ugly with a paper clip scotch-taped to the side of the docking pylon. Oh, well....

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Posted by MIB on :
 
(Quote) Altair: I almost got the Ent-E Captain's Yacht. Yes that one exists as micro machine, I saw it myself. (End Quote)

You lie! j/k, but seriously, the Ent-E Captain's Yacht wasn't seen on screen untill Dec '98. The Star Trek micro machines line was discontinued in '97. How could the Ent-E Captians Yacht exist as a MM when the STMM line was discontinued 1 year before the Ent-E cpt's Yacht was seen on screen?

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
 
Actually, it's not really a Micro-Machine. The Playmate's Enterprise-E model featured a detacheable "Captain's Yacht", which is what I believe is being refered to here.

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Posted by MIB on :
 
It makes perfect sense to me that hasbro, or galoob, or whoever makes MM, bring back the Star Trek MM line. When the �MM makers� dropped everything to concentrate on Star Wars, they used allot of the material they had very quickly. (Name one Star Wars
vehicle or ship that hasn�t been manufactured as a micro machine.) Now with Episode 2 is still 2 or 3 years away there�s not much for the �MM makers� to do where Star Wars is concerned. As a matter of fact many toy companies made a huge surplus of Star Wars
stuff, especially episode 1 stuff. They figured that with all the hype about Star Wars that was directed at kids and so forth, customers would buy out most of the Star Wars stuff manufacturers produced, no matter how much Star Wars stuff they produced. Needless to
say, this wasn�t the case. Now, to this day, manufacturers are still trying to get rid of their
surplus Star Wars sh*t. I say melt them down and turn them into Star Trek stuff. The following is some of the ships/vehicles the �MM�makers� can make into micromachines:

For DS9

Dominion Battlecruiser
Dominion Battleship
Hidiki Class Cardassian ship
Breen Warship---(I want this as a MM so bad.....)
U.S.S. Centaur
U.S.S. Curry---(Why make 2 micro machines that have only been on screen for a few seconds you ask? I say, �Why not?� After all, They made a MM of the Nebula-class U.S.S. Farragaut. And the Farragaut was seen in ST:G for 5 or 6 seconds at most.)
Romulan Shuttle
Gorn Light Cruiser---(Now, I know the Gorn never made an appearance in DS9, but the producers of DS9 were making plans for the Gorn to show up. They went as far as making sketch designs for what the Gorn Light Cruiser would look like. But, at the very last minute, the producers decided not to have the Gorn appear. That was a dicision,that to this day, I could kill the producers for making. Besides the Gorn Light cruiser looks very cool! If you�re a regular reader of ST Magazine, you probably saw the sketches of
the Gorn light cruiser. I dare you to disagree with the fact that the Gorn Light Cruiser
looks good!!!! )

For the Star Trek Movies

Akira-class starship---(technically the �MM makers� can put this one with the DS9 and
VOY collections too.)
Steamrunner-class starship---(If the �MM makers� could just make ONE new stmm, I hope it would be this one!)
Saber-class starship
Norway-class starship
Son�a battleship
Rua�fu�s flagship
Ejector Collector
Ent-E shuttle
Holoship
Federation Scout Ship---(Also known by fans as the Venture class starship)
Son�a shuttle
Ent-E Captains Yacht
Ent-A shuttle---(circa Star Trek V)

For Voyager

Delta Flyer---(This one couldn�t be more obvious could it?)
Krenim time ship---(this would make one kick ass MM )
Species 8472 bioship
Borg Diamond
The big Hirogen hunting vessel
The small Hirogen hunting vessel
Timeship Aeon
Malon Freighter
U.S.S. Prometheus---(This could be a 3 piece set on it�s own! If someone makes a MM out of this, they BETTER make it so that you can split it into 3 parts.)
U.S.S. Relativity---(DRRRROOOOOOOOLLLL!!!)
U.S.S. Equinox
Jupiter station
S.S. Raven
Species 8472 biodome station
U.S.S. Dauntless---(DOUBLE DRRRROOOOOOOOLLLL!!!)
Voth city ship
Subspace catapult
Borg tactical cube
Kes� shuttle
Hirogen training station
Vaddwar ship
The floating hospital station---(I can�t remember what episode the floating hospital staion showed up in)

That�s is all I can think of from the top of my head. Does anybody want to add any more?

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
 
Well, first you need Paramount's licence back, and it was Paramount who took it away from Galoob in the first place (so that some other company could focus on their own line of star trek, but i forget the name).

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Posted by Joshua Bell (Member # 327) on :
 
At some point I was into customizing ST MMs. Alas, I only have a doctored picture of one online:
http://members.aa.net/~skeksis/Star_Trek/declaration/declaration.html

IIRC, I also have these tucked away in a drawer:

- A Constitution-refit 1701, again made before the release of the real one. This has a pearly white paint job and looks pretty slick.
- A Nebula, made before the release of the real one - I should retrofit it into one of the variants
- A USS Lantree (Miranda II)
- A gray Constellation-class ship
- A USS Centaur
- A "Curry"-class ship
- A "Mediterranean"-class ship - essentially an Excelsior with nacelles slung below.
- A Romulan Warbird without the dorky internal support.

Rather like the real Starfleet, I still have a drawer containing a ton of extra Excelsiors.

I also did up some custom SW AFs:
http://members.aa.net/~skeksis/Star_Wars/index.htm

(MIB - do you have pictures of your T-Wing online?)

 


Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
 
I have series 2 of the TNG micromacines... how much can I sell them for? .... ah crap. details later boss is comming

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Posted by MIB on :
 
Joshua Bell!!!! *get's on his knees and bows down before him* I've come across your website nearly a year ago, and I must say your customs are awesome!!! As a matter of fact, I've built several custom SW AF T-wing starfighters based on the one you have on your website. I hope to some day build a Tie Phantom, but I haven't gathered up the balls to try and build the aft section from scratch. I also am hoping to build my own custom tie defender, but, so far, I've been too cheap to shell out 30 or 40 dollars to get two tie interceptors from ebay.
When it comes to things I've been actually working on, I have been working on my own Tie design. I call it the Tie Dagger. I'm using a single Tie interceptor to build it.
As for posting a few pics of my T-wings, I have one problem. I don't know how. Can anyone help me out in that department?

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Posted by MIB on :
 
I was wondering. Does anybody have any spare or used Star Wars Action Fleet stuff? I looking for the following:
3 Tie Interceptors
2 Tie Fighters
1 B-wing Starfighter
1 Darth Vader's Tie Fighter

Keep in mind I'm not looking for mint stuff. All I ask is that the pilot and display stand be available.
One more thing I'd like to ask Mr. Bell. Do you know what color piant I should use for a custom SW AF Tie? Could you also tell me what kind of paint I shuold use?

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Posted by MIB on :
 
And another thing. Wouldn't be super cool if they realeased Star Trek: Starfleet Command Micro machines? With the Mirak or Federation dreadnought. Or maybe a Federation Distoyer. hmmmmmm federation distroyer......... Or, better yet, a Gorn battleship.

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Posted by Joshua Bell (Member # 327) on :
 
I don't think I've used the same gray twice on my toys. I used a few of the intermediate gray spray paints from Testors on my ships.

None of the Galoob AF TIEs were the same color (Vader's - light gray; TIE - light blue; Interceptor & Bomber - dark blue; Defender - dark gray), so pretty much anything in that range will work.

The sprays give a much better coat than brushing. Follow the directions and mask off the parts you don't want to paint and spray from at least 30cm away. If you need to do details, spray onto some aluminum foil to accumulate some paint and then use a brush - then you don't have to try color matching.

 


Posted by MIB on :
 
Thanks for the info!

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